Took the train.

This weekend was surprisingly busy.

On Friday night I met up with a group of foreigners in my town and we went out to dinner and then we got drinks. Dinner consisted of all-you-can-eat meat that you cooked yourself for about 10$ each. It was a pretty good meal, any large quantity of meat is hard to come by and expensive in Korea, so this particular get together was quite welcome. The only catch was that you could only really cook a small amount of meat at a time on the table top grills. So it would take forever to get a decent sized portion down. It was worth it though. The bar we went to had kettles of alcohol for about 4$ each.  It was awesome. We chose a milky kiwi alcohol which was really nice on the pallet. I went home content that night, I had good company, good food, and good drinks.

My only complaint is that there were no actual Koreans with us. Foreigners seem to stick together here and its nice that there is that bond available, but at the same time they don't provide a link to Korea that will last.

On Saturday I was really bored so I decided to take a 10$ train ride to Daegu, the 3rd largest city in Korea. The train ride took about three hours and I went alone. I was kind of winging it to be honest. I knew that some people were going to be in the city, but I had no idea where or if I was going to stay the night and how reliable communication with people would be. About 20 minutes after getting off the train I was walking around the major downtown shopping/bar district of the city and I ran into Tyler, a fellow TaLK Scholar. I decided to tag along with him and we eventually met up with other people in the city. We went to a couple bars first and then around 11pm we went to a place call MK Club. This club had good music and was packed! We went on the stage area and danced for a few hours until we were deaf and tired and then made our way to a cheap motel about a mile away to get some sleep. (I bought a 30$ small sleeping bag earlier that day and it was one of the best purchases I made in Korea so far as I have been sleeping on the floor a lot on the weekends.)

I took the train home the next day. I have decided I really like using the train is foreign countries. There is a real sense of adventure AND comfort that the train brings to travel. (you also KNOW where the train is going, which brings a nice feeling of security to a trip).

I took this picture on stage in the MK Club. Lots of people.

Kettles of Alcohol. It was a nice (inexpensive) time.