Short entry tonight. Tonight marks the first day of the vacation for my hagwon and many others. Most of my coteachers are going off to cool places like China, Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, etc. Well this vacation came a bit to soon so I'm sticking around. Going down to Ulsan which is a city in the south of Korea for a few days. Going to couch surf and visit with Hi-Jin.
Tonight we had a work party and the only person who wasn't going home to pack for a trip was the only person younger and new than me. She's only been here a week and is 22. I am no longer the youngest at the school! So her and I went to wander Nowon and attempt to find the bar when we ran into some coworkers that weren't at the work party. Went to 2 of the same bars we went to last week. The funny thing was we couldn't find one we were looking for so we went into another bar to ask, Dragon bar. First we asked a guy named Alvin (name tag said so) who had big dorky glasses and looked like one of the chipmunks. He didn't know so we asked a guy behind the bar. He came out from behind the bar and walked us there! Can you believe it?! And he wasn't the first guy to do that. A guy at a umbrella kiosk did too but we were looking for Metro bar and he took us to the subway (metro) station so we said thanks and kept looking. So anyway, the bartender comes out from the bar and starts leading us as he's taking off his name tag! He tells us his name is Dragon and he is part time. Then he says it is his bar, then he says it isn't, then it is but he is part time... we said "part time owner?"and he said yea. We didn't really know if he was just messing with us.
So we get to Metro bar and the guy who did the fire show last week was standing outside and Dragon says hi and the fire guy slings his arm around him and tells us all about how he was like a father and taught him everything and so on and so forth. Apparently Dragon works at both bars? Or the bars have the same owners? I have no idea... something that made it seem somewhat less weird for a bartender to just leave his post and come to another bar. He hung around the bar for at least half an hour after we got there too! Anyhow at Metro bar we ran into more people we know because it was all foreigners.
This is where I saw the magnetic soap. Yea... I dunno. Sounds like not a big deal but i found it pretty odd. It was a bar of soap with a magnet on top so it was hanging from a little thing ont he wall. Sometimes I swear everything is backwards in Korea. Upsidedown soap... why not just a soap dish? Who knows. It was cute though.
Then we went back to the first bar to meet some friends of my coteacher. There was a very enthusiastic Italian guy visiting them. He tried to show us his Irish accent... it sounded like everything but an Irish man. Then he found out I wanted to go to France and we had a way too long conversation about how France sucks... or at least how "Italy might not be the best, but it is better than France!" basically everything good France has, they stole from Italy. Ha! Even Nice apparently is so close to Italy its basically Italian. Oh man. Then he accused me of wanting to go there because I love Canadian men. The logic in that I still haven't figured out.
In any case. Hopefully lots of photos to come over my break!
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