Lazy but Fun Weekend

This weekend, we had a bit of a lazy time. We woke up late both days. It was one of the only weekend for a while that there are no festivals happening. Still, we managed to have a really fun time. Saturday, we stayed in during the day, but we tried two new foods to us. First, this guy sells these things that are in the shape of a fish and look like fried dough on the outside. We figured there would be some sort of fish inside, but no! There was red bean paste for some unknown reason. Whatever. It was pretty good. Then we went to bapburger for lunch. They use rice as the "buns" of the burger, and they put things in it. I got a tuna and ramen one, and Gianni got a bulgogi one. They were actually really good. You eat them with a spoon, and the guy came over before we started and smooshed it down a little when the burger was wrapped in tin foil. Interesting. I liked it though. We then went to CNA, which is just a store that sells random things. I found the most awesome thing I've ever purchased! They had a pillow puppet that you slip over your arm in the shape of a duck. That way, you can more comfortably sleep at your desk. In Korea, people don't really take sick days. They come in even if it's just to sit at their desks and sleep. And we also have a lot of desk warming hours because we are required to be at school even if we don't have class or anything to do. This is perfect! Gianni also got a Plants vs. Zombies hat that is really cool.

After that, we ran an errand at Home Plus before rushing off to the Camp Walker US military base for an event. The Daegu Compass is a magazine for foreigners with things to do in Daegu and South Korea in general. They sponsored this event on the base that was like wine and jazz. They didn't publicize the date you had to register by though, and after a long walk from the subway, it turns out that we weren't on the list! We waited for like a half hour to get in and met a friend and some of her other friends who turned out to be really nice. One of them knew a girl whose husband is in the military in Daegu. She called her friend who then took us in as her guest. We only stayed for a little bit, but I bought a bottle of wine!

After leaving the base, we went downtown with them and got some food at this really great pasta restaurant. It was actually great food, good portions, and really cheap. Then they took us to gogo bar where we could get capri sun bags full of drinks. The girl who made my mango soju drink even offered to make it stronger if needed! When has a bartender ever offered to make a drink stronger!? We walked around downtown with them and checked out a few bars. You can just stand outside bars and bump into tons of people you know and drink your drinks from whatever bar you went to. It was really fun. We went to MF Bar, and it was someone from our orientation's birthday. Apparently, if you friend the bar and tell them its your birthday, they will print large posters for you to decorate the bar! The posters were so cute and really funny! I want to do it for my birthday. We hung out for a bit, and the trains and buses stop in Daegu at 11pm, so we got a taxi back for only 11,000 won, which wasn't bad because we went pretty far.

This morning, we got up kind of earlier. Maria and Matthew were planning on coming over a little later in the afternoon, but their plans got messed up, so they came over for lunch. We got lunch at the shabu shabu place we went to the other day because I loved it so much. When I went to pick them up from the train station, we walked past a man selling tons of socks for only 500 won! So after lunch, we stopped by there for Gianni to pick up some more simpsons ones. He has 3 pairs of socks now. They are so funny. I got some funny ones myself. I got ones with Obama on them. I couldn't pass them up. We had a really fun day playing Settlers of Catan and watching The World's End with them also. We went to a pizza place that has been recommended to me called Pizza School. We got pepperoni, which was the most normal. We also got cheese, but it came with corn, and we got sweet potato, which had mustard on it of all things! It was actually really good pizza. They are small, so we got 3 pizzas for 5,000 won each--not a bad price at all to feed 4 people.

It was a really fun/lazy weekend, which is just what we needed because our big Seoul trip is coming up in a few days! I can't wait!