Jan 5
I arrived at the airport around 2:00am. I've got to wait until Lindsay and Natasha arrive at 11pm. I just figured that I'd try to pull an all nighter in the airport.
If you were to ask me for the one word that would describe my experience in the airport. It would be: BRUTAL (that's right. capitalized)
A number of factors made it unbearable.
1. I was still sick
2. It was 2:00 am in the morning
3. I was already so tired from Nem's visit and all the things we had to do i.e. Christmas party, New years party etc etc
I don't know what made me think I could brave it out for the night. Because even if I could have lasted the night. There was the entire DAY the next day as well.
I sat on the airport seats and tried to lie down and get comfortable like I saw how the other people were doing it. The problem was that because it was such a foreign place to me. I couldn't shake off my uneasiness. I had my bags on me and I was afraid to fall asleep then have them stolen from me.
So 3:00 am hits and I caved. I walked up to the hotel reservation kiosk and booked me a room for the night. Took the cab down and the image of the bed was so welcoming, I almost just crashed. but not before looking around for bugs. The idea of bugs crawling on me while I sleep creeps the hell out of me. After my bug check I conked out and woke up at 7 am. I stayed in bed up until around 11 watching TV.. I was not looking forward to going back to the airport. but as I was getting dressed. I looked back towards the bed and started to notice movements. I thought at first it was just the air conditioning blowing dust particles around. I WAS SOO WRONG! Sitting down on the bed I took a closer look and realized that there were at least a dozen tiny ants or some sort of critters crawling around the bed!!! I jumped up and suddenly felt all itchy. It was sooo gross!
I could not have gotten out of the hotel room fast enough.
Made it back to the airport around 12:00pm. the 11 hr wait was brutal. I got to know the airport really well. I discovered the little nooks that I could sit down and eat by myself. I people-watched. It was brutal. For some reason I started to get the idea that I was only waiting until Lindsay and Natasha came. By the time they arrived I realized that I still had to wait until our flight to krabi the NEXT day at 1:00pm. I WANTED TO SCREAM!! We stayed overnight and got some rest tho we kept waking up cause it was FREEZING and UNCOMFORTABLE. I had to pull out layers of clothes and wear them so that I wouldn't freeze to death. For some reason I kept having to pee every 5 minutes. So sleep basically was impossible.
Somehow we managed to pass the time until our flight, which ended up getting delayed for an hour and half.
Thailand trip to be continued...
Sunday, January 14, 2007
six weirdest things about me
I'm writing this blog because Jamie tagged me and I'm supposed to tag 6 other people but I only tagged 3. I tagged Steph L, Nemanja (even though he hasn't really written in his blog forever, and Asuka.
1. I love putting my face against someone else's cold bicep. It's the feeling of cold skin that I love and I can do it forever except that my face eventually warms it up.
2. When watching a movie or reading a book. I find that in my mind I become one of the main character. It gets to a point where if the book is sad, I find myself a little depressed. Books and movies have a huge influence on my mood.
3. Whenever I have a bad dream, I find that I would wake up abruptly to end the dream then go back to bed to change the ending of the same dream.
4. I hate doing the dishes so much that sometimes I find myself gagging as I'm doing them. I hate a dirty sink more.
5. I have this little bump on my left ear. When I was younger I used to think it was my psychic intuition antenna. I thought I was psychic cause I had so many deja-vu feelings and I swear I had dreams of the events happening. I still believe it sometimes.
6. Sometimes I get this itch on my nose and I would rub it like a maniac. I've rubbed it until my nose started bleeding before. Nem stops me when he catches me doing it. but its a high-powered rub that's insatiable.
1. I love putting my face against someone else's cold bicep. It's the feeling of cold skin that I love and I can do it forever except that my face eventually warms it up.
2. When watching a movie or reading a book. I find that in my mind I become one of the main character. It gets to a point where if the book is sad, I find myself a little depressed. Books and movies have a huge influence on my mood.
3. Whenever I have a bad dream, I find that I would wake up abruptly to end the dream then go back to bed to change the ending of the same dream.
4. I hate doing the dishes so much that sometimes I find myself gagging as I'm doing them. I hate a dirty sink more.
5. I have this little bump on my left ear. When I was younger I used to think it was my psychic intuition antenna. I thought I was psychic cause I had so many deja-vu feelings and I swear I had dreams of the events happening. I still believe it sometimes.
6. Sometimes I get this itch on my nose and I would rub it like a maniac. I've rubbed it until my nose started bleeding before. Nem stops me when he catches me doing it. but its a high-powered rub that's insatiable.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Dec 11, 2006
I feel bad that I haven't blogged for such a long time and the one time I decide to blog, it's about my crappiest day ever. The epitome of Monday blues in conjunction with a dash of just pure bad luck. Plus I feel like I'm coming down with something since my throats a bit sore.
One of the biggest thing that is so hard to get used to in Korea is the last minute planning. Nothing is absolute until it has come and gone. It requires you to be so flexible and so patient. It wouldn't be such a problem except that you have to be prepared for everything and be prepared that everything is going to change.
For example. My teacher's class. 10 people signed up for each class. Even on the first day only 6 ppl showed up in each class. Only because the vice principal signed up himself so they were told they had to by the principal. Well... to date 6 people show up.. but the class has now merged into one and at times NOBODY SHOWS UP because they have some sort of excursion. Nobody thought to tell me. I've photocopied so much material and printed things that have gone to waste. such as printing out horoscopes. I don't even plan anymore. I will go online and just print whatever is out there to do but I refuse to put the extra effort on nobody showing up WITHOUT warning.
Today was one of those days where it was one change after another. Way too many for me to cope with. My day was essentially composed of a rollercoaster of emotions.
I walked into a room that was completely covered in saw dust, with wood planks all over. My coteacher was completely surprised as well. We had been told that renovation was going to happen before winter holidays. NOBODY TOLD US WHEN. We had to spend that morning running around getting all our essentials out of the room, rearranging our necessary supplies into the staff room which only has one computer that is to be shared by the two of us. I was then told that I had to have my camp plans finished by the middle of this week. I managed to defer it to the end of this week. But given that my coteacher has a lot of work as well and there is ONE computer between the two of us. It is going to be very interesting. I've decided to bring my laptop into school.
Second. I was told that I would only have to do one week children's camp. That I would not have to teach adults. I have come to the conclusion that I don't really enjoy teaching adults as much as i enjoy teaching children. Especially the adults here. They're more stoic and less daring. They've got so much more insecurities and judge so much more than the kids. They're also very uniform in terms of opinions. I tried so many times to open a discussion but each time it didn't last long since almost everybody thought the same. ugh.. My coteacher then tells me today that I would have to do a teacher's class because the headteacher insisted. I went through a slight panic moment since there were 2 choices for days and I had nothing prepared and the deadline to hand the lesson plans in was very short. That got resolved because the principal didn't really want to do any teachers class. Thank god. He said that it was more headache and if it was possible to refuse than I was to refuse.
Third. I had asked my VP about a month back about my vacation and what I would have too. I was told that I wouldn't have to come into the school on the days that I don't have camp. I thought I had struck gold and I was sooooo happy. The contract stipulates that we have to be in the school from 9-5 and teaching 22hrs a week. However no teacher wants to do this either and since my contract says I must be accompanied by a coteacher it would be interesting to see who they ask to accompany me. They don't get paid any extra for missing out on their vacation time. which is stupid if u ask me.. Today I was told that I would have to go in AND on top of that, they wanted me to try to make more classes so that I would at least be close to the 22 hrs. Plus on top of that even if I did have 22 hrs in the time that I don't have class I would still have to stay till the end of my shift... in an empty school freezing to death. I know that on one hand I really shouldn't complain because it was on the contract. but it was the fact that all the news got laid on me today, the last minute changes, the disappointment, the stupidity of everything. I could only see red... and blue of course..
However at this point I've calmed down a lot. I was really pissed off at Anne because when I was telling her what happened she was saying that I was taking it particularly hard and that it WAS in fact laid out in my contract. I just felt that I had the right to be pissed in light of everything. That I wasn't mad that I was now getting what everybody else was getting. I wasn't comparing myself to anybody else. I was just mad at how things changed so suddenly. and the fact that they were going back on what they told me. It was just very disappointing. And the fact that she was telling me this also ticked me off since this was one of the FEW times I complained since being here. I know I had it good but there were things that peeved me but I didn't complain about it. And I felt like she was judging me and telling me I shouldn't complain when in fact I had listen to her complain about how I got extra appliances that wasn't part of the contract. In any case I think she understood it more when I explained it more. I wasn't looking for sympathy.. just needed to vent.
Well that was about all for today. But I feel like I should end this on a good note. So .. despite all the bad thats happened today, I wanted to talk about my cooking. I've discovered that I have a hidden talent. I'm actually not that bad a cook. I've discovered that I actually enjoy cooking more for others than when I have to cook for myself. I've also discovered that I am starting to like cooking. I find myself from time to time thinking about what I want to make for the evenning. I'm actually very proud of myself.
Also, Belinda's here! She's coming over on Thursday evenning and we're gonna hit up Seoul for some late night partying!! Things are looking up already!
Also, Nem's visiting again soon as well and finally the best news of all.... I'M GOING TO THAILAND!! booked my plane ticket and got a pretty solid deal on it... There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
One of the biggest thing that is so hard to get used to in Korea is the last minute planning. Nothing is absolute until it has come and gone. It requires you to be so flexible and so patient. It wouldn't be such a problem except that you have to be prepared for everything and be prepared that everything is going to change.
For example. My teacher's class. 10 people signed up for each class. Even on the first day only 6 ppl showed up in each class. Only because the vice principal signed up himself so they were told they had to by the principal. Well... to date 6 people show up.. but the class has now merged into one and at times NOBODY SHOWS UP because they have some sort of excursion. Nobody thought to tell me. I've photocopied so much material and printed things that have gone to waste. such as printing out horoscopes. I don't even plan anymore. I will go online and just print whatever is out there to do but I refuse to put the extra effort on nobody showing up WITHOUT warning.
Today was one of those days where it was one change after another. Way too many for me to cope with. My day was essentially composed of a rollercoaster of emotions.
I walked into a room that was completely covered in saw dust, with wood planks all over. My coteacher was completely surprised as well. We had been told that renovation was going to happen before winter holidays. NOBODY TOLD US WHEN. We had to spend that morning running around getting all our essentials out of the room, rearranging our necessary supplies into the staff room which only has one computer that is to be shared by the two of us. I was then told that I had to have my camp plans finished by the middle of this week. I managed to defer it to the end of this week. But given that my coteacher has a lot of work as well and there is ONE computer between the two of us. It is going to be very interesting. I've decided to bring my laptop into school.
Second. I was told that I would only have to do one week children's camp. That I would not have to teach adults. I have come to the conclusion that I don't really enjoy teaching adults as much as i enjoy teaching children. Especially the adults here. They're more stoic and less daring. They've got so much more insecurities and judge so much more than the kids. They're also very uniform in terms of opinions. I tried so many times to open a discussion but each time it didn't last long since almost everybody thought the same. ugh.. My coteacher then tells me today that I would have to do a teacher's class because the headteacher insisted. I went through a slight panic moment since there were 2 choices for days and I had nothing prepared and the deadline to hand the lesson plans in was very short. That got resolved because the principal didn't really want to do any teachers class. Thank god. He said that it was more headache and if it was possible to refuse than I was to refuse.
Third. I had asked my VP about a month back about my vacation and what I would have too. I was told that I wouldn't have to come into the school on the days that I don't have camp. I thought I had struck gold and I was sooooo happy. The contract stipulates that we have to be in the school from 9-5 and teaching 22hrs a week. However no teacher wants to do this either and since my contract says I must be accompanied by a coteacher it would be interesting to see who they ask to accompany me. They don't get paid any extra for missing out on their vacation time. which is stupid if u ask me.. Today I was told that I would have to go in AND on top of that, they wanted me to try to make more classes so that I would at least be close to the 22 hrs. Plus on top of that even if I did have 22 hrs in the time that I don't have class I would still have to stay till the end of my shift... in an empty school freezing to death. I know that on one hand I really shouldn't complain because it was on the contract. but it was the fact that all the news got laid on me today, the last minute changes, the disappointment, the stupidity of everything. I could only see red... and blue of course..
However at this point I've calmed down a lot. I was really pissed off at Anne because when I was telling her what happened she was saying that I was taking it particularly hard and that it WAS in fact laid out in my contract. I just felt that I had the right to be pissed in light of everything. That I wasn't mad that I was now getting what everybody else was getting. I wasn't comparing myself to anybody else. I was just mad at how things changed so suddenly. and the fact that they were going back on what they told me. It was just very disappointing. And the fact that she was telling me this also ticked me off since this was one of the FEW times I complained since being here. I know I had it good but there were things that peeved me but I didn't complain about it. And I felt like she was judging me and telling me I shouldn't complain when in fact I had listen to her complain about how I got extra appliances that wasn't part of the contract. In any case I think she understood it more when I explained it more. I wasn't looking for sympathy.. just needed to vent.
Well that was about all for today. But I feel like I should end this on a good note. So .. despite all the bad thats happened today, I wanted to talk about my cooking. I've discovered that I have a hidden talent. I'm actually not that bad a cook. I've discovered that I actually enjoy cooking more for others than when I have to cook for myself. I've also discovered that I am starting to like cooking. I find myself from time to time thinking about what I want to make for the evenning. I'm actually very proud of myself.
Also, Belinda's here! She's coming over on Thursday evenning and we're gonna hit up Seoul for some late night partying!! Things are looking up already!
Also, Nem's visiting again soon as well and finally the best news of all.... I'M GOING TO THAILAND!! booked my plane ticket and got a pretty solid deal on it... There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Seoraksan Nov 11-12th
The Group and by group I mean the large proportion of us teachers from the orientation group reunited again to embark on a trip up to Seoraksan. We booked our trip with Adventure Korea and while a lot of people don't like to go with a large touristy group I'll be the first to admit that I like it a lot this way. less hassle in regards to organization and everything's taken care of.
The trip in itself was incredible. There is actually a number of different routes we could take but being the gung-ho group that we were we all opted for the most 'difficult' course to hike up. In retrospect while I did thoroughly enjoy the view I think that had we chosen the shorter routes we could've done two routes instead of only one.
The route we chose was initially very easy. We breezed through the open roads and the hike through the woods. But it was about 30 minutes into the hike that we started to realize what the hike would entail. It wasn't that we were climbing anything but rather that the mountain is STEEP. There were stairs that should really be called ladders and added to that was the fact they were narrow and there were people going up at the same time as people coming down. I wouldn't really consider myself to be acrophobic. But I could definitely see how the stairs would've made some people weak in the knees.
When we made it to the top, it was a tad disappointing. The view was spectacular, it was just that the platform didn't have much room and there were SOO MANY PEOPLE. It was hard to get a shot in without some random person in the background. Even worse was that we had to take turns for some shots. We did however contribute to the tourist attraction because we bought souvenirs of medallions with our names engraved in it. The man at the booth was hilarious because he would scream into the megaphones even tho the area was tiny and clearly ppl could hear everything he said without the megaphone but if u bought a medallion, he would announce your name as if u won some kind of race climbing to the top.
The most incredible things about these stands that sold water and medallions and photoshoots was how they carried everything up there. These guys literally carried their business (including laptop and printer for people that wanted pictures) 1.5 hrs up the mountain and then 1.5 hrs back down the mountain and they did it so fast. While we were watching our steps on rocky paths these guys were bouncing along with huge sacks on their backs. They should've been on an ad for UPS or FEDEX..
But the funniest part of the entire trip was that night at the motel/dormitory....
They had advertised that there would be a hot springs there but about two weeks prior there was some flash flood which caused a lot of damage to the natural spring there so unfortunately the closest thing to a spring was the JIMJILBONG IN THE MOTEL!! honestly the hot spring was one of the biggest reason I paid for this trip.
I swear, this naked bath business, IT'S CONNECTED TO ME LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE!!! I cannot escape bathhouses! In any case despite the disappointment we tried to make a most of it and tho we still made use of the "hot tub" jimjilbong downstairs in the motel, it was not up to standard. The WATER WASN'T EVEN HOT. but the shower there was a lot more appealing than the one in our room. ugh.
Us girls made use of the bathhouse and then headed back up to our room. The boys we knew would take longer. We found out that their "hot tub" was WAYYY better than ours. They had hot water AND all three of their tubs were functional.
Long story short, despite the fact that we had enough rooms for 2 girls per dorm Lindsay, Tash opted to stay with me and Anne. We stayed up as late as we could but seeing as we were exhausted for the walk and knew we had to be up early the next morning we opted to head to bed early...
3:00am in the morning we hear a knock on our doors. Actually it was more of a banging! I opened the door only to find Mike B. and Eric drunk and hyper. They came into our room and were shocked to find all four of us ladies together. In the midst of their talking we found out that Dennis, a member of our GROUP had hurt himself pretty bad.
Apparently, the guys in our GROUP had been drinking Soju in the hot tub and (there's a lot more that went out but I'm going to cut to the chase) Dennis was so drunk he dove into one of the hot tubs and cracked his head. They opted not to take him to the hospital to get stitches.
The next day we were all curious to look at Dennis and his gash wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but he certainly did need stitches. He got 8 of them the day we got back into Incheon.
The following day was probably a better hike. We hiked to the waterfalls. There was two paths, the normal path and a more unconventional path where we had to do some minor scaling. Andrew, Eric and I opted for the latter and it was incredible. I almost fell twice and ended up wetting my right foot twice. THANK GOD FOR THE WOOL SOCKS DAVID GOT ME AT DISCOUNT!!They dried up pretty quick.
One particularly spectacular thing about the river was that while the water was fresh there was this one crevice where the water that came out was carbonated!! tasted a little metallicy but I thought it was pretty cool. My guess is that there's a coke factory beneath the falls.
When we reached the falls it was incredible. The pool was small and it actually looked blueish and shallow. I mentioned to one of the guides that I would've loved to swim there. He looked at me, chuckled and said... the water is about 20 meters deep. thousand of years of water pounding down on the floor had eroded it. The waterfall created a whirlpool as well so that if I decided to jump in, I would be sucked into the whirlpool and die. Apparently a few people had died there already.
He also pointed out the rusty and broken stairs across the waterfall where apparently a few weeks ago prior to the flash flood it was standing in good condition. The stairs itself was about at least 2 stories above us. Apparently the flood was so high up that it destroyed all the old trails and the path we had just taken was made just after the flood.
All in all, I would say that despite the fact that the trip was poorly organized. I was very happy about going. I wish that someone had told me about the hot springs. Or that the food was better prepared in the morning. I think I enjoyed it because of the company and the view didn't hurt.
Here are the pictures from that trip:
The trip in itself was incredible. There is actually a number of different routes we could take but being the gung-ho group that we were we all opted for the most 'difficult' course to hike up. In retrospect while I did thoroughly enjoy the view I think that had we chosen the shorter routes we could've done two routes instead of only one.
The route we chose was initially very easy. We breezed through the open roads and the hike through the woods. But it was about 30 minutes into the hike that we started to realize what the hike would entail. It wasn't that we were climbing anything but rather that the mountain is STEEP. There were stairs that should really be called ladders and added to that was the fact they were narrow and there were people going up at the same time as people coming down. I wouldn't really consider myself to be acrophobic. But I could definitely see how the stairs would've made some people weak in the knees.
When we made it to the top, it was a tad disappointing. The view was spectacular, it was just that the platform didn't have much room and there were SOO MANY PEOPLE. It was hard to get a shot in without some random person in the background. Even worse was that we had to take turns for some shots. We did however contribute to the tourist attraction because we bought souvenirs of medallions with our names engraved in it. The man at the booth was hilarious because he would scream into the megaphones even tho the area was tiny and clearly ppl could hear everything he said without the megaphone but if u bought a medallion, he would announce your name as if u won some kind of race climbing to the top.
The most incredible things about these stands that sold water and medallions and photoshoots was how they carried everything up there. These guys literally carried their business (including laptop and printer for people that wanted pictures) 1.5 hrs up the mountain and then 1.5 hrs back down the mountain and they did it so fast. While we were watching our steps on rocky paths these guys were bouncing along with huge sacks on their backs. They should've been on an ad for UPS or FEDEX..
But the funniest part of the entire trip was that night at the motel/dormitory....
They had advertised that there would be a hot springs there but about two weeks prior there was some flash flood which caused a lot of damage to the natural spring there so unfortunately the closest thing to a spring was the JIMJILBONG IN THE MOTEL!! honestly the hot spring was one of the biggest reason I paid for this trip.
I swear, this naked bath business, IT'S CONNECTED TO ME LIKE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE!!! I cannot escape bathhouses! In any case despite the disappointment we tried to make a most of it and tho we still made use of the "hot tub" jimjilbong downstairs in the motel, it was not up to standard. The WATER WASN'T EVEN HOT. but the shower there was a lot more appealing than the one in our room. ugh.
Us girls made use of the bathhouse and then headed back up to our room. The boys we knew would take longer. We found out that their "hot tub" was WAYYY better than ours. They had hot water AND all three of their tubs were functional.
Long story short, despite the fact that we had enough rooms for 2 girls per dorm Lindsay, Tash opted to stay with me and Anne. We stayed up as late as we could but seeing as we were exhausted for the walk and knew we had to be up early the next morning we opted to head to bed early...
3:00am in the morning we hear a knock on our doors. Actually it was more of a banging! I opened the door only to find Mike B. and Eric drunk and hyper. They came into our room and were shocked to find all four of us ladies together. In the midst of their talking we found out that Dennis, a member of our GROUP had hurt himself pretty bad.
Apparently, the guys in our GROUP had been drinking Soju in the hot tub and (there's a lot more that went out but I'm going to cut to the chase) Dennis was so drunk he dove into one of the hot tubs and cracked his head. They opted not to take him to the hospital to get stitches.
The next day we were all curious to look at Dennis and his gash wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but he certainly did need stitches. He got 8 of them the day we got back into Incheon.
The following day was probably a better hike. We hiked to the waterfalls. There was two paths, the normal path and a more unconventional path where we had to do some minor scaling. Andrew, Eric and I opted for the latter and it was incredible. I almost fell twice and ended up wetting my right foot twice. THANK GOD FOR THE WOOL SOCKS DAVID GOT ME AT DISCOUNT!!They dried up pretty quick.
One particularly spectacular thing about the river was that while the water was fresh there was this one crevice where the water that came out was carbonated!! tasted a little metallicy but I thought it was pretty cool. My guess is that there's a coke factory beneath the falls.
When we reached the falls it was incredible. The pool was small and it actually looked blueish and shallow. I mentioned to one of the guides that I would've loved to swim there. He looked at me, chuckled and said... the water is about 20 meters deep. thousand of years of water pounding down on the floor had eroded it. The waterfall created a whirlpool as well so that if I decided to jump in, I would be sucked into the whirlpool and die. Apparently a few people had died there already.
He also pointed out the rusty and broken stairs across the waterfall where apparently a few weeks ago prior to the flash flood it was standing in good condition. The stairs itself was about at least 2 stories above us. Apparently the flood was so high up that it destroyed all the old trails and the path we had just taken was made just after the flood.
All in all, I would say that despite the fact that the trip was poorly organized. I was very happy about going. I wish that someone had told me about the hot springs. Or that the food was better prepared in the morning. I think I enjoyed it because of the company and the view didn't hurt.
Here are the pictures from that trip:
Steph Lau
Before I start blogging about my trip to Seoraksan and other news I wanna take a moment to blog about my friend Steph Lau.
Steph Lau is a girl you cannot just call Steph, because if you knew her.. u'd know shes "STEPH LAU".. this woman has got PRESENCE! SHE MAKES HERSELF HEARD! She's also particularly stubborn but more often than not... tho NOT ALWAYS she is right!! She's witty, funny and confident. I like her a lot!!
Steve is one lucky man to have her by his side.
Steph Lau I want you to know I took this photo in Seoraksan FOR YOU!!
Steph Lau is a girl you cannot just call Steph, because if you knew her.. u'd know shes "STEPH LAU".. this woman has got PRESENCE! SHE MAKES HERSELF HEARD! She's also particularly stubborn but more often than not... tho NOT ALWAYS she is right!! She's witty, funny and confident. I like her a lot!!
Steve is one lucky man to have her by his side.
Steph Lau I want you to know I took this photo in Seoraksan FOR YOU!!
Monday, November 06, 2006
All Hallow's Eve's Eve's Eve
This is a tad belated but must be noted anyway....
Oct 28th 2006
We, as in, Anne, Lindsay, Natasha and myself had decided a while back that we were gonna hit up the clubs in Seoul. We decided that it had to be on Oct 28th for the Halloween Party that was being held at Rocky Mountain Tavern in Itaewon. Itaewon is basically foreigners' town. It's also in the shady part of town. Says a lot about us foreigners doesn't it.
After hitting up Bupyeong Underground market where Anne had bought her purple stockings, we were exhausted and decided to head home to change into our costumes. The four of us had bought matching wings of different colors.
At around 8pm Anne and I headed over to Lindsay's House to finish our preparation. Lindsay and Tash had artistically applied on make up to their face. It was so beautiful we immediately decided to copy. It took us another hour to finish getting ready and this was after some preparation to begin with. One of the biggest reason it took us so long was that we decided to take pictures hehe and got a bit carried away.
At around 9:30pm we were finally all ready to go. It took us an hour to get through the subway to Itaewon station.
The best part is that we had already bought some alcohol with us from GROCERY STORES which we were allowed to drink in PUBLIC!! Boy DID WE GET STARES!!! As if we didn't get enough stares just being foreigners and by "we" I mean Lindsay, Natasha and Anne... cause with me I can blend in up until I open my mouth to talk. 
This time our party was minus the usual male suspects: Mike, Andrew, and Eric. They had decided that they were gonna do an apartment party which I thought was boring. I'm sure you'd agree ;)
In any case, when we finally got to Rocky Mountain Tavern the party was already full blown. The first floor was completely overcrowded so we started to head upstairs in search of familiar faces.. namely Matt. When we got upstairs we found not just Matt but a lot of other teachers that were part of our Canadian Connection Group, that we hadn't seen for a while now. It was great to see them again especially after such a long break.
We had chosen to go to RMC namely because other group members were going but also because I had been meaning to go there to meet Olga's Boyfriend'S Brother Jamie. WHICH WE DID AT LAST!!! REALLY cool guy... hot in a caveman outfit!
Eh?? Eh??Sorry ladies I believe the caveman is called for.. O NO!! NOT BY ME!! ( no worries Nem)
hehe so we stayed long enough at RMC for a drink.. which was enough for me to reach my buzz...
which obviously meant we didn't stay too long.
By midnight we were on a cab heading to Hongdae which we had heard was Club central. Hongdae is very close to Hongik University and apparently has a lot of cool clubs.
The club that we went to was called Catch light... cover was actually pretty expensive but the good thing was that in Seoul there were definitely more people that spoke English!! We danced up a storm in there, the music wasn't anything different than what you'd here in Toronto. It was all English, I had kinda hoped there were some Korean songs that we could dance to. We even went on the stage = 0 is that shocking? probably not... I mean... but we had a blast, Koreans aren't so bad at dancing.
We even danced with some random Korean girls!! They were sooo pretty and soo nice!! At some point in time we decided to see what time it was... my guess was that it was 2am... at the latest... but it ended up being 4:30am!!! It was INSANE.. we COULDN'T believe it.. I mean it's ME!! I almost never stay out dancing till 4 in the morning!! 2 is usually my latest and when I start getting tired, cranky and hungry. Well we also still had the hour long cab drive home =S and we were EXHAUSTED!!
So we all finally headed home to Lindsay's and spent the night there. Since it was Sunday we had the option of sleeping in except we all woke up at 10 am because of the bright light that was seeping thru Lindsay's room.. That's one thing about Korea, the windows let in SOOO MUCH light.. its impossible to sleep in.. If u're thinking why not just get Curtains its because.. I don't have drills to drill holes into the CEMENT WALL to put up drapes or blinds or curtains. and I don't intend to buy a drill just to do so.. I'm a bit luckier because my bed is against the wall.. away from the windows and those windows don't face East!! PHEW.. unfortunately the laundry room is made of windows and it faces East ... but it hasn't really been a problem yet.. So we'll see how that goes.. shit. .I let myself get carried away again...
It took me three days to recover from that night.. but let me say.. .it was WORTH IT!! Altho... i'm definitely not gonna go every weekend.. more like.. once a month.. I need all my energy keeping up with those third graders.. ok.. speaking of energy.. i'm gonna head to bed now..
but I have one very important thing to say before I blog off (get it? hehe)
JAMIE IS FABULOUS AND PURRRRFECT!!! ;)
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Oct 28th 2006
We, as in, Anne, Lindsay, Natasha and myself had decided a while back that we were gonna hit up the clubs in Seoul. We decided that it had to be on Oct 28th for the Halloween Party that was being held at Rocky Mountain Tavern in Itaewon. Itaewon is basically foreigners' town. It's also in the shady part of town. Says a lot about us foreigners doesn't it.
After hitting up Bupyeong Underground market where Anne had bought her purple stockings, we were exhausted and decided to head home to change into our costumes. The four of us had bought matching wings of different colors.
At around 8pm Anne and I headed over to Lindsay's House to finish our preparation. Lindsay and Tash had artistically applied on make up to their face. It was so beautiful we immediately decided to copy. It took us another hour to finish getting ready and this was after some preparation to begin with. One of the biggest reason it took us so long was that we decided to take pictures hehe and got a bit carried away.
At around 9:30pm we were finally all ready to go. It took us an hour to get through the subway to Itaewon station.
The best part is that we had already bought some alcohol with us from GROCERY STORES which we were allowed to drink in PUBLIC!! Boy DID WE GET STARES!!! As if we didn't get enough stares just being foreigners and by "we" I mean Lindsay, Natasha and Anne... cause with me I can blend in up until I open my mouth to talk. 
This time our party was minus the usual male suspects: Mike, Andrew, and Eric. They had decided that they were gonna do an apartment party which I thought was boring. I'm sure you'd agree ;)In any case, when we finally got to Rocky Mountain Tavern the party was already full blown. The first floor was completely overcrowded so we started to head upstairs in search of familiar faces.. namely Matt. When we got upstairs we found not just Matt but a lot of other teachers that were part of our Canadian Connection Group, that we hadn't seen for a while now. It was great to see them again especially after such a long break.
We had chosen to go to RMC namely because other group members were going but also because I had been meaning to go there to meet Olga's Boyfriend'S Brother Jamie. WHICH WE DID AT LAST!!! REALLY cool guy... hot in a caveman outfit!
Eh?? Eh??Sorry ladies I believe the caveman is called for.. O NO!! NOT BY ME!! ( no worries Nem)hehe so we stayed long enough at RMC for a drink.. which was enough for me to reach my buzz...
which obviously meant we didn't stay too long.
By midnight we were on a cab heading to Hongdae which we had heard was Club central. Hongdae is very close to Hongik University and apparently has a lot of cool clubs.The club that we went to was called Catch light... cover was actually pretty expensive but the good thing was that in Seoul there were definitely more people that spoke English!! We danced up a storm in there, the music wasn't anything different than what you'd here in Toronto. It was all English, I had kinda hoped there were some Korean songs that we could dance to. We even went on the stage = 0 is that shocking? probably not... I mean... but we had a blast, Koreans aren't so bad at dancing.
We even danced with some random Korean girls!! They were sooo pretty and soo nice!! At some point in time we decided to see what time it was... my guess was that it was 2am... at the latest... but it ended up being 4:30am!!! It was INSANE.. we COULDN'T believe it.. I mean it's ME!! I almost never stay out dancing till 4 in the morning!! 2 is usually my latest and when I start getting tired, cranky and hungry. Well we also still had the hour long cab drive home =S and we were EXHAUSTED!!So we all finally headed home to Lindsay's and spent the night there. Since it was Sunday we had the option of sleeping in except we all woke up at 10 am because of the bright light that was seeping thru Lindsay's room.. That's one thing about Korea, the windows let in SOOO MUCH light.. its impossible to sleep in.. If u're thinking why not just get Curtains its because.. I don't have drills to drill holes into the CEMENT WALL to put up drapes or blinds or curtains. and I don't intend to buy a drill just to do so.. I'm a bit luckier because my bed is against the wall.. away from the windows and those windows don't face East!! PHEW.. unfortunately the laundry room is made of windows and it faces East ... but it hasn't really been a problem yet.. So we'll see how that goes.. shit. .I let myself get carried away again...
It took me three days to recover from that night.. but let me say.. .it was WORTH IT!! Altho... i'm definitely not gonna go every weekend.. more like.. once a month.. I need all my energy keeping up with those third graders.. ok.. speaking of energy.. i'm gonna head to bed now..
but I have one very important thing to say before I blog off (get it? hehe)
JAMIE IS FABULOUS AND PURRRRFECT!!! ;)
if you're interested in advertising your name on my blog please drop a line...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Probably the shortest post ever!!!
I wanted to blog about this because it made my day.
I received a msg at work from Chubbs aka Jay and his message said that while he realized he really missed Me and Elodie. If you're reading this Elle, I just wanted to pass the message on. and If u're reading this Chubbs, I'm sorry I'm making it public but I just wanted to remember your kind words especially later on when I'm back in Toronto reliving my adventure in Korea or when I'm feeling down. I was very touched by it.
ok.. sappy moment over!
I received a msg at work from Chubbs aka Jay and his message said that while he realized he really missed Me and Elodie. If you're reading this Elle, I just wanted to pass the message on. and If u're reading this Chubbs, I'm sorry I'm making it public but I just wanted to remember your kind words especially later on when I'm back in Toronto reliving my adventure in Korea or when I'm feeling down. I was very touched by it.
ok.. sappy moment over!
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