i'm at COEX mall again, at the store that sells apple products to use their wireless. i've been coming here quite frequently and the workers are all really nice. i never usually talk with them, but just bow or nod when i see them. today they offered me something to drink and i said it was okay but they insisted on it so i have a nice hot cup of green tea next to me. i feel bad because i never buy anything but just come here and use their wireless but i guess they don't really seem to mind.
so last wednesday my cousin and her bf took me out for dinner and drinks and afterwards i was supposed to sleep at my cousin's house. we ate in Hongdae, which is where she lives and also known as like an artsy fartsy neighborhood because of the large art school that's there. they took me to this restaurant where you grill your own meat and it was sooo good. they told me it was famous and always busy. afterwards they took me to this seafood restaurant to have some drinks and snack on some fresh seafood as we ate drank. we ordered a lot of really fresh fish and also something called "Sahn Nahkjie," which is octopus that is so freshly killed that it's still moving on the plate. i know, i know, that might seem absolutely disgusting for most people but it was actually really good and i enjoyed it. haha the cool part is where you're eating some tentacles and it sticks to your toungue or the roof of your mouth because the sucking things are still moving.
well, suffice it to say i drank sooooo much that night and got plastered. after eating, we all split a cab home and when me and my cousin got out of the cab and was walking to her house, being the drunk fool that i was, i saw a deli and insisted on buying some more beer for me to drink at her house with her dad. she said okay and we bought beer and went back to her place and my aunt and uncle were waiting for us. we were all sitting down and drinking beer and talking, and then my uncle starts showing me pictures of my mom when she was younger. these were pictures i had never seen in my life, and i got kind of emotional. i said i wanted to call my parents and then i called my mom and went to the bathroom and started tearing because i was so happy to hear her voice. i come back out to the kitchen after hanging up on the phone and my uncle and aunt continue to show me pictures.
at this point i am so inebriated that i felt like i couldn't even breathe. they're talking to me and i yell that i need to barf. my aunt and uncle and cousin are looking at me like i'm freaking crazy, and i tell them i have to barf again. hahah my aunt then looks at me and says "how come everytime you come to my house you end up barfing!?!?" she said that because a few weeks ago when i slept over, i ate something bad or something but i got seriously sick after eating dinner at her house.
so i spent half the night in the bathroom and thought i was going to freaking die that night because i felt so sick. i even threw up all day the next day as well. i think it's the most fucked up i've been since i've been in korea. anyhoo, i decided to give my liver a break for awhile and drink a bit more moderately now. however on sat night my cousin tim wanted to drink so we went out and man after 3 cocktails i thought i was going to die. i came home early by myself and just started chucking my brains out again.
so yesss, moral of the story is i will be drinking a lot less from now on. i think my body was telling me that i've been hitting the bottle a bit too hard.
i haven't been doing much these days. it's been about a week since i've traveled anywhere worth mentioning. i went about an hour and 1/2 out of Seoul to go to this museum called the Independence Hall of Korea. i had been there numerous times as a kid because my uncle used to work there so i have a lot of fond memories of it. i guess i never realized that it's more than an hour and a half away from the city. it was quite a journey to get there, i had to take one bus for an hour and then transfer onto a smaller country bus for another 30 minutes to get to it. thing is, the bus driver on the second bus missed my stop and he ended up dropping me in the middle of fucking nowhere, and i had to follow the main road back for quite a while to get back to it.
anyhoo, it was definitely worth the trip out. it's an amazing museum and i even remembered seeing the stuff i saw as a kid.
okay well my fucking back is killing me from sitting on this stool for 3 hours so i will probably be heading out soon.
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