Internet and Beer

Thinking I was going to have internet in my apartment Friday night it unfortunately wasn’t working do to the cable being down. Unsure as to why the cable was down I woke up Saturday morning feeling optimistic and gave my cable tv a try, low and behold the cable was back on and so was my internet. This is a first for me so I was and still am very excited to finally have internet in my place. It’s not as fast as I would like but that is something I can work out later. I spent my Saturday emailing and skyping with friends and family and it was just wonderful. With the day gone I got ready to attend the Adventure Teaching gathering with Alison, Megan and Casey. Our recruiting agency organized this event and invited all new and old English teachers to come and mingle. We met at Big Rock Brewery which was about a 15 minute walk from where we live (some people traveled over an hour, we definitely lucked out) and had a really fun night. This brewery brews their own beer, which is surprisingly good and also serves a killer Sunday brunch which all of us girls look forward to eating some Sunday morning. It was really nice to meet other English teachers and listen to how things were going for other people. Everyone lives in various parts of Seoul and Korea and work in such a wide range of schools. From what I gathered each school has its ups and downs and everyone struggles with the lack of inefficiency here. There is a group of girls that get together every Wednesday night to drink wine and hang out so I think I will be joining them a lot on Wednesday night, wish will be fun. I really enjoyed my time at the brewery and I look forward to meeting more and more people.

After the event, us girls grabbed a cab and met up with another co teacher to celebrate her birthday. Earlier in the night they had gone to a noreabang which is a karaoke bar/facility where you can rent out rooms to karaoke. Sadly we missed out on this part of the birthday bash but we made it for the dancing. We spent the remaining of our evening dancing and drinking out of buckets which gave me a flashback to Siem Reap, Cambodia’s Angkor What? Bar. Buckets can be deadly if not drinking in moderation but what I like about them is that you can share with your friends. Plus, there is just something fun about drinking out of a bucket verses a glass. Either way it was a fun night celebrating Robyn’s birthday.