Spent the day in a community just outside a US military base here in Seoul today. In all my Asian follies I have never seen anything so strange. The people I was with were great. Sane, happy ESLers.
Many Military Police strutted around, sidearms aready, in this area to ensure civility in proximity to their bunker. They're very big, those MPs.
Today was a 'Friendship Festival'. As opposed to 'Occupation Festival', which didn't go over well last year here.
I ate really well prepared spare ribs, apple pie and had Dr Peppers to drink.
One of the women I was with today was in dire need of a marital aid so she and I popped into a specialty store in the area for a look see. Nothing caught her eye.
A musical group played really good tunes while barbecue smoke filled the air.
In one of the weirder moments of the day I sat surrounded by off duty American soldiers and watched four Korean trannies just belt out the tunes. They were really working it, too, the hairless sluts. Don't ask. Don't tell.
I looked to my left at one point and there was this woman monk with a dragon fly perched on her forehead. Neither seemed to mind and the soldiers were transfixed by the tran show on stage. Weird one.