many adventures

I see someone's foot in there air and his toes are wiggling suggestively. Okay I don't know if toes can really wiggle suggestively but.. I thought that'd be cool to say.

Anyways. I'm at an internet cafe right now since I don't have the world wide web at my home yet... boooo. All around me are guys playing starcraft, or warcraft, or whatever it is that guys in Korea play. Internet is pretty cheap at these places.. only about $1/hr so it's nice. I tried to use the bathroom here though and I found out that it was one of those dingy little holes in the ground. Oh hells no(ghetto voice) I guess I'm way too used to the westernized world for my own good but honestly, I'm so clumsy that I'd probably end up slipping and falling into a puddle of my own feces. I KNOW, right? Then there you have it. You wouldn't do it either. Unless you're a guy since it wouldn't really make that big of a difference.. Fuck the cockocracy!

The past few days have been really fun. I joined some international clubs so I've been able to finally meet some people. It's a bit difficult to meet people since I don't live in the dorms, so I've had to force myself to be super outgoing and wow, wait for it... actually talk to people. Anyone who actually knows me is going to be so proud of me since I normally don't talk to people.. unless I have to(IE: waiting tables) It was kind of intimidating and frightening to say the least.. because everyone at the welcome parties seemed to hang out with the people they came with(ie, the people they first met) Okay come on.. no one really likes default friends. So I would just awkwardly trot up to each random little clique, thrust out my absurdly small little hand and would loudly ask, "HI!! Where are you from??" I might have even busted out into a song and dance with jazz hands and all.. and somehow I'd suddenly be wearing a sequined tuxedo.....Ok, I jest.. but anyways. I had to overcompensate is all I'm saying. It seemed to work somewhat.. haha.

The first two days I got immensely drunk. The first night, me + some other people went to a bar called Festival and got completely shitfaced. I think I had 2 beers + 12 shots of Soju total that night. For me, soju is really gross.. it tastes and smells like rubbing alcohol. But then again, I'm not really a fan of hard alcohol. Our table was a complete trainwreck. The table was drenched in soju and everyone had their Asian glow working overtime(even the ones that weren't Asian) I can't even remember a second where we weren't clinking our shot glasses in the air yelling "GANBE!!" which is apparently "cheers" in Korean? We also ordered pitchers of flavored soju which were actually quite tasty. So far I've tried three different flavors: pineapple, yogurt, and peach. I think peach is my favorite thus far.

The second night was a lot more mellow. The mentors club was a lot more fun than the IYC club. It's cool because they actually pair you up with a Korean buddy so you can meet some locals. However, I guess there aren't that many Korean students in the club so the international students to Korean buddy ratio was like 10:1. My buddy seems nice though.. I wonder if I will ever see him again. Anyway, the mentors club put on a hip-hop dance show that was super entertaining. They had on all the cheesy American TRL top 10 music and were trying to krump and such. It was awesome. Afterwards, most people went clubbing but a few people and I decided to save money and just go to bars. We first ended up at some sort of beer bar where the beer was all imported and put out in front of you. The set up was really cool but we found out that it was incredibly expensive.. something like 7 bucks a bottle.. but at that point we had already munched on their free snacks and we didn't want to be assholes.. so we got 3 bottles of beer to share for like.. 8 people. Haha, but then this creepy old Korean guy sends us over 3 more bottles for free! It was funny because one minute Felix(from Germany) was sitting with us, and the next he disappeared.. we looked up and he was sitting with creepy old Korean guy(cokg for short) Cokg pulls out some shot glasses and starts pouring Felix(who is shooting us looks of desparation) some Hennessey. James proceeds to join them and cokg propositions them into taking a cab out to another city. Uhm, holy crap? I ask Lissy(also from Germany) to say to Felix in German "Hurry up and drink the shot so we can go".. and Felix replies, "I can't. If I drink it, he just keeps pouring more" Finally we manage to wrestle Felix away from cokg and get the heck out of there. Haha.

Last night, we decided to take it easy and lay off the drinking. Two nights in a row of crazy alcohol seems to wear people out. We ended up going to a place that had frozen yogurt and coffee. James and I headed up to the counter to order some drinks.. the counter people stared at each other and then back at us in complete confusion. And then James and I proceeded to stare at each other and then back at them also in complete confusion. Let's just say that the proper word to describe the situation was.. UNCOMFORTABLE. We finally manage to get our drinks and we sit back at the table feeling somewhat dejected and still confused as to why ordering was so difficult.. hrm.

At the end of the night, a few of us went back to my place. I thought that my old laptop's battery was leaking so I begged Allen into looking at it. It doesn't look like battery acid and it actually smells like soy sauce.. Allen looks at it and confirms that it probably is soy sauce and that it's not even leaking where the battery is. WHAT THE HELL?? Why is there soy sauce in my computer?? I found a note in my luggage stating that my bag had been searched.. and all of a sudden, I got a mental picture of some crazy drunk Korean airport security guys using my laptop as a small table.. all the while slurping and spilling soy sauce all over my poor laptop. Yeh.. I have no idea.

Anyyyways. Korea has been pretty cool so far. Everyone I've met seems nice enough and I've actually been really interested in hearing why people decided to study abroad in Korea(ESPECIALLY non-Koreans) I've met people from all over the world: Austria, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark... and the general consensus seems to be that they wanted to try something different other than the usual places that most other students go. That's super awesome. (Although I did encounter one strange annoying little French guy who said that he found Korean food to be absolutely disgusting and ate at McDonalds everyday. Uhm, hello?) I'm trying to get to know people from other countries so that I'll have a place to stay if I visit there haha. Score!


I moved into my new place and I absolutely love it. My neighorhood/city is cool since it's a college town so pretty much everyone I see on the street is a college student. But yeh.. seriously, anyone who wants to visit me.. consider this an open invitation. School starts tomorrow.. w00t! I'll put up pictures as soon as my internet is up and going.. promise! Hope everyone's doing well at home! love love love