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Week 12- Y3(May 27th to Jun 2nd) |
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Sunday:
Another salsa boot camp today, this time with Denny
Hong, a Korean American award-winning dancer. (He's
also very very attractive, and I spent half the class
trying not to drool and wishing that all men could
dance that well) It was really fun and I learned a
lot, but once again, I had to laugh-- a room full of
cool, smart, attractive girls and smelly, bad-dancing,
know-it-all guys. I swear, I'm going to start
recruiting guys every single time I go out dancing
from now on!
And now . . . back to grading papers. It never ends! |
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Monday:
Finally. Finished. Marking.
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Tuesday:
I'm only now starting to get things together for my
summer vacation. I checked the school dates, and
technically I'm supposed to be doing my hagwon
teaching all through the summer. And they better
start scheduling the makeup lessons, cause there's no
way in hell I'm staying through the summer to teach
one day a week! So I contacted my travel agent, and
I'm booked to fly out on June 18. I'll stay a couple
days in Vancouver, then it's on to TO! YAY!!! I'm
excited for: patios, fresh air, fresh salads, checking
out good gigs . . . the list is endless. And this
vacation couldn't come at a better time: sometimes
this city really drives me crazy-- all the pushing and
shoving, the crowds, the extremely bad driving (red
light means stop?) I'm ready for some chilled-out
Canadiana.
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Thursday:
No work today; thanks to Buddha's birthday I'll be
enjoying an extra long weekend!
Today I had my first date ever with a Korean guy. I
met Jin at Tom's birthday party, and while I hadn't
picked him out of the crowd, he pursued me, so I
figured I might as well give him a chance. His
English is really good, as he lived in Hawaii and then
Arizona for several years. Anyway, I don't think
we'll be going out again (although he'll probably
still text me every day for awhile, which I found
quite annoying leading up to the date). Too many
cultural differences? I guess Korean girls expect
everything to be done for them on a date-- girls never
pay, doors get held open, girls are treated like
they're utterly useless at looking out for themselves,
like they can't and shouldn't have to work hard at
anything. That's not me. I resented feeling like a
vapid shell who's incapable of doing anything on her
own. Jin's nice enough, but I can't handle the
constant "doting" on. It was also hard to make the
date end. We met up in the afternoon, and I was bored
by dinnertime, but he just kept on taking me to other
places. Finally, around midnight, I was just like,
okay, it's my bedtime! And then he insisted on seeing
me home in the taxi even though he lived in the
opposite direction! Why do girls allow themselves to
be treated like they're helpless here? Moreover, why
do they seem to enjoy being treated like they're
helpless?
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Saturday:
It's Evan's birthday! So I took the train down to
Daegu to party it up. First of all, I just realized
how old-school Daegu I am-- I didn't know 90% of the
people out tonight! That was kind of a weird feeling
in my "hometown". There's still some old Daegu-ites
kicking around, but the number is quickly dwindling.
Second of all, there's some political stuff going on .
. . Evan and Ali broke up a little while ago, after
she had gone back to England. Of course, the timing
kind of sucked, what with Ali's dad being so sick, but
after talking about it with Ev, it seems obvious that
it had to be done. Now because of this, some of the
old Daegu girls are being really hard on Evan, despite
the fact that Ali wouldn't have wanted that, and that
most of them have known Evan longer than Ali. Breakup
politics are stupid! Anyway, it was unclear whether
the girls would come out tonight, even though I hadn't
been down to Daegu in a long time. Some of the girls
did eventually come, but they didn't stay for long,
and they barely spoke to Evan. That put a slight
damper on the night, but we did still manage to party
it up Evan Moore style, which means loads of drinking
and loads of dancing!
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