at the club....

So I met up with a girl named Eunmi "unmeee" and her friends at a club last night for the first time. The club was filled with foreigners and drunks. It was a very interesting experience. The girl Enumi was so excited to meet me she was holding my hand for like 10 minutes. Then she decided to dance on the bar and she threw a big tantrum when I told her I didn't want to dance on the bar with her... Her friends were more normal and I chatted with one girl for a long time then Eunmi and her friend hyan grabbed my hand and told me to run and we got in a taxi and we went to Itaewon which is a big foreigner area... I didn't want to go but I didn't even know we were going there until she told the taxi "itaewon" so I asked what about their friend Stephanie and they said they weren't really friends... I was really sad because I had talked to her the most and we really got along then we just disappeared... anyways took a taxi to Itaewon and saw mostly foreigners it was depressing... On the ride there they kept telling me how happy they were to meet me because I was different from the foreigners they knew... I began to understand what they meant shortly after we arrived at a club called Hello's. I sat in a lounge area that had a view of the club with Hyan while drunken Eunmi danced with lots of people. Hyan was really sweet and reminded me of my friend Tara back home. We sat in the lounge because Hyan said she had to watch Eunmi's purse while Eunmi danced... She was like a mother and her daughter was acting spoiled! Anyways we talked for a while then she said her boyfriend was coming so we waited for him. He was a tall blond Canadian with a chip on his shoulder... I didn't like him the second he walked in... Eunmi and Hyan were speaking to eachother in Korean so he said "ah ah ah no Korean remember?" so I said "No you should speak Korean I need to learn it anyway" then he said "yeah I do too but NO korean!" His friend followed behind and I learned the he and Eunmi had dated for a while then he cheated on her with 2 girls!!! I felt like I was in a soap opera!! So Eunmi still liked the guy but didn't want to be with him so she and Hyan explained they just want Eunmi to show him she is pretty and I asked if she meant make him Jealous and they agreed that was the right word. I went to the bathroom at one point and heard two American's in the stall next to me talking really loudly saying "Oh my god he is totally hot and has a great body but honestly he can kiss me on the cheek from now on because I saw him making out with that other girl and oh my god she was so ugly....." It was so stupid and I felt so ashamed to be from the same country as them. When they came out of the stall I took a good look at them and saw they were in the late 30's with bleached blond hair, tight skirts, and cleavage... the rest of the club was pretty much the same. It was interesting to watch and good to talk with Hyan but its not really my scene... Tomorrow I am getting coffee and dinner with a women named Summer so hopefully that will be fun she is 25 (24 Korean age) so maybe it will be easy to talk with her cause Eunmi and hyan were 21 and seemed really young. After that adventure Eunmi got me a taxi and I headed home... it came out to be over 8 dollars but it was about 25 minute ride so I guess its not to bad. Eddie walked toward Hongdae to meet me around 4am then walked me home and I went to bed because I had to teach today.

Other than that I'm really excited to meet people to practice Korean with I think that will be really helpful and I really need friends here!! Thursday I have a pho noodle soup date with a girl named Lucy so that will be fun... its like going on blind dates... kind'a...

Teaching is going well... Its difficult with kids sometimes because they don't do their homework but I talked with Amy (Sery's older sister) and she told me Sery always says I never give her any homework (she was lying) so I explained that I always give her homework and she never does it so hopefully from now on their mom will oversee better. I've been using a ESL teaching website for more ideas on lesson plans because I've almost tried everything I know... creativity is an important piece of teaching!! So if any of the teachers in my family have ideas for English lessons for kids let me know!!!