New Year’s Eve was not very exciting. Keunyea and I went downtown to look around. We had pizza, a treat around here, and walked the streets. There is a tradition that the president rings a large Buddhist bell on New Year’s Eve at midnight. So there were several people standing around the site at 9:00 waiting for the moment. I don’t know if they were there to support him, though. South Korea’s president is somewhat of a bad leader. He is running a political campaign that is appalling. Therefore, many of the people we ran into that night were protesting the president. There were also many cops dressed in riot gear waiting for any trouble. I decided that I didn’t want to be around all of this when the crowd, potential mob, had a chance to yell their thoughts to the president. The guy sounds like a Bush duplicate, except many of the people know that he is bad from the first year of his term in office. He has an adjenda, which is turning the country around, and doesn’t listen to opposition. I have been told by Keunyea that he is the worst type of stupid. If you are stupid and lazy, it doesn’t matter, you won’t harm anyone but yourself. If you are stupid and a hard worker, then you can cause some problems. I feel for the country of Korea.
The trains stopped running at 1 am, which would cause a problem when over a million people want to take the train in one hour, between midnight and one. Keunyea and I thought about staying downtown until the trains started running again at 6am, but it was cold and we were tired. We went back home and found a bar near a downtown area of Anyang. Not as glamorous at all. We sat in a small booth, cutoff from everyone else in the bar by drapes around our booth. Very intimate, but that’s not what I want for a New Year’s countdown. I wanted people around counting down with beers in their hand. But I enjoyed my company and drank to the new year. Bailey’s and milk is delicious.
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크리스 (Chris)
