Well this week was much better than last week. I was feeling better and classes were going faster. Maybe it was because i had shaken the sickness I had been supporting for the past while, or maybe it was because I was set up and rolling on the new semester.
This week went by like most others, wake up, go to school, come home, go to bed, repeat. I did get back to studying my Korean with Alex and eventually Margaret restarted with us. The week went by as usual until Friday, when I finally decided to get up early enough to head to the Canadian Embassy to ask about bringing my cat home for a visit in between contracts here in Korea, and to look into a new passport. My passport is due to expire in the next seven months; and while that seems like a lot of time, I am planing on doing some traveling when I am done here and most countries like people to have 6 months on their passport while traveling.
To make a long story short, I did not like the system of getting a new passport while outside of MY OWN country and had a bit of a freak out in the embassy resulting in me cursing out the system and leaving the embassy. My next step is to go to the individual country embassies to see if they will give me advanced Visas so that I can just wait until I get home to get a new passport.
After that I went to work and the day couldn't go by fast enough. At the end of the day it was time to get out of work and head out for a couple drinks. I met up with Blake and Danielle in Kondae for a few beers and then came home before it got too late. On Saturday I got up early and went tutoring at Olympic Park for a couple hours and then just killed time in my apartment until it was time to go out for the night.
For a change of pace we, Blake, Brian, Jameson, Margaret, Dustin and I, decided to go to a wine and cocktail buffet at the Intercontinental Hotel. Held from 6-9pm it gave us the chance to dress up a little and drink some wine instead of beer for a chance. We did this until the time ran out and then headed to Gangnam for a couple drinks and the joining of Danielle. After a couple drinks we went to Itaewon, where Emily came to meet us and then finished the night off around 3am.
On Sunday I got up and took Emily sight seeing around the older northern part of the city, including Gyeongbuk Palace and Insadong. After that I tried to get home for some rest before trivia.
It didn't work out, I never got any rest, but it was OK because trivia was cancelled. Even thought it was cancelled Jameson and I still went down to meet with Dave and Kate. We went to a jazz bar and then back to their area for some beers and eventually Noraebang, against all we knew to be right. It quickly turned into a 430am morning and a sleep over at their place.
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