Having fun in bus and starting the trip to Gyeongju

This weekend we made a trip to Gyeongju, an ancient town about 4 hours from Seoul. We had a great group of ten students, half of us being Finns however. (We are altogether 10 exchange students from Finland and somehow there is one common interest to us…) Most of us left already at afternoon, but me, Teemu and Heikki had lectures and took the night bus. Of course we wanted to catch up with the others probably already having a great party at Gyeongju, so we bought several bottles of Soju* to the bus. (*Soju is the local Vodka with less alcohol though. Usually the only drinks available are Soju and beer, so you better learn to like it if you want to have fun in Korea… ;) I’ve never had so much fun just travelling with a bus, but according to the businessmen travelling with us and trying to sleep we were somewhat loud. We also invented a new drinking game you can use for studying as well: Someone says a word and you have to give the Korean meaning, if you don’t then you have to drink. Teemu kept studying Korean but he was smart enough to keep saying the sentence “Jonun SWEDEN saram hamnida” over and over again (meaning I’m from Sweden) saving the reputation of Finns. Finally at night we arrived to or destination and ready to join the others for the party. But what did we find: boring Austrians sleeping in the hostel. Of course we woke them up and tried to have a room party, but the success was somewhat low… In the next post I will tell you more about the trip itself.

In the picture me and my animal friends (I bought the monkey in Gyeongju) and the view from the mountain.