Got to go to Daejeon last weekend for Halloween festivities. Met my friend Susan in Daegu where she's teaching and we caught a train together to Daejeon to meet up with Lawrence for the day. The three of us spent all afternoon together looking around the city, checking out the local amusement park, and eating way too much junk food! Kind of fun, we got to see a kids show with characters dressed up like aliens and go on the ferris wheel (or rather, jump on the ferris wheel- it didn't stop to let us on!) and go in a haunted house :) Afterwards, Lawrence left to go back to his town & Susan and I found a motel to stay the night in and then met up with some other teachers we know that live in Daejeon. Got a lot of stares and laughter walking down the street in full costumes in a country that doesn't celebrate Halloween, but people seemed fairly receptive to us. Susan dressed up in a medieval style dress and I was in glittery pink clothes dressed as Sandara from 2NE1 (pronounced twenty one)a popular KPop band. Amongst the rest of the group were Elton John, Rorschach, the underwear gnomes from South Park, the riddler and other assorted Batman themed characters, a magic 8 ball with actual messages pinned on him to tell peoples fortunes and a fairly ingenious interpretation of swine flu. :D We went to a yummy Thai place for dinner and then to a couple bars full of foreigners in costume having fun. Rorschach from our group actually won a costume contest at one of the bars- deservedly so... he even had the face mask on. And other than one injury type situation we had a really fun night. Headed back home the next afternoon after a little shopping and some lunch and had time to rest up before starting a new week. :)
