... and I'm going to make a concerted effort to post something on this thing at least once a week.
We'll see how that goes.
It's Sunday night, and I'm back in Gimpo. I headed down to Anyang on Friday morning, and got there in time to have lunch with everyone - well, after I made a detour to Gimpo City Hall to change my residence information. Met up again with everyone for dinner - Costco pizza in honor of Trev's birthday ... holy crap, Costco pizza is good. :) I crashed at Judy's place this weekend - many, many, MANY thanks to her. After dinner at Trev's, I may or may not have met up with a bunch of people at Atlanta ...
The main event on Saturday was Jenny teacher's wedding - it was really nice! 성돈 (Seong-Don), Judy's friend, offered to drive some of us - so Dan, Lee, Stuart, Judy, and I all packed into his car. We're THAT amazing. After the wedding, it was naptime at Judy's for like, an hour ... before we met up with 성돈 again to watch him and his buddies play basketball. I guess they play EVERY-SINGLE-SATURDAY, and they're pretty good! Although there was this one guy on a different team that they just couldn't shut down ... the boy had mad skills ... but anyways, it was a lot of fun to watch.
Went down to Suwon for church today - last week, 찬주 (Chan-Joo [혜중's sister]) was my translator ... this week, it was 은수 (Eun-Soo). He's super, SUPER smart - goes to Seoul National University (studying architecture), lived in the States for a long time, plays the drums, and on top of that he's just a nice guy. Anyways, they're BOTH really great translators, so I'm pretty lucky. Oh, and he said it was an honor for him to be my translator. F'reals? Did I mention that I'm pretty lucky?
New groups at church, too ... 승범 (Seung-Beom) is my new leader ... there's eight of us - I can't remember the two girls' names ... and then there's 승범 (Seung-Beom), 완수 (Wan-Soo), 희중 (Hee-Joong), 철호 (Cheol-Ho), and ... I can't remember his name ... but he studied in India, and he's pretty nice. It's a good group. I feel bad though, because Seung-Beom told everyone to study English for my sake. We'll see how it works out. I think it'll be okay.
Afterwards, I wanted to leave right away, since I knew it would take a while to get home. Actually, though, 지선 (Ji-Sun) looked up some bus information for me. However, it was really confusing and I was getting overwhelmed, so 상권 (Sang-Kwon) packed me up into his car, took me to 수원버스터미널 (Suwon Bus Terminal - behind the E-Mart), helped me figure out the bus situation, and then waited with me for the bus! SOOO NICE! There's express buses to Gimpo at 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM. By the way, the express bus drops me off at Gimpo City Hall. I was lucky enough to catch the 3000 bus right away. All in all, from Suwon Bus Terminal to the high school, it took 1 hour and 45 minutes!!! A HUGE IMPROVEMENT over last week. So, maybe I'll stick around in Suwon to take the 9:00 PM bus some nights.
And that's all. I have my first lesson of this week planned out - haven't decided about the second one yet. Speaking of which, I guess the Korean teachers were really worried about me in the second floor office since I went in on Thursday and was venting to one of the other English teachers about the student I had to yell at in class. So, I supposed from now on, no more venting in the office ... lest I want the other teachers to freak out and take it out on their students ... aigoo.
Anyways. I'm out for the night. :)
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