What a weekend

Saturday

Had a good long lie in on Saturday morning and was eventually forced to get up for the workshop at the gym at 1pm. Went along for that to find that the bit I wanted to go to didn't actually start until 2:30pm, so made my way to the nearest restaurant (which happened to be Chinese) and proceeded to try and order. The menu was of course, all in Korean apart from the headings, so I picked the 2nd one down on the "Chicken" heading, crossed my fingers and hoped it was good!! While waiting for my food the fire alarm went off! Loud! Everyone had a peek round the corner to find out what was going on, decided it was nothing serious so went back to what was more important - FOOD! Mine was really tasty!!! No idea what it was, but at least I know where it is on the menu :)

Didn't go to the workshop and started to walk home. Bumped into two girls I had met on Wednesday (teachers) and went for a drink with them. I was going to go for a juice, and one of them said 'Don't have the tomato juice' it tastes awful.. She said it tasted like you were literally biting into a tomato. I thought, well that doesn't sound too bad! So, I went for it! And oh my, it was disgusting. I think they probably freeze tomatoes, and then blend loads of them up and put it in front of you. Ugh. It was pink and looked like a smoothie - and yes, it tasted as if you were biting into a tomato. Couldn't drink it. So, ordered a cappucino (thought i'd go with a safe option) and it was cold and could have been passed off as anything coffeeish which had been put in the fridge. In the meantime, the tomato juice had started to separate and it was so thick that you physically had to push a straw through it in order for it to touch the bottom. Pretty gross!!

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Met up with Jo in the evening and she took me to Eunpha park - it's a lake with a running track round it and long pedestrianised bridge across it. BEAUTIFUL at night - it's all lit up and there is a music/water display on as well - very cool. When I get round to taking some pictures will put them up. Then on to her friend's house where we had a beer, watched CSI and painted each toenail a different colour :) Yellow, pink, green, orange and another pink! All luminous :)

Off to "downtown". This is renowned for being a US military hot spot. Am always a bit wary of places like this and was SHOCKED to see so many black and white people all speaking English in one place. Had a great time - lots of dancing and playing pool, but can see why it's not the most popular place for teachers to go out. All a bit 'showy' but good experience nevertheless.

Sunday

Again, another nice long lie in. Wandered down the road for a BBQ with a bunch of teachers. Stopped off at the butchers to get some meat - I got a kilo instead of the 100g I had asked for, but it was all eaten and very very tasty! We had a quiz too. About 6 teams with 5/6 people per team. There was a lot of rivalry after the quiz they had had 2 weeks ago ;) Unfortunately, my team came last :( But, only by one point!! It was very close throughout apart from the winners who were miles ahead. There's a lot of banter between the South Africans, New Zealanders and the English - very funny! The Americans and Canadians are a bit quieter. I had my cricket ball with me so we went down to a school to play a game (again, the South African, New Zealand and England banter!). A few of us went down early and were expecting the others to bring a bat, but they thought we had a bat so we ended up with none!! We found a football instead and played for 1.5hrs. Brilliant!! Some Korean kids joined us and were amazing. Although, most of us were wearing flip flops and the pitch is made of sand and little stones - feet are VERY sore... One of the kids (who we nicknamed Kaka) gave me a baseball as a present at the end of the game. Not sure why but it will be used! :) Found out the the two New Zealanders only live a 10min walk away. Happy about having people a little closer and they're both a good laugh.

Back home and sat down with the mother (STILL don't know her name) and her friends (there was about 4 other mums, all their kids and one husband) and we ate some food, had a taste of Korean wine, and now.... I am pooped!!

Earlier start at school in the morning, and definitely badminton in the evening.