Pah-tee Ta-eem and More!

'Cause when I leave for the night, I ain't coming back...

Don't worry! We did come back... sure, it was the next day... at 6 in the morning... but still! We came back! So, yes, we went to Seoul to party hard until the next day. The subways only run from 5am to 12am, so we didn't have much of a choice, really.

The plan was to go to an exchange student party! As many exchange students in Korea as could be found on facebook were invited. It was at a club in Hongdae, an area near Honggik Unversity which is a cool place for university students to hang out. Also, there are quite a few foreigners running about. 

Hongdae is the place for the Korean equivalent of hipster... everything is hipster-looking! There are small coffee shops, street singers, and lots of grafitti.

Outside the lame club

We got to the club... and it was lame. There were way too many people crowded in it, and the music was boring, so we just stood outside of it for a while. The others stocked up on soju and beer (and I stocked up on Mountain Dew, ha) and we drank it up, just outside.

But it got boring, so we decided to move along. And we ended up going to a kpop club! It was hilarious.

Walking about Hongdae

But we didn't go there until after stopping at a random bar to get more drinks (or Mountain Dew. Actually, one bottle of MD lasted me all night... + water, of course).

So after hanging in the bar for a while, we just walked out and around Hongdae, looking for a club. So, since we wanted a purely Korean experience, we decided on a Kpop club! That means that the only music they play is kpop. Yes, that's it. So we walk inside (sadly I don't really have pictures), and we don't have to pay an entrance fee, actually. We just put our stuff down and went out on the rather bare floor. It was fun! It wasn't so crowded that we were shoved up against strangers, but there were some brave Koreans who danced with us for a good part of the time! The funny thing about this club was that there were a few guys who knew pretty much every kpop dance song they played. They would stand at the front and break it down, even for (maybe especially for) the girl kpop songs. It was great! Honestly it just felt a little like prom, and not a club. It was super cheesy dancing and super cheesy music. In other words, just my style. We got back at 6 actually, and I slept for 3 and a half hours and headed straight to Incheon to see my Tech advisor with her former host children! I was dead, but I stayed til night with them, then met some friends (who were drinking again) to come home with them. In all, I survived, but only just. :-) haha, don't worry though... no need!

The host kids bought a sweet potato cake for them! It was delicious...

More Kitchen Experiments

This isn't really Korea-related at all... but its fun. So check out what Hui and I made for lunch one day! It was her idea, so I don't take any credit for the brilliance of it. Yes, they are tiny sausages with noodles stuck through them. Yes, they did taste better than if we had just put the sausages on the side.

Just another night...

And here are some pictures from one of our many dinners out with friends! We went to a Vietnamese restaurant with Yoonjin, one of our friends with a car, in upscale Anyang. And Hui and I got a picture with Ho Dong! This is what many of our days look like :-)

Music video of the day: Clazzi with Love&Hate. Alex is awesome.