No more nasty flowers!

I've been dying to paint over the ugly 70's style, orange and gray flowered, wallpaper in my apartment for, well... about 18 months now!  Problem was... Koreans don't paint!  They only wallpaper, and I have no clue how to wallpaper!  But, I decided, with my sister coming to visit me this week, it was time to bite the bullet, and find a store that sold paint and buy some!

So, this morning, Aaron and I scooted around until we found a paint store, where we were met by a groggy old korean woman, who didn't speak a lick of English, and who didn't seem too excited to see 2 foreigners in her hole-in-the-wall paint store. (Yes, this happens once in a while).  Long story short, she haphazardly poured 4 different colors of paint into a can, stirred it around a couple times and then handed it to us.  We crossed our fingers that it was the color we asked for, and off we went!

I may be smiling in this picture, but don't let it fool you.  This was a there's no going back moment, which typically bring on an anxiety attack! 

While I'd like to say I'm thrilled with the outcome, unfortunately the latex paint feels more like I covered my wall with a glue stick!  It's sticking to everything, and the color is much darker than we had anticipated!

So, tomorrow, we're heading back for more brushes, another roller, and we're painting it white!  I guess anything is better than those nasty flowers! :)

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I saw a PIFF Film!

Last year, when I enquired about how to buy tickets for PIFF (The Pusan International Film Festival), my co-workers ALL told me, "Tickets for films are sold out weeks in advance," and you can only buy them these ways: 
1. online, on a korean website.
2. at Busan bank (which closes before I get off work) 
3. participating GS25's (Korea's equivalent of a 7/11) 


Needless to say, I never got around to buying tickets last year!  

What they neglected to mention is that 80% of the tickets can be purchased by the above options.  The other 20% of tickets can be purchased at the theater, just like when you go to see a regular movie!  gggrrrr.

So last night, after work, I took a bus over to Nampodong and walked myself up to the ticket booth and asked for 1 ticket for "Illegal," (a French and Russian language film, directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse, which won the SACD Prize at the 2010 Cannes Director’s Fortnight) which was starting in exactly 30 minutes...  and would you know it - there was a ticket available!  

That wasn't so hard now, was it?!

What was even better was, after I bought it, I ran into my friends Jenna and Annie who had purchased tickets to the same film!

I'm happy to say my very first Pusan International Film Festival experience was a success!   Here's the trailer:

Aaron and I are going back tomorrow to see a film!  We're still debating between "Inside America" and "If I want to whistle, I whistle."