Fat (for a Korean girl)

Today's Adventures-in-Korea continued with a trip to the alternative medicine shop where they administered medically questional tests on me. (Since when did ancient Chinese medicine get so high tech with their computerized tests and printouts???) I got to see my blood cells on a monitor attached to a microscope. There was a scary looking seahorse-like shape swimming with the healthy cells but I was told it was okay and that I wasn't about to die. My brother had cells that looked like those spikey balls attached to a stick on a chain they used to hunt animals with or whatever hundreds of year ago. They said I am at my target weight and healthy (even with my slightly low blood pressure) but that I should try to get more exercise. I dunno how they figured this one out but they said that I have a normal level of stress but that I have a tendency to hold it all in. They said my liver needs a tiny bit of help; I can thank numerous gin and tonics for that one. I think that beginning tomorrow I have to drink heinously digusting and painfully bitter herbal medicines three times a day for the next two weeks. As a (ovo-lacto-pesco) vegetarian I think I should say nay to the deer antler tea they'll probably give me but the brown liquid is mysterious enough for me to let it slide. I am not looking forward to this.

I think I consumed every variety of Korean sea creature for lunch today. :loosens belt:

That enormous sashimi lunch was followed by an almost as large buffet dinner at a rather swanky hotel.

After dinner my brother dragged us out on the, literally, freezing cold beach to light roman candles. FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Fireworks are so freaking fun but after igniting about four roman candles my hands were frozen stiff. My brother lit about a zillion more and made the lady selling the fireworks pretty damn happy. I haven't seen him that happy in ages.

We went to a video store looking for some Korean movies watch but the video rental shop had a serious lack of DVDs. No My Sassy Girl, no DMZ, or JSA, or Old Boy so we went home with Troy. Yes, that movie with Brad Pitt. And no, I did not watch it.

Did you know that in addition to PC bangs they also have board game bangs in Korea? Apparently no likes hanging out at home. Well, I wouldn't either if I was 22 and living with my parents.

Now it is time to eat some more delicious Korean junk food.