A Few Things I’ve Learnt About My Friends, Myself and Korea in General...

• A meal is not a meal unless there’s rice involved.

• It is possible that seaweed stuffed with rice, spam and processed cheese will a) be considered not only edible but also to be an entire meal and b) smell so bad that the teacher’s lounge suddenly becomes reminiscent of a post-game hockey locker room.

• Kyle can indeed fit himself into a washing machine.

• A Bodum coffee press can be the best investment ever.

• Biking double while intoxicated along a river is probably not a good idea.

• It is a particularly bad idea when Kyle happens to be the one peddling, and has contracted the Korean Plague, thus resulting in an inability to breathe and make it up the hills.

• The sale of beer in a movie theatre improves the movie-going experience exponentially.

• There’s a point in your life when a polygamous marriage begins to seem like a good idea. It’s all about finding a mix of people whose skills/ interests compliment one another.

• DVD bang? We seriously need to import these bad boys to Canada.

• You should never have to wait at a traffic light for more than three minutes. Seriously, traffic lights here are ridiculous.

• You can eat pizza three times a week without suffering from multi-system organ failure.

• Nobody likes pureed sweet potato on the aforementioned pizza. It's not a real topping. And we ARE talking three days a week here.

• Soju is definitely the way to go. Especially when you can buy it at the grocery store pre-mixed in juice boxes AND in 2 litre bottles.

• Sometimes you have to go to Korea to find a decent Mexican restaurant.

• All Korean women are direct descendants of Wonderwoman. You can say the same for me the day that I strap on a pair of stilettos and sling a baby on each of my hips while simultaneously walking down the street looking like a supermodel and chatting on my cell phone.

• Chocolate covered Kimchi? Not ok.