Dear anyone who still might check this out.

I'm writing a book called 2009: Year of the Douchebag

It is based on my more than amazing year. Oh yes, it's been just as good as Korea. If you want to read it after I finish it (deadline the end of the month) let me know.

Not so shocking update

I'm home!

Without saying too much, we were pretty much given 2 weeks.  They had just done some bad business with another employee and we knew what we'd be in for if we stayed.  So now I'm home. It's amazing to wake up to people who care and pets who are up on me.  It's a relief to wake up and my first thought not to be, "I hate my life".  Viva la Canada.

Things Korea lacks.

or things I miss.  I don't know if I wrote something like this yet, but it's time.

Family, friends, pets (GO WITHOUT SAYING)

Dryers.

Ovens.

Dishwashers.

Noise laws.

Cars that don't play the fucking "Cu-ca-roch-cha" while I try to sleep.

Driving.

Hanging out.

Baking and cooking.

Buying clothes and SHOES.

Having more than 5 fucking shirts and 3 pairs of jeans.

My bed. My glorious, sweet, loving bed; which I will sleep in for a damn DAY when I get home.

No fear of being caught in a war.

English anything and EVERYTHING.

A real Starbucks.

Not hearing people hoark and spit infront of me.

Not watching people vomit.

People understanding me.

Board games.  I want to play Mystery Date now.

Movies in a movie theatre, where my seat isn't assigned and there are no Korean subtitles.

My things.

Comfortable seating.

Grocery stores with food I know and ENCLOSED FISH COUNTERS!

Good times.

Things I like: taxis start at $1.90...umm....

Forget that last post

I GOT A CARD IN THE MAIL!  It's exciting.  Thanks Jo-Anne!!!

Sooo....

I may or may not have given the correct address to send things to...

I got a letter sent here in English and that's what the address was. But yes, I may have not had the totally correct address.........so......I have the right one now....if you want it hah email me.

Korean Wedding

Well the wedding I went to was quite different from ours at home.  We were there at 11.30am. It was a wedding hall.  It had a wedding upstairs and one on the main floor. Ours was upstairs.  The one room had the wedding.  Which was really cool. Here you can see the wedding room at the far left.  (This is a shot from the buffet room, where you eat and the bride and groom come afterwards dressed in their hanboks). Also you can watch the wedding on the TV screens.

Here is a photo of the bride and groom. They're having a more Western style wedding.  The priest is behind this table full of flowers.  Then you see the man making the video.  Her dress was lovely. It sparkled. I liked it!  We sat in large tables of 8.  You just sat in a table and watched.  You can see a large tree on the left. There was a catwalk!  Lined with white trees. I have a good photo below too. The wedding was probably 30 minutes long?

Here is the photos of the trees and the flowers and balls hanging off them. It's was quit pretty.

Also! After the vows or whatever they were (It was all in Korean) the family bows to each of their parents. THEN these people sitting infront of us get up and start singing a song. THEN the lights go out and like stadium lights (the like spots lights, then little green and red dots; I have a video) and then you see this dude playing clarinet. He was JAMMING OUT. I have GREAT video of that. After we watched this every single person wanted some sort of solo at their wedding. Josh wants a guitar solo, Mel wants a keytarist at her wedding.

Here is the wedding cake. RAD.  Ok not even the COOLEST PART! Ok so the light dim again. Then the cake gets like crazy fog and lights from beneath it! Effin rad. They blow out the candles. Then CUT IT WITH A SAMURI SWORD! (again I got video!)

So after this (this was the WHOLE ceremony) they take photos.  This I got of their family! Then they do one with friends and co-workers. So I WAS UP! I'm in someones wedding photo! Oh Lisa, sorry haha.  That's when Lisa does the throwing the bouquet, but she throws it to a friend...I'm not sure how that's chosen, but there is a cool photo.

So here is a group shot with the ladies I work with.  Well two of them are dating guys at our work, but they're SUPER nice and Canadian.  

And the boys I work with.  The one of the right is dating a girl at our work. He's British, so he's cool.

This is part of my dinner at the buffet. So after the ceremony we get a ticket to get into the buffet. Then you go to town, pick a table (some are reserved) eat. There is soju, beer and pop (and water) on the table.  So here is a salad, mango chicken(which had some HEAT to it) and sushi. It had coloured rice so I had to take a photo!

It was all over by like 2pm or something like that? That's it.  So different from home in that aspect, but it was nice. They also had people playing during dinner.  

After that we all went out and drank a bit in the afternoon at a park. You can do that here. 

Did that really happen twice in the same day?

What is that I'm referring to? Getting my lady pieces grabbed.

And not by my 4 year old boyfriend.

So my 3.30 classes full of 7 and 8 year olds.  These kids at the end of class (one boy to 11 girls MIND YOU) all run over and like attack me. Playfully that is.  So while the girl are like poking me and tickling, this kid HONKS MY BOOB!  SERIOUSLY! Ok that was the first time in Korea. Like wtf man.  I know they're bigger than you're use to, BUT DAMN.  So I was like wtf....hah and told the co-ordinator of the class and she was like ok I'll call his mom. I said no big deal it's not right, but he isn't like 13 and doing it right. Why do I speak so soon?

My 5.30-6.15 class.... This is during the break is SO hyper he's just everywhere. What does he do HE EEFIN GRABS MY BOOB! Same effin one the other kid did. Apparently it's the choice boob.  Note to self don't wear that shirt again. It was a tank top there was no cleavage! So this is like 11, 12 years old and KNOWS BETTER.  Hot damn I was like DO NOT TOUCH TEACHER!  I erased all his stars and was like NO. NO. So when I told the co-ordinator for that class her reaction was, "ewwwwww" and I said yea good luck calling his mom with that one! and I peaced out.

If only the guys could be of age and not so Korean I could be into it.

Strange

So today I was teaching and heard this strange alarm.  I thought it was a fire engine or ambulance or something, but it was really loud and didn't move. But I was busy teaching so I didn't think about it.

The girls mentioned it later and now they think it's the bomb alarm.  So if North Korea attacks they'll sound it.  Well, that's scary.

The night of a thousand posts

Odds and sods really.

1. I have a kid in my one class who LOVES Queen. like LOVES Queen. He does "We Will Rock You" in every class.  Yet doesn't know Radio Ga Ga. Who does he think he is.  But he knows bicycle so one day soon we will sing it. 

2. I will be bringing home the most ridiculous pens and pencils.  Korea kinda blows for cool stuff, but they have weird crap by the shit load. Trust me.  Or you will be getting strange jewelry (yea I had to ask Mel how to spell that word...I'm doing good)

3. The train station finally got a new poster outside.

4. The fridge in my apartment is as big as a fucking Kodiak Bear and makes about as much noise as one fucking would.

5. I put in laundry at 8pm. It is now 11.15 pm and it is the 2nd time I remember to go get it, yet have it? No.  Awesome.

6. I am thankful for Popeye's Chicken and the small veggie market by my apartment.

7. It doesn't matter where I go in Korea I forget to do something, without fail.

8. The smartest kid in my class also cries the most.  So far she's down to once with me and it wasn't even a full out cry, just some tearing.  I think my over doing the wow you're awesome is aiding to her self esteem.

9. I'm working out frustration by making lucky stars. YEP that's my night.

10. It's 11.20 and still haven't hung up my laundry. 

My new haircut.

Forgot to write about this.

Last Saturday I felt like I needed a change, plus let's say my hair wasn't all brown anymore.

So I was told which place to go where people spoke the best English.  Let's say....still not the best English.

So I go by and it's full, so I came back about 20 minutes later and I took a seat.  The one lady spoke decent English and gave me a tea.  Then I did the finger scissors and said cut. To which she said ahh ahh cut cut.  So we were good there.   Then I grabbed my hair and said colour. Then put my hands all over my hair and said all. Colour all.  Right so she was like ok, brown. I said yes.

So my haircut about 5 minutes. She just chopped my hair and not like a little bit A SHIT LOAD off.  I cried on the inside.  Then she touches my bangs so I said yes...... My mistake, cause she does an asian bang.  Meaning she brushed half my hair forward and CUT. oh god. Also my hair was not washed or combed when she cut my hair.  And I"m not exaggerating by saying she did 3 cuts. back, left then right. That was that.

Ok, so hair cut is done.  Colour time.

My lady (the older woman) is yelling at the lady who spoke English. Saying they are too short (i know)  the foils that is. SO she starts to work. and she gets one done and i'm like wtf is going on.... so she does two more and I grab this other woman who works there and I like touch all her hair and say all colour. Then a lightbulb comes on. and they are like OHH SHIT. They were doing highlight.  Yea so hah after getting shit ripped out of my hair they wash it. Also note they use gloves.  Like rubber gloves. It hurts like a bitch. Then immediately they blow dry, don't brush it and put in the new colour.  They're all like communication is bad. I laugh it off right cause why get mad.  They don't know English, I don't know Korean.  C'est la vie.  So hah eventually my ordeal is over. My Dexter book is 3/4 done and I have new hair.

This is what they did to me.

If you ever worried about me finding a boyfriend.

You need worry no longer.  My new boyfriend is Alex.  He's my shorty if you will.

He is four and is on me ALL THE TIME.  Kid is hilarious.

The first day he kicked me and I had to tell him no don't.  So he stopped.  I give the kids high fives and he loves it.

Two days ago he wraps his body around my thigh. Like he is a baby monkey I am the mother and we are going for a ride.

Today he started to kiss my hand before he would give me a high five. EVERY time.  

Now everytime the head teacher takes the kids out to the bathroom or to get water or to the lunch room they have to do a train.  Where the kids put their hands on the back of the shoulders of the kid infront of them. So today my Alex taps his shoulders and waves his hand like get on the train bitch.  So I do, but when I let go he turns around and taps his shoulders again.  Yep, if this isn't love. I don't know what love is.

Then I think my favourite thing today was when they were going home.  He is sitting in his line and sees me gets up. So I hold out my arms and he runs to me like Baby in Dirty Dancing.  Hilarious.

In class he also enjoys holding my hand.

I love most of my little kids. There are a few dolts, but most of my kids are smart. Especially for being 4 years old.  By dolt I mean I have one kid who is just pissy all day. ALL DAY. I saw him excited ONCE. EVER.  It's like living with grumpy bear from the Care Bears. Look when you spend 9 hours a day with kids my analogies become that of a childs.  And what's better than the Care Bears?  Fraggle Rock. Correct.

Side note

Just wanted to say thank you to anyone who puts up with my BS. Especially recently with all these good times happening!  I appreciate you listening to me bitch and moan.  If I didn't have you to do it to, I'd be going crazier than I already am!  

I would probably end up drinking toilet water and barking like a dog. (well wait I already do one of those two things)  And yes it's drink toilet water. No I mean bark like a dog.

I wrote a sweet blog and now it won't publish.

So this is my classroom, in all it's blue glory. Jun 1 is the closest to me. HE IS MY FAVOURITE!

I miss that kid! In this photo they are taking Big Tests. Right beside Jun 1 is Jun 2. My second favourite

kid. Then Frank. I teach his little sister Jenny in my Phonics class. I see her all the time. Angie

has her face turned and Kelly is hiding her with a book. Sarah is in the red. At the back in the white

is Nikcy. The last kid, did the best on that Big Test, Scott. Smart kid. He plays guitar too so I like

him. They all graduated out of my class and are in new classes. So in 2 months I may get some of

them again. I hope so cause I liked them.

OK. Now all the photos below are from 2 Saturday's ago. It was Kindy Graduation. Meaning the morning

classes kids have graduated. The youngest who are 5 years old, are still morning kids, but they are in

a new class.

So here is Cecelia (the white girl who isn't Mel) and Mel. She's holding up Eric.  There all

Sun class kids.  On the left in the green is Carrie, then Dennis the bunny, then Rupee in the pink dress, then Sophie, the half face with glasses is Gina and then Suzi.

Sophie ready to hop on stage.

I love Dennis in the bunny suit!

So I like this photo, these were great girls.  The one standing is Jennifer.  She latched ONTO you as soon as she liked you. What can I say? She loves me.  Mostly she enjoys poking my fat or hitting my butt.  She has eagle claws for hands.  But the best part about Jennifer is when she talks she talks like a robot.

This is Carrie and I. I miss Carrie, she is such a smart kid, but why they made her the green penis is beyond me. Ok so she's an evergreen tree in the musical, 'the Farting Contest'

This is Sally, they made her a boy for the play. She totally reminds me of Oliver Twist in that costume.  Sweet kid.

One kid wanted to take a picture with my camera, so who was I to let her down?

Moon class Kevin, kickin ass with that wig. That was possibly the greatest wig of the entire show, because it was SO damn funny on him and Andy.

Yea! This is Judy, she is one sassy lady.  She's in the Korean pose.  Her wig is my second favourite!

You can't get much cuter than Matilda. Do you see those dimples? 

Dearly departed Jay who was getting his butt kicked by Nicolas and Andy.

Is that a lot of kids or what?! The tallest Korean is Ally hah. She's my Korean teacher with the new Lily kids. Aka. the no speak any Englishy kids. God love her too, cause she controls them when I have NO IDEA what they're saying.

Ok, Annie, the girl with the blond wig who is being lit up by the sun. I won her in a rock, paper, scissors contest. So she's coming home with me!!  She's going to do whatever she wants to she is a genius. She knows what an ostrich is in English, get out of TOWN. Seriously! I didn't know what an ostrich was when I was 8.  Then again, I am me.  Eff you I was a smart kid.  She actually told another one of the teachers (when talking about friends) that her books. Harom (that was for the Arabs) how sad and that just makes you love her a little more.

The kid in the blue hat is Eddie. Eddie is a smart kid, but as we say in school a space cadet. He gets into his own world, but dammit does it ever look like fun from the outside.  He can also break dance better than your grandma.

The red menace beside him is Andy. His voice can cut glass and splice my head into two. I do no miss that one.

Carrie taken out by a really loud fart.

They were so cut, the new kids are so strange.  I got here with 2 months left of their program so these kids were so smart.  Now I'm with kids who know a few words and you know my 4 years olds who know nothing....  I think 4 of them know my name now....   I'm going to post this then try again with the video!

Addition

Postcards have been sent out as of my Tuesday or your Monday. Let me know when they get there!

Short update

So, Saturday I had kindy graduation.  Now I have video and photos I'll put up in a longer post about it because they deserve their own blog. Effin cute kids who I miss.

Sunday-Tuesday I did work, when around Seoul.  Bought some stuff. Had Schwarma. Went to the Canadian consulate. Waited outside the American Consulate for.....an HOUR. Thanks America you slow asses.  Seriously!  

Wednesday.  Oh boy.  Today was shit.  Seriously. Absolute high class shit.  My kids. New kids.  Speak NO English. No hi.  SHIT most didn't even know their names. They are 4 - 5 years old. I HAVE ALL THE YOUNGEST KIDS IN THE GD SCHOOL.  I have 11 effin kids. 11 kids who don't know English. Who can't sit still.  So the only thing I can do is make funny faces.  And that shit I'm golden at.

I already have my favourites. Lucy (she's a damn genius, but cried on her first day, just like her teacher today) and Aaron.  HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAY MY NAME.  I SHIT YOU NOT.

So I taught them twice.  I'm sure if I can get their attention they'll be fine, but I know shit.  AND I had 2 other teachers in with me while trying to teach.  So my Lily head Korean teacher (WHO I LOVE and is a damn peach of a woman) and then the head lady who came in a just started teaching. I was like WTF.  I had NO IDEA what's going on.  So I pretty much just did nothing for 10 minutes.  Like seriously.  I do NOT know how to teach kids with little understanding of their OWN language a whole NEW language.  So do not barge in on my class. I was livid.  Like oh be careful.  SO PISSED.  I'm assuming she went in there because neither myself or my head korean teacher had taught a lily class before so i know it's because she wanted to help, but like seriously don't barge in on me. Talk to me after class for pointers.  I = unimpressed.

Then they tell me to eat lunch with them. HILARIOUS. why cause my ass had 1 period off today.  to do what you ask? OH my prep.  Really cause there was a LOUD ASS GYM class taking place beside my room. I couldn't hear myself think, it was THAT LOUD.  So I got nothing done.  THEN I'm told I messed up homework sheets. Awesome.  So I had to do it during my lunch.  So I told the head lady I can not eat lunch with the kids today.  She's like why. So I tell her.  I got are you not eating lunch? Even 5 minutes. Ok what I just wrote was an amazing rant like no other, but let's just say I'm not happy with this 'new' idea from Mr. Kim.

So FINALLY afternoon class. GOD LOVE THEM AND THEIR ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITIES!

OMG IT WAS AMAZING. My girl Cindy, my 100% on her Big Test. I bought her a minnie mouse pencil and a notebook.  She's my pride and joy in phonics.  I tossed out a kid cause he ANSWERED HIS FUCKING CELL PHONE IN MY CLASS. I said just leave.  So the head korean teacher comes in and says his mom called. I DON"T GIVE  AFUCK WHO FUCKING CALLED DO NOT HAVE OU FUCKING PHONE ON IN MY CLASS. (ps can you tell i have my lady business)  So I said why did she call. And she said oh she thought it was a break.  really cause this is always the time i teach your little shithead son. OMG OMG seriously i'm going to break that kid.

So after them! I had a class with 4 girls. I'm teaching and 10-15 minutes in. I get the other 9 fucking students who were in their old classroom and they looked at me like it was my fucking fault. ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!  EFF YOU BITCH.  It's my job to teach not wrangle fucking kids. I don't even know where the fuck my classes are.

So after that BS.  Those kids I liked the one was STRANGE. I had 1/2 the class before in 2 different classes. Whatever not bad.

Then my 5.30 classes. JESUS ON A FUCKING ROPE.  are you kidding me.

SO NO ONE had their new books. they brought them in 5 mintues after class started. THEN they took out 3 - 4 students at a time to do their computer tests. ARE YOU SHITTING IN MY MOUTH NOW? LIKE HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO TEACH WHEN I DO NOT HAVE THEM ALL IN ONE ROOM AT THE SAME TIME. 

What the fuck ever. Holy christ sandwich.

Finally my day ends and my Korean Lily lady has me over to talk and she was talkign about the class and I'm just frustrated to the fucking hilt at this point and I really did tear up a bit, but like WTF.  She and I are in the same boat like neither of us has a clue wtf we're suppose to do, so even though it's nice, it SUCKS cause we have NO IDEA what we're suppose to do.  So "Serenity Now".  I asked if we could just fast forward like 3 months.

I saw my old students today and I almost hugged them all. I miss those little sons of bees.  And my other kids my 4.30 ones who are in new classes. I miss them. I saw them and was like omg come to me my children let us run away from here. Seriously I'm out of it and hungry let me be.

This post made little sense and I should delete it but it's less energy to click on post. So there you go. An insane day in the life of an overwhelmed English teacher in Korea.

Hmm....all my titles suck.

So Friday after I posted that I went out to see Grant play in Hundae (No idea if that's spelt right).  Got there at 11.30. We left at 9.30.  wtf.  Anyway, he and his band were great.  I even got 2 shout outs. What up hah.  

We left at 1.30 or so.  Subway closes about 12.15.  So...we had to cab it back.  Thank god Cecelia knows a bit of Korean.  She ended up getting us a taxi. Just after we saw this man.

He was tipsy to say the least.  I was 100% sure I was going to see a man get run over. But god dammit it didn't happen. Also note this is the CLOSEST to the curb he was the 4 minutes I saw him.

So we get in a cab. He says 35. Whatever.  Then the ass turns on the meter.  So half way there. He says in Korea are you Russian?  (aka. are you prostitutes?) FUCK YOU ASS HOLE is what I say in my head.  Cecelia says oh are you Japanese in Korean? Then he says no no, Russian Russian.  So dick head still thinks we're gonna pay him. Fuck that noise.   So I am now plotting how to find this dickheads family and melt their faces.  What?  I was SICK and angry that I had to pay some asshole who just insulted me.  So we get 4 minutes from our stop and he turns off the meter. Which was at 21.  WELL. Cecelia is that last so I told her good luck.  Soon as it stops I pop that fucking door open.  Cecelia argues with him as Mel and I wait outside.  She said she kept pointing to the meter and how he turned it off. What a penis face.

So Saturday I wake up with the effin throat thing again.  I figure I should go to the hospital and take care of it now before it gets bad like it was.  So I call Simon, he says give them the phone when you get there.  Cecelia gives me directions and I'm on my way.

This is in front of the hospital. Yea..... so it was very clean in there, but every bed was in a big room.... so I got there and there was one man there.  He left soon after.  I was by myself for about 10 minutes.  Then an old lady and her family came and were beside me.  She must have eaten too much (yea they go to the hospital when they EAT TOO MUCH).  Then a chick in an ambulance came in.  Then a baby and another old lady. That lady got blood taken out and sent away.  And then another lady came in. 

The doctor spoke decent English and said I had severe throat swelling.  Shit if he woulda saw me Monday he would crapped himself, because it was 1/15 of what it was Monday.  So my treatment was an IV bag full of antibiotics and then a painkiller shot (YEA). Then I got 2 days worth of pills. THESE PILLS.

That's about 18 pills A DAY. YEA BOY.  I honestly got some weird shakes after I took these pills.  I'm fucking Michael J. Fox at the moment.  Watch me eat soup, it's god damn hilarious, unless you are me.

So now I'm all better.

I lied

I will be postponing the mailing of said postcards.  This is due to the amazing amount of work I have to do this weekend.  I do promise to have them sent out by next Saturday.  Sorry but I'm exhausted.

Believe it or not.

I got postcards.  They are A. hard to come by and B. come with envelopes.  This country is weird.

So I'm hoping to send them out Saturday morning.  

They do not have photos of Korea on them, nor are they that interesting.  Rather they are strange.  Please enjoy the strangeness that is Korea all within a postcard!

What happens when you are sick?

So my neck is so swollen you can see this massive lump on the side. It's quite disgusting and painful.  It feels like when I swallow there are razor blades in my throat. So I got to work and I was crying c/o the pain.  When I'm that sick I tend to cry.  Don't know why I just do.

Simon took me to a clinic.  The doctor spoke English which was great.  So he said my lyphnodes were swollen.  Then sprayed some crazy spray in my mouth then in my nose.  Then I went outside and the lady behind the desk took me to a small room. Told me pants off with her hands. Then spanked me and gave me a shot.  Interesting.

I got my pills and boy do I have a few of them.  In Korea they put them in plastic bags with your doses prepared for you.  It's helpful.  The pills I took this morning were so big and my throat hurt so bad.  It was not fun.  But it's 2.40 I just had lunch (some strange rice porridge which wasn't bad and full of mushrooms) and I can swallow a littler easier and it doesn't feel like my head is going to explode.

After King of the Hill back to bed.

I don't Pho good.

HA see what I did there.

My infection has lessened and now I have a bastard of a cold. It sucks.

I got a notice from the post office on my door Thursday.  Someone rang my door Friday then took off. So I went to the post office today.  Only to be brought to a room upstairs filled with packages.  Ever been to that room in Canada? NOPE.  wtf.  So they point that I have to walk somewhere....and I see a window so I said window and the man says window. Ok got it.  I get there and it's a letter from France.  To a one Cho something dong. Right so OBVIOUSLY I am no Dong. haha oh I'm sick I can't make bad jokes if I want to. So I show him my new Alien Status card saying I am a one Miss Stacey.  Well all be damned he doesn't care and points and yells sign sign.  So I do the cross the arms. Annyo (meaning no) and he says SIGN SIGN. SO ok FINE I"LL SIGN IT.  So now I think I just took a registered letter for someone else who lived at my apartment at one time.... that doesn't sound good.

On the bright side it's nice out.

Ok it's been awhile.

I can't remember everything, but let's see.  Last weekend I went and visited Grant and his family.  His wife was very nice and welcoming and spoke better English than I do.  And Lina is the cutest thing.  She showed me how she slides.  Fun kid!

His school is spectacular.  I'm amazed, it's gorgeous. I saw a photo of 'The After' this Christian band Gavin worked with and I had to take a photo. Who would have thought you'd find them in S. Korea.  So after Grant and I had sam gibsol.....sue me I don't know how it's spelt or really how it's said, but dammit it's good.  It's just pork bbq infront of you. Small pieces that you put in a lettuce leaf with either kimchi or onions or garlic or a spicy sauce or all of them.  Then put it in you face in one shot.  I've had it twice here, but this was the first time I had it in someone's refurbished garage!  I swear! I think I have a photo....

And even if that glass says Hite it's MAXX beer  You HAVE to drink beer or it gets all crazy in your mouth.  North of the glass is a spicy tofu soup (really good if you use the rice to cut the heat). On the left is kimchi and below it was some sort of salady thing which was not spicy...I think.  And on the grill you see some pork, garlic and onions.

Here is Grant enjoying his meal.

After that Grant and I bar hopped.  In this section of Seoul there is a bar every 2 feet and as Grant said there are also 3 or 4 above each bar too.  The second bar was my favourite, reminded me of my friends back home.

Yea I did! It was also my first solo subway trip which was 100% successful.  Minus me being late.  Took longer than I thought, but nothing bad occurred.  After Ho Bar we picked this strange random bar, which looked like it was put together with an old chicken coup (I didn't take a photo sadly) but man I walked in to them playing Amy Winehouse! How could I not love it!? They fed us peanuts and salted minnows.

Ok so after that I took my ride back home only to be asked to go do karaoke. OF COURSE! Another Saturday night then. hah.  I don't remember much of the week currently, because I'm feeling rather sick.  Tuesday on the way home from school I could feel an ear ache coming on.  Yesterday I was bad ass sick and my coordinator took me to the pharmacy to get some pills. Today my ear ache is worse and if it's like this tomorrow I think I"ll have to go to the hospital...wank.

But today Mel and I had to give a speech to the new kindy moms about what they'll be learning at our school.  It was weird, because they don't know English and we don't know Korean. So basically Mel and I could have said anything we wanted to, but our supervisor was there and she knows the English. But they spoke Korean so fast!  It was strange.  I just nodded in agreement the whole time. Smiles. Smiles everyone.

I'm just waiting for Lost to load.  Good luck on your knee dad!

CANDY and suckups.

I forgot to mention. I got a new school class, older kids.  12 years old I believe.  So I get into class and the one kid, Mike says, "Teacher are you for us?" I said, "Yes. Looks like it" "Oh good, teacher is very pretty." I said, "Student is very smart." He is now my favourite.

Next, today.  I get some crazy lemon candies.  Awesome.  Then this kid, another great kid, just pops something in my mouth. In my head I'm like WTF IS GOING ON.  So it looks like a bobby pin ok....and now it's tasting like fish so again my head. WTF DID SHE PUT IN MY GD MOUTH!  She shows me the bag.  It's DEHYDRATED OCTOPUS.  YEA!  Hmmm protein.....

You take the good, you take the bad.

How to cheer yourself up in Asia.

Today started out alright.  Monday was bad. I didn't want to get out of bed, let alone work, but I did.  The day kinda blew hard.  Whatever, so today wasn't SO bad.  I actually had quite a good day.  I got PRAISE from my co-ordinator.  Which I hear you get rarely.  So I was quite happy about this.  Then I just let them know I'm leaving (as my day was over) and I get another teacher asking me to talk to them. So infront of all these people she states that the new kids mom says that her son told her all the kids speak Korean all class. ARE YOU*EXPLICIT*KIDDING ME! Firstly, it's a goddamned rule on my *explicit* board seeing as I can't understand it.  So I said no they don't.  Unless they do it quietly and basically said it's possible the kids he was with were, because they were acting like shits that day.  She then says, well who do I believe.  Basically stating that I was lying.  You *explicit**explicit**explicit**explicit* of a *explicit*.  No.  So I left pretty pissed off.  Understandably right?

So I get myself 4 dollars worth of veggies to put in spaghetti.  Then move onto the discount store.  I buy myself a cutting board worth 4.40 and some tongs for 1.10.  Then I move onto the glorious purchase.  I bought myself a new toilet seat.  The one they gave me, let's not talk about.  So I half ass installed it and it works.  I now get to do my business on a hot pink seat.  Jealous. I thought so.

Another weekend down.

Oh my sweet lord.  That was quite a weekend.  I have no idea why they pass so quickly.

Friday, a lot of drinking in a new town.  They had Canadian beer! by that I mean Moosehead. I still went for the cheap stuff.  A new girl (a friend one my friend now) and her friends live in that town, so we were invited.  They all left, she ended up staying with us.  A Korean man attempted to bed her in a way.  Quite funny because he was so drunk.  The bartender came and apologized to her. Nice man that barkeep.  So back to Sanbon and karaoke again, but we drank soju and orange juice. This time til 6.

Up on Saturday.  Did nothing til 6.  When we drank, more beer. This time in a weird bar with crazy glasses.  I have photos.  You can get a single, double or triple.  And you keep them in these cup holders that are 4C.  Apparently if you nurse you're beer they're freeze to the cupholder.  No ones froze. One of my friends got rather tipsy and began throwing these things (kinda like the styrofoam things you get in a box when you get a package, but they're food here and obviously not styrofoam) at the guy who was with us.  A lot of throwing occurred between the two.  Which got us rather dirty looks from the Koreans.  We left soon after.  Dinner time.  We had galbi.  It's good.  Then we went to this bar called Psycho.  It's full of foreigners and not in Sanbon.  The ladies (myself included) got hit on by and Irishman. What up.  Mel got hit on by a man from Boston.  hah.  The bands were ok.  The one girl behind the bar started her own band to play this show.  They know 3 songs, they tried their best.  But it was all girls so every chick was screaming for them haha.  They were cool. I met another Stacy. She looks like Rosario Dawson but prettier.  I like her. We got many photos together.  Then off to MC's. A hip hop bar.  It's Korean 29 park and white people ARE THE PARTY.  Yea you heard me. That place was all over us.  It was HILARIOUS.  I have never been grabbed like that in my life.  Odd, but fun, because they all want to be like you so they'll dance just like you.  I was a superstar that night.  Then again karaoke until 5am.

Sunday hah. 2pm off to another Seoul part.  Gum something.... it had a Dr.Fish (we have one in town, but the fish we not there last time) SO 5 of us from the school go.  Dr. Fish is PACKED.  We get some coffee/tea/etc and wait to put our feet in the fishes.  So they have these like 5 feet long troughs in the ground (there are 2 of them) with 2 sinks in between.  What you do is wash your feet in the sink. Then put them in the long trough with the fish.  The fish nibble at your feet and eat the dead skin.  SERIOUSLY. Ok at first it was like WTF am I doing. Mel quit early.  I was in it to get some soft feet.  So heel first. It was like someone was pricking you foot to tickle it.  When you put your whole foot in, sometimes it was like a fork being jammed into your foot. SO strange.  But the girl who had gone before told us that these were the biggest fish, usually the use the small ones and it doesn't feel that weird, but if we got use to them we'd be fine with the little ones. I'm 100% up for doing that again. It costs 2 dollars for 15.  hah Then we had BUFFET. ENGLISH FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had fried chicken and chinese food (it was sweet and sour chicken), i made my own chicken fajitas, nachos and chicken, salad (with good cherry tomatoes), pineapple, pizza, quesdillas and a lot of sour cream. Then home.

Today was Monday. I got another class. These kids are 12 years old.  I apparently also have my won classroom after kindy. It's the pink room.  Fitting I suppose.  So I walk in and this one kid goes are you the new teacher? I said yes. He said New teacher is very pretty. I said new student is very smart. He is my new favourite.  Seeing as my other little shit today told me I was fat. I told him he has a huge head.  That was the end of the discussion.  Next time he's gonna hear me say, "Are you Japanese?" (The don't like Japanese folks here...due to the many hostile takeovers; kinda like America and the rest of the world; SORRY I HAD TO. that was good burn) anyway, I'm glad today is over and the nice person with the great internet connection once again has let me use theirs for my pleasure.  Thank you Korea.

Also I had a great dinner today. I'm full!  Japanese food. haha

3 weeks

Crazy times!

I finally made myself a real meal.  Spaghetti with onion, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers in butter. OOOOOO so good.  I need some white wine to make it awesomeR. yea er.

Today I had my second meeting with the ol' boss man.  He talked all in Korean to a Korean teacher who told me what he said. Which is strange, because I know the man speaks great English.  Anyway I GOT PAID! WEEE! And it was just my 2 training weeks. So now I also get paid on the 10th. So 5 days of regular pay.  Rad - i- cal. 

Nothing too exciting has been going on,  but I've heard some murmurings about travel come March and into the Spring.  China, Japan and Tawain. Weehoo! I'm soooo ready to get out of Korea and see something different. Yea 3 weeks and I want to see something new.  This weekend I'll be going somewhere in Korea.  I still don't know the names of the towns I've been too. I really should learn!

At work today I had to help interview a child.  She was SO shy.  The Korean teacher kept talking in Korean to get her to open up.  Luckily I found these weird fruit toys, where you can stick the two halves together with their velcro.  And I put one together and her face lit up like a Christmas tree.  Then she was all about life.  Chatty little one after that.  There were quite a few new kids being interviewed today.   Also come Monday I have a new class at 5.30.  This will be the oldest kids I teach.  Very different from the others I teach.  Most of them can put together simple sentences, but that's about it.  I tried to get them to put together a story.  As in I start the story with a sentence and they add to it.  Ummm yea we're gonna work on that.  They didn't get it...... nice kids though. hah

Now weekend YAY!

Highlights

Last night I had delicious Indian cuisine.  OH so good.  Best naan ever!  It was a fellow teachers birthday.  After that we went up to another girls apartment and watched Labyrinth. 

Most important part on the short walk home, we stopped and viewed some merchandise.  Mel tried on some toques.  But you see the music was 'pumpin'.  They LOVE their hip hop and rap here, but this song was something you had to dance to. No choice. So I broke 'it' out with one of the other girls.  We got groovy in the streets, only to have a lady STARE at us like we were born on Mars (which honestly they might believe here).  So Mel sees her stares, points at the lady and just BUSTS out laughing, while we continue our busting.  Quite enjoyable.

Today, Mel and I walked around and went into some of the stores around our place.  I don't think I've actually seen people stare like they did today.  We had 2 old men STOP, turn around, move and let us walk through.  So I said foreigner in Korean and the kept talking, then following us for a bit.  Strange.  But that's something I won't get use to.  Cause they're aren't checkin out my sweet style or my wicked hot looks, but rather agape at my WHITENESS.  HOLY HELL CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I AM WHITE AND IN ASIA! SHOOOOOOCK.  Too bad you've had whities here for quite some time. HOLY.  It's different if it's a kid. Like ok I get it. But seriously adults need to not stare at me or I will stick out my GD tongue at you. Watch yourself people.

Photos

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Weekend

Saturday, got together and had Pho.  This place in our building.  Realllly good food.  Plus they give you your leftovers in tupperware, microwave safe!

Then off the Psycho Bar.  It's for foreigners.  Yay English speakers.  We played free pool.  There were 6 people there? It was 8pm, so it's pretty early and it's their holiday weekend.  So one couple there was special.  White dude, Korean girlfriend.  She drunk off her ass, but still wanted to drink.  Mel caught her walking face first into the glass door.  Beauty.  Then she sat near us, spilt one of the girls drinks.  She walks over and the boyfriend says, sorry she spilt some of it.  Then the guy went and got her a new beer.  So those 2 now move on back to the bar.  Where she has trouble sitting.  The other girls are in mid-convo and I was playing pool only to look up and see this.  Her hand pulling his shirt down and her licking his GD NIPPLE.  WTF.  Holy shit, I don't think I have ever been so disgusted yet so entertained at the same time.  Drunks.

Then onto Noribong. Well McD's first for McNuggets! YES! and 7/11 for beer.  This Noribong was pretty damn sweet.  It has crazy lights and a little stage if you want to sing. IT WAS GOOD. Until the man came and took away our booze.  Here they want you to buy it from them, in our town BRING YOUR OWN!  But I think we were there for 3.5 hours or so at least 3.  We paid for 2 hours, but they give you free time. It's pretty awesome.

Got home about 3.30.  Not too bad at all!

Sunday, basically I went to this big electronics store. 9 stories plus 2 basement floors (which were E-Mart).  So each floor was a different type of electronic and then it was all individual vendors.  So strange, but good insofar that you can play off of them to get a better deal.

So we were looking for Super Nintendo games and old consoles.  Found nothing.  So the girl who brought us said it was her first time here so maybe we should go outside and look around.  Now it was Seoul, but I forget which area...sorry.  Anyway, we are walking around looking for shops with games or PC in their signs.  We found one but it was an arcade.  

So we cross the street and walk.  There are a bunch of people crowding around oil barrels filled with wood and fire. So we're like what's going on.  We keep walking and I look to my left and say "Guy's there's a bus crashed into the side of a building and all it's windows are smashed out. I'm a little scared." So right after this, which is semi covered up with large cardboard stands in a way... we see this stand with several Korean man's photos.  So we assume it's a vigil and book it.  We get across the street and I take some photos, you can't see the bus but you can see the building is smashed.  The best part hasn't even occurred yet!

So the girl who brought us there said, "Let's go down here." This small alley, which is cleanish. So we saunter down the road, unaware of the horror/amazement about to behold our beloved eyes.  What is it we see? Oh these tiny little all glass rooms on the ground floor of the buildings.  How odd.  Looks like little beauty shops.  They have a little chair to sit on, a tv, a short couch, and even a little vanity.  Oh weird the light in there is red.  Oh man, why is there a girl sitting on the chair. OH SNAP IT IS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT. YEA SIR. So I take two photos.  But none with ladies I did not want to get my ass handed to me.  As we were walking down and figured it out some other hooker (LITERALLY THIS TIME!) came to check it out.  Cause it was English speaking.  Yea.  Dressed in a very interesting fashion.  Saw it was 3 ladies and BOOKED IT.  hahah I believe Mel has a photo of 3 Korean men walking down the street behind us.  Yeeeeaaah.  NOT EVEN THE BEST PART!  So we get out of this small and short alley only to see the building at the end.  Police Station, yes.  So I get photos of this.  All of it is awesome.

So it's late and we get back into the building and have this great little snack.  Then up to the electronics store again.  And we did find the Super Nintendo games.  Sim City, Donkey Kong Country (I LOVE THIS GAME!) and something else.  The girl who brought us has the SNES system, which she has us over to play.  So we go to E-mart and find a better foreign food section than in Sanbon.  And by foreign I mean food from Canada-esque.  Awesome to see Heniz.

Anyway, we get back to the train station and our guide she is lost. hah it was funny to me, because I don't know the subway much at all.  But she was getting flustered, because you could get on 4 different lines from here.  So she stopped a group of non-Koreans, who she hoped spoke English.  Lucky for her this group of Mexicans were rad and helped us out.  They were a little confused too haha, but friendly thank god!  So we got home and had delicious fajitas.  Oh fajitas.

Monday was boring. Laundry, Internet and a new show called "Demons".  Then dinner with the girls.  

Only two days left of my holiday :(

5 Day weekend starts now!

So Friday was a sham. 

I get to work for my 10.35 class and was asked why I wasn't there earlier because I was suppose to MC.  umm what.

So the head of the co-ordinators asks me this.  I said I was told to be here for my 10.35 class and then I was told that I would be getting my physical after the one Korean girls morning class.  So yes she said it must have been miscommunication.  Right or I just wasn't told.  I never heard for 9.50 ALL day Thursday.  This place is such a dump.  Seriously.  It made me look like a moron.  Mel too.  I was not impressed.  

Friday night was good.  I had some chicken galbi, spicy as hell, but very good and it had CHEESE! Which is hard to come by.  Then some pool, which was awesome. Canada vs. America.  Canada won by default.  But a win is a win.

Then we watched Valkyrie, which was ok.  Assigned seating and Korean subtitles. mwhahaha. Also there was beer and chips in the theatre.  A Korean dude got out of his seat and told a guy to sit back.  I'm assuming he couldn't read the subtitles.  The theatre is not as good as back home.  The seats were comfy, but you cant' put your feet up.  It's strange.  Maybe I can take a photo.

Tonight is a party in a different town.  Hopefully there will be karaoke.  That's the plan.

One More Day

UNTIL the 5 day holiday! Go Korea!  They have this Lunar New Year, where basically the entire country turns a year old all together.  So they all have a 3 day holiday, plus the weekend. WHOO!

So last night I got home from more Nori-bong (Karaoke) around midnight.  Hot damn those palces have some crazy songs. Like a little ditty called "dick in a box". Yea Mel and I sang it, Ceceila did not know about this song.  So it came as a great surprise. hah

4am I wake up with some crazy pain.  I get up and go to the washroom, assuming I'm gonna puke.  I end up getting faint and I lied on the floor.  Then I was fine-ish.  Went to bed.  I slept in until About 20 minutes before I had to go.  I woke up woozy still.  On the way to work I thought I was gonna just let it go in the streets. Luckily bodily fluids on the streets in Korea bother no one...

I got to work feeling ill still.  But after lunch I was better.  Tomorrow I have my physical, I guess we'll see if anything is wrong! 

Wednesday Night Update

So no day is ever the same at work.  I'm telling you one day one class is just kids not paying attention, being bad and all that jazz.  The next day, fantastic.

I have NO CLUE what's going on.

Today my rather rambunctious kids were angles.  Then again I did crack down hard on those children today.  I was told to take control of them.  Man it is empowering, but I feel bad.  You know it's better for them to pay attention and all that business or no one learns.  Today they did great.

My class after is just usually awesome.  Today OMG horrendous kids.  I had to crack down on them too!  It was opposites day apparently.

Nothing too interesting going on.  I saw a Korean clown today on stilts.  It was scary and I did not enjoy myself.

Now I'm catching up on 24 and Jack does not disappoint.  LOST TOMORROW FOR ME. YAY

Costco Trip to Seoul

Well Saturday/today Mel and I joined the couple from the school and we went to Costco.  Again, the cab driver didn't put the fare on.  Whatev.  They got a twenty.  

Inside Costco (a 2 story building) is utter insanity. Full of people and I don't mean full, like whoa Wal Mart was crazy full today.  I mean it's fucking Devonshire Mall Dec 24th fucking full.  

Here is a lesson for you all.  While living in Korea just push your way through. Do not apologize and just be an asshole in general.  Seriously.  Like the town I'm in isn't that much different from Windsor.  By that I mean, there is apt buildings, clothing stores, it's small but has a lot in it (so i guess a bit different) but it's a family oriented town.  But the people here are absolutely different in pretty much every way.  Like they stare, they don't look at you, they STARE.  They will push into you, not move around you.  And it's not just that they say nothing when they hit me, but it's anyone.  It's really fucking annoying.  It is one thing I will NOT get used to at all.  It's just not friendly here at all.

So anyway Costco is 2 floors, so top is non food, bottom is food.  Mel and I spent 225 bucks there.  I got FOOD. I can EAT!  But there was stuff I wanted, but it was soooooo expensive.  Say a large bag of marshmallows....10 bucks. 10 effin bucks and by big I mean like the big marshmallows in a regular sized bag.  Everything is over the top price wise.  I have a list of stuff I want from home.  Yea it's been 8 days and I want food from home so bad.  I hate not having an oven.  Their toaster ovens are probably smaller than those little kid ovens with the lightbulb.  It's so strange.  At least I got cheese to make grilled cheese sandwiches.  Now all I need is butter and ketchup and I'm rollin'.

So on the way home it was about 10 minutes before we could get a cab.  It was kinda pricy coming home, but the couple offered to give us money.  They're far too nice, so they're obviously Canadian.  They're great.  We had a hot dog at the store (we could trust they were made of pork)  and we had to stand and eat.  Get our asses smashed by a-holes with their carts.  MAN I do not like it in there.  But getting food I know and love is worth it.

So now I have almost everything under control.  Just some work I want to get ahead on.  I'm going to sleep like a rock tonight. I'm excited for it, how sad. haha.

For the record, NO Canadian Costco Ice Cream.

FRIDAY

What a day!

So I meet Mel to get some photos done in the subway station.  They have a little booth right. It is 5,000 won.  Mel puts in her money and they take the photo. NOTHING prints.  So she goest to the window to get the only English speaker there to say, "We don't service that machine, you'll have to call the number."  Yea. That's damn fine English.  Mel wondered why she was working in a subway with all that good English happening. So she's pissed and we have NO clue where the get photos.  So we go off to school.

Right.

It takes us about an HOUR to get to school. Oh yea did I mention it snowed.  By that I mean maybe 2 cms worth over few hours period. Nothing serious right. HA. They A. Don't have salt to clean the streets OR the sidewalks B. Refuse to buy a snow shovel (I saw one) and C. Can't drive in snow.

I saw a leaf blower blowing snow off the ground. I SHIT YOU NOT.  

So we are walking around in the snow our shoes by 30 minutes into the walk are wet as hell.  So we decide that we are so damn lost to just go home and call. (see the whole week we've been taxing it with the 2 girls from work so they know how to say where we work in Korea. Mel and I do NOT yet)  So on the way back we finally recognize the road and get to school.  We are 30 minutes late at this point.  Not to teach, but we were suppose to get our physical.  So the guy there at the school who is helping us asks for the photos.  Since we don't have them we will have to go back and get some.  Shit.  But we know how to get a taxi home.

We get in the white cabs (NOT the black ones, they are apparently INSANE drivers; white cabs kinda are too)  but we say Emart-uh.  Seriously.  Or Sanbon Yuk (Sanbon Station)  So we are on the way back and I notice this A HOLE doesn't turn on his meter.  Fuckface is trying to screw me over.  So not only have I already cursed this country all day to it looking the same and getting lost for an hour not this dingbat want ME to give him all sorts of money. RIGHT.  So we stop and Mel goes how much.  He just does the international I dont know what you said. So I said 2 dollars. (cause i'm not fool here asswipe) and he goes ahh ahh ok 2.  Cocksucker.

OK picture time.  We got instructions in Korean.  So we sit, take photos, wait.  Mel has the man call the school to tell our guy that our photos are done and we can meet him.  He says we have to wait for the photo.  So we sit while he does 2 more people.  Then goes 1 hour to us.  I do the hand signal 'we wait'. and he goes uh huh.  Does our stuff in like 10 minutes? PHOTOSHOPS the shit out of us.  I still look fucking awful.  Let's see trek in the snow for an hour, hair's wet and pretty much knotted to hell and well my face is my face.  It's so bad.  But he took out my dark circles.  Boy do I have them here.

So I get him to call the guy again and he says to meet him at Starbucks.  OH Starbucks.  Not that different from home, price wise, but the coffee was different for sure.  The man behind the counter had good English and told me how much in English, so that makes like easier.  Most places have a screen and that's cool.  So we wait.

About five minutes later he's there and we are off to get our physical.  It's 15 min away and it's now 11.40 or so.  He informs us he had an accident last night. Someone his his back bumper.  He's in a little pain.  SUCKS.  And with the snow on the road, it's chaos I tell you.  I saw a car MANGLED.  I think it must have spun out cause the back bumper was messed up.  Crunched from both sides at the hood, but the back doors were fine. Strange.  It's not fun to drive here when it's not snowing, let alone when there is snow.  He gets us there safely and we learn some new stuff in Korea. Like to buy a car here, you have a showroom only.  They bring cars from the factory if you want to test drive them.  It's different for sure.  I'll take a photo.  I think Hyundia is right by us. There are a lot of photos I need to take.

So we get there. Everyone is on lunch until like 2.30. YEA 

Back to school, where we now open up a bank account.  Pretty smooth sailing.  That is until I'm back at school and one of the Korean teachers (who was setting up account for the 2 other newer people) dropped off a paper I have to bring back to the bank.  This country is not organized in the slightest.  But their subway run on time.  Wtf eh.

So at school.  I teach my one class and at the end this one little girl is CRYING. Like puddles on the desk. I'm not kidding.  I was pronouncing her name wrong and the boys were making fun of me for it.  It wasn't directed to her.  But she took offense.  FUCK I felt bad man.  I made the boys apologize....yea.... the boys were like wtf did we do.  They were fun that day too...ah well. I'll see them Tuesday and make it up to them all with candy or something.

Yes we can bribe them to be good with candy and gifts.

School is over.  I still have no schedule as to when I am coming in but what's new.  So Mel and I go home.  We were going to have Indian before girls night, but that didn't pan out.  Ah well.  We had Popeyes Chicken.  YEA.  Got some Cass beer, whose handle broke and it dropped on the floor, decimating one bottle. (See they don't have separaters in their boxes, so they all bang together.) At least it was in the store.  We waited and one guy told us we could go. So a new box in hand we went to the cash.  Got home and the ladies came over.  Two girls from school and one friend of one of theirs. Who is now a friend of mine.  Bitch can sing.  More on that.

So we paint our nails and do facials. It's about midnight and we go out to this place called the Pirate bar.  AWESOME. You get beer served in ice.  Like it's in a plastic thing and this huge like ice glass.  There are photos somewhere.  You drink your beer and throw it at this target.  Hit the target win a prize.  They have this like electronic prize wheel.  You can win beer, fries, whiskey all that.  2.50 a beer. I"M GOING BACK. hah..so my throw was so fucking bad.  Omg.  The worst of all the girls.  I threw like a damn girl, but it's made of freakin' ice people.  One guy there said nice throw. I said shut up. I know it's bad. haha

So from there we go to UFO. What's UFO you ask. KARAOKE ROOMS. Can we all say, "Stacey is in her glory." HOLY CRAP. 15 bucks, bring your own liquor, and you get an hour. Thing is you get free time all the time. So we were there for a few hours.  I sang my face off. 100% on Alanis, You Outta Know... they had That Thing You Do (which i didn't get to do), Pop goes my heart (from music and lyrics) WE DID AND WE RULED. Mel and I danced to that. Oh god yea. hah It was so so so so much fun.  Lots of songs.  I can't wait to go back there.

So one of the girls had something to do this morning and was asking the time.  I took a picture and showed her the time.  YEA NOT THE TIME.  I said it was 2ish. I got home at 5.45 am.  That's how much fun I was having.  OMG.  OMG. Seriously it's fantastic.  And now I have a headache and in dire need of a shower and then off to Costco!!!!! I'm very excited!