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Sunday, January 15th, 2009
It’s about time for an update, and I’ve got some free time on my hands, so let’s review the past week.
I’ve become obsessed with watching episodes of House.It’s fantastic. I can’t believe I never got in to this show. So I’m starting at season 1 and going all the way through, or until I get tired of it.
Tuesday was work as usual, just another normal day teaching. After work Kelly and I went down the street and grabbed some dinner. We went to this little Mexican restaurant. It was kinda like a Mexican fast food, so you got your food to go and went on your merry way. We went from there to the convenient store and bought a couple of beers, and afterwards sat in this little playground, drinking our beer, eating our Mexican and hangning out. It was pretty fun. After about an hour, we parted ways and I came home.
Wednesday is my work day of no teaching, so I spent 5 hours grading and correcting essays. Daniel took me out to dinner as a treat from the school. We went to this great little Korean barbeque place. Basically, you order your cut of meat, and they bring it to you. You then cook it on the grill in the middle of the table. All the sides are free, like most Korean places. We had some steak, then some very thinly sliced meat, followed with a weird soup. It was made with those noodles I think I wrote about previously, which cannot be bitten through. But overall the soup was pretty good. After dinner, I went back to work and did some prep for Thursday and Friday’s classes. At ten, I was supposed to go join Kelly at a pool hall, but I decided to go home and start pirating music, since it’s totally ok here.
After a few hours of that, I went to bed.
Thursday was another normal day. I came to deeply regret my decision the night before, however. Kelly said at their pool hall, there was a group of Russian models there. They kept to themselves, since they couldn’t really speak to anyone there. WHAT HAVE I DONE?!!? DAMN IT! The rest of the day went as usual. I’m loving teaching, it’s great. Some of the kids could use a chair in the face, but that’s what teaching is all about!
Friday was work as usual, except for my second class. The class is a rivoting one, with one whole kid in it. I can handle a class of 10 unruly kids any day. Hell, I used to handle a room of 35 unruly ones. But one? It was completely exhausting.
Well, I wasn’t going to let a little thing like being tired get in the way of my fun! I had plans to meet up with Erica, an internet friend of my cousin Haley. She met me in Itaewon, the clubbing area where a shit ton of foreigners spend their evenings. Her husband is Mexican, and as a part of the Hispanic stereotype, we went Salsa dancing! I had only done it once before, so I needed to be given lessons all over again. We did Meringue, Salsa, drank beer, and had a grand ol’ time. I danced with some Canadian girl named Angela, who lives in another city here in Korea….Daegu, I think? Anyway, we had a pretty good time. Soon, it was time for us to head somewhere else. So we pile into a taxi and headed to….Hongdae, I think. We stopped at a KFC for some reason….but we ended up eating there. We made new friends. I think Drinkins had something to do with that. But next thing I knew we were going to some underground bar to do some more Salsa dancing, and we had three new people with us. They spoke English….well, I remember one of them speaking English perfectly. Regardless, we danced the night away there, and after several hours, we went home.
I got home around 5:30, and talked online to Summer. I remember it being extremely hard to type. Soon afterwards, I passed out.
I woke up at 1 on Saturday, not feeling so hot. I laid in bed for most of the day. Around four, I decided to start my day. I then realized that I had completely forgotten about my Korean class, which started at 4. Damn it!
So I ventured out, and went to COEX, then to Yongsan, which is where you can buy lots of electronics. There’s also a nice mall there, where I got a jacket for the equivalent of $7.12. The sleeves are long enough, I guess, but I like very long sleeves. It’s damn warm, though! I walked around Yongsan, got nice and lost, and wound up taking a taxi back to Itaewon, where I rode the taxi home. I was going to go to Kangnam’s clubbing area, but at the last minute decided against it. My feet were really hurting, so I stayed home. I went in search of food, and after a failed attempt, I ended up getting something to go from this little place. He cooked it in front of me, and it literally, not exaggerating at all, literally smelled like poop. It smelled like a big, nasty poop. I’m assuming it was intestines. Well, I took it home and tried it. It didn’t taste that bad, but I couldn’t get the smell of poop out of my head, so I decided not to eat it. I went to bed shortly afterwards.
I’m sleeping later in the day now, which is nice. Got up at 11:45am today. I think I’m going to go explore. The weather is 32 right now, which is the high today, so I think I’ll need my new jacket.