the dream police

today we headed off to insadong to finish up with our christmas shopping. when will it end. i feel like i've done more shopping in the last past two days than i ever did before. upon exiting the subway station there were lines of riot police along the sidewalk. it was very bizarre. apparently some kind of demonstration was happening. i'm not really sure what since i couldn't understand what was being said, nor could i read any of the signs. we walked around for a couple of hours buying this and buying that. had some lunch then decided to call it quits.

on our way back to the station we noticed all the riot police again so we decided to go a different way. not like it really matter because we didn't get ten steps until two large groups of them came running by was. once we made it to the main street it looked all hazy. as we got closer we noticed that the street had pile of ashes and the haze was smoke. further down the street there were fires still blazing. it was so surreal. especially since we had no clue as to what was going on. the street was littered with burning piles of paper and people.

not sure if i mentioned this before but the guys in korea are rockin the mullet. everywhere you look someone is sporting a mullet. and the scary thing is that they actually look cool. its not the good old redneck or lesbian mullet we've become so accostumed to seeing. these are hip alternative mullets. i gotta give them props. if i had straight hair like theirs i too would have a mullet.

it also seems that fur coats are big too. both the men and women are sporting all kinds of furs. there are coats lined with fur, full of fur coats, etc. i might just have to get me one of them too. not sure if they are real or not but they are definitely way cool.

time for me to go chill and relax. now that i have class at 10am i'm going to start having to go to bed earlier. until next time…