Backtrack to: St Patrick's Day [16th Mar]

Considering that I've never celebrated St Patrick's Day at home, it was awesome to do something different for this year. Usually, I just about to remember to wear green and that's about it because I'm not one for going out and getting trashed.

I'd started the morning nice and early, as usual at my Korean class in Gangnam. This is only significant for the fact I'd had hardly any sleep the night before (yay, meeting new people in Gwangju at WA Bar!) which meant the rest of the day was far far too long.

When we arrived at lunchtime

We met up at Sindorim where the Irish celebrations were starting. It was amazing how many people turned up over the course of the afternoon, and I'd never seen so many foreigners in Korea so far, even in Itaewon.

Later on in the afternoon!

We watched the girls doing Irish dances before joining in when the next band came up and they invited people to dance in groups. I'd dragged Samantha along from class (only met her that morning) and Boram joined us too and we spent as much time dancing as we could all afternoon. I think there's video somewhere. I had a great time and I've only really danced a ceilidh before at Chrissie's wedding so it was awesome to do it again.

We grabbed dinner in the HomePlus food court, then made our way to Itaewon to an Irish pub called Wolfhound to carry on and meet up with other people.

Some of us decided to leave eventually, and on our way up to Rocky Mountain (funnily enough, a Canadian bar), I suggested checking out Woodstock in case there was a decent band on instead. Which is how we ended up watching a metal band who were really good and our head banging/dancing motivating an otherwise fairly boring crowd... errr... and now I've completely forgotten their name, although we did ask them afterwards. They loved that we were there (we'd been the only foreigners when we walked in) and Eric had bought them all a drink.

Band playing at Woodstock, Itaewon

All in all, by the end of the night, we ended up at Burger King quickly for food before taking a cab back to Gwangju, squishing four of us in the back because Eric is awesome and can talk cab drivers into doing that kind of thing (even whilst pretty drunk). I think I got home around 4 am to realise that in 24 hours, I'd only had 4 hours sleep and then been on the go for 20-odd hours... and that was why I was pretty knackered by that point.

All in all, I had an awesome day! The weather was also warmer for the first time so that made me happy too - goodbye winter!!