What a Night

Last night I was a little irresponsible. My director at the other school took all the teachers out to dinner at an American restaurant. Here I managed to convince my director to throw a Christmas party for the children. The children don't usually do anything special at christmas, even though Christmas is celebrated here. I thought it would be a nice treat for them.

After that we went to another eating house in Miryoung, close to my apartment. It was here that I sampled pig intestine, but it was not until after I tried it that thought to ask if it still had pg faeces in it. Eung Jung insisted that there wasn't any, but somehow I didn't believe her. It was too late by then anyway. 6 shots of soju later, we made our way to the nearest Narobam (singing room/kareoke), which was my director's idea. We all took it turns to sing, the new Maths teacher was particularly good. I felt very embarrassed singing infront of my colleagues. For me singing in front of friends is one thing, but singing in front of my colleagues is quite another. Still, at least it wasn't as bad as when Song-il, the Korean man that took me on a date, insisted that I sang infront of him. Really not the best way for me to impress somebody!!!

And if this wasn't enough, the girls insisted on going to Arabian Night after the singing room. Arabian Night is a night club where there are dancers on the stage, and you and try and copy their dance moves. In the end we gave up and did our own thing, doing our best to fend off any slimeballs that headed our way. 3 half pints of Hite managed to see me through to 3am, whereupon we headed home, exhausted. I have been suffering from insomnia recently, so it was nice to fall asleep almost straight away.

Today I arrived very late at Gomdo- I did not get there until 12.30. They were not impressed. I 'fessed up, as I didn't want to lie to them. I was not hung over, just tired from the night before, from my insomnia and from being ill all the time.

So I am off to my main school now, where I am going to do my uttmost to appear switched on.