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