Guy Fawkes
An individual from seventeenth century England who attempted to blow up parliament. Caught before he could load the basement of the building with gunpowder, he was sentenced to die and burned at the stake. Five November is now known as Guy Fawkes Day in the British Isles and celebrated with fireworks, bonfires, and general drunken mayhem.
Sokcho Diary
Because I both work with and hang around several Brits here in Sokcho we deceided that it was only proper that we have a Guy Fawkes party. Kelly and Shawn, by virtue of their new and very large apartment agreed to host, and about twenty of us agreed, in principle, to come down and drink!
The Dongjin Crew, Kirsty, Helen, Kelsey, and I headed down to E-mart to get supplies around six. After getting beer, vodka, and other party favors at our local discount mart we proceeded to run into a bunch of students who pointed out that we had a lot of alcohol and proceeded to ask us what we were going to do with it all, we said the only thing that came to mind, “Well we are going to a party”, it worked!
We then hopped on the number nine bus and rode out to the site of our adventure.
Kelly and Shawn live in a very small town about ten miles outside of Sokcho in a new, very nice building. When we got there there was already about twenty people eating, drinking, and talking and we settled right in.
It was a pretty fun night. The party was potluck so everyone brought something to eat and drink, (I brought homemade vegetable pot pies, Kelsey guacamole, and Helen and Kirsty gingerbread men), and we had a blast until three or so in the morning.
Of course it wouldn’t be a really great party unless the police showed up about the noise as they did around 2:30 to tell us the entire building was complaining about the noise!
We finally left close to three and tried in vain to hail a taxi on the very narrow, deserted road after stumbling and weaving our way down the road for about fifteen minutes we were finally successful and got home close to three thirty at the end of a great night!
Pics-1. Kelsey and I
2. Oue hostess, Kelly
3. Jason for some reason demonstrating his skiing technique
4. Lee and his girlfriend
5. Kelly and Shawn
