The Day of Eating - Feb 2

Since my lovely head massage nothing too much happened at work. I do seem to be getting an influx of students though. It's nice to have a few more students in some of my rooms because then I can make teams for games and we can have a bit more fun. The problem is that I'm getting students in the classes that are already loud and require extra attention anyway, so it makes it a bit more difficult to get their attention and be effective. We'll see how it goes.

The best part of the week was Wednesday. I arrived at school to see a large box sitting on my desk!! I present!!! Well kind of. I ordered some clothes online from American Eagle about two weeks before we left Canada. Things happened so fast right before we left, I honestly thought they'd arrive at Curtis' parent's house before I left for Korea. They arrived two days after we left... argh!! Anyway- Curtis' mom being the sweet woman that she is sent them for me, but the most economical way was going to take 8 weeks! 8 weeks later to the day - here there were sitting on my desk! It's such a relief. I packed with those clothes in mind and have been living with less these past two months. I'm not really a clothes horse, but I definately like having options. :)

My second favorite part is that we were successful in getting tickets to "We Will Rock You!" I'm so excited! MK decided to come with too so on Sunday February 17th we will be dressing up to go out. I'll let you know how it all goes.

February 2nd, last Saturday, Matt, Amber, Joi (Matt and Ambers roomate from last year), Curtis and I made arrangements to go to Itaewon to see a hockey game at the Canadian pub there called Rocky Mountain Tavern. We wanted to get good seats for the 5 pm game so we decided that if we arrived at 3:30 pm that should give us time to nab good seats for all of us. We also wanted to look around Itaewon as it was Curtis first time there. The plan was to meet at the subway exit at 2:00. It takes about an hour and a half for Curtis and I to get there on the subway so we figured we should leave around 12:30.

Curtis and I stayed up late Friday night. I was playing fabulous Scrabulous on Facebook and Curtis was on Warcraft. We didn't think we'd have problems waking up at about 12:00 to leave by 12:30... We didn't actually wake up until 1 pm!! I woke up with a start remembering that I had forgotten something! Isn't that always the way a memory works??!! Anyway - we call Matt and Amber on Skype as my cell phone has no munites left on it. They are extremely disapointed and have to wait an hour wandering around Itaewon waiting for us.

Curtis and I find our way to the pub. While we're walking we are taking in some of the ambiance that is Itaewon. The closest way to describe it is that it's an excellent resource - but not an accurate view of Korea. I know this may seem a bit judgemental - but we saw so many people that we didn't ever picture leaving the comforts of home so to speak. B-boys with their hats twisted sideways, high maintenence girls who never leave home without their billions of beauty products, and other people we could tell weren't in Korea for more than a week. Another analogy that kinda works for this area is that it's like a seedy colledge campus where kids go more to party than to study.

So we get to the pub and order a burger and some drinks - just relaxing and waiting for the game to start. 5 pm rolls around and nothing is happening - nor has the place gotten any busier. Talk about the things that make you go Hmmmmm..... We decide to ask the waitress about it. She brings the question to who we think is the proprietor. They talk back and forth for a minute or two and then we approach him to ask what is going on. It turns out his sling box in Canada is down and he's been working on it for a week. He appologizes and says it should be good tomorrow. Grrrr... Oh well at least the burgers were good.

We wandered around Itaewon some more and then before long ended up feeling hungry again. We made plans to meet up with a girl that Amber met on the subway. They had chatted a little bit though Facebook and she wanted to meet some of Amber's friends. Her name is Hokunani and we also met her friend Leah. They were awesome! They are also foreign teachers but they teach at public schools. We had a great time together and couldn't believe how fast time slipped by.

Curtis and I had made a deal that we wouldn't push our luck with the trains again, so at about 10 pm when supper was wrapping up we decided that we'd head home. Hokunani and Leah were heading home as well so we didn't feel too much like party poopers. The only sad part is that Matt and Amber continued on to meet up with John and Jess and Jon and Julie to Nore-bang with them. These two couples are Augustana Alumni so it would have been great to catch up and sing a song or two with them. Curtis cried the whole way home because he missed out on Nore-bang... (hehehehe not really).