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Week 8- Y4(Mayr 4th to May 10th) |
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Sunday:
Today I had been planning on going to the big street festival and
lantern parade in honour of Buddha's birthday, but it was drizzly and cold,
and we were a little hungover. So Summer, Mark (who crashed on our
couch) and I went for breakfast at Indigo (ha! I use the term breakfast
loosely. It was actually about 3pm!) and then lazed around our living
room watching movies and episodes of Arrested Development. We were
still lazing around by 10pm when I was supposed to meet some dance studio
people to celebrate Bryan's birthday. It took me a few more hours, but
I did finally venture out into the rain, and lasted about an hour
before I was back at home on the couch watching tv with Summer and Mark!
Tomorrow is a holiday, so Summer and I are going to the beach!
Hopefully the weather will be good!
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Monday:
Summer and I got up somewhat early for a vacation day to go to a beach
on an island called Muuido, which is close to Incheon Airport. We
ended up getting a slow start, waiting for a long time at the coffee shop,
then missing the bus that would take us to the airport. When we
finally got to the airport, it took us awhile to figure out exactly how to
get to Muuido. We ended up taking a bus, then a short ferry ride, then
walking over a hill for about 20 minutes to get to the beach! The beach
was nice, however the weather was WAY too cold still for us to
actually enjoy it. We stayed for about an hour, shivering on the beach, and
then we went inside to eat dakdoritang (a spicy chicken stew).
Unfortunately, it took us even longer to get back-- we missed one bus, and we
had to wait an hour for the next one! So we ended up walking for about
an hour to another bus connection, and then we ended up taking the
subway from Incheon City. Well, at least we know
for next time . . .
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Tuesday:
Another vacation day for me-- it's the school's anniversary! (I love
May-- I don't think there's a single week where I'm actually working a
full week this month). Summer and I had agreed to host the weekly quiz
night at Orange Tree, so we spent most of our time at the beach coming
up with trivia questions. Here were our categories: Korean culture
(including some cheeky references, like Who was the local
singer/songwriter featured in the April issue of ROKon, the answer being our friend
Mark Baker, who also happened to be at the quiz night!); alcohol trivia;
a geography round featuring a map of the Middle East; a picture round
where we showed pictures of people and you had to tell us how they died;
and finally a music clip round where we played clips of songs, and you
had to tell us what movie it came from. All in all, a fun night, and
we got free drinks and food to boot!
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Saturday:
I taught my salsa class all on my own for the first time tonight! I
was pretty nervous, but it went really well! In fact, the studio had a
really busy productive night in general, which is awesome, since I know
we were all a little worried that we'd lose business for the month that
Joey and Helen are gone. But tonight went so well, I think that the
rest of the month will be fine! One thing that's kind of bugging me
though-- I've had to turn down several gigs this month because of the
studio, and I'm not even really getting paid to teach here (just free
classes). I know it's only for a month, and I can sub out most other times
if I need to, but it's kind of annoying.
After class, I met up with Bobby to go to a club opening. Bobby has
started taking belly dancing classes, and her teacher was performing at
the club opening. It was really cool! In fact, I think that I may be
joining Bobby at her next belly dancing class . . .
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