One analogy to describe this process might be to visualize a group of people sitting at a table. Each person at the table can both talk and listen to any other person at the table. These people are each trying to get a complete copy of a book. Person A announces that he has pages 1-10, 23, 42-50, and 75. Persons C, D, and E are each missing some of those pages that A has, and so they coordinate such that A gives them each copies of the pages he has that they are missing. Person B then announces that she has pages 11-22, 31-37, and 63-70. Persons A, D, and E tell B they would like some of her pages, so she gives them copies of the pages that she has. The process continues around the table until everyone has announced what they have (and hence what they are missing.) The people at the table coordinate to swap parts of this book until everyone has everything. There is also another person at the table, who we'll call 'S'. This person has a complete copy of the book, and so doesn't need anything sent to him. He responds with pages that no one else in the group has. At first, when everyone has just arrived, they all must talk to him to get their first set of pages. However, the people are smart enough to not all get the same pages from him. After a short while they all have most of the book amongst themselves, even if no one person has the whole thing. In this manner, this one person can share a book that he has with many other people, without having to give a full copy to everyone that's interested. He can instead give out different parts to different people, and they will be able to share it amongst themselves. This person who we've referred to as 'S' is called a seed in the terminology of BitTorrent.

My stash of Pepero and imitation Pepero.  Ok... Pepero doesn't taste that good to begin with, but giving somebody an imitation of a bad snack?  That's low...

The picture to the left shows a big, long box of Pepero.  This is what was inside.  REALLY BAD! I threw it away, and almost spit out the one bite I had.

Pepero boxes for sale at Emart	This box is called "Friend"
These box of Pepero come with charms	This box comes with Pepero shaped shopsticks and a spoon.

Pocky (Japanese: ポッキ, pokki) is a snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan. The classic form of Pocky was first sold in 1965, under the name "Chocoteck", and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. Pocky was an instant hit among Japanese teenagers, and brought in sales of 30 billion Yen its first two years. The name was changed to "Pocky", after the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound Pocky makes when bit, "pokkin" (ポッキン). The original was followed by "Almond Pocky" in 1971, with an almond coating, and "Strawberry Pocky" in 1977. Today, the product line includes such variations as milk, mousse, and coconut flavored coatings, and themed products as "Deco Pocky", with colorful stripes in the coating, and "Men's Pocky", a bittersweet and "mature" version.

Pocky is as popular in Japan as M&Ms are in the United States. It has a significant presence in East Asian countries such as China and Korea as well.  In the United States, Pocky can be found in Asian groceries and the international section of most large supermarkets, and is popular among Japanophiles and anime fans.

The Hula Girl, and the caveman	I don't think this is what most men had in mind, when they think of two women getting it on.
	Rory, the 1930's gangster
Tom B. (Bad Mo-fo) and Hye-mi	Na-kyung and Melvin

Jessie joins a singing trio with Kelly, and Lisa but finds that it is difficult to find time for singing and her studies. Jessie starts to take caffeine pills so she can keep up on everything including a particularly difficult Geometry exam. Things start to fall apart for her as she becomes addicted to the pills. Slater finds pills in Jessie's bookbag while looking for a pencil for class. Slater confronts her but it does no good. Zack doesen't believe Jessie has a problem even though Slater tells him. Zack ultimately discovers Jessie's addiction and tries to help but at first she won't listen. Jessie eventually agrees she needs help. During one singing tryout Jessie screams "I'm so excited" as part of her song but the pills have made her so excited that she sounds terrible, and tired. At the shows end, music executives come to the Max to watch the trio sing. Jessie is absent because of her problem, and Screech has to fill in.

The weather for the festival was nice and sunny - warmer than I expected it to be, hence I was wearing a sweatshirt, down vest, and capri pants.  Ras, Melvin, and I went to pick up Na-kyung at work around 1:00 pm, then drove to Yangyang to make our 2:00 pm reservation.

We got there at 1:30 pm, parked, paid our ticket fee, and got a pair of gloves.  Dustin was in Jeju the day before, and was rushing over to Yangyang too, as well as Kiran, who practically arrived minutes before we jumped into the river for fish.  The part of the river we were at wasn't deep at all - only up to my knees.  This was an event that I wanted to take pictures of, but hesitated because I'd actually be running around in the water with my digital camera.  After struggling with the idea, I decided to take the risk and put the camera in my pocket.  We all squated by the riverbank, not really knowing what we were waiting for.  All of a sudden, a whistle blew and everyone started running into the water, as if they were being chased from some unknown force from behind.  I was in the middle of carefully rolling up my sleeve, but quickly forgot about it as I raced after the people in front of me.  I was a prime example of someone following the masses blindly, but it sure was fun.

The playing field

The players: Na-kyung, me, Melvin, Dustin, Ras, Christa, and Kiran

I knew that running after fish in the river was NOT going to be easy, but it was my first time, so i didn't know the trick, at first.  I was standing in the middle of the river, watching fish swim under my legs, and try to grab it, two seconds too late.  It would have almost looked like some 3 Stooges episode, where Curly lunges for the fish, only to trip and completey fall in the water, face down.  Then I noticed that a lot of people were near the nets, where the salmon seem to head, in order to get away from all the people trying to catch them.  That's where I made my catch.  By that time, half of the people in the river had already caught something, and were rushing back to their families to show off their catch.  By the end, we were the last ones hanging around, admiring our catch.  Dustin had the best looking salmon, while Christa's was the biggest and still had eggs coming out of the fish.  Mine was pretty big, and had large sacs of eggs that I later found out about when we cut it up. 

Eggs from Christa's fish

Kiran and Raswan being filmed by an MBC camera crew, who tried to get a re-inactment of them catching their fish.

Afterwards, newspapers were trying to get pictures of us.  Well... they were trying to take pictures of the white foreigner: Ras, Christa, and Kiran.  Melvin and I snuck into the pictures too, and I actually made a couple of newspapers.  Different versions of our group picture were in the Kangwon Ilbo, Kangwon-do Min Ilbo, and the Dong-a Ilbo.