Sun, 05 Mar 2006

Well, its been not a week since I left my old city, and not missing it one bit. Got a mountain here to climb and there’s much more happening here. So...first night here head to a nearby city (im about a 2'50$ cab to a city in either direction) and I knew it was a better places for me. Many many a pitcher, few foreigners, Koreans liking their drinks and dancing. So...new school seems very Asian, Not organized at all, a director who is not whatsoever a business women. Its gonna be interesting, but I bet I will have a good reason to leave within a few months. Me, new Korean teacher, and new Korean manager are all in a daze as its the first week of the new semester,,,hoping to get a coupe of more foreigners to cut our schedules back.

Back into the real working world, 10 in the morn (still nice and late) till about 6 or 7. Kids seem good and I think Ill enjoy it. As per a good story. Went out with my co-teacher Joe who has been here for 1.5 years and is engaged to a Korean women. He’s been to a couple of diff. school so he knows the deal and has a bunch of good friends. So, we went to Appujong (the high class area of town) for one of his friends engagement party for buffalo wings (i knew the girl had to be cool if she was allowing her guy to go to a buffalo wing place for dinns). Anyways, 15,000 won, aka 15bucks US, and all you can eat wings!!! Scrumptious, had a good 50, as well the 15 of us probably polished off a solid keg of beer. Joe went home early (he getting old) as well as some of the others who were feeling the beer more. So me and another (although sketchy cdn. guy) went out with the newly engaged fiancée and her 3 friends.

Piled into a mini car that one drove, luckily i was thebiggest and got shotty. Maybe not good though, freaking scary, the usual asian women driver being very unconfident and going in outta lanes randomly and not choosing an exit till the end. Pretty much the most scared I’ve been in a car since Harbin. Anyways, went to a club called M2. Was pretty good...pricey, but a good techno bar. You may think, good techno bar? But yah I started enjoying them in Harbin and there is just too much hop hop here. Too much hip hop? Yah, I did say that, but as in Canada where we have wiggers, here it is kiggers (name I made up). You go to teh club and hear American beats an chorus (sometimes) with Korean verses they just sing over. All wear full on g'd up Celtics outfits or some kinda gangsta shit. Got their choreographed dances they learned from the music vids. They see the real North Americans come in and, boom, WTF, your not wearing your hat sideways (with original sticker on the brim) and walkin with a limp! So...ive gotten sick of that scene pretty quick.. Feels alot like Chiggity Biggity with people thinking they are gods gift. Anyways, the bar was decent as Iwent there with some girls. Course 2 of them were married with kids and the other would have taken even more beer to get to that point.

Quite an odd scene though, they all stand facing the the Dj (forward) and dance like that. The odd couple will have one person turned around and dancing with each other. But yah, for the life of me you ant get the girls to dance with you. Seconded by a random guy who comes up an says WTF. Course he looks 100% korean to me so i et taken back..hes acutally an american so he doesn’t get the front facing and shy girls either. So, you cant get them to turn arond and actually dance with you, so what i saw most koreans doing was just dancing right behind the girls and imagining they are dancing with them. I saw it work a couple of times (both koreans, any we-guks 'foreigners' tryin it got a dirty look) but saw it mostly end the same, girl moving away. But it seemed like the norm., I felt like a creep even though i wasn’t tryin to do it. Everyone isjust facing front, and you are dancing and there is a girl right in front of you gettin down too...im like WTF, I feel like a creep.

Anyways, the girl driving just happened to live 2 minutes from my house so i got a ride home at 3 in tha morn. I was tempted to ask her in, but since she said the animations in the car were for her daughter I thought it wise not too..she might say yes!!! So, slept all day today, got my shopping done (my lord shopping in a big dept. store in Korea on a sunday) . Twas freakin outta control, you thought the driving was disorganized...you can only imagine!!!
Hope all is well,
Colin