Obviously I didn’t die from water rafting!!! I’m here now! I’m currently in the process of uploading pics from our sat night and Sunday white water rafting experience! In the mean time, here’s what happened: Well, Saturday was crazy. It was POURING all morning and then just as I was leaving my apartment it cleared up. I headed to Dong A department store (on the basement 1 and basement 2 they have a grocery store), next to my work, to buy some groceries for Saturday night. While I was searching the noodles, meat, and sauce I stumbled on some surprising things… small container of chocolate powder for milk 8 or 9 bucks, one little box of swiss miss 7 bucks, knock off brand of peanut butter 6 bucks, some kind of American spaghetti sauce 5 bucks…and I saw more, but I can’t remember… anywho, I bought the cheapest, but best things I needed. While I was looking for the meat, I realized that they don’t use American beef because they’re afraid of getting mad cow disease. People won’t shop at a place if there is American beef there. So it brings down the business. So guess how much PER POUND the Korean beef was… 20 bucks…ugh. So thankfully, Alpha bought it cuz I was just gonna get pork (6 bucks) and make meatballs out of that… we all met and got to my home by taxi cuz we all had tons of stuff to carry. I had bought a watermelon the night before so it would be sweet…(and it was!). We had a grand ol’ time hangin out. Night came and some of us fell asleep and some of the others went to Alpha’s house. Woke up and it was time to go rafting! We met in front of Dong A again to meet our ride! We rented a 11seater van and we had just enough butts to fit in there. Good thing we didn’t take more of our friends. We wouldn’t have fit. Lol well, the ride was 2 hours long and we went south of Daegu. The time passed by quickly cuz we were all being silly and talking… we got there and ate lunch. Then changed clothes in a NASTY bathroom/shower room…yuck! We WAITED for a long time in the sun to go paintballing. We did three rounds of that. Then came back to the original spot to wait forever again to go rafting! While we were waiting we played with some puppies as you can see in some pics! The rafting was a blast! The rapids weren’t that great, but WE made it a lot of fun! All of us went in one boat. Our leader of the boat was one of our friends’ boyfriend. He was awesome! He totally showed us up on the muscle side of things; made us all look like wimps. ☺ after about 2 ½ hrs of rowing, jumping, rolling, and whatnot, we took a 3o min break on a beach type place. It was fun! All the other people who were tubing during our 3 hrs tour were there. So there was about 100 people on the beach. We were the only ½ Korean ½ white ones! Lol we piled 3 boats on top of each other and had one on each side of the pile. One would run up one end and slide down the other end into the water! We also turned two rafts upside down and tied them together and were running off them into the water. TO ME, IT FELT LIKE I WAS ON THAT JAPANESE TV SHOW MXC. CUZ WHEN WE WERE RUNNING OFF THINGS, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE HOLDING THE BOATS IN PLACE WOULD TRY TO MAKE YOU FALL BEFORE YOU HIT THE WATER! LOL GOOD TIMES! After that we headed back and jumped in the showers. People in korea don’t mind who they shower with. They shower naked and with whoever. Girls shower with girls and vice versa. I showered with my suit on. I didn’t feel brave enough to do that yet! Lol maybe in a year… lol (but probly not!) We all ate some watermelon and then headed back to Suseong-gu… Byeong and I slept on each others shoulders cuz we were tired. And others took pics of us and talked the whole time. We got back and ate some sam gyup sal…mmm it’s soo tasty!! Then I went home! I woke up REALLY sore and in just enough time to get ready and get to work. I was almost late for my first time! Lol Today was long…I didn’t have any breaks between my classes. And when I got off Ned pulled me away just as fast as I could get my purse off the ground… She told me we were going to a movie… we got there and she told me that we were meeting someone there. Come to find out, she’s been trying to hook my friend Byeong and I up for a while now. That’s who she invited. She didn’t tell him that I didn’t know… so it wasn’t awkward in the sense that I didn’t want him there, but it was awkward cuz I knew what she was doing…lol trying to hook us up. She’s so crazy! I love hanging out with Byeong, but we’re just friends!! You guys might have noticed on facebook that I went from being single to being a relationship to being single… well, I was playing a joke on Byeong cuz he left his facebook logged into my computer and Sumin and I thought it would be funny! But im still single…so no worries!! Anywho, that’s all for now! Talk to ya later alligator!
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