Lunar New Year

In Korea, on Valentine's Day the girl's buy something for the boys, and then a month later (March 14 - White Day) the boys buy something for the girls. It's not so horrible to be single then because being with someone would mean I would have to buy them stuff today. Instead, I went out with some of my friends to this Italian joint in Yeonsu. The restaurant looked like Valentine's Day overload.

Also, it was Lunar New Years so we lit fireworks and set them off. Of course it took a few times to get them lit. Seollal is the Korean word for Lunar New Year, and a lot of shops and stores closed down. Actually we were lucky to find an open restaurant. Some of my students told me they were going to visit grandparents and get some serious cash. Sebae is a traditionally observed activity on Seollal, and is filial-piety-orientated. Children wish their parents and/or grandparents a happy new year by performing one deep traditional bow. If they do a good bow they get some cash from their grandparents.

I leave for China with Taylor on the 27th of this month and return March 1st. Sorry my blogs are mostly vlogs, and I'll work on a real post this week. Maybe you guys could work on real comments and then I'll be motivated to actually post. (I mean, how do I know you actually read this thing?)