The last week or so have been weeks of randomness lol. I think it all started at the strawberry festival 2 weeks ago. So we were asked if we wanted to go to a strawberry festival with a friend here. I really did not want to go but, I didn't want her to go by herself. I mean I can find rather tasty strawberries right down the street, hell right across the street. I should have known it was going to a crazy day based upon our bus ride there. So, the 3 of us purchase bus tickets, walk to platform 16 as stated on our ticket and get in line to get on the bus. As the driver opens the door mad people start pushing to get on the bus, after we fight our way on we then make our way to find seats. So we get the LAST 3 seats on the bus and notice there are about 5 people who have to stand for the hour ride ( so happy that wasn't me). Carm and Marquita are seated in two seats in front of me and I am sitting in an aisle seat when this woman takes it upon herself to plop her butt down damn near on my lap! I mean she is sitting on my armrest with her back leaned against my shoulder! I was so HOT, lady you have 2.5 seconds to get out of my personal space, not to mention it was hot as hell on that bus!
So we are riding and get to the stop, but it is not where we were trying to go. The festival was in Nomsan and we were NOT in Nomsan. The bus driver starts yelling at us in Korean to get off the bus, we ask is this Nomsan and he picks up a sign on the bus and is pointing at it (which is also in Korean). I remember thinking sir I have NO CLUE what that damn sign says and you yelling and pointing is NOT going to help me suddenly be able to read Korean...sorry dude. Carm then calls her co worker who is able to translate, the bus driver then takes us to the ticket booth to get another ticket. We then proceed to get on another hot ass bus and finally make our way to Nomsan. By the time we make it to Nomsan we are so hungry lucky for us there was food everywhere. After eating we then start to walk around go to different booths and such. While walking around we came to a petting zoo, it was cute and the children really seem to enjoy it. I looking around at all the animals and then I stop dead in the tracks...This was an ONLY IN KOREA moment can someone please tell me why these mugs had a skunk in their petting zoo?!?!?!?! Yes you read correctly a skunk! Who in their right mind has a skunk at a petting zoo, and furthermore what parent would let their kid go and pet one?
So after the petting zoo we continue to walk around the festival when a man with a TV camera comes up to us. He is recording and then is homeboy comes and starts to take mad pictures of us. He then grabs my hand and tells us to come, he takes us to a booth were they are selling strawberries. There are around 3 or 4 photographers at this point and they are posing us and taking all kinds of pictures. After about 50 pictures or so we just had enough! It was like a cross of being a celebrity and a freak show. We start to walk away when they continue to follow us and take pictures, this then prompts the locals to request pictures with us, it was bananas. We start to walk away again, when we he yells STOP and hand us a bunch of strawberries, LOL yes we got paid in strawberries. He then asks us our names and then says "Africa" noooooooooo dude we are American! I think its safe to say it will be a while before I go to another strawberry festival! Still Seoul Searching...
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