So far so good on the Korea front. the one month mark is past and i still like it. some drama on the home front made me wish i was home but i can't save everyone. cheap liquor here is the bane of my existence. i never start out with the intent of consuming that much, but it's sooo cheap...
My kids are starting to become my buddies which is good. I know now too that the older ones definitely take advantage of me because I am new(er). It's OK, as i pick things up i get better and the term will soon be over, so this was really all practice for me.
Lunar new year was a s***load of fun, we went skiing, and then i got to bond with all my coworkers in this pension we rented. lets just say there was more beer, wine and soju than was necessary, oh, and fireworks. and I was named MIP, but I forget what it stands for....
I keep meeting the most random guys, and I'm not sure how I am attracting them. Most time I am deliberately under dressed to avoid attention, but i guess it doesn't matter b/c drinks + good music = dancing machine Neo...
oh the poles I've bonded with. Korean chicks don't use them, so i have to keep them warm. but anyways. there was some guy who was nicknamed Obama, who liked me but also acted like he was 5, saying mean things about me to get my attention. OK. i think i do not like military guys in the romantic sense... too aggressive, it's just personal preference, not that all are like that.then there was the ajoshi (old Korean man) at the pub in itaewon who decided he was in love with me. he kept following me every where and trying to dance with me and three military men tried to make him stop. they even said they were my boyfriend and at first he was like you are a lucky guy, then he said I don't care, i love her, and started asking me if it was because he was too old. long story short he was escorted out... oops...
then there have just been other men, but its so cool, every ethnicity so far has approached me. i was very certain that Korean men would not, and i still think that is true of the more traditional ones, but the ones i speak to have had some link to western world, even if not to live there...
then there was the craziest weekend yet when i went to hongdae for the first time. hongdae is where all the local Koreans go out, vs itaewon which is westerner central. again it was a good night, until we got kicked out of a cab with not enough money. or the night of my work party,(check out my cute coworkers)
which also ended with two Korean guys arguing over me and getting yelled at by my friends. they weren't that bad looking (i think). I also met up with another of the Atlanta crew, and while walking in Itaewon I was asked to be interviewed for some Korean show on counting money. cool. so i will be on t.v. Wednesday night at 8.45 pm. too bad that a. i will be working, b. i don't have a TV. but i haven't just been partying. i decided to crack down on my Hangul learning ambitions, so i got a language exchange partner. she is so cute she is a junior here in college. she said all her previous male ones had been sketchy... i told her it's just b/c they want a girlfriend, not really to learn. anyways we do one hr Korean and one English. so if she speaks English on a elementary school level, my Korean is like a six-month old child... but the first time i finally learned the letters i got so excited, now i translate everything...
some interesting things are in store for the next couple of months on the horizon... first, my first paycheck will arrive soon, i will be a millionaire (in won). lots of things to take care of once i get that. John Legend is coming to Seoul and I can't miss that. More people arrive, or want to come, parties, new term of work, a potential boy. It's all looking very promising, and for the most part, I am happy :).
[Riding some random animal at vivaldi park/daemyun resort]
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