The week-end

Hello everyone,

As stated in my last post, we went to Jeju city on Saturday. It was a little rough since we were out till 3 am the night before having drinks at this club called Havana. The club is pretty small and serves beer, some whisky and some tequila. We had a few rounds and made our way home early saturday morning. After a good eight hours sleep, we got in our friends car and drove to Jeju.

The drive to Jeju was a little scary a times because there were drift white outs on the road. We took it slow. The buses were flying in the snow. The cars would take it a little slower. There were cars stranded on the side of the main road. It was scary but at the same time really beautiful with all the snow. I wish I had my camera to take a few pics of the country side but we forgot it before leaving. We made it to Jeju without any problems and went shopping for a few things. We went to this big store that sold everything and were able to find a bunch of things that we needed for the house. I did a bunch of x-mas shopping and then we went to get a bite to eat. There was a McD's by the store but we skipped that and went for some chinese.

We were going to leave but on our way out, the roads were crazy busy. It had snowed and the roads were full of black ice everywhere. We had difficulty going up slight inclines. Car were spinning everywhere. They don't have winter tires here. They use chains. So there were cars sliding everywhere and the others where travelling slow due to their chains. After taking 40 minutes to try and get out of the city and looking at a hugh hill in front of us, we decided to turn back and head to a hotel. We had at least a 40 minute drive and the roads were full of black ice. Cars would try to stop on a hill and slide half way down. Plus the Koreans on Jeju don't know how to drive. There was this truck that was fishtaling everywhere. He was not going anywhere but his wheels were travelling at 50 km/h. %&$(* dangerous. He had the peddle to the metal. If he would have hit a dry patch, he could have killed someone. With all these crazy koreans on the road and the weather, we decided to stay in our rooms all night and have a few drinks and play cards. We got a really cheap room and it was a lot warmer then our own house. It was worth it.

Sunday, after taking a nice hot shower and watching a movie, we drove home. There were cars stuck everywhere on the highway. Some places had cars that were stuck in four feet high drifts. We were glad we decided to stay at a hotel. We heard that the whole island had got this freak storm but by the time we got to Seogwipo most of the snow was melting and the ice was almost gone.

Once we got home, we put up our Christmas tree and walked around the market for a bit. Then that night, we went to sing Christmas caroles with some friends. It was interresting to say the least. You must remember that I can't sing at all. The good thing is that there were Christmas treats after all the singing. It was fun and we had some friends in the band.

Now, we are back at school for four days. We have friday off so it is a for day week. Sweet

This week, we are going to try and build snow shoes to go and play on the mountain on friday. We want to get up the hill and build a quincy for the day. We are thinking of bringing plastic saucers and going sliding down a few parts of the mountain. It shold be interresting.

We will let you know how it goes.

Sunday is Christmas. We are going to take it easy and hopefully go to the beach for a bit and have a fire.

Talk to you soon.

Christian and Karina