Right, I know I've not posted on this thing for a year and what you all must be thinking "Niall, drinking alone in a playground? Really? Is this what your life has become?" Actually, no I just didn't think I had any news and then gradually continued to put the blog on the long finger. Also, Korea was no longer new and unusual to me. Well thankfully I'll have plenty of the new and the unusual soon to come as I'm about to set off on a vacation for three months around South East Asia. I'll try and keep the blog updated as often as possible but until then for those of you not on facebook, here's the gist of the past year.
January: back in Korea from my 10 day vacation back home which resulted in me never wanting to drink ever again. It lasted about a week.February: not content with the Sunday league action alone, I joined a second soccer team, the aptly named Outkasts in the Saturday league.
March: St Patricks Day, man was this abysmal by comparison to the previous year. Instead of having a parade they jammed everyone into an abandoned car park with no beer to be found within a mile. Later this month myself and a couple of friends found a bar with a river of makgeoli (Korea rice wine). Literally. There was a river flowing around the table. All you could drink for 3,000 Won too (about €2). Also in the spirit of the month I decided to teach one of my favourite students a useful new phrase (sorry about the sound quality).
May: two gents from Loko were to be hitched in the summer (independently) so we chartered a minibus and went on the stag down in Busan, Korea's second biggest city on the south coast. Great craic!
June: a dissapointing trip to one of the supposed new natural wonders of the world, Jeju island in the south sea. It's like the Tramore of Korea, except not as nice.
July: myself and Sheena decide to go our seperate ways. I also went on a solo trip to the Perhentian Islands and Kuala Lumpur which were both amazing.
August: myself and four friends take a trip south to Daegu to take in the World Athletics Chamionships, only to see Usain Bolt false-start in the 100m final.
September: the parents, my uncle Paddy, and aunt Dorene came to visit to remind me just how weird Korea is.
November: I travel south to Ulsan with the Outkasts for a two day tournament and bump into some familiar faces from back home.
December: Christmas in the Hilton and the final countdown begins.
January: I take advantage of Lunar New Year holidays and take another solo trip, this time to Kyoto, one of the most amazing cities I've been to so far.
February 2nd 2012: only 8 days left....
