Like a Michael Bay Movie ...

So, I've really been failing on these blogposts. Thanks everyone for the e-mails threatening me with torture if they had to wait any longer! Nevertheless, let's do a recap:

I went to Jeju-do two weeks ago FOR FREE. It's Korea's vacation island and (controversially) its only island. Let's do a rundown, shall we:

- famous for its volcanos and lava rocks and being created by aforementioned KABOOM!
- also famous for wind, water and women -- not because they're wildly bodacious, but for the unusually not-so-young Korean women that freedive for the sea life off the coast; its kinda cool, and something like this:

- Oh, and delicious delicious oranges. Lots and lots of oranges. To the point where they were giving away boxes at a time. (At least no one will suffer from scurvy) Us, disrespectful Westerners, had an orange WAR in a grove. Shame.
- 4/5 of my coteachers did their honeymoon on Jeju-do (hopefully not in December, burr..)
- their own unique dialect -- even our Korean chaperones could barely understand them
- like every. other. island. ever. their main cuisine is fishy fish fish
- looks pretty much like California's channel islands but, in Korean, and half way around the worldThe island was beautiful, and we went to a bunch of museums. VERY Korean museums. Let me elaborate:

Museum #1: reanactment of great moments in history by... beetles, TARANTULAS and other disgusting bugs. My favorite reanactment: Auschwitz using 18th century torture devices.
now, migrating to the next exhibit, none other than an indoor petting zoo? I got to play with fat cats, birds and some adorable hedgehogs. The second I saw the taurantula in the other exhibit, I bolted out so I was lucky enough to get some quality alone time with the hedgehogs. Then, we went to the next exhibit which was just funky mirrors and a hall of mirrors. Had you asked me three months ago if I thought the museum was odd I'd agree, but now I think ... its just Korean.

Museum #2: Love land. To save everyone the awkwardness it was basically just a park of gigantic statues of people having sex. Err...

Museum #3: A museum of rocks. Like I said, Jeju is famous for its lava rocks so this was an entire museum of ... rocks. I could see how someone would appreciate it, but it was practically monsooning and barely pushing 45 degrees, so we just wanted to get in and out.

Museum #4: Museum of cultural ... stuff. Cool in theory, but certainly not the Smithsonian's American History Museum. It was still interesting nevertheless. They were representations (as my friend Paris insists "they're tableaus". Ass.) of, well, important moments in Korean history-- complete with a disco dance floor blaring oldie but goodies like "YMCA" and "Le Freak." My mother would be proud.

We went to an orange grove, walked along the waters/cliff's edge, and climbed the TALLEST MOUNAIN IN THE WORLD (which was really more of a hill, but we're out of shape) to see this old volcano.

All-in-all, a generally good time so if you come to visit (KEN. GEORGE. EDDIE.) I'd recommend it.

This is my last week of school (YAHOO!) so I'll have fun posts later (I promise) about Christmas and New Years in Korea. We're going to Seoul, so lots of debauchery should ensue.

Anyway, I should pretend to "work" -- 안넝히겨세요
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