Halloween

Halloween is only popular in Busan because of the amount of foreigners. I'm not sure if that is true or not but I saw quite a few people dressed up, the vast majority of which were whiteys.

One of my coworkers had a party at her bachelor apartment, she was expecting 30+ people to show up. Having just gotten off the plane, I didn't have anything to wear and I wasn't going to buy a costume. However, I did bring my Sounders jersey (gotta represent the team, wherever I am), so I dressed up in my soccer gear and went as a soccer player. Her apartment didn't seem big enough to house 30+ people, but somehow it managed to. There was a spiked punch, beer, soju and vodka to drink. Soju is the Korean equivalent of Sake, but in my opinion it is closer to vodka in taste. I'm not sure how much I drank that night but it was a lot, plus I spiked all of my drinks with Soju--even when I was just drinking straight Soju.

Some of the people had really creative costumes. There was a Cereal Killer, a Ghostbuster, MJ came back from the grave for a final performance, Shrek stopped by, even a Kim Chi man made it--don't ask. After the place filled up, we all left to walk several minutes to a Western bar. My group had a cow in it, a very mad cow. He tried to hump several Korean men on the way to the bar, and got a girl to suck his udder; that was a definite highlight of my trip so far.

We took over the bar, started a conga line, danced to music, I broke a bottle of beer and somehow was the only one who didn't flinch or seem to care, and was when I knew that it was time to stop drinking. The rest of the night I hung out with a girl, the Cereal Killer. It didn't lead anywhere, but it was still fun. All in all it was a good Halloween.