Cam in Korea: Halloween 2009

So Halloween was the highlight event for the last week or so amongst us westerners. Its not celebrated in Korea much, which didn't really bother me as i grew up not celebrating it. On the Friday 30th, one of my fellow caribbean friends Kris told me about a korean reggae band 'Windy City' were playing in Hongdae, so we decided to go to this club that was really busy and had some cool rock bands playing (including 'No Brain')...to be honest i thought the idea of koreans playing reggae was a joke....until i actually heard them-they were impressive! Its 3 guys and a girl...the crowd were really good too! Then around 5am...we stumbled into 'Roots' the ONLY reggae bar in Seoul....owned by this really cute Japanese couple, and boy do they know a thing or two about 'black' music...will defo be hanging out there! Needles to say we partied hard and met random people (this seems to be a common theme).

At the upstairs bar

Upstairs Bar

Random

Keeping it tight on the keyboards-sick reggae beats/synths!

Windy City - Korean Reggae

Stealing Naul's mask (a popular feature in her classroom-ha!)

Random...i wonder how many randoms will insist on trying my yellow specs before i leave Korea?

Crowd getting hyped

Random

Experimenting with my (still fairly new) camera with slow shutter speeds, with the same random.

Random - hard to think she is almost 30! I know, its crazy how young everyone looks here

Rock band 'No Brain'

I spent Saturday inside as to avoid the poison rain...but about 40 of us had planned to have a house party at Sydney's (she looks like my eldest neice-will show at a later date!), then head into Hongdae (again! Hongdae is the place to be..too many clubs/bars and has the best design university in korea, so lots of students and creative minds around).

I decided at the last minute to go and buy a costume as it was fancy dress and didn't want to kill the vibe..but on my way to the store, i found myself becoming excited about the prospect of dressing up as id never done it before...i took it easy though and settled for a pair of wings and a halo....to be fair i went to some clothing district and got lost, had to call everyone i knew to find out where to get a costume! (thanks Isis).... "tonight Mathew, im going to be a fallen angel, hehe!" (my UK friends will get that one). We ended up getting terribly drunk....obviously! Great weekend!