Singing the Night Away, Seoul Fc and new friends

So once again it has taken more longer than I wished to write. I find it sometimes difficult to write as spare time and personal time are scarce here, making time to actually think and absorb the days activities difficult. Things just kinda of happen here, experiences are had, enjoyed and passed by due to the lack of down time. I am hoping that this will change once our work schedule returns to normal.

Ok so last week: last Saturday after another LONG week, we all decided just to head to Woodstock for a beer and some down time. Well one beer turned into two bottles of soju and pretty soon we were off to Korean Karaoke. OMG, this has to have been the best thing ever. So as some of you mightn't know, Korean karaoke is different than in the states as you are given your own private room. This means it is just you are your people, in this case it was myself, Beks, Adriana and Hojin (a Korean from our work). And man what a time it was! We were off singing all the great oldies from Journey, to the Spice Girls and Abba. But of course thrown in were our newest Korean favs like Super Junior, NE1, 2pm and others. It was sooo much fun. We were all just singing and dancing and jumping around in our little room, that the prepaid hour went by so fast! Also in the misdt of all this Sangsou dropped by as he and his wife were just returning from something fancy and he wanted to introduce her. SHE IS SO CUTE!

So after this, Sangsou texted for us to come over to Woodstock and join the group so we headed on over. While there we offically meet Chris (one of his friends) FINALLY meet the bar owner and two Americans joined us. It was great times. I am really loving my little circle here, as we soom found out we have meet the nicest man ever in Korea through Sangsou, I feel so safe and cared for knowing what he will go through for us, he is sooo oue older Korean brother its amazing. So that was last weekend. We only had four days at work this week as it is chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving were everyone returns to thier ancesteral homes to eat and pay thier respects to the dead), but considering that we have worked 16/18 days we were all soo tired that at many times one out of the four of us were breaking down. It was a bad week, and of course here was tons more drama with the administration. I think that I would love my job so much more if they were not so divisive, but not much we can do except monitor what we say around them and make sure that they dont cause any unnecessary drama between the four of us.

Sunday we all went to the Seoul FC game. OMG what a great complex. The Stadium is pretty large, but surrounding the feild is a very pretty park complete with ponds, fountains, a great practice field etc. Really awesome. I, of course, bought a scarf! The team is a decent team, prolly wouldn't stand up against the Sounders, some pretty basic skills. There were two moments of brilliance with and very artfully forward pass that split the defence and allowed the forward through, but to no end. The first goal was bounced off the post, the strike than hit the the goal keeper (who couldn't handle it) then very very badly kicked (one of those slow rollers) into the net. OO nice thing tho is that at every goal: FIREWORKS! haha. It was interesting to note though, they have an Eastern European on the team who is a little better than rest (note he is number 10) and he was always pointing out the lack of support of the opposite side of the field which lead to a number of missed opporutities during crosses. But they did win 3-0 so that was a great result!

THE FAN SECTION! O next time we are def sitting over there. They are soo cool! They have this one song where they get in lined groups jumping up and down and going side to side in unioin, then bow to the feild. SOO COOL! haha also it was so interesting as at the end of the game they team walks around like usual thanking each section of fans, but in Korea they also bow to the crowds. So cool! We are def planning on going to the next home game.

So speed up to Thursday night and once again we were at Woodstock. This time around our friend Ann joined us and become much better friends with Chris, another Korean friendwe names "James", the owner, basically our whole little group. It was so much fun just goofing around and letting loose with our Korean/American group dancing and signing like fools! There was also another American group that was at the bar, but we didnt really talk to them....

Friday beks and I headed over to Iteawon, did a little shopping and got some great Thai food! So sorry Michael as I forgot to take pics. But it was great. I had fried rice with this very interesting sauce that was green and VERY spicy, I could only eat very little of the sauce but it added just a great flavor to the dish. O So yummy! Today we are going to Ichon to the National Museum of Korea, a nearby park. Also it is supposed to be "Little Tokyo" so we are gonna try and find some Sushi and hit up a Japanese market and find some food.

Will try to update on Monday after today's and Sundays outings!

love you all, het