Cultural Note: In Korea its always important to keep up your apperance and not appear weak.
Case in point even if you fell like shit unless you are can't get out of bed sick you are expected to work (in my contract it says I am allowed only small handful of sick days and if I use one I need a doctors note explaining and justifying my sickness, seems a little elementary schoolish doesn't it)
Regardless, I went to work and felt like crap all day but luckily it was a Friday which is my easy day where I only teach two 45 minute classes. I powered through the day and went home and passing out for the night almost immediately.
So, after losing a Friday night to sickness which was quite painful I awoke on Saturday morning to fell a little. My throat still hurt like hell but I wasn't cold and I didn't fell weak so that was an important noticeable improvement. I went to the pharmacy looking for some sort of painkilling spray for my throat but all they had were lifesaver looking drops which did little to help my situation. I began to fell better as the day went on and decided to go out downtown as long as I drank quite moderately not going overboard.
Here is how it went:
We started off by going to a sports bar which is mostly a Korean spot. We left rather quickly to a place called the Ice Bar which is exactly as it sounds. Its a pretty spacious and nice bar with quite comfortably seating (like most of Korea actually). For 3,500 won you get a large glass made out of ice which is placed in a small plastic casing so you have a handle on it. The fun thing about this place is not only will your beer always stay perfectly frosty when you finish your beer whats the only logical thing to go with it, I'll give you a hint they don't reuse them. The bartender gives you a glove and lets you throw your beer at a target area on the wall where if you hit it dead on it lights up the outside frame and similarly to the old game show called Press your Luck (Whammy!) and it goes around the frame eventually stooping on some prize (which is mostly more beer, although you can also win some sausages). However, I missed badly on my first attempt but my friend Chris was successful hitting the target but landed on the only Whammy! section which means no prize. The second round through I actually broke my ice glass by testing its strength to a hand squeeze, obviously not a smart decision seeing as its made of ice.
After we headed to another place called Who's Bob which is probably the bar I have been to most so far. Normally the place has alot of people but for some reason this Saturday its was absolutely packed with no room to even grab a table or a spot at the bar. However, I was not drinking that much so I decided to turn my attention to scoping out the situation of the bar. I noticed one of the most attractive foreigner girls I have seen so far, cute girl with dark hair and a great body. I decided I needed to make a move, especially after the previous weekends D.D. experience. I procrastinated on it for an hour or so until she approached me saying simply, "lets take a shot". I was in no mood to drink that much, even though at this point I was felling great and let alone buy her a drink but she was not expecting me to which was nice. I grabbed the bartender I knew (who hooked me up with a free shot the previous weekend) and we both took a shot of jagger than preceded to the dance floor. We danced for awhile although I think she was a little intimidated of my well documented and known dancing skills and we ended up taking another shot however right after finishing them her dude friend approached me and told me she has a boyfriend and that she was a massive cock-tease. Now I was not happy to hear this so I just bounced out and started hanging out with my friends again and we left the place soon after.
We went to one more bar, although I was done drinking at this point felling buzzed but not wanting to test my bodies limit after just being sick. We meet up with our friends Mitch and Margo who just got back from a weeding who themselves felt quite tipsy. Whille at Go Go Vinyl I meet up with this guy Andrew who I met the previous week at Who's Bob. Hes a cool guy and introduced me to one of the funniest guys I have met in Daegu named Stewart. Stewart is a hilarious Scotsman who at one point was fed up with my buddy Eben using the word money as an adjective descrbing things and started giving him shit for whille we were walking on the streets, telling all the Koreans how 'money' Eben was. The night after that was not that eventful but we did not get home until right before sunrise at around 6am. I woke up the next morning felling surprising perfect and with no sore throat. So, I guess fate was telling me that the cure to a sore throat is moderate drinking I suppose...
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