beer pong = love in every language

so...this past week was pretty laid back. the kids had midterms so monday and tuesday were review days. wednesday and thursday, the kids took two tests that lasted an hour each and after that, they went home and we had time to work on stuff until the afternoon hagwon classes started. friday the kids only took one test and afterwards were sent home. afterwards we were notified that two of our students had diagnosed cases of swine flu and that the students would not have school on monday and tuesday and that we would only have the after school kids to deal with. in my head, i am doing a happy dance. i think, "SWEET!" apparently me taking pleasure out of my students' misfortune is not a good thing, but i think my conscience got over that really quickly and so i knew this weekend, i must celebrate! friday was giong to have to be my day for cleaning because my weekend schedule was full so i stayed in and cooked real foor for once instead of the random ramean or dumplings i throw together in a hurry. i ended up getting no cleaning done, but i like to blame it on the torrential downpour going on outside. rain makes me completely unproductive...all i ever want to do is curl up in a blanket with a cup of coffee and watch a movie...which is what i did.

saturday was the one year anniversary of the opening of sunny's bar, so we all planned a celebration and a beer pong tournament. i mean, beer pong screams 'class' no matter what country you are in and what better way to celebrate the opening of our good friend's bar? so, around seven, i met up with jess and we bought a cake and a bottle of wine and headed to sunny's where ben and turk were already there getting the grill ready to make some burgers (made of pork, mind you). pam showed up around nine with some new faces and we all quickly became friends. the beer pong tourney started at 11 with lynds and i up first against garth and grant. after a 45 minute game played on a grid iron table which made bouncing near impossible, we faced defeat. by the end of the tourney, turk and our new friend, josh were the beer pong champs. we celebrated with many pitchers of cheep beer and random korean dance moves. i left sunny's around 4:30 with the hopes to be alive the next morning in order to go to a concert that one of my student's mother is the composer of. (note: korean kids love to give their teachers free stuff...like tickets to concerts and random trinkets).

sunday, i had every intention of going with jenny to see the concert, but i was quickly distracted when pam called with offers of eating in itaewon. so, jenny, lynds, pam, kevin, our new friends min, grant, garth, and josh, and myself, of course, headed into itaewon in search of a tastey meal. to make a long story short, lunchh turned into drinking and playing darts at the wolfhound, until almost 9 at night, followed by more beer and empenadas...jenny and i got back home to baekseok after 11, never having actually reached our original destination.

monday morning came much too soon but because i didn't have classes to prep for, i enjoyed sleeping in a bit before heading to work...only to find that another student came down with the swine flu and that they were canceling ALL classes, including the afternoon classes, for the week. They were also canceling the school trip to sokcho. so, this week at work, all i have to do is sit here from 10 to 6...and i get paid to message people on facebook and goof off. all i can say is right now, life is GOOD. lol.