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And what a week it has been. So here are some pictures of the destruction that hit the ville during the storm. Now its up and running... this is form like a week and a half ago. I went down to the ville because we went off lock down and my custom leather shoes and suit were there waiting for me. There pretty nice and i'm glad that they didn't get flooded.

Ok so Wednesday and thursday last week i pretty much just hung around waiting for the weekend. Nothing big happened. On thursday some people got promoted so they had to buy us beer for some great reason. So i drank some. And later that night my company had a celebration for the Kattusas (koreans in the us army) and we went to this korean barbecue. It was like mongolian. Those strips to the left that are pinkish were delicious. I think it was pork. I couldn't tell you what the rest of it was but it was very good. Some soju and orange soda made it better.
So because we had a 4 day weekend i had to put a pass in for the weekend.


I had to fill out this form to show my risk level for the pass. They make you add points for any factor that can make your trip more risky. Well i scored high but the commander didn't really look at it because the thing is 1. rigged and 2. kinda stupid in my opinion. I thought it was funny


So after the dinner this cadet from west point and i went down to Seoul. We first bought some soju and mixed it with coke. Good stuff the train ride was fun and the other cadet was chill. We got down there and randomely found some officers we knew and went to this club. (picture is the club on the outside). My friend was spitting some game on some girl and i was just talking with other military people, and english teachers. The club was like a mix of koreans and american servicemembers and english teachers, and people from everywhere.

This dude was from somewhere in europe but i don't remember. He was cool he told me how racist KOreans were to black people. I met some english teacher who went to uw he was super cool. Then the club ended at like 3 and i couldn't find my friend so i just went to train station and waited for the next train. I feel asleep on teh train and what do you know im going the wrong way when i wake up from my nap. And this is 6 30 in the morning so the commuters are all looking at me. But i get back fine, and my friend who i was with got back fine to.

So the next day i regrouped at camp casey and assembled a team of people to party again in Seoul. This time we got a hotel in this area called dongdaemun. It was cool there were plenty little shops selling all sorts of stuff for very cheap. We got a hotel for cheap ( we only had to pay 20,000 won which is like 18 bucks each). It had one bed and plenty floor space. We just sleep head to foot on the bed and one on the ground. (picture of hotel on the bottom)
So anyway we took a train to hungdai or idk how you spell it but its some womens college in korea and theres all these clubs around there for college students. Its not a very GI friendly area though. Some of the lower enlisted told me how they got jumped by the mob there or something. But yea some Korean guys don't like Americans and american guys with their girls. And some Americans are just idiots sometimes and this is a potion for ffrequent fights. Usually the Americans win though cuz i mean there servicemembers so some of the places in hungdai don't serve troops. But yea we went there and told everyone we were UN interns ha.

BUt yea we wondered around and asked the few and far between white people were the best clubs were and they had no idea. I asked some random Korean dude at burger king where the club was at and he said some club cocoon. So we found the club and we go in line right. But we went to the wrong line. We had to go to the line that waited for that line. Let me tell you that line was huge. It was like 12 30 so it was just getting started. We ran into two European dudes that knew english and we talked to him. They were cool and described how great it is to chill and we told them how hard we have to work. One guy told us a story about how he left his job after stealing something and then came back a few months later and it was ok. Must be nice. But Yea that was cool and we got in the club and it was packed. Packed and huge and crazy. We immeadiately went on stage because we had too and we were just dancing and stuff all night. It was pretty cool.
Yea so the club was nuts and we found some other cadets who went there and i talked to some other cadets today and they said they were there that night so club cocoon was the place to be. We left at like 3 30 am. I swear some guys were mean mugging us all night and i don't think they liked soldiers or americans so we left because the other guys were tired and we didn't wanna have no trouble. We took a taxi back and he got dropped off at a freakin palace. But it was near where we lived so that was cool.
All the shops and stuff were still open at 4am.

The next day we woke up and went around and shopped and stuff. There was like a secondhand market type place so that was pretty nice and they were selling everything. Polaroid cameras, pet turtles, and lots of fake shoes.
Here is a little river that was in the downtown area in dongdaemun. It was pretty nice.
So on saturday we went to the North Seoul tower. Its on a giant hill that overlooks the city it was nice.



It was cool to see the whole city. Its weird to think that Seoul is really a super young city because after the Korean war in 1953 it was flattened and there economy took some time to start going. So there aren't like a crazy amount of places to go in seoul like NYC but you know its a lot.
Then we went down to the army garrisson and hung low that night. Just went to this Korean friend Chicken place. I personally wanted to go out on the town again because that was fun but the other people didn't want to and i know its stupid to go on your own so i couldnt go out.
Then the next day we went down to Itwawon and shopped and went back on base. I again wanted to go out but I couldn't go out alone and im sure ill have another opportunity to go to Korea sometime down in the future. So then the last two days i packed up and now im at the airport.




Heres some pictures of my room. It was pretty big and nice and also had my own bathroom with shower. It also had like two desks and multiple chairs and the on base bus went by often. So now im at the airport super bored because i got here at 7 am and my flights not till 5 pm. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

TBA

I will post a post Monday night or tuesday morning ish about my past week here. It will be hugeeeeeee i promise im just getting done packing and stuff so im a little bit busy. But i leave tuesday at 5 20 pm and arrive detroit at 5 35 pm. ha And madison at 8 15pm

long day

Today was a long day just got off work.

But this morning we had first formation at 9 30 instead of the usual 6 30 so I got to sleep in. It was great because I could do my laundry at 7 in the morning when nobody was using it and i got caught. Not wet clothes are pretty great to get into. So I got another great breakfast today at the dfac and got to formation... and im like we are totally gonna work plenty today... they said we are having a re fitting day (bascially just a chill day). So I just ran around with my sponsor and when we went to the Kattusa snack bar (plenty good korean food) and went to the library. I had to go to a powerpoint meeting and I was the one who got to click for the next slide. Im very important.

Anyway at like 1 my sponsors like ok go home and i was like yess. So I was just chillen all day on the computer readfing and stuff then i get a call at 5 and my sponsors like we got formation get over here fast.

So I walk up to formation and the first Sargeant( like 20ish plus years in the military. Is the NCO of a company size element. COmpany size is like 120-160ish troops) and hes reading off every name in the company for accountability. Everyone was getting called to this formation. And this was an unplanned formation and stuff and im like what the heck is going on.

So i talk to a lieutenant and hes like some idiot tried to buy drug off base (we were not allowed off base this weekend) from an undercover military policeman. The company commander (company commander is the officer in charge and he is a Captain in rank) plans to search all the rooms in the barracks for contraband and pee test everyone. So i don't need to get pee tested and my stuff searched but the company commander told me to follow him as he searches room.

First couple rooms theres nothing around. We found some embarassing things but nothing big. Some rooms are super messy and some are super clean and all of the people have to be in the room as we search it but ya nothing came up.

So then the Commander leaves to do something and im in the room with my sponsor and a sargeant who is searching a room. So this guy's room we are searching is about to leave in a week and he was telling us how crappy his old job in a mill was, and that in the summer it was 150 degrees and the winter it was 20. So the Sgt is going through his socks and bam there is a marijuana pipe in hidden in a glove. And he remarks "this is the worst part of the job." Then we find some muscle relaxants hidden on top of the bathroom ceiling. We tell the Commander and he gets extremely angry and the MPs (miltiary police) are called to search the room further. The two of the three contraband items were on one side of the room (two people live in the room) and one was in the bathroom. So its pretty obvious whose stuff it is but the guy cries innocence that he never saw the glove with the pipe that smells like its just been used in the middle of his socks before. If he doesn't fess up though he could really screw his buddy. So ya that was fun... not really but after that they told me to go home because we checked all the rooms and i wasn't gonna pee test so i came to the food court and ate.

So i have mixed feelings because it was cool to see how a commander reacts to a problem not talked about in rotc which is drugs and contraband but at the same time I probably saw some guys army career come to an end.

In pretty good news though the sargeant first class was like hmm its your last week we need to get you to go down to seoul withs ome of the guys. So im pretty excited for that. Its looking like we are gonna have friday off so ill be able to go out thursday and friday night! then im getting moved away from my sponsor and camp casey down to yongsan garrison in downtown seoul. So hopefully i can go out saturday sunday and monday night because i wont be flying out till tuesdayyyy. So this could be a great great weekend.