Response to Brett's final week Memory 2, Final Week

Brett,
As usual, your language is wonderful and the details you share are interesting and evocative. Korea really does seem to be a subject around which your writing flourishes and I'm sure the experiences you had there and the clash of cultures aids in writing. That being said, should you choose to make this post into a more detailed and rounded out draft, there needs to be more of the reflection which we've been talking about in class. Here we have the memory of what you and Corey actually did, but readers have little to no indication of what the speaker thought about the experience, then or now. Of course, the speaker didn't seem to have the great time and adventure he was hoping for, but what about his outlook made it so? How might the speaker view the experience differently after the distance of time and space? What about this particular night stuck out in the speaker's memory? What was life like in Migeum so that the speaker thought he might gain something else from Daegu? How might this desire for adventure without a specific plan, or without knowing even what direction in which to head, read culturally? Would that have been something Koreans would have done? Would it be something you would normally have done at home in the US? Have you found spontaneous adventure before? If so, was having the adventure a planned hope or just a side-effect of experience free of expectation? Why is it significant that the speaker and his friend were disappointed? Exploring the answers to some of these questions could help you decide upon a certain type of reflection which might work well here, which might make both the reader and the speaker see the experience through a nuanced light.
PS: Thanks for this post; it made me think of my own misadventures abroad and now I want to write about those. :)