Week 14?

Its Monday afternoon here in rainy South Korea. Its been raining off and on for the past few days which leads me to believe that we are heading into the rainy season. Oh well, all the more reason for me to stay inside and sleep!

Friday night I went out after work with a Korean co-worker named Terry. He's a really nice guy who has lived in Australia for 10 years so his English is better than mine (or maybe hes just more confident using it).

Anyways we ended up meeting four of our other Korean coworkers at some eel restaurant. In the cab on the way over we were stuck in traffic on this impossible small '2-lane' road - which was actually smaller than a 1-lane road back home. Cars were bascially scraping against the cement walls surrounding us and on top of that we were going down a hill while others were going up. A full city bus was also making its way up! Crazy.

At the restaurant each 'table' was in an individual tent on the roof of the place so we had to look in a bunch of 'curtain's to see where they were. After we found the women Terry ordered some SoJu and we began to drink. The eel was freshly killed, and I mean just killed. It was really thick and when you poked it with your chopstick it started wiggling angrily and twisting all around - people said it was their nerves, but after one large piece 'looked' directly at me and twisted itself inside out - I think otherwise. Stupid scary possessed eel. I still ate it because I was hungry but wasn't impressed. You eat it after wrapping it in a peice of lettuce and dunking it in hot sauce. Terry said he would take me out for 'dog' sometime. Sounds grrrrrrreat! Ha ha ha?

After that we ended up at some restaurant/bar near my place and drank some rice wine. It came in a busted up looking kettle and was cheap - so we had lots. The place was relatively empty save for the 13 South Korean soldiers (in full uniform) who were drinking next to us. At about 1am as we were leaving Terry walked up to the soldiers and bought them a round. Next thing I know we are drinking with them and stumbling out on to the street an hour later. Naturally, I had forgotten my camera but the memory of these guys bear-hugging me and saying, "I like you" is enough.

Saturday morning I woke up throughly hung-over and was surprised to see myself in full Korean uniform! No, I was just hungover. Since the best remedy for a hangover is a hot shower I had naked fun spa time with Kevin and after some food at a grill house we went to some bar that a couple of his friends were at.

Sunday morning I woke up throughly hungover and was surprised to see myself wearing Kevin's friends clothes, no, Sunday I met up with Kevin and we went to the International Market to look around. I'll go back again this week since there is a fair bit of black market stuff, and hopefully get some jeans, shoes, etc. - well basically a new wardrobe.

So thats that. Now I'm back to work.