2010

New Years Eve has never been a big deal to me and Jason. We usually make the choice to stay home and avoid all the drunk drivers out on the road. This New Years we watched an Indiana Jones marathon on television right up until midnight. Since Korea is 15 hours ahead of the United States, and that meant no Dick Clark, we were curious how the Koreans would ring in 2010. One of the television channels we flipped to had a huge crowd of people (it looked a lot like the crowd that gathers at Time Square) and a counter that was counting the seconds until the Year of the Tiger (this was pretty cool since in America we count down the last seconds of 2009). Up on a platform they had a man and a woman in traditional Korean dress with the host of the evening. When the clocked finally reached midnight the man and the woman together banged on a large gong. I did not see any kissing like we do in the U.S., but they seemed to be enjoying the evenings festivities. We all headed to bed very soon after and made sure to eat our black eyed peas for luck and turnip greens for money on New Years Day.