Saturday, July 10, 2004
Spiderman 2
Okay, Spiderman 2 got surprisingly bad reviews from a lot of people. I'm not one to challenge peoples' opinions, but they are flat-out wrong. This movie builds on the strengths of the comics ... namely the Peter Parker character. The movie made me really happy.
I saw the movie with Yun Jung yesterday. We went there, we saw TopGal park, where the March 1st independence movement started. There was an old guy there passing out flyers, in English, about some of the different memorials and artifacts in the park. It was obvious that he was part of the independence movement when he was younger. He showed us some pictures of himself in Hokkaido. I tried to speak to him in Korean, but I think he was almost totally deaf.
Then we went to a pretty cool restaurant in Yun Jung's old stomping ground and then checked out her college. It looked like any American university, except with gates. The gates were always open and we could just walk right in. In China, there are gates on the universities, but they are to keep the students in. Then, when there is a student protest, they just lock the gates and that way the Chinese government has to shoot fewer students.
Oh, and I saw an anti-war, anti-Bush rally today, too. It's strange because I am not a supporter of George Bush, but when people ask me about him while I'm here I almost feel like I should support him as the President. So, I just don't talk about it because anything I say would be a lie.
I saw the movie with Yun Jung yesterday. We went there, we saw TopGal park, where the March 1st independence movement started. There was an old guy there passing out flyers, in English, about some of the different memorials and artifacts in the park. It was obvious that he was part of the independence movement when he was younger. He showed us some pictures of himself in Hokkaido. I tried to speak to him in Korean, but I think he was almost totally deaf.
Then we went to a pretty cool restaurant in Yun Jung's old stomping ground and then checked out her college. It looked like any American university, except with gates. The gates were always open and we could just walk right in. In China, there are gates on the universities, but they are to keep the students in. Then, when there is a student protest, they just lock the gates and that way the Chinese government has to shoot fewer students.
Oh, and I saw an anti-war, anti-Bush rally today, too. It's strange because I am not a supporter of George Bush, but when people ask me about him while I'm here I almost feel like I should support him as the President. So, I just don't talk about it because anything I say would be a lie.
