weekly update

ok, so another weekly update. i should just say weekend update. my life is terribly dull during the week. so friday night i went to jengi again to see marlar sing. it was good. the blues guitar guy was there which was nice. and then, as seen below this other guy was playing a few sets. be was rockin that harmonica. i told him that i thought he was the korean neil young.. and he took it like a compliment.. as well he should.. he has also promised to learn some songs for me, which is nice. his name is damon.. well that's his english name.. i find that koreans either don't trust us with their real names, or they think we won't be able to pronounciate it properly. meh.

oh and the above pic is the only one of me from the weekend. that's why it's there. basically i just discovered after 2 YEARS that my camera had a timer. i'm abounding with technological saavy (savvy) ?


then here is tara again. i think that's her 'hot' face. haha.

so on saturday i went downtown with carey for some curry. i actually cooked curry in my house a few weeks ago, and still my apartment smells of it. i went shopping, bought dad a shirt for his birthday (yeah, i know he reads this and i just ruined the surprise) and some shoes for myself. later i met kate and some other teachers for italian food, then we went to a bar owned my a canadian guy. i just hung out there for a little while and then went back to kates place. it was fun. she lied to me on what time the cabs go back to cheap rates so i hung out there until 6 am. turns out i only saved a dollar. i thought i was farther from home than i actually was. in anycase, it was nice to hang out with a new chickita.

sunday i did a whole lot of nothing. so i hear that canada is doing good in the olympics. props.

killing time

alright, so it's wednesday again already and i've finished teaching but am still stuck at the school. i've done everything i have to for the shift but am not allowed to leave. i'm such a go- getter. so now i'm here killing time, listening to my ipod. (best investment since the laptop btw) although wednesdays means less classes for me, it's more stressful because they are 80 minutes instead of 50, and the levels of my children are so much lower. they are barely communicative.

the week has been good thus far, and has chugged along. i work, go out for a drink, watch a movie. i also have been able to talk to jen and meg on the phone in the past week so i feel re-fueled. i talked to them about signing up here for another year, and they were both very supportive, while making me feel missed. i'm still not sure what i'm going to do but it would be very difficult for me to turn down making this kind of money for another year. if it weren't for the debt i really wouldn't care.

so on sunday i got lost. actually we (marlar and i ) got lost while on a bus. they changed all of the bus numbers on sunday and we managed to find a bus that would take us in the right direction. the route was much faster than before so while checking our text messages (we are SO korean now!) we missed our stop by a couple of seconds. instead of just getting off, marla suggested (and since i have a whatever attitude about everything i agreed) that we just ride the bus until it turns around and we'll get off on the other side of the street. now how lazy is that? and we were punished for it. we kept making all of these turns, shortly we had no idea of where we were (aside from Jisan (my area) and downtown i have no clue) .. so, we ended up at the bus terminal because the new buses are NOT cyclial, and i could have gone to Seoul in the time it took me to ride that city bus and get home. i was so pissy that i didn't even go to the dvd room i was originally heading to. so basically i had a 1,300won bus tour of the city. what did i learn? that when two incredibly apathetic people get together nothing good can come of it.

alright, i'm off...
love you,
jen xo

You're not hardcore, until you live hardcore.

I know. This is really scary. Whatev.
CHECK THIS OUT! I'm so happy. This place is amazing for getting adidas stuff circa the 1970's. This is a black and lime green Smith vs. Natase shirt. Oh yeah. They also have the 35th anniversary shelltoe sneakers here. I love love love love them, but they are really expensive and don't come in girls sizes. Way to discriminate adidas. (I still love you)
Carey and I. We went to this amazing Indian restaurant which has private rooms. Tons of great veggie curry for me and nan for 6 bucks. Hells yes. After that we got some candied strawberries (it's strawberry season here!) and walked around downtown.

Marcus, Jessica, Eun-Kyu, Carey, Me, Tara, Mark at Jengi.



Another weekend come and gone. Last week was rather uneventful. I think like most people I'm counting down until the weekend. Friday night I went with some people to see Marla sing at a bar called Jengi. That's her above. I was happy because I got to see some teachers that I never get to see during the week. Above that pic is me and Tara. I love her. Unfortunately she lives way too far away.

Saturday night we went back to Jengi to pick up Marlas guitar and she ended up singing while another guy played blues guitar. He was so amazing. Marla is going to be playing every friday night and I hope he comes back to play again. Marlas classical voice sounded good with his gritty guitar.

Right now it's monday afternoon, I'm just waiting for my hair to dry and then I'm off to meet Tristan for coffee.

Miss you tons,
Jen xo

no diggity

booked my flight to thailand! leaving april 8th, coming home april 17th...

that is all

oh, and yesterday was valentines day, and i got shitloads of chocolate and candy from the hellions... nice to know they're good for something!

clickity clack

it's monday night here in korea and i have a terrible headache so i will write and then head to bed..

the weekend was a good but busy weekend.. on friday night we went to a bar called jengi.. marlar was singing and though it wasn't busy at all (aside from us, around 10 people haha) she did really well.. i think she's planning on going next week too.. one korean lady was going crazy for it.. it was funny.. she could definitely start a fan club..

the next day we went to VIPS .. i don't know if they have this in canada but it's just a giant buffet.. i went for the all you can eat guacamole ... mm.. anyways, we went with some other teachers who we hadn't really had a chance to hang out with.. after that i went to a party at tara and marks house (they are my favourite new teachers at the school!) they live really far away.. the other end of the city, so if they weren't uber cool i would never go out that far to see them! but it was a good time..

i was busy running around town all sunday as well.. i didn't really have too much time to relax and i don't know if i'll get a chance to this coming weekend either.. but i guess it's good to be busy, not that i need the time to go by any faster.. i'd actually like it to slow down a bit.. but what can you do?!

funniest thing said today by a kid:
attendance question: if you could be any superhero, who would you be?
smith: i would be batman, because i am darkness.

level up for hilarity!

weekend over

but it was a good one.. friday night i went and got duk galbi with my friends, then saturday met eun-kyu for vietnamese food.. there's still no word on my flight to bangkok, but i'm harassing her almost daily about it.. i went out last night around midnight to meet some newish teachers, tara and mark to go out, socialize and dance.. we went to this bar/hotel first where a new band was playing.. they were awful.. then to downtown to 3 other bars.. last call isn't until 6 am here so the clubs are open until daylight.. we danced for around 4 hours and then headed home around 5:30.. i couldn't really sleep because my apartment has 2 huge windows and no curtains (i prioritize my spending) .. i ended up going to tgifridays with marlar for dinner then watched a movie.. it's 9:40pm now and i'm ready for bed i think..

i HATE sunday nights because it means that monday is just a few hours away.. ugh..

night

arg i say

so i don't know what's happening with this country but it's all of a sudden cold.. very cold.. 3 days ago i barely needed a jacket and now i'm totally bundled up when i leave the house.. make up your fricking mind korea!

to add to my ranting, yesterday we had a work meeting.. it was a follow up meeting to the one we had last week.. we were put into groups and told to prepare a presentation that you would give to the whole school (over 80 teachers, then their managers etc etc.. so around 100 peeps).. i did the research, basically the grunt work, another girl created the hard copies for the presentation, another girl was the "coordinator" (i still don't see what this is) .. i'm still not sure what.. and the last chick said she would present all of it.. so fine.. THEN yesterday, about an hour before the meeting, i get a call from the "coordinator", to say that the presenter has decided to not come to school.. no reason, she just wants to go on vacation.. i have to do the presentation.. she can't because she's sick.. so, i had NO time to prepare anything and had to go up and bullshit.. luckily that's one of my best skills.. so, in short, i'm not happy with this girl.. i hate group work and relying on other people..

so we (my friends, not group) went to TGI fridays for lunch.. the week went by so fast for us, because of the holiday.. and then i taught.. all good classes but 1.. then i went for some duk galbi with some other friends (bbq chicken fried up with veggies and rice paddies... very macheta) .. tonight i think i'm going downtown with some other people that i like but havn't had a chance to hang out with yet.. i'm trying really hard not to spend money (due to seoul, and thailand) but it's really hard.. AND there's talk of going back to that hotel in seoul the first weekend of march.. haha.. i actually think it's booked..

ciao