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Week 3- Y4(Mar 30th to Apr 5th) |
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Wednesday:
This winter, a state-of-the-art recording studio was
built at our Iksan campus. This is great, because t
means that all of us teachers can now record for a
very very low price! (We only have to pay the
technician a little bit) Also, we can record student
projects (like my jazz choirs when I write new
arrangements, or Ben's percussion ensemble), and the
students can use it to record a CD in place of doing a
graduation recital if they choose to. So all of this
is pretty awesome. What wasn't awesome was that I had
to stay late in Iksan tonight to test out the new
studio with all of the professors! I walked in after
I finished 4 straight hours of teaching, already
exhausted, and I found that not only the recording
engineer and the professors were there, but a big
group of students and other people who were there to
observe! Doesn't make for the most comfortable
recording situation . . . also, the headphones in
each of the booths weren't working as well as they
should have been, and it was really really difficult
for everyone to hear eachother (everyone was in their
own booth, and the sight lines were a little cut off,
so we couldn't really see eachother either). Anyway,
for me, it was mostly a lot of sitting around and
waiting, and then I recorded a couple of songs and sat
around and waited some more. Then Jae wanted all of
us to go to dinner, so we all had to go for
samgyeopsal. Politically in Korea, when your boss
wants to do something, even if it's social and
therefore should be optional; you don't say no! Even
though Jae is pretty relaxed, there are still some
unwritten rules when it comes to "team mentality". In
any case, Kenji, Chang Hyun and I all needed to catch
the bus back to Seoul, so we only had an hour to spend
at dinner anyway. I got back to Seoul around 12:30am,
having missed a dinner party that my roommates were
throwing for our friends, and crawled into bed utterly
exhausted!
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Thursday:
I wasn't going to go out tonight, but Summer talked me
into going to Ladies Night at Bricx-- free drinks for
the girls until midnight! Didn't last too long
though-- work tomorrow!
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Friday:
I was totally excited today when my older student
cancelled, but then I was irritated when she asked to
reschedule-- I said that I didn't have any available
slots, which was true, and she texted back and said
Really? Not even 11:30am? And she kept on pushing
and pushing . . . again, frustration that students
here don't seem to understand that I don't exist ONLY
to teach them!
Another Grateful Dead rehearsal tonight, and then a
movie night at my place with Bobby, Nate and Garan.
It's pretty awesome to have a place that is good for
having people over!
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Saturday:
At salsa tonight, we started choreographing a big
performance piece-- at the end of June, the whole
intermediate class is going to do a routine
together--8 couples! I'm excited, but also really
hoping that everyone will pull together enough to make
it look really good.
After salsa, I had to run right to my Grateful Dead
gig. The gig was at a bar called Stompers, which,
believe or not is right at the top of Hooker Hill
(hooker in the literal sense!) Now why anyone would
open a non-hooker bar on the top of Hooker Hill is
beyond me, but Stompers regularily has live music, and
moreover, they actually pay their bands decent wages.
The place was packed with crazy Deadheads once again
(it still makes me giggle a little bit when I think
about the fact that I of all people am singing in a
Grateful Dead tribute band!). I was really happy to
see that the Puerto Rican guy, Dary, that I met last
weekend came out to see me. Unfortunately, his
friends really wanted to go to Caliente, so they left
after the first set. I was intending to meet up with
him at Caliente after the gig, but the gig didn't
finish til 2am! Damn! We're going to try to work
something out for next week . . .
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