TOP 5 most shocking moments in 2010....so far.

I think the most shocking moment of 2010 has been the Hatian Earthquake Disaster. But this Top 5 isn't about the most shocking International and significant life-changing moments of 2010. It's about the strangest, most amusing, most shocking things that I've seen in Korea since the turn of the calendar.

Number 5!

Ryan, not a big time partier, draws a mustache on his face in 2009. Then wisely slows his drinking role in 2010.

 

 Only if we could bury the 9 behind us. 

Get your thizz face on, Cap'n.

A more shocking revelation happened on the roof of G7 after I left that night. It didn't involve Ryan or me. Get me drunk and I'll tell you a tale, I say! 

Number 4

Women's only parking. Yes, I know I mentioned this in my last post. But this was shocking to me when my teacher pointed it out.

Look, this is unheard of in the U.S. I know we have handicap parking but women's parking? I'm not sure what this says about women driving in Korea. I mean the American stereotypes are that the elderly, Asians and women are bad drivers. And old, Asian women are the worst. So, what does that say if in an Asian country they have 'women only' parking sections? Maybe it says, chivalry. Women should be the closest to the door like the handicap. Except this was on the 2nd floor of the parking garage not the 1st. And it was a sizeable section not just two stalls marked with a person in a wheelchair. Here's the better question, how bad must Korean female drivers be if Asian men sectioned off an area of the parking garage just for them to park?



Number 3


WTF SNOW?!

The storm we had back on January 4th was the biggest snow storm they had in Korea for 103 years. It was nothing compared to the East Coast right now. But it was the storm of a century here. With it snowing heavily again today (but not sticking to the main streets) it reminds me how much my teachers and my Korean students are shocked about the snowfall. My teachers blame me for bringing this weather. I brought Seattle's 2008-2009  winter to Korea. And my students could not write their first vacation diary entry about anything other than the January 4th snowstorm and the early onset of vacation thanks to it. At least it's a nice fresh white outside my window (at least until I look down at the brown slushy streets) on this wonderful graduation day in Korea.




Number 2


I actually missed Seattle's rain. I didn't think it could happen. But I miss the clean air that the rain brings. I miss the rain cleaned streets and green lanscape. Where was my foresight on this one?

 

Spoil me with your gloomy clouds and rain fresh air.

Do they make a 'Seattle' air freshner?

Number 1

The number 1 most shocking thing is.....

The SAINTS winning the SUPER BOWL and I get food poisoning. This was basically one event tied together. My consistent Peyton Manning style belly does not throw up. It is the formidable center of my body. It runs my body, aka my team, better than my brain/coach does. How could this illness happen two years in a row?! Maybe, I am putting too much pressure on Peyton....I mean my stomach. Sometimes the overhyped team, or chicken wings, win out against the favored opponent with Laser Rocket Stomach Acid. But I don't think anyone in that room was rooting for the chicken wing to make me sick.

Ugh.....I hope I don't puke on Jeff Saturday's back.

Notes:


I have been correctly some 500 diaries this week. Thank God that is over.


And as I mentioned in passing earlier it is graduation day today. There are A LOT of tears flowing today. I really can't stand to watch other people cry. That is my kryptonite. Next to chicken wings, of course...

On a very sad note, one of my heroes passed away today. Charlie Wilson, you are a model for me to follow. I toast my next whiskey to you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003848.html?hpid=topnews

Here's to you Charlie Wilson. You were a model in the most unorthodox ways on the most serious stage.