Weekend FunTimes

So after going to Hanok village this weekend, we went out for food! We went to eat pork and drink makkoli, which is a traditional type of beer if I understand correctly. I didn't try the makkoli because I hadn't been feeling well, and most of the people at our table didn't feel like drinking. We assumed it would be ok, since there was such a huge group of us, there were 5 of us at this table for 8 who didn't want to drink so we just told them to only bring us one bottle of makkoli and the three would drink it. However, one of the guys in the program was a bit insistent that we should drink. I know that it's a part of the culture, but this is a club for international students, and many of the students come from cultures where drinking is not as common and there are students, like my roommate, who can't drink due to medical issues. I had been warned that drinking culture was intense in Korea, but I was very surprised to find that intenseness from people accustomed to dealing with foreigners. Especially because some of my Korean friends said that no on outside of a professional setting (like going out with your co-workers and boss) should be very pushy about it. Unfortunately, I have found that unlike myself, many exchange students come here to party, not to study and learn about other cultures. 

Anyway, I would like to try makkoli while I am here, when I am not feeling sick.

This is the pork. It was pretty good, except that it had a lot of fat on it. My roommate and I were a bit picky about eating because we're not accustomed to eating so much fat. 

Soup and side dishes!

After dinner, I went to 이대, an area near Ewha Women's University with some friends. We got tea and cakes! We were still hungry so we also got some street food and later some real French crepes! We saw this crepe place and decided to check it out and the guy working there was legitimately French and had moved to Korea about a year before. I don't have any pictures of the crepes because my ipod stopped working and we ate them very quickly!

The delicious cakes!

And this is my new German friend! 1. He's super tall! As you can see, I am only his height when standing on a foot-tall step. 2. His name is Felix. Which I'm pretty sure is the coolest name I've ever heard of a real person having.