Chuseok was a great mini vacation. Like I've told a lot of people at home, it's similar to our Thanksgiving holiday and since it's only really celebrated by Koreans most foreigners see this as an opportunity to travel within and outside of South Korea. I myself ventured to Busan! Only 2.5 hours away and plenty of sandy beaches to lay on. The weekend was filled with a birthday celebration (hopefully you had a great time Steven), great food, shopping, drinking way too much, seeing old and new friends and spending WAY too much money! All worth it. I did unfortunately encounter some weird experiences. Before the actual weekend really started I did have a conversation with my friend Suzanne and I was telling her how I don't like talking to strangers. Not because they're dangerous (I'm sure some are), but because every time I open that door something weird happens or I can't get rid of them.
Weird encounter 1: Myself and friends went to Wolfhound (a pub) and barely started our night when this guy (I believe his name was David) comes over and points out another guy and screams, "Who's attracted to him because he wants to get L***." Just imagine my facial expression at this point. I don't really remember what exactly happens next, but this guy was clearly really intoxicated and feeling a little bad for him I laugh it off and ask the usual questions, "What's your name?" "Where are you from?" I figured by ignoring the question and moving on we could stop the situation from escalating. I was wrong. I've blocked most of this out of my memory so I don't really remember the details, but there was a lot of rubbing my love handle, back, shoulders etc. Also a lot of kissing my cheek except not just a simple kiss but his lips lingering on my cheek. I do recall at one moment I pushed his face away and screamed, "STOP TOUCHING ME!" Things basically continued until his friend came and took him away. His friend did say, "I'm not gonna let you disrespect my boy anymore." REALLY! I don't think you know the definition of that word Mr. Friend.
Weird encounter 2: I was lucky enough to have this weird encounter the next day. We of course decided to go out again and within ten minutes okay maybe thirty a girl comes up and wants to join in. I say why not, I don't ever really mind when more people want to join in. Right away she is clearly hitting on me. I didn't know what to say so I was just nice and kept simple conversation. HOWEVER, as the night went on she literally pissed everyone off. She was being very crude (I'm not even going to write what she was saying) and obviously saying things just to piss people off. She continued to hit on me and at one point I had to be blunt and tell her that I'm not a lesbian. I think she got the hint, but at the same time she kept asking really personal questions and I kept finding myself saying, "that's none of your business." By the end of the night I couldn't dodge the inappropriateness and went back to the hotel...alone. The girl stayed and continued to make friends annoy others.
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Okay I just read this for the second time, and I have no idea why but it kept making me think of Breaking Amish on TLC. Maybe because it's about foreigners dealing with totally weird drama that they just cannot relate to? On that show the former Amish people go totally nutty in NYC.....and say and do things that make other people uncomfortable......lol....anyway, I could totally picture this happening and even though it sucked for you, it made me laugh!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad this story made you laugh. I like to write things people can laugh with me about! I've never seen/heard of this show, but it sounds REALLY interesting!
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