Ski trip

Last weekend I went on a ski trip with 10 people (from school and some friends of the Korean teachers). 2 of the Korean teachers (Jay and Julie) are big snowboarders and go quite often, so they invited some of the foreign teachers to go skiing/boarding with them at a resort 2 hours outside of Seoul. Both of them have cars. Korea is a very mountainous country, so there are ski resorts everywhere. Skiing is also very cheap (by Western standards) so our lift ticket and rental for the full day was $50. We also rented a condo to stay the night. It was only 2 rooms (with 2 bathrooms), and there was no furniture in it other than a TV, computer (only in Korea) and an armoire with a lot of blankets and sleeping pads. We were sleeping Korean style, on the warm floor.
I haven't been skiing in a really long time (college), so I was a little shaky at first. I did the bunny hill quite a few times before switching to a more difficult run (which still wasn't bad). It was beautiful in the mountains. We went out for dinner that night for galbi (which you make at your table and share) and then we went back to the condo where we proceeded to play some Korean drinking games. It was awesome. First things first--rock, paper, scissors is really popular here. But they call it gawi, bawi, bow (obviously the korean words for the aforementioned objects). So the drinking game involved beating members of a team in gawi, bawi, bow...it actually is pretty complex, but really FUN! The losing team has to share drinking (chugging rather) the cup of beer in the middle (but instead of a cup we used a soup bowl cause it was bigger). We ran out of beer towards the end of the night but were having such a good time that we used COKE in the bowl, which is actually WORSE to chug than beer because it's so carbonated and thick. YUCK!
But anyway, it was a great trip. Here are some pictures....the ski group, beautiful mountains, playing gawi, bawi, bow, and eating galbi for dinner.