It is the month of March, a month in which birthdays abound. As a result I dedicate all my blogs posted or performed in March to the following Birthday babes/bros:
Sandy Lam, My Aunt Anthea, My Grandmothers, Adam, Dale Morris, Joe Spring, Lauren Davis, Andrea Muller and ... ME!
Seeing how it is a bithday month, what better way than to (more or less) kick it off with a Birthday. It was Sandy's birthday on the 8th. It was difficult to celebrate on the day as such but have no fear, Sandy - Purveyor of the clipboard, Dictator of direction, Empress of excitement - was there.
Now, you won't know much about Sandy so here is a little insight:
When it comes to timeliness, conscientiousness, and precision planning - Sandy is your gal (Sorry Jade - Sandy has a clipboard...
... ergo - you are trumped ;) ). For her birthday she had gone to pains to ensure that there was a reservation at Holy Grill...
... For around 14 people. She also spent 40min in the Tourist information centre outside DongDeagu Train Station co-ordinating her post day-of-birth party with the helpful staff within. Following our day of activites, on the bus back into Deagu Sandy even asked us to look at the menu of Holy Grill that she had printed out and decide and write down what we were eating and drinking so that she could hand the order into the manager when we arrived so as not to overwhelm and backlog the small kitchen! OR-GA-NIZED EK SE!
1st on the list was...
Well first we actually had to get to the centre of activity , the hive of entertainment. After arrival in Deagu we all climbed on the Subway and made our way to Seongdangmot Subway station and bus terminal where we purchaced ticket to Hap-ga (about a 50min drive away) The bus was departing at 13:05 so from 12:40 we hung around to await all attnding guests, the list was as follows:
Sandy, Me (Both back row), Ashli, Colleen (2nd row left), Courtney and Sam (Second row right), The Klug Twins (Pips and Jacquie-front left), Dan and his lady friend (3rd row right), Melinde (To Sandy's Left) and Sandy's friend from the States Liz and her friend Jacquie (The very front Left).
On arrival at the cultural village where we were doing all our activities, we were all a bunch of confused foreigners who were blindly wondering around like lost sheep.
Luckily for us, Dan's girlfriend was from Korea so her language and communication skills came in super handy and we were all very grateful. We mad our way into the village eventually and 1st on the lists of activities was...
Traditional Korean Hard Candy making.
It took a while but Sandy and I eventully got our rhythm to make the stuff however and Ajima (Korean Old Lady) seemed to disagree and shuffled me aside while she continued and finished the project with Sandy (Can anyone say D.U.N.C.E)
I was given back my pride when I was allowed to break the toffee type candy into pieces using a little stick.
Following candy making it was off to Strawberry Picking (which had been my idea for my birthday, oh well - off to Woobangland instead :-D)...
Rewind back to 2007... Strawberry Picking in George
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| Geoff's Asian Adventure featuring special guests: Joseph Spring and Geoff of 2007 |
Well, this was Strawberry picking, The Korean Way.
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| Courtney having a picking good time |
This was a lot of fun and brought back a lot of memories if GEORGE 2007, but the highlight for me was our last activity before heading back into Deagu - traditional Kite making. For the 2nd activity out of 3 where some of us proved to be challenged kite makers but we all got it done in the end.
We were even given the opportunity to fly them before getting back on our bus for Deagu. It was great because the wind had really picked up so it was a great kite flying day, though not for some challenged kite flyers...
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| Ashli only got her Kite off the ground with about 5min left before we had to catch our bus. |
Sadly Sandy's kite was taken out by a rouge attack from a telephone post - who has yet to be caught and brought to justice. I had a more sucessful time even if Courtney tried to knock me out the sky alla Red Baron vs the US.
Back in Deagu for dinner and it was off to The Holy Grill for supper. Here we were joined by Joe and his Girlfriend as well as Michael and Emily (None of whom could make it for the activity day). Much food and merriment was had and I got to have a nice getting yo know you chat with Sandy's good friend Liz and her friend Jacquie. To cap off the evening Sam, Dan, Courtney and Ashli arranged a cheese cake and a chocolate cake with a "26" candle, party hat and party poppers for Sandy.
It was a great day with great people - I hope my birthday weekend is as good :)
Stay tuned for more right here on Geoff's Asian Adventure!
Geoff out...
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