james new brain

SOUTH KOREA – 2007.08.31 – DAY 04 (CONT’D)

Right, so tonight the rival Yonsei international-student / native-student mixing club, Mentors Club, threw its welcoming party for the fall semester. They rented out a big room on the 13th floor of a big skyscraper on the outskirts of Sinchon, overlooking the city.

Like IYC before it, I hit up the party late in order to avoid $20 entrance fees. Sorry IYC/Mentors, I still haven’t decided which of your two sororities I’ll be joining, so you’re not getting any of my money yet! Thanks for free beer though.

ALSO, TONIGHT I GOT TO DANCE. Which I’ll talk about in a sec.

Mentors gets props for bringing in the Yonsei Hip-Hop dance team to perform. They weren’t THAT good, however…

…they did have Shek-Shi Gul, who as you can see, was a pretty sexy girl.

Then they turned the dancing over to us. funTif you know, also with her is Amy, or AMES if you feel like it.

For some reason, whenever a group of Koreans come together with the intent to dance, they always devolve into a circle with the three Korean dudes who know how to break dance in the middle. It is a lot like entropy; fun-entropy.

Thanks Katharina Nemec for snapping this. The kid in the pin stripe hat is literally exclaiming “coorl!”

more shek-shi gul.

The number of Germans/Korean Germans/Koreans who speak German here is crazy. Here’s Nina and Hoe-Sen both from Germany. They are my way-to-cool older sisters. The guy is Jin, a native Korean who speaks fluent English and German.
I then left the party with some of my new friends, for more relaxed schmoozing in some bars in Sinchon…

This imported beer bar keeps a variety chilling in these pools at every table.

Here is a urinal, and the coolest thing about Korea, the Squater.

And so went my third night in Sinchon.