With Christmas around the bend, Busan is busy preparing in typical 'go big or go home' Korean fashion. I'm so relieved. One of my major concerns when first moving to Korea was that, by leaving Canada for a year, I would somehow 'miss' Christmas. I'm happy to report that this place is very into the holiday season.
Christmas music, decorations and lights are out in full force around the city, reminding me that I'm overdue for a trip down to the Haeundae boardwalk this weekend to check out the nighttime view. I'd bet my paycheck it's decked out to the max.
School's been a barrel full of crazy the past few weeks, as the kids prepare for their annual Christmas show next Wednesday night at the Busan Design Centre, a massive performance stage in the heart of Centum City. The BDC hosts various professional ballet and orchestra concerts throughout the year; naturally, Sally felt it was an appropriate venue for a bunch of runny-nosed kindergarteners' Christmas show. Lol...sorry...I know I've been knocking Sally so often lately, it's just that there's so much material to work with, I almost can't help myself. I'll try to cut down.
Anyway. Christmas show preparations are most hilarious because the Korean staff has the kids performing wildly inapporpriate songs and scenes from plays like Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Romeo and Juliet. Precisely how any of those dramatic selections relate to Christmas, I do not know.
I, on the other hand, am counting down the days to Christmas vacation! I'll be kickin around Busan for Christmas and New Years, so I'm in the midst of compiling a list of recommended restaurants and places in the city that I have yet to see (i.e. the Busan Aquarium, Beamosa Temple, the seafood & soju tent down by the water, which supposedly serves the world's greatest fresh scallops). I am sooo looking forward to nine solid kid-free days. The sound of silence shall be the greatest Christmas gift of all :)
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