So this weekend was another fun one. It seems like now that I work 10-5 (ish) Monday through Friday, the weekend time has become more precious to me. Friday night we had another office party, which involved going to this bar called "Tombstone", drinking a lot of beer and watching these Korean bartenders "perform" bar shows for patrons and birthday girls. Apparently this is a common theme--you're not a bartender until you can chuck a bottle of flaming malibu behind your head and catch it. Frowny face. I thought just being charming and having a lot of cleavage made you a good bartender. Maybe I'll practice at home. But yeah, flaming bottles of alcohol, drinking crappy green beer and dancing, eating really cheap, undercooked corn dogs while waiting for a cab. Good times. The next night we hung out with a dude that Rory met at English Zone (the ESL bookstore). His name is Chris and he is from Vancouver. He runs his own hogwan (private english school, like the one we teach at...) out of his apartment with his Korean wife, English name "Miriam." They cooked us dinner and filled us in on Korean life. They were the coolest people we have met here thus far--not just because he is a white guy who speaks perfect English (we've actually been trying to stay away from white folks...), but because they were totally down-to-earth people with no pretense about them, ready and willing to show us everything or nothing about Korea if we wanted. Chris brought out his guitar and played some U2 and we sang along. Jamie joined us a little after they had already cleaned the table, but Miriam pulled everything out again and remade dinner for her. And they were just totally cool. The kind of folks who have traveled everywhere and lived all over and done incredible things but don't sound like they are just bragging about it when they talk about their experiences (they were like a Korean/Canadian version of Zsuzsa and Adam). And they did it all in a really kind of motivational, you can do whatever you want through "imagineering and engination" sort of way... And they took us to a karaoke singing room. It was so awesome. For $3 a person for however long, you can rent these little rooms and sing as loudly as you want. And they are totally set up with couches and 2 microphones; Korean and English songs. The first song we sang was "Don't stop believin'". It was just awesome. I think my voice is still recovering.
Today we made these cool oil/water/buttton/bead/glitter/bottle things--"light catchers", I called them (or convinced the kids to call them). Before they had gotten on the school bus, two kids dropped theirs on the floor, busting them and getting oil and glitter everywhere. Mine survived, though, and they look lovely in my classroom window. We also made sausage and egg biscuits. I had never made biscuits from scratch before--funny that I'm just now doing that in Korea.
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Three things I now want to be when I grow up: 1. A Korean school boy who spends his time making light-catchers, 2. A light-catcher belonging to a Korean school boy, 3. A made-from-scratch biscuit living in Korea learning English as a second language. Columbia is not the same without you; come back someday.
i'll second bobby madness, and change from "come back someday" to come back soon......i may have to try my hand at made-from-scratch biscuits, but of course with bojangle's close at hand it may not be necessary. yesterday was the first day of spring (3/20) but you'd never guess it here in the sunny south, rain mixed with hail....didn't amount to much but the flowers must be half crazed by it all.......keep safe, love to all
spoke to big l last night, still no computer, too busy with the house to get it up and running. jon was there "two" days in a row, AMAZING, and seems to be on the right track now, we'll see how long it continues.....everyone else is fine, hope you all are as well.....keep up the blogs....and keep safe, love to all....
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