Mudfest!!!!

Where do I begin? Lets put it this way. Mudfest is a massive festival held every year at the coast where everyone does anything you could possible imagine doing in the mud. There were huge blow up slides, obstacle courses, mud wrestling, waterfalls, pools, orgys, etc. Naturally everyone is covered from head to toe in mud, it is in your eyes, your ears and every other bodily place that mud could find its way into. We went with a group of about 20 people, most of us from our school and other friends. Our bus driver from school (who doesn't have a name, he just wants us to call him "bus driver") drove us all to the coast in one of our school buses. We all stayed in a two room condo a block from the beach and basically started drinking on the bus at 11:00 a.m. I would also like to add at this point that beer come in liter bottles here, which as it turns out, is also very helpful when you are in a huge pit of mud, mud on the bottle but the cap keeps the beer safe. So, we get to the condo, basically knockered, change into whatever we choose to get muddy and head to the festivities.

Upon walking I was mauled by a group of mud soaked guys announcing that I was "too clean" as they rubbed themselves all over me. I have never felt more welcomed in my life, it was like heaven. Hahah. So we spent the rest of the afternoon mud wrestling, swimming in the mud, occasionally heading into the ocean to clean off before heading back to the mayhem. We all returned back to the condo where showers were fought over and mud blanketed the floor boards. We all sat on the floor for dinner while meat and veggies were cooked over tiny korean grills on the floor. I think we all had more beer and soju then food. After dinner, drinking games were had as usual then for a midnight swim in the Sea of China to watch the firework show. Everyone pretty much passed out on the rock hard floor wherever they could find room. I had the great disadvantage of sleeping in the hallway but was well worth the three or four hours of sleep that we all had. The next morning was incredibly rough. The bus ride home was pretty silent as we were all nursing the same hangover. It was a sublime first weekend in Korea!!! Felt just like college again!!!