For Dave: How much do the dancing girls cost??

So a big nosed Grand Rapidsian is telling me I need to post more, so here goes...PS: Save the party until September 2007!!!!!

Last night, my funny friend Dave started talking about this strange Korean marketing concept that happens when a new eating establishment opens. It's custom to hire a "dancing entourage". This usually includes two or three scantly clad women with microphones, a stage, a booming sound system. These women then proceed to dance their fannies off to the outrageously loud beats while they coax people to come in and eat. I'm not sure how this all originated or how effective it actually is, but because one business somewhere in the whole of Korea did it, all others had to follow. This by the way is a general trend of Korea. For example, some time ago a few churches decided to post red neon crosses on top of their churches and now...well, If you look around at night you'll see hundreds of neon red crosses spattered throughout the darkness, literally, all over the country. That's an entirely different topic though. ANYWAY, the dancing girls...last night we were out and the question arose, "how much do you think the dancing girls cost?" This truly is a baffling concept...think about it...the equipment, the stage, the girls, the girls' outfits, feeding the girls, blah blah blah...people's guesses ranged from $100 - $1,000. There's really no way of knowing. Some of my friends suggested I try and apply for a part-time job...weekends and such, I mean, I am a pretty awesome dancer, and I really do love belly bearing tops, short skirts, weird knee high things and big (HUGE) platform white tennies...if I get hired I'll definitely post pictures. Needless to say, it was a pretty good night, minus creepy James showing up...but again, another story for another time.

In other news...not much else is up. There are so many things I should be writing about, the little details I've become accustomed too here: the fact that pedestrians have absolutely no right-of-way, that Koreans are crazy drivers, that school kids are milling around town at midnight because they've just finished at their last academy, that Mr. Pizza ~one of the nicer pizza chains in Korea~ has the slogan "Made for women" and have weekly or monthly "Women's Days", that I'm sitting in a dark room full of neon blue lights and about 20 loud and annoying Korean boys running around...the list goes on and on. I'll have to post a more coherent list sometime, but now I'm heading to the public sauna...

P.S. In the past I've always had people to share these things with. I don't have that security blanket this time, but that's why I try to post on this thing...Plus, I'm lucky to have met some really awesome people here to fill in the gaps...:)