Anticipation has the habit to set you up...

The local bar, U2 bar, had a movie party last night. I should probably preface this with some information. The Pusan International Film Festival (hereafter referred to as PIFF ) runs from october 12th to the 20th. It is, allegedly, the eighth biggest film festival in the world. They are showing 245 films from 63 countries this year. It is a pretty big deal. The hotels are all booked up with international film stars, of the independent variety not the Hollywood variety. Of course most of them are asians, and I don't know any of them. They built stages and tents and even a temporary building on Haeundae beach, the most popular beach in Korea and conveniently located mere seconds away from Shawn's apartment. There are photographers, TV cameras and foreigners wearing badges and passes roaming the streets. Tickets sold fast. It is nigh impossible to get into a movie, the tickets were gone like hours after they went on sale. A few of my friends managed to get some, and to an english movie with Robbin Williams. So at the U2 bar last night there was a movie party, My Friend and His Wife, or something along those lines, I don't remember the Korean title. There were cast members and crew apparently all over the bar. It was packed. I ran into some people I met in Seoul. They had pictures of me on their camera. They remembered me thanks to my Kitchen Centre hat, they admitted. They were in Busan to go swimming with the sharks at Busan Aquarium, which is something I may consider doing at some point. So i hung out and talked with them for a while. I saw someone that looked familiar, tall caucasian guy. You know how sometimes you see someone you think you recognise, but your brain starts to rationalise saying why would they be here? what are the odds of that? That's what I was doing. I met a girl from Cherry Valley last week at U2 that knew the Tottles, and this week I think I see Jessie Denison from Wellington, Ontario in a bar in Busan South Korea. We were never in the same class but we both went to St. Gregory's elementary school and Nicholson Catholic College. I put it out of my head for a few minutes then as he is passing by I turn to him and say Jessie. He stops and says yeah holding out his hand. I say his full name to confirm that it is really him, and now he is looking a little confused. I shake his hand and tell him who I am. He's a bit blown away we're both laughing and he introduces me to his friend. He tells me that he was talking about my family today. Now I'm a bit blown away. He was talking to his brother Aidan and his friend Luke, and for some reason the story of how my younger brother threw up on him years ago comes up. I laugh. He's been in Korea for a month now, he is teaching in Daegu a city an hour or so north of Busan he and his friend were down for the weekend. Things just got more random. Even though its such a big world, its kinda small too. It's always nice to see faces that remember my own.