WTF is up with "Interprative Dance"

Well it's Tuesday again, and I am blogging late.....again.
This week was another simple week. Since we have gone back to the afternoon schedule, things have calmed down on the night life side of things during the week. We still try to get out on Thursday nights for a bit and to plan our weekends. This Thursday we went to a new station along the subway line called Yeoksam. It was a smaller area, which was nice because we always seem to end up in the bigger bar and restaurant districts. We met up with a few friends and drank Dong Dong Ju, rice beer. It is super sweet and if you aren't careful can leave you with a nasty hangover. We had a rather calm night and headed home around 1 am.
Friday night however, was a different story. Brian, Jameson and I went to Apgujeong (usually pronounced Apujong) to meet Junk for a few beers at a bar called Crazy W.C. Bar, its a flare bar. We had all the intentions of keeping it low key until Blake the Destroyer showed up a while later. When Blake showed up we were all just having beers, talking, and watching the flare show. Well Blake noticed Junk wasn't having such a good time and asked him "what was up". Junk answered "I don't really like beer so I'm not drinking much", and we were off. Blake decided we should get a bottle of whiskey, since Junk likes it, under the ridiculous assumption that we could drink some and save the rest for later. As a side note, they do allow to to recap bottles and leave them at bars for the next time you go there. To this we all said you are crazy, you know if we open it we will finish it. And the rest of the story writes itself. We finished the bottle, along with half a bottle of tequila that the people beside us won in a contest and shared with us. We never left the bar until 430 and I never got home until 530. Ridiculous, but awesome at the same time.
That was enough partying for me for the weekend. Saturday I woke up feeling not too bad, but really late, and I had to meet the lady I tutor at 430 with Blake and Brian because she invited us to a modern dance performance titled 'Several Questions'. Now let me tell you a little something about how that went. NOT COOL!!!!!
Hey don't get me wrong, I like the arts. I enjoy the theater, and ballet, I would go see just about anything. But, to call this stuff modern dance was a huge mistake, when in fact what it was, was interpretive dance. For almost the entire show, we were looking at each other and saying "what the hell is going on here". There was hardly any dancing as much as there was just random movements that I could probably see in an Asylum, or by video taping myself doing it. I appreciate the arts, especially the things that I can't do like tap dancing, ballet, break dancing, singing etc., but when it is just a bunch of people running and flailing around on stage (things I could do) I have a hard time seeing the beauty in it. That being said, it was really nice of Sung Eun to take us and we took her out for dinner afterwards, then went on a walk up a nearby small mountain called Naksan, that has the same wall running over it that encircles the original city of Seoul.
Saturday night I stayed in and got some rest so that maybe we could do something worth wild on Sunday. So on Sunday I got up and went to the gym in the morning then came home and rallied the troops for a trip to somewhere. Brian came up with the idea of going to the Bongeunsa temple complex. It is one of the largest Buddhist temple complexes in Seoul and maybe even Korea, I'm not sure. There were multiple temples from different eras, some original, some reconstructions, since over the years many temples were burnt down during Japanese and Chinese occupation attempts. It was great to get a chance to see it during the day light and we even got there on time to see the ritual music ceremony the monks hold before their morning and nightly prayer. There was a large drum, bell, symbol, and wooden dragon that were played one after the other to offer blessings to different creatures. It lasted about 15-20 minutes and was really neat to see. When it was over the monks returned to the prayer temple and began praying with many Koreans following.
After the temple tour we went and got some dinner and went our separate ways. I went back to the gym to meet the girl who works at the front desk. Jameson and I have become friends with her and we hang out now and then. We went around the corner for some beer and to hang out, and we called it a night around 11 so we could both get home on the subway.
Well one more week down.