What happened???

I thought the days of me saying "I'm never drinking again," and "I really don't remember much about last night," were phrases of the past, only to be brought up when looking at embarrassing pictures or in the retelling of drunken nights.

And then there was last night.

One of our teachers, Joseph, is off to England and his last day of work was yesterday so we all went out for a good-bye drink after we finished work. A few of us were only going to stay for one drink because we had plans to climb some mountain today and wanted to make a day of it.

Of course up until last night when I've gone out drinking it's been with other foreigners. Meaning we all like to think we can handle our alcohol...but compared to Koreans we don't stand a chance.

The first pitcher of beer was great, and then they switched over to Soju. Which is drank by the shot glass. The other few times I've had soju here it's been great, we've had lemon soju, kiwi soju, and you really don't taste the alcohol in it. Last night they brought out the real soju, which is pretty much like vodka. They said they were going easy on us and ordered the weaker type (and I can only assume when they drink the stronger stuff they are pouring it right out of the bleach bottle into the shot glass).

About a billion shots later we were off to noribong (the singing rooms) and they got me to sing, which says just how drunk I was. Actually it was pretty impressive I could even read the words to go along with the song being that the room was spinning and I couldn't focus.

After that I knew I had to leave and Richard (one of the Korean teachers) walked me home, which I thought was a little unneccessary at the time, but looking back on it I probably would have ended up sleeping in the park down the street had it not been for him.

Today after about 16 hours of sleep and the worst hangover of my life, I was able to make it out of bed and walk almost a block to the store. And this time I mean it when I say I'm never drinking again! Well...I'm never drinking soju again.