My birthday came and went on Wednesday. I thought about what to do, as it was a national holiday in Korea. I considered invitng people out for some food, then maybe a few drinks. This thought was a brief one, however, as I know only freaky people. So I decided to spend the day avoiding them. I suceeded. As a reward, I treated myself to a very large pizza at a restaurant nearby..and ate it all.
I met some more people on Thursday in the bakery when I was buying bread. I had met them before, as it turned out, on that drunken Karaoke night some time ago that I don't remember much about. One of them was another Korean/American female, and the other could possibly be a decent bloke...from Canada I think. The Korean/American, as seems to be the rule here, is worryingly abnormal. She was incredibly happy to see me when I walked into the bakery, and although I could not really remember her at all, she invited me to go with her and others to the nerby city of Daejeon at the weekend where there is some kind of mud festival on the beach...where people get covered in mud. I don't know why. I also got asked many personal questions - all fired at me in a hail of confusing randomness. She got my e-mail off me somehow...well, I did write it down for her, but I was confused at the time...trying to work out why she is talking to me as though we have known each other for years and are great friends. I only wanted to buy some bread. Later I was to discover that the people at my school know of her, and said she is a depressive, and very controling. Apparently she will go for anything, male or female. I recieved 2 overly friendly e-mails within the following 24 hours...and she wants to know where I live. I'm not going to tell her, and as a new rule for myself,I will not talk to anyone who is a native English speaker anymore. It seems that if that's what they arem then it's going to be bad news. I will soon have my hands full with 72 mostly female teachers anyway...maybe.
Bought a mountain bike on Saturday cause I was waiting too long for a taxi to get to school (needed to go there to prepare for the females, and use the internet). Was only 60 pounds, and would cost double that in the UK I think...unless it turns out to be a cheap crappy thing that just looks like a mountain bike. Will find out soon I guess. I can also now explore the hills and countryside around the city...which I have been looking at everyday before heading off to school, where there are only muppets. Buying a ountain bike because it took longer than 5 minutes for a taxi to drive past is not an everyday occurance, but it does go to show the difference between life here and life in England. From last months pay packet, I sent 800 back to England, paid all my bills here, bought food for the month, a mountain bike, and still have plenty left to buy a computer with...which I will do shortly. I think I should be able to save about 12K this year, taking into account the people I have met so far and how much time I will be spending with them out on the town (about 5 minutes).
The highlight of the week was, with no doubts, the publication of our very own text book for the coming Teacher Training course, written by the experts that we have teaching here. Each of us has been given topics to teach, and we had to write our own chapters for the book. All 9 of us foreigners- including the 4 people upstairs who only teach Korean teachers - who keep themselves to themselves usually. I can't blame them, but two of them are equally as strange as those on my floor (they are brothers). The 72 mostly female teachers are coming here to improve their own English, and get some good pointers in teaching techniques. I opened the text book as eagerly as some people might open the new Harry Potter book. But the diffence is that this book can be placed in the comedy section. If it was put on whloesale release, I think it might do rather well. I will pick out some of the gems and put them on another page, all to themselves.
Korean TV...
...is great. For just 3.50 a month I get 72 channels, which include 3 sport and several movie channels. Many of the movies are in English. Just the other day I switched on to Gremlins...at 8am. In the last 3 days there have been about 5 UK Christmas Day movie equivalents (including Batman of course). There are so many Korean comedy shows on too...and although I have no idea what they are saying, they are still funnier than most things I have seen that I have understood.
The Asian Cup (football) tournament is on at the moment, and as my bank in England no longer hates me, I made a small investment on Japan to win it. If they do then that I'll get 240 squid! So far so good..they are into the semis. I missed most of that match, however, as on the other channel was a womens pool competition. Now, pool is not really a spectator sport, and when a team I have invested in is playing football, why would I watch it? See below.
No words are needed. She does get bigger if you click on her....but you can't love her if you do.
Finding myself suddenly in love, I thought I should find out who she is, and how I can find and stalk her, if I have time.
I discovered she lives near Seoul, not too far from here, and is 19 years old. That's Ok I think...as I feel I am getting younger, and I am less than double her age. There are many people who are together with a bigger age-gap than we have.
I found this information out from her Myspace website (there was a link to it - I'm not doing online-stalking), but it was a mistake to look there...and I soon decided it was over between us. It says she is in a relationship. That's not good but can be changed. But then she talks of her two best memories in life...and this is what has ended it. Her first is 'getting closer to God', and the second is 'visiting America'. Bugger.
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