Nightclub/booking club
A few weeks ago while on the subway, Heejin and I had agreed to go to a nightclub. I know I kinda described to you in a previous post what it was so I won't go too overboard, but lets just say I went on Friday night to one in Songtan and I want to tell you what it was like.
We had dinner and pre-drinks at Heejin's place and waited for her friend Kyeon (dunno the English spelling, only Hangul and I don't have a keyboard for that on the mac) to join us and get ready. Heejin's apartment is super awesome, she lives with her little sis who is adorable, and they have a super cute tiny dog too. The 3 of us girls all got dressed up and then headed out to a bar in Songtan near city hall where we drank delish strawberry soju in a very Korean bar. These bars are a little different from bars at home - you sit in a booth or at a table and you stay with your group. People don't mingle around, and you have to order food. We ordered some fruit and sat and drank and gossipped. Very fun.
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| Strawberry Soju at the bar |
We then jumped in a taxi and headed to the nightclub. Turns out the place is literally around the corner from my house, making it a blessing and a curse. We walked in and were taken to a table. The DJ made an announcement at out arrival and we hardly had time to sit before a waiter came over and escorted us upstairs to a private room where 4 blokes were sitting around. We sat with them for a bit then got back up and went back downstairs. Where we were then grabbed and taken to another table. And so the night progressed. No sooner had we sat down that we were taken to a different table. It was a very strange but super fun experience. I think guys liked the novelty of a foreigner sitting at their table but not many people were comfortable with their English so it was a little hard for me. And my Korean os terrible so Lucky I always had one of the girls with me for translating haha. Heejin was (as usual) Miss Popularity and everyone wanted her at their table. She got a few numbers but neither me nor Kyeon got any haha.
At around 4 or 5 am we went to McDonalds (of course) and unfortunately were stuck with the breakfast menu. As you can already tell this was a bad weekend for my diet. Ughhh...
Some of the guys from the club came and met us there and we went upstairs to Jammers for more drinks. Amazingly we saw some friends for Ptaek still out so they stayed and drank with us too.
The girls wanted to head home at I have no idea what time, but I was naturally having too much fun chatting with everyone from the bar, and some of the girls form Click had finished work and had come across to have some fun. I was on home turf now and just running around chatting to everyone. Heejin and Kyeon left (those girls are the best I love them) and the guys from the club went too so I stayed and hung out with Ginny and Lexi for a while. Then it was def time to go home, I said goodbye to the girls and went to walk home but Ginny was having none of it. She said it wasn't safe and that her friend would give us a lift...
So us 2 girls jumped on the back of her friends motorbike and he drove me home. It was amazing. And yes, the sun was well and truly up. I went straight to sleep... Lucky I had thought to set my alarm the night before!!!
Jimjilbang
During the week Heather had messaged me and asked if I wanted to go with her for her first jimjilbang experience. I was yet to try it out too so we agreed to Saturday. Now, let me explain his one...
A jimjilbang is a big public bath and spa, which is seperated into male and female areas. There is the spa/bath area, and then there is another area for sleeping and eating and whatever - a big social area. Now, in the spa area everyone is NAKED. But in the other area you wear these pyjama thingies and there are guys and girls together. In this particular one we were at there were separate sleeping rooms for guys and girls. I am guessing they are all like that...
Now, I jumped on the subway and met Heather at a little after 1 (hungover but not drunk this time haha poor Heather she must be so sick of making plans with me only to have me show up drunk or hungover) and we went to the spa. It was right next to the station and very close to her house. We went up and frightened to poor guy behind the counter with out foreigness but it was ok because an older lady who worked there could see that we had no idea what we were doing and shoed us the ropes. We dropped our shoes in one locker then took our bags and clothes to another. When we walked through we both stopped dead - all around us were naked girls of all ages - babies, kids, teens, adults, mothers, grandmothers etc. All naked. And yes, we stared for a minute before we got ourselves together. We found our lockers and then faced each other. It was time to get nude and we were having minor freakouts.
We counted to 3 and stripped off to nothing, and scuttled into the spar room holding ourselves with out tiny towels.
The idea is that you shower before jumping into the pools so we did that first and then found a spa that was 44 degrees and jumped in. And then we went to a different pool. And then another. And something strange happened. I mean, you never forget you are nude, but it stopped mattering. We got some initial stares, but no more than you get when you walk into a shop or bar - people were a bit curious but it was because we were white not because we were naked. And, it was crazy the amount of different body types that were there. You assume that all asian women must look the same naked - they all seem to have the same shape while clithed. Not true. Its as different as us whities. So yeah, we did a fair bit of staring ourselves... But it was totally fine. By the end of it I was totally comfortable being butt naked with my friend in front of a shit load of other naked women. Best experience ever. I can honestly say it is one of the best things I have done in my life.
The thing that I did notice was this - Korean women are not really "well groomed", and no one had any tattoos. Oh, one girl walking in had one on her back but we only noticed her as we were leaving. Now, I have a few dotted around my body, and both Heather and myself have stategice tatts placed below the hip and above the thigh so they got noticed too, but in general no one cared that we were there anymore than they cared that others were there.
It was a great experince and the actual spa was fun. The water was super hot or cold, depending on the pool and I loved this weird steamy raining room. Next time I will be better prepared with a bath kit. Yes, there will totally be a next time.
If you are in Korea I 100% recommend you give it a try!
Last night I was so tired and wiped out I just went to bed. And this morning Milky woke me up early and wanted to go out, so here I am before 10am on a Sunday blogging instead of sleeping. But I feel well rested and ready to start the week.
In other news...
The kids are back at school starting Monday. I have no idea what the new timetable is, what the expectations of me are for this year, or what is going on in general. But what's new? I never know what is going on.
I have nothing really planned for this week other than get back on my diet. Jess's wedding is creeping up really fast and I want to go at some point into the city to find a new dress.
I have actually not spent as much money this month so thats another interesting thing. Maybe I am finally getting into a groove in terms of spending my money. So maybe now I can start saving hahahahahahahahaha as if.
At home, Louise got married. Shattered I missed the wedding but I have already seen some pics and she looks beautiful and Ty looks very dashing. I wish them an amazing long happy life together. If anyone deserves it then its Lou. We have been friends since the start of high school and I love her to bits.
I uploaded another vlog to my channel, so have a look. You can check out the whole channel here.
I uploaded another vlog to my channel, so have a look. You can check out the whole channel here.
Anyway thats about it for now. I have no idea what I am going to do with my day, but it won't be busy I can tell you that!
Till next time
xoxoxox
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