Last night my roommate and I along with a buddy of his went out for some dinner and stopped by a couple places for drinks. When I first arrived to my dorm room my roommate asked me if I wouldn’t mind his buddy staying in the dorm for a few days as he was passing through after a two week exchange in Japan. I said ok. I was slightly confused to how it was going to work in such a small room, but I didn’t really care because we don’t start school till next week, so no big deal.
So Bojan showed up yesterday and we went out. We had some Korean BBQ where you have the grill in the middle of your table. It was pretty difficult to order because the Holland guys don’t know any Korean and I only know a little.
It was a lot of fun having the three of us there. All three of us were new to Korea of course, they are from Holland, I am from the U.S. and Bojan just finished a two week exchange in Japan so we had plenty of things to talk about. He is a hilarious guy we laughed a lot last night.
It is amazing how alive the area becomes at night. There’s neon lights everywhere throughout this huge network of alley ways. There’s games outside like throwing darts at balloons and such. There must be thousands of bars and Karaoke rooms. Most of the buildings are several stories tall and have different businesses in each floor, including sometimes several floors into the basements. I will try and get some more pictures of it, it’s quite an amazing.
I almost forgot to mention, this is funny. So you’ve seen the pictures of the dorm room in an earlier post. You maybe wondering, “how the hell can you fit another person in there?” We didn’t have any air mattress or anything like that either. I fell asleep before I knew what the arrangements were and I woke up in the middle of the night and looked over and I saw my roommate’s head and Bojan’s feet. They were sharing the twin size bed sleeping oppositely head to toe. It was a hilarious sight.
Here’s a couple photos from last night.
My roommate is the guy on the left. He is from Holland and speaks Dutch and English.
Bojan with a random Korean guy at the bar.
