Before I can begin to talk about my last weekend it is important to give everyone who does not already know about this remarkably evil drink known as Soju a brief introduction. first off it is a normally potato or rice based wine drink but yet it is far more similar to a hard alcohol than it is to any sort of wine. It comes in a small bottle which costs around 1,000 won (1$) and is quite literally cheaper than water. Regarding its taste, think of a smooth vodka taste with a gin sort of smell and is normally around 20% alcohol. Now we can discuss last weekend....
After getting off of work at 9 on Friday I was thinking about going downtown but decided instead to just relax which in retrospect was probably a very wise decision. Saturday I just relaxed at my apartment watching some downloaded TV until I met up with my friend Evan for a little late lunch around 4. We decided to have a little taste of home so he took me to a place called Gorilla Burger which is a surprisingly amazing burger, even though it is messy but I fell a good burger is supposed to be. I bought some sort of bacon jalapeño burger with a big thing if fries and a Hogarden beer so I was spending a good deal of money for lunch.
After lunch we met up with one of Evan's friends Chris who is about to leave Korea actually just finishing up his last bit of teaching this week. We decided that we still had a couple of hours to kill until heading downtown so we each bought 2 beers and a bottle of soju for the group and went tot he lake for a little bit of public drinking and classic Korean people watching, who are hilarious human beings if your a little buzzed and actually paying attention. So, we drank our beers and kicked it at the lake edge for awhille listening to the most unbelievable annoying music (think of an amazing horrible slow romantic jazz almost) the entire time, which was at least 2-3 hours. So, while there there was alot of people all around but notably there were too older Korean guys who had a little stand selling random stuff but were getting quite drunk on soju. After unmercifully offering one of the guys some of our soju one of the guys started to dance by himself and seeing that we had polished off our bottle he proceeded to juggle the bottle in the air while dancing, This continued for some time until both of these older gents approached Evan and I trying to do that 'steal your nose game' that you play with kids which we were not quite sure how to take. They eventually gave us a pack of cigarettes and a bag of basically puffed starch balls with food coloring and we said our goodbyes.
After this random yet amazing experience we decided it was time to eat more and facilitate our buzz some more with more mekju (beer) and soju. Before heading over to Evan's apartment I needed to grab a sweatshirt and unfortunately I had the amazingly stupid idea that I was not yet drunk enough for 8 pm so I pounded half a bottle of soju to myself before heading out to Evan's (HUGE MISTAKE). Once there Chris Evan and I ordered a pizza and began drinking more mekju and soju which I found out I was really not prepared for ( I do have an uneasy feeling that I asked Chris to buy soju before he headed over which would not surprise me, yet I hope is not true for several reasons....) Regardless, I noticed myself quickly go from buzzed loving life to..... WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED TO ME, I became instantly shitfaced barley able to speak let alone go downtown. However we left shortly thereafter and all I remember about the drive is nausea and darkness, Evan and Chris thought I was passing out. When we arrived I instantly rid my body of that amazing pizza right in front of the main strip downtown with at least 60 people around. The funny thing is I was told latter that I was trying my hardest to play it off smooth by yacking then walking away then yacking again. Luckily this horrible situation also was the only reason I survived that night, Evan bought we an energy water and we continued to the bar. We arrived at Who's Bob although I did not find this out until the next day. Once in the bar I made it a point to not drink for quite some time, at least an hour maybe more. I began to fell revived although still sluggish and I met a number of people and played some foosball. We stayed at this bar for at least 4 hours even though it seemed like maybe an hour for me. Afterwards it was quite late and we needed a little late night upper.
Walking down the street we made our way to Mickie D's but before we arrived there for some still unknown reason Evan and Christina decided to steal some Korean guys bike from him and go for a joyride for awhile. Not as drunk anymore I was somewhat shocked to see that this Korean guy was not upset in the slightest and seemed to enjoy this random happenstance, at least until they repeatedly crashed the bike so I ran to help them by giving them a push start. After who knows how long we went into Mc D's but to my massive resentment as we walkded in they just finished serving dinner and now I was forced to get breakfast (now it is important to remember I had been running on empty since we arrived there and all I had in my system was 2 mekjus and a energy water). I conceded after unsuccessful trying to convince her and ordering breakfast resentfully. After eating we got into a cab and I passed out withing 3 seconds of entering my apartment..
Sunday:
I woke up on sunday with a MONSTER HANGOVER the likes of which I had not experienced since I drank Zombies and smoked Samboku in Ukraine last summer. It was only at this moment that I truly respected the power of soju and its ability to not only get you drunk but kick you in the ass the next morning. It took me a solid 4-6 hours to fully get over my hangover and Evan gave me a call and told me we had a 7pm tees time for Video Golf which I had completely forgotten we agreed upon the previous night. To begin with it costs about 20$ to play around which includes everyone and they sell mekju, soju and will order you whatever kind of food you want to its safe to say they take care quite well. However, I was very surprised to find out just how amazing video golf was in reality. To begin with picture a fairly large room with a couch and a large coffee table, think of a small private theater room. Basically, they have all the clubs (albeit korean size which means small if I need to spell it out) you shoot your golf ball into the screen and it accurately predicts where your shot would have gone. The place is very nice with a shooting area that actual tilts to fit into where your ball drops on the golf course. I have not played a full round of gold in at least 4 years e so I defiantly got my ass throughly kicked but the experience was worth it a thousand fold and I believe this will become a normal thing on Sunday now. Chris and Evan even have a trophy which if you decided to challenge the trophy holder (Chris) they take it rather seriously and no mull again are accepted. In all it was a perfect way to end a rough yet amazing weekend round 2 in Daegu South Korea.
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