All the men met up at the school around 3pm and started speaking korean... this.. was going to be a long night I thought to myself...
We all took different cars and I rode up with Jung-Il... my first co-teacher's boyfriend... We drove for about an hour outside of Busan... We took winding roads through quaint Korean towns littered with the tradition that becomes amiss in the larger cement block of a city we've come to know in Busan.... We drove up a mountainside and down a mountainside until we eventually reached our destination...
This place was gorgeous... It was a small wooden cabin hidden away near the top of a mountain surrounded by different ranges... It shared this peak with a few neighbors and had a very natural feel to it... They had a garden.. flowers... grass and everything else that I was convinced didn't exist in Korea... Here are some shots of the cottage as well as the garden.. grapes... flowers and stuff like that...
After a little bit of shooting the breeze... the boys decided it was time to throw on the meat... They eat sooo much food... and it NEVER stops coming... all the way from 4pm - 3am.. there was some type of food around to eat... It was ridiculous... the second picture is of bar-b-q dried squid... machee-a-sayo! (delicious)
Then we got hit by the brightest sunset I've seen in a LONG time while I was having a conversation with Jung-Il on the front porch..
After this... My friend Minsu hangim (brother) asked me to take his picture with the sunset.... These were his natural poses by the way... :) and one out of focus shot taken by him...
Nightfall came quickly after that and the bugs were pretty insane up in these mountains... There were some massive moths...
We went inside and the soju and makju (beer) started flowing at an unbelievable pace... We watched the Busan Lotte Giants (baseball) game and they taught me how to play a card game that is pronounced go-do-ree.. It is way too complicated for me to try and explain here and now... I don't remember half of it anyways... The cards were tiny and it was all about certain parts of the pictures matching... and we ate grapes... delicious Korean grapes.... the kind that actually taste like the artificial "grape" flavouring.... I've never had this kind in Canada...
After a few hours of learning go-do-ree and losing a few thousand won (like 5 bucks)... the guys decided it was really time to start knocking them back.... and head outside to the deck... And it was not beer at this point... but soju.... uuuughhhhhhhh.. I HATE SOJU.... especially after this night... But check out the party hat that got busted out... there is a hilarious picture of the oldest male teacher below with the party cap on...
Here are some pics of the aftermath.... I didn't drink half as much as the other guys... but still payed for it the next day...
After that... well.. after that we went to bed... and by bed.. i mean we all slept in a giant room on the floor for about 3 hours until one of those freaks got up to start the coffee up around 6am...
They made me hangover soup... which was the most disgusting thing I've ever touched I felt... and my stomach was just turning...
They don't eat breakfast food... we had kimchi... meat... rice and hangover soup for breakfast... i wanted to die....
All in all... I had a great time.. and the more drunk the Koreans got.. the more they tried to speak English as their confidence grew... but it needs to be said that I will NEVER drink soju again... NEVER.