Vagina

This past weekend I made a trip down to a town in the south of Korea called Jinju. A friend of mine lives and works down there and this weekend was in a production of the Vagina Monologues. I had planned on going down to visit her eventually but when this came up I figured why not go see a show while im there and even better she was in it. I left Saturday afternoon on the bus which takes about 4 hours. The bus was nice with big relatively comfortable seats that reclined pretty far back.

When we arrived my friend met us at the bus terminal and took us to a tea room for a little tea before taking a walk through a park where there is a castle (Korean castle not your European fairy tale type).

That night was the second and last night of the performance. The show was great! It was put on by the foreign community in Jinju, mostly teachers as well as some locals. None of the actors in the show had any acting experience but the show was still very good and entertaining. Most of the actors wore black and some had a red accent in their attire but one of the local Korean women in the show, and elderly lady who I found out was my friends co-teacher, went all out with the red, she even wore a wig. It was incredibly entertaining.

The next day we went to another park and went hiking around some trails through the woods as well as a small bamboo forest before stopping at the university area to get some smoothies and relax while sitting in the sun watching the baseball team practice. The weekend was short as always but after getting some lunch I headed back to Seoul to the crappy weather we have had for the past couple days.