Been a while since I’ve updated… so much has happened. So here we go.
Wednesday night was Football practice. We then went out to eat with the team for all you can eat meat buffet. Then we went to a bar and played shuffle board. The Korean guys hadn’t played it before so we got to teach them how to play.
Thursday I had class then went and met up with my friend Leah in MyungDong, I wanted to buy some shoes and jeans. After some food and looking in several stores I finally found a nice pair of shoes at Fred Perry and a pair of jeans from Zara.
I then got on the subway and met up with my friends. We went to a bar in Hongdae area where we drank for a little while. A group of us decided to then go to a Karaoke room. There we did some singing and stayed out real late.
Friday afternoon I woke up, ate some food, took a nap, then went to meet the guys at a bar here in Shinchon. There were several people out from the international house. I got there met up with the gang, we played some pool, drank some beers, then we went to Hongdae again. We ate at KFC and went to a nearby club.
Saturday woke up in the afternoon and went to meet my friend Leah this time in Dongdaemun stadium area. We ate in one of the street tents. You go inside this little tent and they have food cooking. If you ever watch Anthony Bourdain in Korea he goes into one of these. They are not all the some, many of them serve different kinds of food. The one we went to, I didn’t like it at all. I’m not going to lie the food tasted like manure. I didn’t want to be a pansy though so I ate as much as I could stand, I was eating pretty slowly though, and at times swallowing just avoid puking. We then continued looking around the area, they have a lot of knock off items. Purses, belts, shoes (endless amount of shoes), jeans, socks, underwear, shirts, luggage, wallets, suits… anything really they had just about anything.
It was so cold out we then went to a movie theater where we watched “Undead” an American horror film. We thought it was going to be pretty bad but it was actually not that bad. I wouldn’t call it a great movie, but it was alright.
We then walked out and I was a little hungry now. We tried to find a place to go into, we walked into one but the smoke smell was overwhelming. We walked out and I saw a sign that said “Seattle” on it. So I had to go check that place out.
There’s nothing Seattle about this place aside from the sign and a picture of mountains inside the cafe. They serve Starbucks. Aside from that, I was disappointed they didn’t have any pictures or memorabilia from Seattle.
After this I left to go meet up with my friends who were in Hongdae (yeah again…) We went to a bar that was a pretty classy place, then we went to the singing room again.
Sunday got up in the afternoon, feeling pretty tired. Three days in a row going to bed at 6am. I was exhausted. We were going to the mall though, I had a jacket I wanted to return. I met the group at the mall around 6, returned the jacket. I went to the Hyundai department store in the mall where they have a Kiehls store (the american grooming brand, I use a lot of their products). I bought some shampoo and conditioner.
We then went to eat at a mexican restaurant chain called “On The Border”. It was great! I had been craving mexican food for so long. I love chips and salsa, beans, tortillas… In the States I eat mexican probably a couple times a week. The portions here were huge just like Mexican places back home. It was great.
Our group then went back to Shincon a 40 minute subway ride. A few of us fell asleep on the subway. We met up with the other group to see the movie Dragonball. Normally I would not have gone to see the movie but a number of my friends were Dragonball fans as kids so they felt as though they needed to see it even though it was likely going to be a bad movie. It was a bad movie. It could be a good kids movie though. But… I can’t really think of any good qualities to mention about the movie. I’m glad its cheap here.
Now its time to recover. Football practice tonight.
