Let's start off from last Monday since something strange happened. Colby and I walked into our 9AM Trade Theory class and noticed there were many people who were absent. Even stranger, it seemed to be only guys who were missing that day. It turns out that last Monday was a mandatory military exercise for Korea's reserves. I don't know if we mentioned it or not, but every male must serve Korea's military for a certain amount of time (I think it is somewhere around 2 years.) From what I gathered, even those who had finished their duty were required to participate in this exercise. I'm not too familiar with how any of this works though, so let's move on to the holiday weekend!
We tried to go to the Han River on Friday to rent some bikes. We headed out and I told Colby it looked like rain and we had better turn around to get our umbrellas. He said he looked on the internet and they were giving a 0% chance of rain. Let's just say you can't always rely on technology. The rain did stop eventually, but the bike rental never opened back up, so we just headed back.
On Sunday, we headed back to Gangnam to walk around a bit. We sat down for dinner and had some wonderful Japanese food. I had some sort of shrimp with rice. It was really good! While we were eating, we looked outside. Rain...again. We didn't pack umbrellas either. We exited the restaurant and ran to a desert cafe where we had shaved ice with ice cream and cheesecake. You pour milk on it, so it's kind of like snow cream. It was also really good. After that we went to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel. It was a pretty good film. It was also in the smallest theater I think I have ever been in.
Not really sure what it is, but it's really curvy!
Definitely the smallest movie theater I have been in!
Yesterday (Tuesday), we headed back to the Han river to try our luck at renting bikes again. It was an absolutely beautiful day! It looked like thousands of people had the same idea we had. That place was crowded! It was really beautiful though. Colby and I got single bikes. Our friends Martin and Huyen were on a tandem bike. I was pretty sure they were going to kill themselves on that thing. They were actually pretty good as long as Huyen wasn't driving! I nearly killed a lady who I didn't realize was trying to pass me up on my left. Oops! After that we went to have some Korean barbecue and some more shaved ice.
A rare sight: a completely empty subway station!
There were a couple of people at the river that day...
RUN!!!
Yeah...just a few people.
It was a pretty nice long weekend. Today's classes are already done, so only one more day of classes this week. Is it sad I already can't wait for the weekend to start?
Anyway, if we keep on posting a blog update every week, that means there are only 5 or 6 more posts. I guess what they say is true, time flies when you are having a good time!
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