For the week of July 20 - July 26.
Well Blake is back and we are getting ready to head to Jeju next week. Until then we had another week of work to get through, half of which consisted of our new intensive schedule : 730-4. We had to work Monday and Tuesday regular hours and then switched on Wednesday. It was a real punch in the face, since I have been staying up until at least 3 am for the past few months and then sleeping until 1030 and to change midweek was rough. Either way we started and it went over just fine, and turns out that there is life after Avalon as long as you finish before the sun goes down. :)
Tuesday was Margaret's 23rd birthday so we had a surprise party at the school for her because one of the Korean teachers we work with is really into that sort of thing. We put up balloons and a birthday banner, got cake, and had all the students make cards for her. It was pretty awesome.
The rest of the week we were getting off early, so on Wednesday Margaret and I went for a couple birthday beers in Olympic Park before getting dinner and seeing the new Harry Potter movie with her friend Dianna. Then on Thursday I met up with a group of friends from the elementary school to talk about the trip and have a few beers.
On Friday we killed time around my place until Brian and Jameson got off work then headed to Kondae (Music Bar), with some friends from the elementary school, to get some drinks, where I was accosted by some Korean girl who was wasted. It started out well she coma over to our table with her buddy and we thought she could speak English. Turned out her English was worse than my Korean and all she wanted to do was yell Korean in my ear, as if that helped me understand. i humoured her for a bit until she fell out of her chair, smashing her head on the table; at which point it was time to go. We all left around 330 but James and I went back to his place and drank a few more beers and talked until around 6 am. I promptly went back to my room when I realized I had been up for 24 hours and slept until 4 Saturday afternoon.
When everybody was up and alive on Saturday we decided to go to the Cheonho bridge and have a bbq. It was great to just hangout by the river and cook some sausages. Eventually we all called it a night at 1230 and took cabs home. I got up at a good time on Sunday and headed back to Olympic Park to meet my tutee and we talked for a couple hours before I had to take off to meet up with Jameson for Dos Tacos and Myeongdong.
Well that's it for another week. Next week we head to Jeju and are all super pumped.
Take care
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Eagle Has Landed
Another late crack of the whip but it has been a mad house around here. This blog covers the week of July 13 - July 19.
Well this week started out with a real humdinger. We rolled into work on Monday to find out that the teacher I switched with did a midnight run at some point during the weekend so the middle school was back down a staff member. That meant that on more than one occasion during the week I had to go down and cover a class. But wait it only gets better. By Thursday, Dustin fell ill and ended up in the hospital with an unknown problem. This meant that the middle school was down by two teachers so Avalon puled a new teacher from our Lancon campus down the road (who just got here) to come over, but it still meant that there were classes for me to cover on Friday.
Let me take a minute to mention how awesome it was covering the class at the elementary school after Brady left, too. It was some of the most fun I have had teaching and some of the most adorable kids I have been in a class with since getting here. They were so eager to work and please the teacher. It helps when there is a prospect of stickers at the end of class too.
As it was we got the week over with and went out for some well deserved beers Friday night at Gold Bar.
It was also the night Blake returned to the country. Unfortunately, since nobody adjusts in one afternoon, he stayed in and got some rest. We did get together Saturday after I had a full platter of meetings during my day.
I got up Saturday to go meet Bo Ram and have some English practice, after that I went straight to Myeongdong to have all you can eat sea food with Brian and So Hyun. It was a delicious and over stuffing meal. After that I walked around for a bit to kill time before going to Hyaywha to meet Sung Eun and see another dance performance. This dance was choreographed by Sung Eun's favorite and world famous Korean choreographer, Sung Soo Ahn, and was called 'Jang Mi and Mating Dance'. It was one of my favorites so far. After that we went out for some dinner and then I headed to Apgujong to meet up with the regulars.
In Apgujong we were gathering to meet up with Blake and to celebrate Gina's birthday. It was a pretty good celebration and nice to see Blake again, as well as some of the others that we hadn't seen in a while. We had a great night and stayed out until a decent hour and then retired back to our places.
On Sunday Blake and I got together for a walk along the river and just to hang out. After that we grabbed some dinner and called it a week.
The weather has been changing and I hope it stays for our coming trip to Jeju.
Take care.
Well this week started out with a real humdinger. We rolled into work on Monday to find out that the teacher I switched with did a midnight run at some point during the weekend so the middle school was back down a staff member. That meant that on more than one occasion during the week I had to go down and cover a class. But wait it only gets better. By Thursday, Dustin fell ill and ended up in the hospital with an unknown problem. This meant that the middle school was down by two teachers so Avalon puled a new teacher from our Lancon campus down the road (who just got here) to come over, but it still meant that there were classes for me to cover on Friday.
Let me take a minute to mention how awesome it was covering the class at the elementary school after Brady left, too. It was some of the most fun I have had teaching and some of the most adorable kids I have been in a class with since getting here. They were so eager to work and please the teacher. It helps when there is a prospect of stickers at the end of class too.
As it was we got the week over with and went out for some well deserved beers Friday night at Gold Bar.
It was also the night Blake returned to the country. Unfortunately, since nobody adjusts in one afternoon, he stayed in and got some rest. We did get together Saturday after I had a full platter of meetings during my day.
I got up Saturday to go meet Bo Ram and have some English practice, after that I went straight to Myeongdong to have all you can eat sea food with Brian and So Hyun. It was a delicious and over stuffing meal. After that I walked around for a bit to kill time before going to Hyaywha to meet Sung Eun and see another dance performance. This dance was choreographed by Sung Eun's favorite and world famous Korean choreographer, Sung Soo Ahn, and was called 'Jang Mi and Mating Dance'. It was one of my favorites so far. After that we went out for some dinner and then I headed to Apgujong to meet up with the regulars.
In Apgujong we were gathering to meet up with Blake and to celebrate Gina's birthday. It was a pretty good celebration and nice to see Blake again, as well as some of the others that we hadn't seen in a while. We had a great night and stayed out until a decent hour and then retired back to our places.
On Sunday Blake and I got together for a walk along the river and just to hang out. After that we grabbed some dinner and called it a week.
The weather has been changing and I hope it stays for our coming trip to Jeju.
Take care.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Country round party tour
Well this week was wild from the get go and seemed like it would never round out. We officially entered the monsoon season and it rained almost everyday for at least half of the day and between a medium to a heavy rain.
Monday and Tuesday went by like any other days. I got to meet the rest of my students since holding had pretty much run its course and was doing my best to get them all caught up with the teacher change situation and return to the regular work schedule. Then Tuesday at the end of the night Margaret and I got the news that we would both have to go to the elementary school Wednesday to observe a class so that we could teach in the coming week after David and Brady leave. Allow me to vent for a minute but this fucking country has absolutely no idea what thinking about the future means. They never seem to be able to get teachers here before the ones they are replacing are gone, and it has gotten especially bad since the whole swine flu scare because they make all the teachers stay in the country for 1 week before they can come to the school. all in all it makes everyone ridiculously pissed off but the company won't open their eyes and it is really starting to break the system down.
Anyways, we went down and observed a class and it was awesome. the kids are so adorable and eager to show you their skills, instead of worn out and full of spite like at the middle school. We really enjoyed it and think next week when we have to teach down there it will be a great break. It does mean that we will have to run between campuses but whatever.
Thursday was a big planning day around the office for the weekend getaway "The MT" we had planned for all the Nokchiwon staff. Classes went by and I just rode it out until Friday. Friday after work we piled into a couple Avalon vans and headed to YeongPeon, a city south east of Seoul, for our overnight getaway. It started with 20 pounds of sam gip sal (thick bacon), 10 pounds of prawns, and 6 large clams for dinner, which we cooked in our hotel; followed by beer and soju drinking. After that, so around 2 am, we went to the hotels norae bang and sang for a few hours to start the fun stuff. After singing our heads off we went back to our hotel room and played a few more games including a rock paper scissors (Ki Bi Bo) contest, single room blindfolded dizzy hided and seek, and team mouth to mouth tissue tearing. (I couldn't explain in full on here it if I tried.) It was a blast, but around 7 am I decided to call it a night and found a room to pass out in. Turns out it was the same room our director was sleeping in (they are all open rooms with sleeping pads on the floor) which made everyone but me uncomfortable. When people realized where I slept after I had passed out and in the morning they were all confused as to why, especially when the director woke up and saw me passed out with out a shirt on and went to tell everyone I was sleeping half naked in the same room as her. In my defense I could have cared less who was in the room, and I was more than 5 feet from her. I'm sure I'll hear about it this coming week.
After sleeping for a mere 2 hours I got up and we all had some instant noodles for breakfast before cleaning up and getting ready to go. Instead of going back with everyone else I went to the bus station to get a bus to the other side of the country, to the town of Boryeong, for a little thing called Mudfest. The plan was to get on the 11 o'clock bus and get there by 3 or 4. Unfortunately I missed that bus and had to take the 1230 buss which meant I never arrived in Boryeong until 5.
Mudfest is a festival in the town of Boryeong that has been going on for about 10 or so years. It involves covering your body in a very mineral rich mud found in high quantities in that region. People go and play in the mud and have a party for an entire week.
Since I got there late, I never found my friends until most of the mudding was calming down and they were all heading back to get cleaned up and eat dinner. I went with them and cut my losses because I knew the party wasn't even close to being over. While they ate I got changed and walked around for a bit. Eventually I met back with them and we got some beers and went back to the party area for the opening ceremony concert and fireworks. And if I hadn't mentioned it before, it is monsoon season and it was and had been raining all day. At the stage we found an open area near some trees where we could see the fireworks from and hear the music and waited. Then it came in torrents. It rained hard and everyone partied. It was really awesome to be watching a great firework show in the pouring rain and not be getting trampled by people running away. After the show we went back to near our hotel since it was far enough from the main party that we could relax a bit. So we thought. We sat down for some late night food and some random guy came over to drink with us. As fine as that was, when we asked him to pay for his $3 beer he flipped out. Trying to keep things from escalating we tried talking him down and eventually had him convinced that things were alright, but there was a few moments when there were clenched fists and homeboy was close to having his night ruined. After that we went back to our hotel and drank on the patio with just friends.........and one random guy who could barely stand he was so drunk. He mostly just babbled while we drank.
On Sunday we all got up around 11 after sleeping for only a few hours and got into the vans the others had rented to drive down in and came back to Seoul. I was lucky that there was an extra seat for me and got back to Seoul with all my friends. After we got back everyone dispersed to shower and get some rest. Later Sunday night David, Alex and I went to a Jimjil bang (sauna) to have a soak and relax.
There we go. I'm all up to date. I hope you are all enjoying your summer. TTYS
Monday and Tuesday went by like any other days. I got to meet the rest of my students since holding had pretty much run its course and was doing my best to get them all caught up with the teacher change situation and return to the regular work schedule. Then Tuesday at the end of the night Margaret and I got the news that we would both have to go to the elementary school Wednesday to observe a class so that we could teach in the coming week after David and Brady leave. Allow me to vent for a minute but this fucking country has absolutely no idea what thinking about the future means. They never seem to be able to get teachers here before the ones they are replacing are gone, and it has gotten especially bad since the whole swine flu scare because they make all the teachers stay in the country for 1 week before they can come to the school. all in all it makes everyone ridiculously pissed off but the company won't open their eyes and it is really starting to break the system down.
Anyways, we went down and observed a class and it was awesome. the kids are so adorable and eager to show you their skills, instead of worn out and full of spite like at the middle school. We really enjoyed it and think next week when we have to teach down there it will be a great break. It does mean that we will have to run between campuses but whatever.
Thursday was a big planning day around the office for the weekend getaway "The MT" we had planned for all the Nokchiwon staff. Classes went by and I just rode it out until Friday. Friday after work we piled into a couple Avalon vans and headed to YeongPeon, a city south east of Seoul, for our overnight getaway. It started with 20 pounds of sam gip sal (thick bacon), 10 pounds of prawns, and 6 large clams for dinner, which we cooked in our hotel; followed by beer and soju drinking. After that, so around 2 am, we went to the hotels norae bang and sang for a few hours to start the fun stuff. After singing our heads off we went back to our hotel room and played a few more games including a rock paper scissors (Ki Bi Bo) contest, single room blindfolded dizzy hided and seek, and team mouth to mouth tissue tearing. (I couldn't explain in full on here it if I tried.) It was a blast, but around 7 am I decided to call it a night and found a room to pass out in. Turns out it was the same room our director was sleeping in (they are all open rooms with sleeping pads on the floor) which made everyone but me uncomfortable. When people realized where I slept after I had passed out and in the morning they were all confused as to why, especially when the director woke up and saw me passed out with out a shirt on and went to tell everyone I was sleeping half naked in the same room as her. In my defense I could have cared less who was in the room, and I was more than 5 feet from her. I'm sure I'll hear about it this coming week.
After sleeping for a mere 2 hours I got up and we all had some instant noodles for breakfast before cleaning up and getting ready to go. Instead of going back with everyone else I went to the bus station to get a bus to the other side of the country, to the town of Boryeong, for a little thing called Mudfest. The plan was to get on the 11 o'clock bus and get there by 3 or 4. Unfortunately I missed that bus and had to take the 1230 buss which meant I never arrived in Boryeong until 5.
Mudfest is a festival in the town of Boryeong that has been going on for about 10 or so years. It involves covering your body in a very mineral rich mud found in high quantities in that region. People go and play in the mud and have a party for an entire week.
Since I got there late, I never found my friends until most of the mudding was calming down and they were all heading back to get cleaned up and eat dinner. I went with them and cut my losses because I knew the party wasn't even close to being over. While they ate I got changed and walked around for a bit. Eventually I met back with them and we got some beers and went back to the party area for the opening ceremony concert and fireworks. And if I hadn't mentioned it before, it is monsoon season and it was and had been raining all day. At the stage we found an open area near some trees where we could see the fireworks from and hear the music and waited. Then it came in torrents. It rained hard and everyone partied. It was really awesome to be watching a great firework show in the pouring rain and not be getting trampled by people running away. After the show we went back to near our hotel since it was far enough from the main party that we could relax a bit. So we thought. We sat down for some late night food and some random guy came over to drink with us. As fine as that was, when we asked him to pay for his $3 beer he flipped out. Trying to keep things from escalating we tried talking him down and eventually had him convinced that things were alright, but there was a few moments when there were clenched fists and homeboy was close to having his night ruined. After that we went back to our hotel and drank on the patio with just friends.........and one random guy who could barely stand he was so drunk. He mostly just babbled while we drank.
On Sunday we all got up around 11 after sleeping for only a few hours and got into the vans the others had rented to drive down in and came back to Seoul. I was lucky that there was an extra seat for me and got back to Seoul with all my friends. After we got back everyone dispersed to shower and get some rest. Later Sunday night David, Alex and I went to a Jimjil bang (sauna) to have a soak and relax.
There we go. I'm all up to date. I hope you are all enjoying your summer. TTYS
Monday, July 13, 2009
Two Country's Celebrate in One Week
Well it seems as though I am one post behind, so here comes the post covering the week of June 29 - July 5.
This week was quiet like the two before it. We were still in holding and just organizing things for our summer intensive period. On top of that I was still dealing with organizing our trip to Jeju and getting flak from those who had not been asked to go. Bu that's a whole other story to which I would get sorted later in the week. The first few days went by well and then on Wednesday it was Canada Day. Knowing some of the teachers at the elementary school that are Canadians too, we planned on a get together after work that night to celebrate a little.
We met up around my place and preceded to have some beers. That's when I found out that some of the people at the elementary school had never heard about the plans to go to Jeju and expressed great interest in going. So after our beers we all went home and I looked up some available flights for those who wanted to go. The next day I contacted them and got final numbers for the second time and booked tickets for them to go to Jeju with us.
It wasn't 45 minutes after i booked the tickets that two of the people at the elementary school were fired and quit respectively. They were brother and sister the brother being the head teacher. It turned out that there has been a lot of anger at their school over the Swine Flu policies our school has, which are ridiculous, and break the countries labour laws. So, in trying to get things sorted out the school got angry at Brett and then fired him. Hearing that his sister Hayley quit. This meant that they called me and asked if it was too late, to which I said yes but said we would work it out.
On Friday it almost seemed as though things were going to clear themselves up because the school, knowing they had screwed themselves in a big way, asked the two of them to consider staying but without the head teacher role. This seemed like a good idea and when I heard of it Friday night I tried to make them see how it was a good idea to stay, but it wasn't until the next week that the official meeting was going to be held.
Friday night we all, elementary friends and middle school friends, went to Sincheon to have drinks at one of our favorite spots called Gold Bar. We went there because it is cheap and because David and Brady who were leaving soon wanted to go there one last time. We had drinks and hungout until pretty late before heading home to get some rest for a busy Saturday.
On Saturday I got up around noon to get ready to go meet another person I am going to tutor. She is the sister of one of the Korean teachers at the middle school, who wants to practice her conversational English with a foreigner. We met at Olympic park at 1 o'clock and talked and walked for about two hours. After that I headed over towards Cheonho because we had a July 4th barbecue by the river planned for all the Americans we work with. Unfortunatley it looked like rain so we had to cancel. Canceling actually gave me more time to get a few things done before going to Itaewon to meet some of the teachers at the Nokchiwon for a Chinese food dinner. It was a pretty good place and we all had a good time. While in Itaewon I actually had time to look around and buy a travelers back pack for our trip to Jeju and hopefully for my trip when my contract here is up.
After Itaewon I headed further away from home to meet up in Sinchon, different from Sincheon, at a hookah bar for a send off party and July 4th party. We filled a little back alley bar until around 330 am when we left to get 4 am McDonald's breakfast and come home. It was a great night and I slept good when I got home.
Sunday was a do nothing day as usual. I met up with Alex and our Korean teacher for a quick Korean lesson and just to get out of the house. After that Alex and I met up with Margaret and Hayley for some dinner then went and got groceries before calling it a night.
Next post will be coming right up.
This week was quiet like the two before it. We were still in holding and just organizing things for our summer intensive period. On top of that I was still dealing with organizing our trip to Jeju and getting flak from those who had not been asked to go. Bu that's a whole other story to which I would get sorted later in the week. The first few days went by well and then on Wednesday it was Canada Day. Knowing some of the teachers at the elementary school that are Canadians too, we planned on a get together after work that night to celebrate a little.
We met up around my place and preceded to have some beers. That's when I found out that some of the people at the elementary school had never heard about the plans to go to Jeju and expressed great interest in going. So after our beers we all went home and I looked up some available flights for those who wanted to go. The next day I contacted them and got final numbers for the second time and booked tickets for them to go to Jeju with us.
It wasn't 45 minutes after i booked the tickets that two of the people at the elementary school were fired and quit respectively. They were brother and sister the brother being the head teacher. It turned out that there has been a lot of anger at their school over the Swine Flu policies our school has, which are ridiculous, and break the countries labour laws. So, in trying to get things sorted out the school got angry at Brett and then fired him. Hearing that his sister Hayley quit. This meant that they called me and asked if it was too late, to which I said yes but said we would work it out.
On Friday it almost seemed as though things were going to clear themselves up because the school, knowing they had screwed themselves in a big way, asked the two of them to consider staying but without the head teacher role. This seemed like a good idea and when I heard of it Friday night I tried to make them see how it was a good idea to stay, but it wasn't until the next week that the official meeting was going to be held.
Friday night we all, elementary friends and middle school friends, went to Sincheon to have drinks at one of our favorite spots called Gold Bar. We went there because it is cheap and because David and Brady who were leaving soon wanted to go there one last time. We had drinks and hungout until pretty late before heading home to get some rest for a busy Saturday.
On Saturday I got up around noon to get ready to go meet another person I am going to tutor. She is the sister of one of the Korean teachers at the middle school, who wants to practice her conversational English with a foreigner. We met at Olympic park at 1 o'clock and talked and walked for about two hours. After that I headed over towards Cheonho because we had a July 4th barbecue by the river planned for all the Americans we work with. Unfortunatley it looked like rain so we had to cancel. Canceling actually gave me more time to get a few things done before going to Itaewon to meet some of the teachers at the Nokchiwon for a Chinese food dinner. It was a pretty good place and we all had a good time. While in Itaewon I actually had time to look around and buy a travelers back pack for our trip to Jeju and hopefully for my trip when my contract here is up.
After Itaewon I headed further away from home to meet up in Sinchon, different from Sincheon, at a hookah bar for a send off party and July 4th party. We filled a little back alley bar until around 330 am when we left to get 4 am McDonald's breakfast and come home. It was a great night and I slept good when I got home.
Sunday was a do nothing day as usual. I met up with Alex and our Korean teacher for a quick Korean lesson and just to get out of the house. After that Alex and I met up with Margaret and Hayley for some dinner then went and got groceries before calling it a night.
Next post will be coming right up.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
It's like first week all over again.
Again I'm a little late. Sorry
Well this was my first week at the Nok Ji Won and it was like being here for the first time again. Even though I am comfortable with the teaching aspect, having a new set of kids, who are all much better at English than the kids downstairs, was really weird. The system itself is different than what I am used to also, so I spent a decent amount of time this week just getting to understand whats going on. I'm about half way there I figure.
The good thing is that it was the start of holding so there were very few students and classes, giving me more time to settle in and such. For most of the week I had to give mock teaching classes in front of the head teacher so that they could rate mate. It was more like me asking questions though, because I was so unfamiliar with the material. All in all it went well and it should work out fine. I do miss the guys and Korean teachers from downstairs quite a bit, and I know they are not very thrilled with the lady I traded places with, but hey life goes on.
After work on Thursday, the middle school, which I was a part of so I went with, had an office party. It was the first party outside of the Christmas party that we have had with all the staff and support workers which was really awesome. We went to a bar close to work and set up shop on the entire patio. We ate and drank for a few hours before going to Norae bang and singing our heads off. It was something else to see the Korean teachers having fun instead of ignoring us. i stayed out a bit late and drank a bit to much ..... surprise surprise, and ended up feeling a little under the weather on Friday.
By the end of the day that feeling had passed and we went over to Cheonho for some dinner and drinks. Oddly we barely drink anything but still managed to watch the sun come up while we were debating about Micheal Jackson. Jameson and I were debating that no he should not go down in history with the likes of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renoir, etc. While Brady was arguing that he's pretty close to on par with them, and one of the new guys Arthur was arguing his popularity (which had nothing to do with the real debate). Saturday was a do nothing day. i went for a walk and got dinner with a Korean friend of mine and her friend, and then just killed time until I went out to Gangnam that night for a few drinks with some other friends.
Sunday was another do nothing day. I stayed in most of the day doing school work for the coming summer intensive period. Then for dinner I went and met up with Margaret, Haley, and two of Margaret's friends that are visiting for a week in Cheonho for some galbi. After that it was back home where I ran into David and got the scoop on watching the FIFA championship game at his place. I agreed and around midnight a bunch of us went out for some beers and snack before going to David's place to watch the game at 330. It was the U.S. vs. Brazil, who ended up winning 3-2 after a great start by the American team. After that it was home to bed to start another week.
Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for reading.
Well this was my first week at the Nok Ji Won and it was like being here for the first time again. Even though I am comfortable with the teaching aspect, having a new set of kids, who are all much better at English than the kids downstairs, was really weird. The system itself is different than what I am used to also, so I spent a decent amount of time this week just getting to understand whats going on. I'm about half way there I figure.
The good thing is that it was the start of holding so there were very few students and classes, giving me more time to settle in and such. For most of the week I had to give mock teaching classes in front of the head teacher so that they could rate mate. It was more like me asking questions though, because I was so unfamiliar with the material. All in all it went well and it should work out fine. I do miss the guys and Korean teachers from downstairs quite a bit, and I know they are not very thrilled with the lady I traded places with, but hey life goes on.
After work on Thursday, the middle school, which I was a part of so I went with, had an office party. It was the first party outside of the Christmas party that we have had with all the staff and support workers which was really awesome. We went to a bar close to work and set up shop on the entire patio. We ate and drank for a few hours before going to Norae bang and singing our heads off. It was something else to see the Korean teachers having fun instead of ignoring us. i stayed out a bit late and drank a bit to much ..... surprise surprise, and ended up feeling a little under the weather on Friday.
By the end of the day that feeling had passed and we went over to Cheonho for some dinner and drinks. Oddly we barely drink anything but still managed to watch the sun come up while we were debating about Micheal Jackson. Jameson and I were debating that no he should not go down in history with the likes of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renoir, etc. While Brady was arguing that he's pretty close to on par with them, and one of the new guys Arthur was arguing his popularity (which had nothing to do with the real debate). Saturday was a do nothing day. i went for a walk and got dinner with a Korean friend of mine and her friend, and then just killed time until I went out to Gangnam that night for a few drinks with some other friends.
Sunday was another do nothing day. I stayed in most of the day doing school work for the coming summer intensive period. Then for dinner I went and met up with Margaret, Haley, and two of Margaret's friends that are visiting for a week in Cheonho for some galbi. After that it was back home where I ran into David and got the scoop on watching the FIFA championship game at his place. I agreed and around midnight a bunch of us went out for some beers and snack before going to David's place to watch the game at 330. It was the U.S. vs. Brazil, who ended up winning 3-2 after a great start by the American team. After that it was home to bed to start another week.
Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for reading.
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