Big BDay of Raita, Stéphanie and Vaclav

Last friday we held a big birthday party for three exchange students. At first it was supposed to be only Raita's party, but eventually it turned out that all together three people had their birthdays around the same weekend. So we celebrated them all :)

We wanted to do a surprise party, but it was difficult to organize it so that all three would be surprised and not feel suspicious about us. But it worked :) It was really fun to organize it and make up fake excuses for people and create diversion for the birthday heroes!

First we went to Namdaemun market to buy some party stuff. Crowns and tiaras for the bday heroes, party poppers, balloons...

Namdaemun market is one of the places to see in Seoul. They sell like everything in these small alleys.






We found a party store and did our shopping.



Later in the evening it was party time! Yay, it was so child-like with all the balloons, the surprise and everything, but it was fun :)

Waiting for the bday heroes to arrive and open the door...

Birthday girls.

Birthday boy.

And birthday "cards" :)


This pic makes me smile everytime I see it ^^





We went clubbing after the houseparty. On the way we grabbed some mantu (dumplings).

On the subway everyone was very musical. Among other songs Swedish pop hits were covered. Vill ha dig!

And so were Swedish drinking songs. Jon singing Bremmemböle-something har ett glatt humör!


Also other instruments were introduced to entertain the fellow subway-users. Vaclav played a set of very varying songs with his flute.

And the bithday hero was happy!


We went to Hongdae, which is the bar/club area in Seoul. There is the Hongik University where all the "artistic" and out going people study.

We went to a rock-club called Funky Funky. It was a special night because it was Saint Patrick's Day. There were live bands playing, green decorations and free green beer.



There were some crazy scary pictures on the walls...


The best band was a Korean U2 cover band. The atmosphere was bumpin the roof when they played Sunday Bloody Sunday!

I saw one girl doing crowd surfing there and I was like: I've always wanted to do that! Damn, it's no good just to think about it, so i did it too! I climbed up to the stage, it was so great, and then fell forward. The crowd surfing was pretty short but it was just so fun to do the whole thing!