Partook in my second hike with Warren yesterday. Warren of the-lets-play-hopscotch-across-the-peaks-on-Bukhansan fame. We hiked in Buyongsan and Cheongseongsan, about a 2 hour commute from Jamsil. The group was small and extremely multicultural. I represented the only American, there were 2 Canadians, a Pakistani, a Bolivian born and raised Korean, and Warren making his outrageous generalizations about Chinese and Japenese and everybody in between. We hiked in 90 degree weather for about 16 km but the forests were beautiful and reminded me of parks back home. It took several hours to complete but Warren kept us entertained with the two Michael Jackson songs he had on his cell phone: We are the World and Beat It, which he kept playing over and over again while hiking in honor of MJ whom passed away yesterday. We also attempted to bust the myth of fan death, discussed which language bilingual people chose to curse in, and I discovered that I have the option of suing my doctor for giving me a semi-outie belly button. We ended the hike with my first ever hitchhiking experience! Warren wanted food and mekju so we hitched a ride in the back of a truck to a restaurant famous for its tofu soup. The Han River lazed peacefully next to us for most of this hike, as lazy and fat as rivers come with lily pads and rice growing thickly on its banks. I'm sure we were just a few miles from Seoul but it felt so far, far away from the ant hill chaos that the capital often fills like. For a few hours, at least.