So You Think I Have A Beer Belly, Eh?.....
Hello again from Downtown Seoul where it's Wednesday, about 5PM, 4AM your time, and my abs are sore. As part of our daily dance rehearsal, the Kit-Kat boys and girls are warming up with a 10 minute group stretch/exercise routine(crunches, pushups, etc.). I'm actually doing pretty well, considering I'm a little fat and out of shape, not to mention surrounded by younger, more agile dancers. I'm hoping the routine, coupled with the fact I'm walking @ 5 miles a day exploring Seoul, will lead me to workout even more at the hotel gym I described in the last post. My goal is to come home lean and mean- or at least not as fat as when I left!
Rehearsals are going well, and the pit/ensemble is beginning to sound great. It's also pretty cool to be walking down the street, waiting for the light to change and have a bus pull up right in front of you plastered with the shows' advertisement. It's a bit surreal, but it makes a lightbulb go off that this is a pretty big deal over here. Other cast members who have done the show before tell me we are being treated like stars compared to past tours.
We get one free meal a day, breakfast, and it is an excellent spread with everything you can imagine from bacon and eggs to all types of breads, as well as traditional Korean and Japanese dishes like kimchee(spicy,pickled cabbage/veggies)and poached fish. I forgot to mention that on the plane, breakfast was a Ham and Cheese sandwich and OJ. Pretty weird..
The layout of the city is just as strange a mix as breakfast is, with huge skyscrapers towering over thousand year old temples. I keep exploring and running into mazes of street markets with everything from handmade jewelry to a Polo store to dead, roasted chickens to cell phone hawkers. Just as in the U.S., sex sells. Cell phone kiosks are "manned" by a bevy of beautiful young ladies in hot-pants with a pension for flirting to get you to buy their particular phone.
I now own thirteen phones.
(Just kidding! They ignore all the westerners and concentrate on people who will actually buy something.)
My Korean is still poor, but improving daily. The way I figure it, I'll have a good grasp on the basics, oh, say, about the time we leave for Japan. It figures. Not that anyone has any plans on coming here or being in the area, but I would absolutely recommend seeing Seoul sometime in your life. It's got to be seen to be believed. I suppose it's sort of like seeing Manhattan for the first time, but, having spent time there, it's still pretty fantastic.
Well, that's all for today. I hope all is well back home and that y'all haven't forgotten me yet. If you do visit this site, please drop me at least a one liner letting me know that you are reading up. You can even respond simply by signing your name. Otherwise, there is no way to know who has visited, as there are no "hit counters" on this site. Thanks again for reading and an-nyong-ee kaseyo!(good-bye!)
-Gags
Rehearsals are going well, and the pit/ensemble is beginning to sound great. It's also pretty cool to be walking down the street, waiting for the light to change and have a bus pull up right in front of you plastered with the shows' advertisement. It's a bit surreal, but it makes a lightbulb go off that this is a pretty big deal over here. Other cast members who have done the show before tell me we are being treated like stars compared to past tours.
We get one free meal a day, breakfast, and it is an excellent spread with everything you can imagine from bacon and eggs to all types of breads, as well as traditional Korean and Japanese dishes like kimchee(spicy,pickled cabbage/veggies)and poached fish. I forgot to mention that on the plane, breakfast was a Ham and Cheese sandwich and OJ. Pretty weird..
The layout of the city is just as strange a mix as breakfast is, with huge skyscrapers towering over thousand year old temples. I keep exploring and running into mazes of street markets with everything from handmade jewelry to a Polo store to dead, roasted chickens to cell phone hawkers. Just as in the U.S., sex sells. Cell phone kiosks are "manned" by a bevy of beautiful young ladies in hot-pants with a pension for flirting to get you to buy their particular phone.
I now own thirteen phones.
(Just kidding! They ignore all the westerners and concentrate on people who will actually buy something.)
My Korean is still poor, but improving daily. The way I figure it, I'll have a good grasp on the basics, oh, say, about the time we leave for Japan. It figures. Not that anyone has any plans on coming here or being in the area, but I would absolutely recommend seeing Seoul sometime in your life. It's got to be seen to be believed. I suppose it's sort of like seeing Manhattan for the first time, but, having spent time there, it's still pretty fantastic.
Well, that's all for today. I hope all is well back home and that y'all haven't forgotten me yet. If you do visit this site, please drop me at least a one liner letting me know that you are reading up. You can even respond simply by signing your name. Otherwise, there is no way to know who has visited, as there are no "hit counters" on this site. Thanks again for reading and an-nyong-ee kaseyo!(good-bye!)
-Gags
posted by Gags at 4:10 PM
1 Comments:
I was just listening to the Cabaret recording and thought I should read up on what you're doing. Glad your having fun. It's hot in New England right now. 90 outide in Noho. Hey, how's the beer? That may destroy the boyish figure you're going for right now. Sorry I missed your bon voyage at Vincents last week. To much to do in a few days for me.
It's nice to know that your culturally imbibing yourself.
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