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A little late this week, but I did wait until I did the dishes this time.

Last weekend was pretty epic, busy, and neverending:
Friday:
There is a place in Busan (Kyungsung) where they have all you can drink beer from 2000-000 for only 10,000 W. Between about six to eight of us, my memory became fuzzier and fuzzier as the night progressed, we had at least 8 pitchers and a mixed drink each. Normally pitchers cost 20,000 Won, and based on how much I drank, it was a hell of a deal. The place is called LZone, but the L stands for language, not love. Foreigners and Koreans go there to exchange language and play board games. It's a very cool place. After that we went to the wonderful Ghetto, which lives up to its name. I hit about an 8 out 10 on the drunken scale; 10 is black out and puking, 9 is black out, 8 is pure insanity. I was a dancing maniac for hours until 3 am when we decided it was time to head home--it was an early night, and the best way to celebrate the end of intensives. I am now back on my 1500-2200 work days which has all but killed my sleep schedule in two days.

Saturday:
After sitting alone for most of the day I left my apartment for the first time around 2000. I played some darts, shot some pool, and had a few beers before meeting up with an Irish birthday party for a girl I only met once. We hit up several places finally coming to a place called the Vinyl Underground where I just got goofy. It was funk night and I was feeling the music so Aideen (a cute Irish lass) and I danced on the sticky dance floor for hours. It was great fun. I made it home at the crack of 630 in the morning and didn't fall asleep until 700.

Sunday:
I had at least two and a half hours of sleep before Derek called me to wake me up for the Polar Bear swim. My friends that knew of the LZone, Chris and Allison, had recruited us to join them for the swim. Unfortunately it was very early, but there'll be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead--plus I don't have to wake up until 1400 the next day. The water was freezing to the point that it was very hard to breath and all of limbs eventually went numb, which made the water feel a little bit warmer. I didn't stay in for too long, maybe like ten minutes. A friend was supposed to meet us there, but instead of going home and going to sleep he decided he was stay up the rest of the night in the casino. I never saw him, he said the table was too hot to leave.
After the Polar Bear swim, I took a shower to warm up for my soccer game. We played until the sun went down, which was around 1730. After which I needed food, and by the time I had finished eating dinner at a restuarant it was time for the weekly movie. We watched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance; it was my pick and I really enjoyed. It was the biggest turnout yet for our weekly movie night; there were eleven moviegoers. I think only seven liked the movie, two were disgusted, and the other two hadn't made up their minds. It was an artfully made violent Korean film.
After the movie was the Arsenal vs. Manchester United game. K-pop, Derek and myself stayed to watch that as well. The first half was great, but there was no way any of us could stay awake for the second, so we called it a night ending one of the longest weekends I've had in Korea.

On Monday we were back to our regular schedule, which was nice, but I miss being done early. Afterwards I was playing drunken hackey sack in my room with Joel and K-pop and managed to cut open my heel and leave a nice dent in my bed frame at the same time. It bled alot and all over the floor. Truthfully though, I didn't feel it until the next day. The lesson learned is that hackey sack should be played outside.

One Good Thing About Korea:
There are convenience stores at the bottom of almost every building. It makes it so much easier to do my shopping to be able to travel to the bottom floor of my building, walk 200 feet, buy what I need, and go right back up. It may not be the most economic way to go shopping, but I'm a multi-millionaire now and can afford to pay for my convenience.

One Bad Thing About Korea:
Drying racks. Most apartments including mine don't have a drying machine. I understand that drying machines are the least efficient appliance, but I miss that fresh out of the dryer feel, and I dislike having to wait one day for my clothes to dry on their own. Laundry is no longer a short order chore. In fact the washing machines here take as long as both the washer and dryer back in the states.