Thriller Night

Halloween came and went but it definitely made for a wonderful weekend. On Friday, during school, I felt like I was a kid again in class just waiting for the bell to ring. I wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible to start the weekend. N8 and I had made plans to host a pre-going out Halloween party at our apartment. We spent the entire night before preparing decorations for the house. N8 bought black and orange paper and we cut out pumpkins, cats, witches, and bats (FREEHAND) and taped them up all over our apartment. After school on Friday, i ran over to DC Mart, where we usually make our cheap purchases of random stuff and I got a bucket for bobbing-for-apples, make-up essentials and snacks. I got home around 5:30 and started cleaning and moving furniture around to give optimal space for drinking games and mingling. Some of our closer friends starting coming in around 7pm but the fun really started around 9. We had about 20 people packed into our little apartment and had lots of fun seeing people's creative costumes. My good friend Erin and her boyfriend were very korean...Erin tied string across arms and hung fabric that looked like dried squid (which is what you see everywhere here!) and Mike, her boyfriend, had a piece of cloth with cut-outs of dried peppers all down his shirt (just like the picture i have on a previous blog. After a long night at the bar, we had about 8 people sleep at our house and people woke up to a pretty rough morning. After we got back on our feet we met up with some friends at a coffee shop by the beach and sipped on some tea, then we just lied on the chilly beach for a while until hunger took over. We decided to go out for Kamjatong, which is a spicy potato soup with pig spine, because it is known to be a hangover cure! and its delicious!!

After nursing our hangovers with soup we ended up going to Dr. Fish. It is a little cafe downtown that has a medium-sized tub of water with fish in it. First you must wash your feet, order something from the cafe, and place your feet into the water with the flesh eating fish. They attack your feet, eating all of the dead skin off of your feet, but it is absolute tickle torture! You do get used to it after a little while but it is the weirdest feeling at first. It was quite a funny site: 8 Americans crowded around this tub full of fish laughing our faces off!

Afterwards we had our friends come back to our apartment where we pigged out on pizza and snacks and just talked and had a relaxed evening. Some people slept at our that night and everyone left on Sunday morning and N8 and I were left to finish cleaning up and then we went to have lunch with one of his Korean co-workers, Mr. Lee. The Lee family was so nice and welcoming and made a killer lunch with mushroom soup, meat, salad, and fruit. Mr. Lee's son is only 9 years old and has perfect English and attends a Chinese elementary school. After lunch, Mr. Lee wanted to take us up to Odesan mountain to see the autumn scenery, after the hour car ride we got to the top and Mr. Lee realized he had forgotten his wallet, so we got right back into the car and rode another hour back home.

It was such a wonderful weekend full of fun, friends and food! I can only hope I have more weekends like that in the future.