1. Long after everyone had finally fallen asleep in our cabin, I woke up and realized that one of the girls was missing. "Dude, where's your girl?" I asked her boyfriend. Some time later he returned with her. She was very drunk and definitely not into taking his "be quiet... just go to sleep" repeated advice.
2. We were all sprawled on the floor and so the others were getting quite agitated. "I'm gonna beat you!" one guy blurted out. "You better take his beating as a blessing cause it's tame compared to what I'd do" I thought to myself. Ok, so the girl was drunk and rude boisterous behaviour is to be expected but this was getting to be too much. I told myself I'd give her twenty minutes before I clock her one and so I stood near the light switch, watching her time tick down.
3. Luckily for her, she stopped after exactly 17 minutes. In the morning she was overly embarrassed when her boyfriend told her what had happened... and so she should have been too. She swore she'd never drink soju again but what she should have said is sorry to us. We never got our much due apology.
4. Our tour guides gathered us up after breakfast for a mountain hike... hike, ya right... hahaha. Many of the people showed up in running shoes, Q included, and so it was a rather tricky "hike".
5. We slipped and stumbled the whole way up the mountain but we definitely did it in team style. Numerous people would walk ahead, position themselves and then reach down to help the following person pass by. I think that'll be one of my fondest memory of this trip; everyone so unselfishly helping each other.
6. At one point I spotted a girl's red leather purse go rolling down the snow covered mountain side. We all stopped and stood to watch and stare. I felt terrible for the girl cause any girl who loses a purse in a foreign country is never a good thing. It's called a passport that's so tedious to get replaced, a work visa that may require a trip to Thailand or Japan to replace, and other hard-to-replace ID. One of our tour guides took it upon himself the risk of going down to get it. What a hero!!!
7. We were all laughs and giggles until we reached the top of the mountain and the main leader told us how we were going to go down. "Just sit on your bum and slide down" he told us. "He wants us to what?!" someone questioned. He gave a demonstration... and it looked painful. One of the braver guys went next but ended up sliding right into some barbed wire on the side. You see, they use to use this mountain for military training and so some of the areas were lined with barbed wire and there were some military training exercise equipment at the top. For the most part, we were ticked off. "If I had known I'd be killing my clothes and forced to dangerously slide down this huge mountain, I wouldn't have hiked up here!" one annoyed girl said. I felt bad for the two young tour guides but the girl and the others had some valid points. "Come on" the main leader yelled out to me. "Unless you plan on giving me the $300 to replace this sweater, I suggest you make a different suggestion" I told him. And so, on that note, we started the difficult struggle of walking down.
8. The hike was quite the adventure and it was fun, minus the route down, but upon reaching the bottom, over an hour later, we all just wanted to let lose and relax. A bunch of us jumped on the mini ice sleds and scooted around the ice... very fun!!! No sooner did we start to play but then the others joined us on the ice for a group photo. As we huddled together our photo smiles were then met with a massive groaning sound... it was the ice ...it was cracking!!! Oh my gosh!!! We all scrambled to the shore as Q stood there laughing. Poor Q's laughter was met by some pretty not impressed smirks from the others... hahaha!!!
9. Meet an 8-year-old little dog after our lunch stop. She nervously walked up to me, only after the gas attendant agreed to walk with her. I knelt down to pet her. She was shaking so much, I thought it was because of the cold but the gas attendant told me it's because of loneliness. He told me that two days ago all her newborn babies froze to death outside and she hasn't the same ever since. That's terrible, I thought, and so on that note I fed her the bread I had been saving for the ride home. I hate hearing stories like this.
10. There wasn't much to say after the bus dropped us all off in Seoul, I mean, who the heck was I really going to say goodbye to?! I turned away, caught a cab and off I went to continue my journey home to Cheonan. Upon arriving at home, I was greeted by a very bad and frustrated Mi Nam, who had taken his frustrations out by chewing another one of my steps!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why do people insist on drinking to such retarded extents?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
-- St. Augustine
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
4 comments:
Enjoying alcohol socially is one thing it's quite another to be loud and obnoxious. I have a few tales of drunk foreigners in Korea too.
One time a large group of my friends went to Busan, and we were paired 4 in a room, one girl came back late, and she was sleeping on the floor beside me and started throwing up in her sleep. But she was on her back, so it was dangerous. i couldn't let the poor girl choke to death so I had to roll her over and stuff. The worse part is she was so drunk she forgot to put her pj's on, and she was completely naked. Oh God, it was a nightmare. The two other people either faked slept through that, or didn't hear what happened but of course being a light sleeper, and next to someone puking certainly had me awake most of the night. And in the morning, I'm sure the girl was embarrassed, but there was no apology, or thanks, for rolling her over so she woulnd't choke on her own vomit.
So I kind of know what you're talking about ;)
Hey Shelly,
Ouch... that's a nasty story. I hear ya about drunks though. I use to be the head bartender at a club for about 3 years and having seen way too many drunks, drinking doesn't really interest me like it does most. Now days though, my passion for fitness kills any remote interests in drinking cause I know how many calories and whatnot is in that glass of wine.
Hehehe...
That's good you helped the girl, obviously it's great, but ya, not getting a thank you for the help and a sorry for the problem, really sucks and is definitely rude on her behalf.
Um... why did you wear a $300 sweater hiking?
Hi Anonymous,
... for the same reason why I wear a $2000 fox-fur, leather coat grocery shopping... because I CAN.... hahaha.
Actually, I was going to wear my puma jacket but had accidently thrown it in the wash and it wasn't dry for my weekend get-away.
Hi Unchin,
Actually many do. I don't. Very rarely do I carry it on me but that's only when I'm in Songtan. You need it to get on base and for other things. I carry mine on me when I go to Busan cause it's required for the business I do there.
I hear ya though. But more importanly, I think we should be asking, why the heck did she bring her purse on a hike?!!!
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