Happy New Year!
Interesting facts about Korea:
The day you are born, you are one year old. January 1st, you become one
year older. So if you were born in
December, you are one year old, come January 1st, you are two years
old. So you could be alive for
only two months but also be considered two years old. Therefore, for everyone in Korea,
they are not only celebrating a new year, but also becoming one year older! Apparently the people on the verge of
becoming the drinking age wait outside the bars until midnight when they all
turn a year older at the same time and are old enough to enter the bar!
On New Years Eve, Aimee and I went to a New Years party at
one of Aimee’s co-workers apartments.
We ended up on the beach for the countdown with a slightly different
group of people. We shot off our
own personal fireworks at midnight!
We were also asked to pose in a few photographs!
After staying out a little bit longer, we returned to
Aimee’s apartment for a little nap.
At 6:45 Aimee’s alarm went off.
We reluctantly got out of bed so we could watch the sunrise, I was
little bit more keen than Aimee to make the effort to get up, promising her it
was something she would not regret!
She now thanks me :)
We were not the only ones who made the effort. The beach was filled with people young
and old! Most people had a balloon at their fingertips but we were not in the
loop as to where they were getting the balloons. The beach had tents, a stage, drummers, and swimmers braving
the cold water. Did I forget to
mention that not only was it the crack of dawn, we were also freezing cold
waiting patiently for the sun to make its appearance. At the first sight of the sun across the horizon, everyone
let go of his or her balloon! Some
people attached messages to their balloon. It was definitely worth the struggle to get out of bed to be
a part of this experience! Aimee
then got to walk the one block back to her warm bed while I began my journey
home on the subway with the other hundreds of people who came to watch the
sunrise.
No comments:
Post a Comment