Whee! So THIS is what it's like when you don't have to drive home afterwards!
Saturday, December 06, 2008
2:41 AM
Namyangju, South Korea
So I know I said my next LiveJournal post would be something or other about one of the things I listed in the one before I made that very quick post this evening from work, but I find that I can’t live up to my promises.
Because I am quite drunk, with half a bottle of some extraordinarily vile stuff called Napoleon V brandy in me, and I feel the need to randomly spew a little bit.
Tonight I had a great deal of fun. After work ended (my last class ends at 10 pm), three coworkers and I went to E-Mart, which I will describe in more detail in my shopping and eating adventures in a later post. Actually come to think of it, this post itself is a “later post” which I will just backdate because I’m writing it at a time when my internet connection is nonexistent and I can’t actually post it. But anyway.
After we bought various things at E-Mart (some of us bought useful things like bowls, pans and staple foods - I bought potato chips, peanut butter, jelly and bread), we went back to my coworker Robert’s apartment to hang out and drink. My coworker/buddy Allan and I split a bottle of some sort of brandy called Napoleon V, although “brandy” is a very generous term, as it tasted more or less like paint thinner. If not worse. But then, what do you expect from a bottle of hard liquor that only costs 6800 won (about $5, I’m guessing, but I’m too lazy to do the actual conversion)?
Anyway, we had a great deal of fun drinking, eating fried chicken and various other snacks, and just generally hanging out and enjoying one another’s company. Afterwards, Allan and I went to play the crane game near a chicken place here in town called “9ers,” which is really the only crane game in town we play because the prizes in it are actually worth getting. Crane games, by the way, are freaking EVERYWHERE in Korea. If you find a restaurant, I’d guess the odds are about 40% that you’ll find a crane game outside it. And unlike the crane games at home, you actually stand a chance of winning the ones here. For example, tonight Allan won a legitimate iPod Shuffle (I’m assuming, anyway… the packaging is different here) and I won a matched pair of goofy-looking yet awesome male and female keyrings (or something… I haven’t actually taken them out of the package yet to look).
Anyway, it was really quite good times. Lots of camaraderie, friendly insults, and legitimate discussions about girls, swimming, tennis, friends and friendship, and just life in general. I’m really quite glad that I have the coworkers that I do, since they are really a bunch of very cool guys.
Incidentally, I finally made my decision about Yang, one of the other teachers at my school that I haven’t mentioned in the LJ before. He goes to Seoul almost every night, it seems, with the result that we hardly ever get to hang out with him, and I think he couldn’t quite make up his mind about the rest of us. But that may only have been the impression I was getting, since he seemed very much willing to hang out with us tonight and was a lot of fun along with my other coworkers. It took him a while to actually hang out with us instead of going to meet his other friends in Seoul, and he’s going to a wedding of some kind this weekend so I’m unlikely to see him until Monday at work, but overall I’ve decided that Yang is good people and he was a blast to hang out with tonight.
Also, another part of the reason I'm in a great mood tonight is that I finally saw Orion for the first time since I got here. I have yet to see the moon, which is a little bit odd, but I did see Orion. Andanyone who knows me well is aware that Orion is my homeboy. So that made me very happy. Especially with half a bottle of vile "brandy" in me.
…Yeah, that’s really about all I have to say at the moment, and I really have to go pee. So goodnight, and I will update with the promised shopping and eating adventures or whatever it was that I said I’d post first some other time, probably tomorrow after I return from Techno Mart and the unbelievably huge Coex mall in Seoul. Or maybe Sunday. We shall see…
Until later…
2:41 AM
Namyangju, South Korea
So I know I said my next LiveJournal post would be something or other about one of the things I listed in the one before I made that very quick post this evening from work, but I find that I can’t live up to my promises.
Because I am quite drunk, with half a bottle of some extraordinarily vile stuff called Napoleon V brandy in me, and I feel the need to randomly spew a little bit.
Tonight I had a great deal of fun. After work ended (my last class ends at 10 pm), three coworkers and I went to E-Mart, which I will describe in more detail in my shopping and eating adventures in a later post. Actually come to think of it, this post itself is a “later post” which I will just backdate because I’m writing it at a time when my internet connection is nonexistent and I can’t actually post it. But anyway.
After we bought various things at E-Mart (some of us bought useful things like bowls, pans and staple foods - I bought potato chips, peanut butter, jelly and bread), we went back to my coworker Robert’s apartment to hang out and drink. My coworker/buddy Allan and I split a bottle of some sort of brandy called Napoleon V, although “brandy” is a very generous term, as it tasted more or less like paint thinner. If not worse. But then, what do you expect from a bottle of hard liquor that only costs 6800 won (about $5, I’m guessing, but I’m too lazy to do the actual conversion)?
Anyway, we had a great deal of fun drinking, eating fried chicken and various other snacks, and just generally hanging out and enjoying one another’s company. Afterwards, Allan and I went to play the crane game near a chicken place here in town called “9ers,” which is really the only crane game in town we play because the prizes in it are actually worth getting. Crane games, by the way, are freaking EVERYWHERE in Korea. If you find a restaurant, I’d guess the odds are about 40% that you’ll find a crane game outside it. And unlike the crane games at home, you actually stand a chance of winning the ones here. For example, tonight Allan won a legitimate iPod Shuffle (I’m assuming, anyway… the packaging is different here) and I won a matched pair of goofy-looking yet awesome male and female keyrings (or something… I haven’t actually taken them out of the package yet to look).
Anyway, it was really quite good times. Lots of camaraderie, friendly insults, and legitimate discussions about girls, swimming, tennis, friends and friendship, and just life in general. I’m really quite glad that I have the coworkers that I do, since they are really a bunch of very cool guys.
Incidentally, I finally made my decision about Yang, one of the other teachers at my school that I haven’t mentioned in the LJ before. He goes to Seoul almost every night, it seems, with the result that we hardly ever get to hang out with him, and I think he couldn’t quite make up his mind about the rest of us. But that may only have been the impression I was getting, since he seemed very much willing to hang out with us tonight and was a lot of fun along with my other coworkers. It took him a while to actually hang out with us instead of going to meet his other friends in Seoul, and he’s going to a wedding of some kind this weekend so I’m unlikely to see him until Monday at work, but overall I’ve decided that Yang is good people and he was a blast to hang out with tonight.
Also, another part of the reason I'm in a great mood tonight is that I finally saw Orion for the first time since I got here. I have yet to see the moon, which is a little bit odd, but I did see Orion. Andanyone who knows me well is aware that Orion is my homeboy. So that made me very happy. Especially with half a bottle of vile "brandy" in me.
…Yeah, that’s really about all I have to say at the moment, and I really have to go pee. So goodnight, and I will update with the promised shopping and eating adventures or whatever it was that I said I’d post first some other time, probably tomorrow after I return from Techno Mart and the unbelievably huge Coex mall in Seoul. Or maybe Sunday. We shall see…
Until later…