Monday, December 3, 2007

Hookah weekend

This past weekend was jam packed as always. Saturday morning I went to Korean classes and didn't do half bad, especially considering I missed last week's class. After class, a bunch of us went out for our weekly lunch. I had to get back to Ansim for 3pm for a Taekwondo lesson, but when I was walking to the subway, I got tempted by the Krispy Kreme free donuts and ended up being a little bit late for Taekwondo. After the lesson, I met up with some friends and we went to the Ariana Hotel in another part of town. This hotel has an all-you-can-eat-and-drink buffet for only $17. The band that plays there is Filipino and amazing good. There were a lot of Filipinos at the restaurant too. The most I've seen in Daegu so far. 001



Marla, Danielle and Sarai at the Ariana Hotel




Afterwards we went downtown to a hookah bar and smoked some shisha.
The place was pretty hard to find and every time we asked people, they thought we were talking about pot and bongs, which is very illegal here. It was a really cool place. It was really relaxed and dark. Definitely worth going back to.

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Sarai and I at the Hookah bar




On Sunday, I went out for brunch with Walita and some of her friends. We went to the Holy Grill for their first weekend of all day breakfast. The owner there knows me now, well he knows I'm a Leafs fan. I walked in and he looked at me and said "The Leaf game isn't on till 3, Ottawa is playing the first game". He's a cool guy, but a Red Wing's fan. For brunch, I had french toast stuffed with peanut butter, cream cheese and bananas with a side of french toast. It was amazingly good. Afterwards we did some shopping. I only bought a pair of penguin socks for a dollar, but Walita went all out and bought a pair of really nice boots. After shopping, I went home and slept on the couch for most of the evening. I'm finding that I'm spending less and less time in my apartment and more time hanging around downtown. Once January hits and intensives start I'll have no social life, so I might as well get it out of my system now.

In other big news, I'm moving apartments. I'm getting the apartment above mine, which has 2 bedrooms, a living room and a bathroom that's more indoors than mine. It probably doesn't have a manhole cover either. I have no idea what I'm going to do with an extra bedroom. Perhaps I can make it into a room solely for my puzzles (my new obsession). I'm dreading moving all my stuff, but it will definitely be worth it. I'm sure Samson and Simon will be doing most of the heavy lifting anyway.

2 comments:

susan said...

I just wrote but I'm not sure if it worked. This is in Korean. Anyways, this is random but when i googled hookah and daegu your blog came up. I was wondering if you could let me know where that Hookah bar is. Or where the general location is. My email is kwonsusan@gmail.com Thanks.

Anonymous said...

I gotta second that - I've been trying to find that hookah place for most of the 2 months I've been in Daegu, to no avail - if you could point me in the right direction, it'd be GREATLY appreciated.

apatheticitenerant@gmail.com if you get a free minute.

Cheers!

 
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