Monday, March 30, 2009

"All you can eat" destroyer

Since this week was the last week of the month many of us were laying low since we don't get paid until the 30th of every month. It was a bit of a blessing though because I was feeling under the weather most of the week. Between the changing weather, the germ ridden kids at school and all the late nights, I had a bit of a sore throat most of the week. So the rest was well needed.
The week at school went pretty quickly, and painlessly because for the better half of the week I was doing speaking presentations with the kids so I didn't have to teach much. One of the most exciting parts of the week was on Thursday when I had to break up my first "fight". I use the quotation marks because it was more of a shoving dispute between the two boys than an actual fist throwing fight. They were two boys from one of my lowest level classes who are both pretty tiny and for the most part quiet, but something happened and they thought they might like to push at each other. SO, being the only teacher around I just pulled them apart to either side of the hall and hollered loud enough to get their attention, told them to knock it off and send them out to the bus one at a time. I thought about taking them to the office but figured it wasn't worth it for me or anyone else since it wasn't that big a deal.
Friday came and work was finished but everyone was tired and dragging ass so instead of going out we went home and got some rest. Saturday morning I got up and met with Blake and Jameson to walk around Apgujong for a bit, and play some pool, before we went to Gongnam for dinner reservations at a place called Brazilia, an all you can eat steak house. This place was like heaven to us. It was probably only the 3rd or 4th time I have ever felt full at after eating and stayed full into the night since I've been here. The steaks were pretty good cuts and thickness, they were served all you can eat sides like potato salad, rice, and a pepper and tomato salad. We (all 9 of us) were all in heaven and ate until they closed the kitchen. In the end, to everyone's disgust, I ate 6 steaks and a ton of sides, because when they say all you can eat I do just that. I'm just not sure they had the appetite of an active foreigner in mind when they said that.
Once we were finished dinner, half of the party went to Hongdae for a concert, while the other half went back to Apgujong to meet up with Junk and a few friends for drinks. I was one of the ones who went to Apgujong to meet up with Junk because I knew Hongdae was going to be an all-nighter and I was not interested in that. We went to one of our usual spots called Crazy W.C. Bar, where they know and love us and always do flare shows and competitions between the bartenders that you can bet on to win a 26 oz. of tequila. Wouldn't you know it, we won. We stayed until around 130 before the bottle of tequila we won was gone and then called it a night.
Having had an early night on Saturday, I got up at a decent time on Sunday and met with Blake in Insa-dong, the traditional area of Seoul, where Blake wanted to buy some gifts to take home with him. We walked around and looked at stuff for a few hours and got some prices before we decided to leave and meet up with Jameson and Brian to catch a movie. We went all the way back to Cheonho, Jameson's and Brian's neighbourhood and watched the movie Slumdog Millionaire. It was a pretty good movie and a good way to end the weekend.
Hope everyone is doing well back home and getting ready for the warmer spring weather.
TTYS

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