Eunbi was right when she said the weekend would be very tiring

My previous trip to Seoul was great fun so I went to the latest IAESTE get-together. The original plan was visit Everland (an amusement park) but the bad weather caused us to reconsider. Instead we went to Lotte World on Saturday because it has lots of indoor rides.

Lotte World has some pretty good rides. The rollercoasters are well designed and there is a good variation between rides. The queues were long but that was to be expected, it was a Saturday during the holiday period.

I don’t expect theme park food to be top quality but a little variation is nice. All the food vans sold the same things at exactly the same price. It was lockdown and control taken a little too far!

Since it was so busy we couldn’t leave an re-enter. However, we needed some proper food by 6pm so we went to Omato Tomato for dinner. I ordered the same thing I did from the COEX branch. Just as tasty this time as last.

After dinner we went ice skating. The 11000 won for about 2 hours of skating was very reasonable. I stumbled across another quirky Korean safety thing as I headed to the ice. Wearing gloves is mandatory. The place is actually fairly warm (it’s surrounded by restaurants and many levels) so I don’t think they were for keeping your hands warm. I imagine they were to protect your hand in the event of a fall. Maybe some Koreans need to “man up” and let people decide for themselves!

It reminded me of the time I went to a public swimming pool with a friend in Daejeon. At ten minutes to the hour, every hour a whistle was blown. This signalled that everyone needed to swim to the side and have a ten minute break. I was very confused because until my friend explained it to me I had no idea what was going on!

Jet to the face! Apparently this is evidence that I'm "cruel".

On Sunday went to Nanji Camping site because one of the IAESTE people was celebrating his birthday with a BBQ. After we had some food some of us went to rent some bikes (the others continued eating and drinking).

There were four of us so we rented two tandems. Riding a tandem is something I’ve wanted to do in a long time. Unfortunately they weren’t in the best condition (my seat had a large chunk of plastic in a very uncomfortable place) but we had fun regardless.

I think Doris really appreciated the fountain “bonding session” where I decided to to aim for the water jets!

Sadly this was the last time I’ll see many of my IAESTE friends in Korea. Hopefully we can meet again soon, somewhere!

I write the following under my own free will and I am under no kind of duress from external parties: I met the coolest American girl ever and she gave me life lessons on how to speak English the correct way. I loved every moment of it.