Hey so I thought I'd put up a quick post for those of you I won't be seeing over Christmas. First, regarding the whole "North Korea shelling the shit out of Yeongpyeong Island" incident, don't worry. It was a little tense on the day that it actually happened and there has been god knows how much speculation as to why those crazy bastards did it in the first place but regardless. Things are fine. I haven't seen any riots. It hasn't affected day to day life at all. Everything's the same as before. So basically what I'm saying is don't worry, it wasn't as much of a big deal as the international media would have you believe, and it's by no means the worst thing the North have done. War is highly unlikely.
Next on to brighter news. A few weeks ago Sheena's friend Randi and her husband were having people over to their apartment for thanksgiving. It was basically the same food as Christmas back home except instead of spending the day watching Christmas movies, we spent it playing flip cup, kings and various other drinking games with 15 strangers who became our temporary new best friends. Afterwards we went to Hongdae to bid one of our friends farewell as he was going back to the States for a while. Very messy business altogether!
Also Lokomotiv Goyang are back to back champions! We lost our final game in rather inglorious fashion but so did the team who were in second place so we still finished top of the league by two points. Unfortunately this means no more football until March. On the plus side, it gave us a chance to do some serious celebrating. The league banquet was on last Saturday in a new micro brewery in Seoul. After a few micro brew beers (that were really good!) we went to our sponsor pub Baby Guinness for a few pints of Guinness and a whole load of general alcohol-related mischief and shenanigans (for example, this old Korean guy came into the bar selling Santa hats. Within two minutes, he had sold twenty and was chugging beer from our trophy!). I'm pretty sure everyone had a good night and I'm also pretty sure everyone had a painful Sunday.
That's it from me until next year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!!
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