T'has been a while since i last shared...

Since my last post i have been paid, been to Seoul and started playing football.

Getting paid was a relief. 1,800,000Won in the bank. The days prior to getting this cash injection were precarious to say the least. i had to count out the equivalent of 2.5p coins to pay for my lunch some days - it's funny on reflection. I hope now that it will not be an issue again as i'm now on a better wage than my harder working Korean peers so there's no excuse.

Looking back on the trip to Seoul much of it is cloudy in a tequila haze. It had been my intention to go and do some sights in the capital but in the end i spent every night in a bar or club - good times though.
We left for Seoul on the Saturday going on the KTX high-speed train. I tried to hide my excitement as on the inside i was still that young loser of a wee chunky train spotter that gets really excited about travelling on a train that goes 300km/h - i hid it well i hope. It only took 1.5hours. When we got into Seoul we headed straight for the hostel where we were staying. Previous to this trip i had heard a few horror stories about staying in hostels so i wasn't sure what to expect. It turned out to be really nice. Clean rooms, no people who ruined the whole hostel experience for everyone else and a cracking shower. Once we had seen the rooms we went for some grub and had a look in the Downtown area. Then headed for some drinkies at night. We travelled to the Itaewon area as there were many watering holes to from which to choose. This night slowly disintegrated after many a tipple. We spent quite a lot of the night in a bar where G.I.s congregate. We also bumped into a Dutch guy Michael who at first we thought was American but just turned out to have perfect English - better English than me in fact. One of the G.I.s had got wind that i was Scottish and felt compelled to come over and tell his surname is Burns. I put on my pretend impressed face as he was twice the width of me. Once he had laboured the point of us being 'brothers' he bought me booze. Lots of booze. Purely 'cause i'm Scottish. After a long drawn out 24 years it's starting to pay off being a Scot.
The second day i went with Ally and Katie to see The Korean Culture Palace (Korea's Buckingham Palace). It...was...good. Was very muddy to walk through because of the snow but still interesting. We then went a wander in the local area taking in stalls and shops. We then headed back to the hostel where i met Tom and a fellow hosteler, Erin, who was flying solo in Seoul. The three of us got boozed up...a plenty. Later on we met up with Ally, Katie and the extras and a Zen Bar. Oh dear. Tequila shots only 1,900W each. There were quite a few consumed. Drinks, photo's, questionable dancing and drinks. Somehow, we ended up in a Korean guy's car (named Gun). I'll spare you the details Mum but on reflection probably wasn't the greatest idea of the weekend.
The last day arrived with a nice juicy hangover. We decided that to kill time before the train we'd have ANOTHER wee booze. We met more people at a bar Gecko's and eventually decided to intentionally miss our train and opt for a later one. This seemed a perfectly good drunken idea at the time until once at the station the only option to get back to Daegu was a 4hour journey - yum!
On a whole, Seoul is very similar to Daegu in terms of appearance but it was still good fun. I'm sure i'll be back before i leave.