Day 3 in Seoul, we met a fellow traveller staying at Kim's guest house, Steph from Brunswick, Germany, who we convinced to accompany us in our Changro-guided tour. We took the subway, on which we have become experts, to Sinchon to meet Pete and his medical school classmate, Song-soo, who, at 6 feet is one of the bigger Koreans around. He claims to always get picked first in basketball! He actually completed his military service on an American base and spent some months in Colorado so his English was very good, so we were all able to communicate without Pete having to translate. We had lunch at a Korean Chinese restaurant and got the real version of General Tso's. Delicious!
After that we went to the shopping district in the middle of Seoul. They have clothes stores as far as the eye can see in both directions, not to mention, stories upon stories of clothing boothes all right next to each other. Needless to say the girls were in heaven while I tried to spend most of my time sitting outside and checking out the river (or more like a stream) that goes through the whole city.
There we met up with Pete's posse of ladies, Chi-Hoon, Chi-He, and Yoon-Jung. They're all in training to be stewardesses (not an outdated term in Korea) for Korean Air. They were very shy at first, covering there mouths and giggling a lot, but after speaking the international language of Soju (a rice wine that's taken in shot glasses), they began to open up, and had a strong English vocabulary. We had some dinner and drinks at Song-Soo's favorite spot in Jongno. We played traditional Korean drinking games, which mostly involve counting and memory, and helped break the ice a lot more. We will spread these games across the US upon our return.
After dinner we headed back to Sinchon to the bar strip near the university to finish the night off, as you can see!
Lauren, Steph and I made it home safe, and we had a great time meeting all our new friends and promised everyone that they had a place to stay in Chicago anytime!
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