Thursday Party & Korean Classes

Going out last night with my co-workers was a success! I really enjoyed myself. Most of the group headed into Itaewon around 4:30 which was just way too early for me. So I tagged along with Chris and we left Suji around 8:30 which gave me time to blog and watch two movies before leaving! (Thanks again to Carmen for sending me a huge movie list!) We met up with Ben in Hongdae (or near Hongdae... maybe?) and walked through many streets that looked like this:

 

 

I had not eaten dinner (typical), so they decided to take me to a home-style pizza place which was delicious. Then we decided to get bag drinks from a place a few doors down. It's a small tiny drink place but is mainly for people to pick up and buy drinks from the "window" and they are made and served in a Ziploc type bag with a straw. The drink menu was also basically paper with hand drawn pictures of all the drinks you could order. I had the Blue Hawaii.

 

 





We then met up with the rest of our co-workers in a park nearby that was packed with people. As it always is here, super hot and muggy, so we headed to a place called Thursday Party. So weird to see so many white people all in one place! (I know how horrible  that sounds.) It was a fun place and just being able to dance the night away was so fun. We were supposed to go to an event called Shindig next but we lost the Birthday boy, Nate, and opted to go to a traditional Korean bar. A little less dancing there and the decorations were so all over the place (including palm trees) but it was fun. Eventually we headed back to Suji and I was back in my apartment just before 4am. So fun!

Today I also took my first Korean class. The beginner class had already started but there was another guy that wanted to start classes so the director offered to do some private classes with us until we are caught up with the current class. We learned the alphabet and a few words and phrases. I really enjoyed it and am excited to keep taking classes and being able to speak and read more. Here is my first sentence "I am Ashley":

Other exciting news: Jess and I book our flights to go to Japan!! We are going over Chuseok, the Korean thanksgiving that's in September. We also bought our tickets for Disneyland and Disney Sea which I am even more excited about! We will be staying in Tokyo the whole time so if you have any suggestions of things to go see, please let me know! It's too bad that we won't have more time to explore other areas in Japan, but I am just overly ecstatic to go to Disneyland there.

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