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Nothing really is new so there isn't much to write about. I went to a Korean wedding on Saturday. The groom, Mike, went to UNBC with me and he has been living here for 4 years. His wife, Doewon is also a teacher here and she is very sweet. I've gotten to know her well in the last few months. I felt priveledged to be invited to the traditional wedding. It was held outside and it was really hot. Mike and Doewon wore very traditional robes with layers and layers of silk. They had hats on too. Mike was clearly roasting, but Doewon probably didn't expell a single drop of sweat because Korean women seem to be evolved in that department of the human form. I'm very jealous.
Anyway, it was a really nice wedding. The ceremony was about 30 minutes. There was a lot of bowing and tea drinking. Then there were photos and we all hearded into the wedding hall for a meal. I think we had about an hour to eat because there was another wedding coming in right after. This is pretty common. There are these massive wedding halls with 5 banquet rooms, and there are about 5 weddings a day in each one. Its madness!
There were lots of people there. Mike's parents were here from Vancouver and then there were lots of teacher-friends. It seems like all us foreigners wore black. Not on purpose of course, but we all looked like we should have been at a funeral. After the wedding, a bunch of us went for some drinks, and then some food, and then some more drinks. Mike really wanted to go out somewhere for the rest of the night too, and he really wanted to go to this shitty club in Seoul called Tinpan. I try not to go there anymore, but since it was Mike's wedding day, I went for him. That's the first wedding I've been too where the party ended up at a nightclub. And Doewon was ok with it.
On Friday night, Denise and I went to a...hockey game! It was at the rink in our neighbourhood. There was a Canadian Navel ship in port and they have a hockey team. They played a friendly match against a team of amatures in Seoul. I think all the players were drunk. It was so nice to watch some live hockey again! We met some guys from the Navy and talked to them for a while. They ship is based in Esquimalt and they stay out at sea for about 200 days a year. This one guy were talking to the most has a little girl at home and his wife is expecting their second child in about 2 weeks. He wasn't even sure if he was going to make it home for the birth. That would really suck.
These guys invited us to come out to the ship before it left. We never got a chance to make it out the Incheon, the port, however because of the wedding and other plans. It was have been nice, and they have Alexander Keith's at the ship's bar.
We start a new semester on Friday and it is my last semester. I can't belive it is almost June. WTF?
So I guess more is going on than I thought. I'll post some photos of the wedding soon.