I Am Now An Official Alien

Well we were back to full schedules this past week, having New Years and Christmas out of the way. At the start of the week I still had not received my Alien Registration Card so I made a pint to tell work that they needed to call to find out where it was or else I was going to go to immigration myself. Something I probably should have done a couple weeks ago. Magically after threatening them two days in a row, my card showed up by Wednesday. Who knew! And by the way they talked about it, it seems as if it had been ready at head office for possibly a few days already. But there was no sense in making a scene since I now have my card. The rest of the week went by slowly since I was feeling a little under the weather. Weeks of inadequate amounts of sleep and weekend partying was nipping at my heels, so I took it easy got some rest and was feeling better by Friday.
It was a good thing too, because it was one of our Korean friend's birthdays and we ended up in Gangnam for dinner and drinks, which ultimately turned into a party. But it was OK, we all felt a little rough around the edges on Saturday until we got out and moving again. However, since we did our drinking on Friday we felt something a little more cultural was in order Saturday. So Brian, Jameson, Blake, and I went north to Dongdaemun to see the East Gate. The East Gate, which is what the word Dongdaemun means, was one of 3 (I think, because I have only read about there being 3 so far) gates that let people into the old Seoul centuries ago when it was surrounded by a stone wall. It was quite lovely, all lit up in the middle of a huge intersection. I can't wait to go back and see it in the summer when the weather and scenery is better.
We called it a night after that so that we could all get home on the last subway. Unfortunately the subway stopped running half way to my stop so I had to take a cab with some random strangers the rest of the way. The cab drivers try to maximize occupancy at the end of the night by taking a cab full of people to the same stop. They make more money that way, and can get back to other calls faster.
On Sunday Jameson and I finally went and got our gym memberships so that we can stop being such lazy jerks. The gyms is pretty nice and not far from where we are. After that we went to the mall to buy some Korean books so that we can study, and I bought my first ever cell phone. YAY! It was quite a process let me tell ya. We had a hard time with the language barrier and ended up calling Junk who spoke to her on Blake's phone to get the story straight. It was pretty cheap to buy and I will have my number by Monday afternoon. So now all I need to do is get my licence and all will be well.
Well I'm going to call it quits there. I hope you are all doing well and I will talk to you soon.