Halloween

Sadly, we weren't really in the Halloween spirit this year. It's very difficult to get excited about a holiday like Halloween when you're living in a country that neither celebrates, nor really understands it. Our friends were still dressing up and going out for it, and we felt lame just saying, 'no' and staying home or going out and not dressing up, so we decided to find an excuse as to why we were busy and couldn't come that night. Our excuse came in the form of a one-man Broadway show.

Without You, by Rent star Anthony Rapp, was a very personal, depressing and emotional account of his time with the show on Broadway, the death of the show's writer Jonathon Larson, and the slow decline and eventual death of his mother from cancer. He went back and forth between song and monologue to tell his story, which left most of the crowd fighting back tears, or in Andrew's case, bawling hysterically and making the ugly cry face. It's a traveling act, and if it lands anywhere near you, we highly recommend it.

Self-timers before leaving

The show was in Gangnam, so after the show we headed to Sideways Wine, the place we discovered with Miranda for some wine and snacks. Once the wine sunk in, we got a little more talkative and made friends with the two Koreans that were sitting behind us. We ended up jumping into a taxi bound for a Halloween party in Itaewon with them, the place we were trying to avoid. The girl (don't remember her name) was a little weird, but she ended up ditching us for her Military boyfriend anyway and leaving us to hangout with Jin alone, so it worked out just fine! Jin, and his girlfriend Heeji, are now two of our favorite people in Korea.