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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