Again I am late with my post, but with good reason this time. This week was the Solar/Lunar New Year (also known as the Chinese New Year), so instead of posting Sunday I was on my way to Ulsan, a city in the South, since we had a few extra days off.
So working up to the weekend was another typical week, just hanging out, going to the gym and meeting up with different people for dinners. I was actually able to meet up with a friend ( Keven Wayling) that was in my program in University and have dinner before he left at the end of the month. That was Thursday, which was really good because all of us at school needed a well deserved break because for the entirety of Wednesday and Thursday we had to do speaking interviews with everyone of our students for their "Level Test" to determine if they can move up a level or not. It is really quite arbitrary because we don't get to talk to them enough to give a good assessment and even if we did the school goes by what they want not by what we think.
So on Friday tests were done and we were all taking it rather easy during the day which was good because Friday night got out of hand. We had planned to meet up with Junk, his girlfriend Gina and her friends for drinks and hanging out. The only problem was the language barrier. So instead of socializing, it turned into more of a drinking party. By half way through the night Gina had to be carried home, which her friends took care of while the rest of us went to another bar called Monkey Beach in Apgujeong. It is more of a foreigner bar, but it was late and almost empty. So we had a couple buckets of mixed drinks because that's how they serve them there and proceeded to party. By the end of the night we (Jameson and myself) we pretty drunk and we all decided to leave.
On Saturday I woke up feeling pretty rough. I had a hangover and my body hurt for some reason.........Oh wait it was because I decided it would be a good idea to sprint from the cab to my house, using muscles that have gone unused for some time. So, I spent most of the day feeling like crap, until around seven when I met up with Jameson, Brian, and Margarete to go see the Seoul Tower and Namsan (Nam mountain), in the center of the city. We took a cable car up to the top and were just in time to see the laser light show they put. After the light show we went up to the observatory level from which you can see all of Seoul. It was really nice and a good way to get out and do something without having to go to far. After the tower we all headed to Kondae to get some drinks and meet up with Blake and a few more friends. We met up and stayed out until around 3:30 just talking and having a few drinks.
Sunday I woke up feeling tired from too many late nights and wanted to go back to sleep, but I couldn't because Jameson and I had agreed to go catch a movie with the receptionist at our gym, So Hyun. She is a really cute bubbly University student who always talks with us when we go there. So we went and saw the new Tom Cruise movie "Valkyrie", which was decent, but long and a little lack luster. It was a documentary of sorts however, so I shouldn't complain. After that we grabbed some dinner and went our separate ways. At this point Blake called me and asked me if I wanted to go visit his friend Tori in Ulsan on Monday morning. She invited him and said he should bring a friend because the train ride is really long. Yeah like 5 hours, since Ulsan is near the southern end of South Korea. I agreed and came home to get a bag of clothes before going to sleep at Blakes apartment because our train left at 7:40 the next morning. (Hence why I am so late with this weeks update)
We arrived in Ulsan around 1 pm and Tori met us at the station and took us out for lunch. Then we went back to her place and chilled before the New Years party that the big bar in town was having that night. Around 9 we went for dinner and pre-drinks at a SoJu bar, before heading to the bar around 11:30. It was a really good party, lots of dance music and people. We all had a good time, partied hard but made it home no problems. EXCEPT! I was a little pissed because some douche bag guy who claimed to be Tori's friend accused me of trying to hook up with her since she was drunk. I dismissed this claim and promptly told him to get his hands off me, to later find out that he barley knows Tori and that I could have knocked him out. But, there was no need for that, because we really just had to get drunk Tori out of the bar.
Tuesday morning we all woke up feeling good, not great but better than we expected, and decided to go for a walk through Ulsan's bamboo forest. Its not a real forest as much as a man made project to create a bamboo forest to walk through in the city. Nonetheless, it was really nice and a good way to cap off the long weekend. That night I took the train home to Seoul and got back around 3 am. Then I had to wait in line for a cab at the bus station (we took a bus back because the train was sold out) because its not a free for all around here like it is back home. When you get to the bus/train station you must wait in line and a cab will get you. There are always plenty of cabs and its a pretty efficient/less dangerous way to clear the people away.
I got home and crashed by 5 am, and then started my half work week today.
That's enough for now. Hope you are all doing well. Talk to you soon.
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