As promised...my future alternative line-of-work. I spent my last day and a half on a beach off the southern coast of South Korea, it's not nearly as packed as the 'famous' Haeundae (which has set world records for number of beach umbrellas on one beach, 1,000,000+ in a day..seriously!!) but another, equally beautiful, though superiorly sparsely populated. After a first evening of wandering, spending the night watching a midget and his tall female friend entertain a beach crowd with song and karaoke entertainment (he was dressed in drag, they had a stage set up beside the small convenience shack where I'd bought my ramyeon for lunch that afternoon-I'd actually chatted with both of them earlier..he's the frendliest performing drag midget in Korea..of that I'm fairly certain) and eventually chatting with the cute girl at the convenience store on one end of the boardwalk. I spent a few hours drinking and chatting with her and friends, I even got so wild during one of the drinking games I destroyed a plastic chair..ha! Turns out she lives in Seoul one subway station away from me, so I took her out for a beer when she got back to the big city and promised I'd buy her mother a new chair. Anyways, I woke up the next morning pretty early..went walking shirtless while the waves washed up along the shore...met a Mongolian man, and eventually plopped down in the sand. Boredom took over, can only stare at cute high school girls for so long, and I build a sand pyramid, next I tried an Eiffel tower which collapsed on me, then I made a massive pile and attempted to recreate the Tower of Babel..all which led to me having an enormous pit and a gigantic mound of sand...what to do??? Only one good answer for that...SAND TURTLE!
While I was putting the tortoise-shell pattern on it, there were actually crowds gathering to watch me. Perhaps 20 people at the peak, but throughout the several hours I was digging, shaping, and burning my skin, people continuously streamed past, "WOW..what is it?" HA..they don't make sand castles over here...a few men brought their children and sat and talked with me for a while...both were industrial engineers...one bought me a beer, another left and brought me back grape juice, and someone lent me some sun cream. All in all...a great day, a BEAUTIFUL beach, and a damn good sand turtle if I do say so myself...I felt like a vagrant artist, creating beauty and putting smiles on faces for free.......anyone know what else could be better in life?
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