Chuseok

In Korea Chuseok is the biggest holiday of the year, think of Christmas combined with Thanksgiving. It's a three day celebration so I was excited to have a few days off to relax. Unfortunately, this Chuseok was on Friday, Saturday and Sunday which means I only got one additional day off of work. My brother headed down from Suwon to visit me in Daegu so we could have are own thanksgiving celebration.

Thursday:

-I was planing on relaxing at the house and not go out drinking on Thursday night however it was one of my friends birthdays, Lauren, so Eben and I headed downtown from Soo-Sung-gu. It was a fun eventful night just playing foosball and drinking at the bar Who's Bob, especially watching the antics of few amazing entertain people. Lets just call these people Thunder Thighs and Jesus. I drank a few beers and started talking to some random foreigner from the States. I continued to drink and hang out with my friends until we decided it was time for a change of scenery leaving for a pretty cool bar whos name escapes me right now. Anyway it was not crowded there but the bartender would put on any song you wanted and was rather friendly and hooked me up with a free shot of jagger. The girl from the other bar who I meet came along with use and lets just call her D.D. So, I am felling rather buzzed at this point and decided I need to put on the A-Game and hit on this girl. She is felling it so we bounce on our buddies and we head to some random but amazing Korean (not foreigner) club that I had not been to before being lead there by a group of random korean babes. We dance there for awhile and then we head back to D.D.'s place which just so happened to be a 5-10 minute walk from Rodeo street (downtown). I spare everyone the details but lets just say I wake up with a massive hangover at 12pm and begin to regret my drunk decision for several reasons the first being blue balls and the second I found her rather annoying which latter uncovering she is a sorority girl so I'm not that surprised. Luckily she does not have a phone so I just bounce and realize my brother is supposed to be getting in to Daegu any minute now...

Friday:

My brother and I meet up outside of Donga department store which is the largest 'road-sign' near my apartment. David and I just relax all day walking around the city and I took him to my favorite sam-gip-sal restaurant (korean BBQ). When night comes around all my friends decide to go to the university area but david and I are already downtown so we just do the solo mission. We start off at this all korean sports bar and then he tells me he wants to go to a club so I take him to the largest one in Daegu called Club Frog. It was ridiculously packed with foreigners, mainly military guys who that night were pissing me off to no avail. Who ends up walking into the club right when were on our way out but the girl from last night D.D. I really did not want to run into at this point so we exchanged pleasantries and we quickly left. After some soju David and I went back to the club to get Davids jacket before we headed back to my apartment. After an eventful trip back to my apartment to say the least we passed out for the night.

Saturday:

I woke up felling refreshed for Chuseok day after an interesting past two night. David and I spend the day relaxing watching Korean Trot (horrible Korean Karaoke) which is extremely popular on Chuseok and walking around town. That night we decide to have a group dinner at my buddy Eben house where we cooked good pasta and burritos (thank god I brought tortillas from the states). Chris, Eben my brother and myself all decided to then go downtown and I honestly don't have a good memory for the proceedings that occurred there. I do remember waking up and my apartment was a mess with a disturbing smell. I said a happy and sad goodbye to my brother and I cleaned up my place and just relaxed after a long yet amazing 2 day weekend. For everyones information my house is back in order after a couple hours of cleaning and that smell is gone thank god.