Wow, this weekend was one that never went as planned at all due to many unforeseen and known circumstances. This being said, it turned out to rock! I wouldn’t have changed the outcome for the world. Friday was the best school day of my life. I was sick and had to go to Gangneung to the doctor and it just so happened that I had a friend from Seoul with me. Al Ward. We ended up playing nine games of ten pin bowling, buying a laptop, going to the doctor and meeting up with Giuli for supper.
We had an early night and planned to go to Jecheon for the cherry blossom festival on Saturday. It took us four hours on a bus to get there and on arrival; we were shoved onto a small bus with seventy people. It was an absolute nightmare. We could not believe that it was possible to do this (believe me it is). We started our approximately half an hour journey to the festival when Al states out of the blue, “guys, how funny would it be if we broke down now”. We were about one tenth of our way there when we were alarmed by a noxious smell of burnt oil.
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| Cherry blossom in town |
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| Crowded bus (70 people) |
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| After the bus broke down |
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| Where the bus broke |
Ok, so now we stuck in the middle of nowhere, we are frustrated, we don’t have a taxi and we do not know how to get hold of one either. Along comes a Korean couple, our saving grace! They ask, do you want to share a taxi? We scream out, YES!!! Another problem, there is five of us. Our new Korean friend makes a call and calmly says, “It’s all sorted”. The taxi arrives and once again, we are on our way to the cherry blossom festival. Only this time we were with new friends.
About five minutes after getting into the taxi, we see a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere. The taxi driver turns to us and says, “I’m not taking you through that, it will take another three hours”. WHAT!!! We had about enough of this stupid festival now!
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| Trying to find a place to eat |
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| A place that sells you with pictures and surprizes you with the reality of the situation |
We headed back and Al had been talking about drinking all day and I was ready to join him. When we arrived back in the city, we invited our new friends to lunch with us to get drunk and forget about our nightmare of a day. They had a similar experience as they travelled all the way from Seoul. They kindly accepted and joined us on our mission to forget about the day. It wasn’t even two Soju’s down and we were all on top of the world as if nothing bad had happened all day.
After lunch we said our goodbyes to our new friends and made our way to Wonju. When we arrived at Wonju we wanted to try and find a hubly bubbly/shisha/waterpipe for myself and Al. Back home we used to get together and smoke and just chat and hang out. It took a good while to find the place and convince the owner that he should sell one of his hublies, but we got it right and we were soon on our way home. We had a great night smoking hub in my bathroom and just chilling. The next day we said our goodbyes after lunch and I took Giuli to see her cherry blossoms which were a swear word to me at the moment.
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| Having fun at the festival |
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| Gambling, so addictive |
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| Hanging out with the dreaded cherry blossom |
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| Stoked with the great day |
We not only got amazing cherry blossoms, we got a festival! It was such a great end to a strange weekend, where everything we planed never panned out but everything that panned out happened as if it were planned.
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| Our new friends |
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