Finally, a Knife!

Ok, so at night I go for walks around Ulsan to check it out. I have seen many interesting things although I haven't taken any pictures. I already look different, I don't need another reason to stand out. Here are some things that I have seen: a towel store aptly named The Terry Store, several Hof & Coffee (I have no idea what hof means), a million beer joints, and enough golf stores to outfit everyone in Maryland, Delaware and Virigina.

But last night was my most eventful night out and about. I not only found TGI Fridays, two Pizza Huts, a Lotteria (a Korean version of McDonalds said to be really good), and Domino's, but Lotte Mart (like Walmart without the food) and an Outlet Center where I finally found, drum roll please....a butter knife. Yes, I have been searching for a butter knife since I arrived and even asked Blondes' cousin Jill who also lives in Ulsan. She recommended a couple of places and the Outlet Center was one of them. I had no idea that I lived so close, a 5 minute walk!

Details of the elusive knife (pictures to come): It butters like a pro and cost me 6 usd for just one.

Also last night I witnessed my first drunken incident. Living so close to a million beer joints does have its advantages. Let me give you the low-down. I was walking back towards my house and I saw ahead what looked like two men fighting and two other men holding them back. I slowed down, looking for another way around them (I learned from my experience with knife fights in Ireland that you should always go around them) when this old couple just walked through the middle of the fight! Well I figured if they could do it, I could do it. As I got closer I realized that the main fighter was a 50-something business man trying to get in his car to drive home drunk and the other three were trying to stop him. You would think that most of the people surrounding them would stop and stare, but no. Just another day in Korea.

Sidenote: I almost got hit by 2 cars last night. Not a record, they drive better here then in Taiwan, but it was my first time that I watched a car speed up when I was in the middle of the road. Good times.