Her Florid, Indecent Mouth!

First, I would to apologize to Big Bang*. Drunken Tiger could never replace you in my heart. You are much better looking and your music is much catchier. I didn’t mean I what I said in the last post, I was just trying to be extreme. Please forgive me. Also, I really like when G-Dragon wears his longish hair in the top knot; it’s my favourite hair style on Korean guys.

Pretty much all of my students cheat while taking their vocabulary quizzes at the beginning of class. I let them unless they are being stupid obvious. Then I have to tell them to books away or take away the nifty little cheat sheets they have created. When I first arrived in Korea, I was amazed when some students would point at a cheating student and say “cunning”. Such a sophisticated word for such low level students. Later I discovered that actually they are using the Korean word for cheating or copying. I was considerably less impressed.

And I have some very sad news to report. Tasha, my best teacher friend at Kang Tae Woo is leaving. Her and her husband are moving outside of Seoul, so it would be too for for her to travel to work there anymore. Friday was her last day. After work on Friday, our boss took all the teacher out for dinner, partially as a goodbye for Tasha and partly as a celebration for the end of intensive (back to regular afternoon even schedule next week, and once again Sally has fewer classes and a better schedule than me). Gone are the days of soju and samgupsal; he took us to a restaurant in HomePlus, Ashley Grill and Salad. It was a salad buffet. A salad buffet people, it wasn’t even delicious. Although there was tiny little pieces of cheese cake. We didn’t even get alcohol, not so much as bottle of wine to share between the eight of us. It was really lame. He just wanted something fast and cheap. He’s married now and has a kid on the way. He is much less fun than before. I want raw fish or samgupsal for my last day. I bet I only get a lunch at someplace lame. Anyway, Tasha is gone and school is not going be as fun because I won’t be able to talk with Tasha. She was funny and told me intimate details of her life. I am going to miss her a lot. She is one of the more interesting people that I have met in my life. She was also the most excited about this...

Something every exciting happened a few weeks ago and I totally forgot to mention the occurrence. Don’t too jealous or excited but I saw Rain. Bi. It was awesome. Bryan and I were hanging out near Seoul City Hall, just walking and talking, nothing special. Up ahead we noticed a large gathering of people. There are often street performers in this area so we decided to check it out. As we got closer, I noticed how oddly quiet everybody was and how there seemed to be not much going on. Then I noticed the big lights and assumed photo shoot. I was curious to see who it was, but didn’t expect that it would be someone I know. I stood on my tiptoes trying to see around the people in front of me and just as I was losing my balance and had to come down, I caught a glimpse of Rain! I exactly told Bryan and then I pushed in a bit to get a better view. He was doing either a photo shoot or filming for a CF (what commercials are called in Korea). We only caught the end of the event. When it was finished, he waved and bowed at me then took off real fast bodyguards close behind. The whole thing was cleaned up almost immediately and except for the wet pavement (some sort of effect I assume) one would never have known that Rain had been there. I texted everybody I knew would care (including Tasha) and quickly received a bunch of jealous responses.

A couple weeks ago I discovered that the coffee shop from First Shop of Coffee Prince exists and is in Hongdae. Next week I’m going try and get Sarah to come with me to find it. She likes K Drama’s almost as much as I do and is therefore the most fun person to take a long. I’ll make it a facebook event and invite her. I hope it’s like the drama and only handsome boys work there.

*This a the Japanese version of the song. I have not been able to find the Korean version.