It's been a few days since my last entry. It's been pretty crazy getting everything ready for classes and still going on new adventures from day to day. My last visit to Seoul we partied it up at a few new places in Hongdae, I guess it could be considered a town in the massive city of Seoul.
Seoul is such an incredible city full of all types of people and shops that seems to have endless new possibilities. We met up with David's cousin Matt, the english teacher here in Seoul, taking another subway excursion to our newly discovered city of Hongdae. This is a hot spot for its nightlife and migration of foreigners who love to take in all the city has to offer. First on our list of things to do was get familiar with the area and get some dinner; damn were we starving after our 3 hour trip from DIMA to Hongdae, so we stopped at a whole in the wall mexican joint named Chois Tacos. Not a name I would associate with bomb mexican but hey, I'll give it a shot. I am so glad I did! It was the best steak fajita burrito I've ever had and with all the fillers. After dinner, stage two of our night in Seoul was to get a room at our first love motel. These are very popular places to stay overnight in Korea because they're around $25 US for a decent sized room and a padded/heated floor to sleep on; $45-80 US you can get a twin bed, flat screen tv, computer with internet, full bathroom with jacuzzi tub and shower. We found our location but check in wasn't until 10pm so we decided to reserve some rooms and grab some beers nearby to kill a couple hours. Had a beer and some a couple shots of this cherry flavored Soju that was ordered to our surprise it tasted more like cherry medicine than anything but oh well... needless to say we won't be getting that again. Getting back to our rooms and getting ready to go out to Garten Beir a unique bar experience and then a very popular club in Seoul. T-SHIRT TIME!
The Beer Garden was so much fun. The tables have refrigerated cup holders that keep your beer at a crisp 4C or 39.2F. We also tried kiwi Soju... it tickled my taste buds in ways I cannot describe.
Finally arriving at our destination at 12:15am the silver and florescent blue/red signs read "Club Cocoon." You could hear the pounding bass and mixes of Hip-Hop and Progressive House music pounding deep in the belly of our future encasement, ready to rage for the next 4 hrs. It is ranked as the best club in all of Seoul; it gets that achievement for obvious reasons.
