Alas! Another post! Been a while. Anyways, I want to give a quick update on my life.
After summer camp ended (quite successfully) we spent the week just chilling for the most part. We planned on going to Busan originally but decided not to because the beaches would all be super crowded and we were not about that life. Shame... anyway, that isn't to say I didn't have a good time being my normal hermit self. Nope. I stayed home and chilled and occasionally went out to eat with my Gwangju ladies.
When class started again, I was ready to face my students and they all told me that they missed me. Yay me! Even students I usually end up chastising missed me. They like me for some odd reason. Anywayzzzz... I got back to teaching and life was good.
And then Chuseok happened. During Chuseok, we went to Busan and lived it up. Kind of. The thing is, most Koreans are at home with heir families for Chuseok, so while we tried to party with the guys from Busan, very few were actually out that weekend. It was mostly other foreigners out having a good time and enjoying having the city to themselves. Busan is one of the largest cities in Korea, so that's saying something.
It was a while ago, so things may not be in chronological order.
Moving on. The first place we went to was a lounge called Ghetto. For once a place with good hiphop music! Geangju has almost no hiphop scene and it's all EDM in most of Korea (How do people dance to ONLY EDM all the time?) . So I was quite happy. Like I said earlier, there weren't many people out and about, but it was okay because that night, we didn't have to buy any drinks. For the first time in Korea. Other foreigners bought them for us. We met a few cool cats and there was a small group of Koreans who were too shy to approach us without any alcohol in their systems, but it turned out to be a fun night of dancing. Koreans are still pretty respectful when drinking as well. It's a good thing.
We met a pair of people who reminded us of Dok2 and The Quiett and they were pretty funny. We also met an African guy named Bright who took it upon himself to take care of us that weekend and show us around. Bright was a genuinely nice guy, so we decided to let him in on some of our plans.
We went hunting for food and for the underground shopping jn Busan. Food was good. Shopping wasn't that bad, but I only bought earrings because we had the same stores and clothes in Gwangju.
We also went to Spa Land too. Spa Land was great, it has a 찜질방 (bath house) that had baths of all different types and temperatures. It felt amazing and so relaxing. It was only 15,000₩ for 4 hours. Yes. Good deal. But I wanted to stay foreverrrrrrrrrr. I almost took a nap at some point while waiting for the others in the sauna that I know would have killed me. But it was nice and we had a snack qhile sitting on prestine heated floors. After Spa Land we went home to prepare for the night, which proved to be an interesting one.
At night we went in search of an actual dance club and Bright td us abou one called Revel that wasn't very far from Ghetto. We went in and found that Revel did indeed have good music. But like at Ghetto, there weren't a lot of people. I think we made it fun that night, we ended up staying for a while. We got to Revel after it had been open for a while, so there were enough people for us to see that it should usually be a packed club. However, there still weren't a lot of people and like I said, anyone worth dancing with was at home with the family.
I went back with a couple of the girls and we turned in early. We koncked out almost immediately.
The next day was our last day, so we got up early to get ready and clean the hostel before being out by 11am. We went to the bus station and took our separate busses back to our cities. But it's cool. We meet up all the time.
On Tuesday Saya told me and Krystal about a party where a korean rapper, Ugly Duck, was going to perform so we went and checked it out. The place, which shall go unnamed, was small and it sold tacos. It was the best I'd had since coming to Korea. We got seats near the back but since the place was so small, it didn't matter. By the end of the night we were friends with the owner and the regular DJ. And we managed to talk to Ugly Duck all night too. Good times.
