Valentines Day-A Compare and Contrast

So, as you may guess from my post title, it's Valentines Day. Yup, actually it's about to end in 10 minutes, so I better make this fast. Haha....

Anyway, this is Korea Intresting Fact #6 i think:

Valentines Day in Korea is so much sweeter than it is the states.

Why???? How Can that Be???

Well, I'll tell you. Here, they pretty much have two valentines days. This valentines day is for the GUYS!....yup, this day is when the girls get the guys something for valentines. And I mean they go overboard. I heard today of a basket of stuff showing up at a classroom door for a guy in that class. And in our dorm, someone put tape with arrows guiding one guy to stuff at his door.

Then for the Girls there is White day here. White day is about a month away and it is where the guys get the girls stuff.

And then there is black day and that is for those who don't like valentines at all but need a holiday. Haha!

But I noticed with this system, most of the guys on my hall were happy tonight and not depressed, because it wasn't up to them whether or not they got/or gave a valentine. In fact, most of them got something for valentines from a girl. What a better system, because at least in the states most guys are depressed on valentines day unless they have a girlfriend. Not here.

So what did I do for valentines? Well, I went out to eat at this place where you sit on the floor and they make the food right in front of you. The food was so good, it was this spicy cabbage/chicken/rice stuff...mmmm. Then we went to play pingpong at a pingpong place nearby, went to the batting cages nearby, and just hung out. So overall, it was a great valentines night/evening.

So....it's almost Lunar Holiday here and that means I'm soon going to Japan for my visa and to ski. Which is exciting but scary as well as Tokyo is huge. I'm going to be going to a train/subway station that sees 3.5 million people pass through it every day!

Well, so as you can see, life here is good. I might post between now and my japan trip or I may not. Eitherway.....

Blessings