Seoul (a little late...)

I should have already written this, but oh well. Last week we went to Seoul for the first time (refer to video blog...). It was pretty wicked, I'll be honest. Even the trip there was awesome--something about riding on a train, going through mountains and everything was really, really cool. It made me feel like I was on vacation or something, I don't know. I've just always liked trains. It was mine and Rory's first time out of Chuncheon since we've been here, and seeing parts of Korea that were really tiny, little communities was nice. Communities that looked like neon threw up on them, but still smaller than Chuncheon. We did a little train drinking, and soon enough we were there. So we had to navigate all of these subway/train lines and where they meet up, and we did it with a little help from some friendly Korean men. One of them was this super nice, older man, who had worked for AT&T for a long time. He spoke very good English and seemed amused by Rory and all of our collective love of dakgalbi and Korean food in general. He helped us through a stop and a transfer. Nice, nice man. When we actually got to the subway station we needed to be at, it was ginormous, like an underground mall--people everywhere in this giant maze. We found our terminal, and as soon as we walked out we saw our bar/restaurant where we were meeting people. The first two people we saw were sang and Clayton. It was so awesome to see Sang especially (no offense to Clayton, but we had already seen him in korea). It was a reminder of both home and the reason we are in Korea at all; we're definitely indebted to Sang. We also saw two girls from some MU TESOL (I think) programs. I will not butcher their names, but it was nice to see them. Did some "networking" (drinking) with the other MU alum, did a lot of eating, and moved to a different bar. Long story short, we went to two different bars and a karaoke room after that; Sang bought all of us so much freaking food, fruit and alcohol; Clayton made some clubworker feel really uncomfortable (some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen, i think); and Rory and Jamie both did solo dances in this giant, cheesy techno club. We partied until 6 in the morning, got on a train back to Chuncheon and had to work at 10:00. It was a long day.