I went to Ulsan on Friday to see Jake, before he goes back to the US. I had more time since I had some holiday. I arrived mid afternoon, but I arrived to an empty flat which was a little odd. He had given me the access code, but it was just me in the flat until about 9pm that night when he and his girlfriend finished work. Before he got back I just spent some time exploring the area and only a small time on my laptop, since it over-heated too well at his flat. Once he did arrive we went out his friend's resteraunt. The guy who owned the resteraunt was a 60 odd year old Korean with a fair level of English. Jake supplied the whisky and the guy supplied the food. It was good food too. I don't eat out all that much in Korea, but this was right ot my tastes. So the food was good, the drink was alright and the conversation was good. After that we went to a Norebang and I proved what a terrible singer I was once again. Just as ever I did only enough songs so I could escape. Jake seems to like singing, he's...well, not good, but very serious about it and the other guy was actually alright. Chana, Jake's girlfirend, had no intention of singing and succeeded in not doing so.
We went back to his place, but after coming to a conclusion that there was little to do there we decided to go down to the beach. It was already 3am but I though waht the hey, I'm on holiday. So when we arrived we played a couple of the carnival sort of games. Hit the batting cage, hit the punch bags, played a couple of hoops. It was pretty fun, but I messed up my last punch and bruised my knuckes. Then we headed down to the beach. Jake had come to the conclusion that he would be far too hung over to do anything the next day, so if there was anything we wanted to do, we may as well do it now. So we headed over to a rock formartion on the coast, it was pretty nice, but odd making out way over in the dark. By the time we were heading back the sun had risen over the sea. People were arriving to see the rocks, even at 5am! Koreans.
To get back to Jake's we needed to take a taxi, but I decided it would be good to walk back. Jake agreed, however he wanted us to drink as we did so, not really my choice. I was done with drinking. He brought along some Soju...bleugh. The walk back ,ust have taken us about 3 hours, we got some food on the way back. It was really good though, I got some exercise and I got to see the city at it's best as far as I'm concerned. People were heading to their work places in the huge industrial buildings in huge numbers and the city was otherwise quiet, but waking up. I enjoyed the walk, Jake seemed to also, but he was propper drunk, no control over his motor skills.
Once back, I got about 5 hours sleep and then headed home later in the afternoon. Jake on the other hand was barely awake, I would not be suprised if he was not still hung over to some degree.
A side note - I had successfully messed up my right hand a bit, with that stray punch, but I also messed up my left hand a little too. This was done a little differently, I had opened the Whisky bottle early on in the night and the casing was basically sharp metal, so I scratched the crap out of my hand. It looks like I had a fight where I was fending off a rather small knife.
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