Holidaze

I update this about as much as I clean my apartment. Which is sadly, not often enough. Today I did some major cleaning, so a post sounds good.

Following up on the orphanage post, what an experience that was. There were 60 or so kids and they all had a great time. One of the foreigners dressed up as Santa and hammed it up before he gave each kid a present. After the presents were distributed we all stuck around for a while and played with the kids. I ended up playing catch with this little boy that for about 20 minutes. He got bored after a while and some middle school kids challenged me to arm wrestle. I was 2 and 1.

Last week was orientation. Basically 4 days of Korea 101 and Teaching 101. The intro to Korea was a little pointless but the teaching seminars weren't all that bad. The most important things we got out of them were the lesson planning ideas.

Christmas in Korea is also interesting. On the 24th we all did a white elephant/yankee/dirty santa swap at Hugo and Denise's. Following some classy red wine we did the obligatory noraebang. On Christmas Day, a couple of us had a brunch, then it was naptime. For dinner we got Chinese and then following the Katie/Ray/whoever else is around, we went to the movies. The movie we saw was The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the last movie Heath Ledger made. I'm not sure if it came out in the US or not but it was really good. Some of the story didn't make sense but in the end it was an awesome movie.

Saturday we checked out 7 Club, the new foreigner bar. At least thats what they call themselves. The drinks are a little on the pricey side but they did give us a ton of free food, drinks, and drove us home. They also told us to call them next time and they'll pick us up. Talk about service! 7 Club...or S Club 7 as it was called more often with every drink also has FREE NORAEBANG. The selection is better than My Show, where we usually go. It felt weird going there and not Elle Lui and LSG. I think it'll be fine though. We all pump enough money into both establishments.