The Fuccons...

It has been a busy few weeks and so much has happened. I have been sick sick sick, traveled to each end of Korea and have woken up early far too many mornings in a row. Each morning the alarm goes off at 7:15, I get up, drink a cup of coffee, put it in the sick, at which point Daniel says "good morning babe- what time is it?" I answer with a quick 7:40 and jump in the shower. Daniel, who doesn't work until 5 on most days will sometimes muster up the energy to join Alroy and I on our morning ride to school, these mornings are usually mornings which are filled with come on, lets go, we are going to be late, hurry up, you can talk about it in the car. After years of thinking I was a morning person, I am finally admitting it, I AM NOT! No matter how early i try and go to bed, no matter how late I wake up, I am a bitch in the morning.

A few weeks ago we headed up to Seoul with 20 or so friends for a show at Walker Hill, John Digweed. Daniel and I headed up on Friday afternoon to beat the Saturday madness and get a good night of enjoying Seoul before the drunken madness began. Daniel and I wandered to Itaewon after getting a room at our favorite motel in Seoul, LIFESTYLES...4 hotels in a row, L-I-F-E...turns out E is not part of the chain, just kind of there. We had an amazing Greek Dinner after wandering up and down the street for 20 minutes checking out all the menus, When you live in Suncheon, so far from any food that remotely resembles deliciousness, it is a tough decision. On Saturday afternoon we went to our favorite restaurant with some friends, A Mediterranean hideaway, Gecko's Garden. The night before we actually stopped by there for drinks, where i gave Daniel a quick lesson on restaurant appartice and utensils. We are slowly trying to figure out what w\e want to do when we head back to the States, do we stay, do we stay at least until we have children, do we head to London, do we travel South America do we go to Hong Kong. Do we open a restaurant or does Daniel take his Masters with Honors and jump trades to be a plumber or carpenter? DECISIONS DECISIONS.
The next night we headed to Walker Hill with our friends that had joined us at the motel, costumes on we were ready to go. The show was amazing and Daniel got to meet Sir Digweed, his hero as he has come to call him. It was nice to see Daniel so happy, god-smacked almost, like a giddy school boy!

Around 5:30am I had had enough and I wandered in to the casino and played the slot machine. If it isn't enough that I am a foreigner in a mostly uniform society, at this point i was wearing a brigth pink wig and was falling out of my seat drunk. When I returned to tell Daniel my fun time was over and I was heading back to the hotel, he too wanted to try his hand in the casino. He walked out up $100 I walked out up $30.
This weekend was the Halloween Party, Daniel and Alroy aka DJ Parsnips put this party on last year and this year Alycia and I just helped get it ready. I of course began getting the flu and headed home a but early, it was fun ever the less.

Last night, Daniel and I sat on the couch, both sick with the nasty colds that come along with the bone chilling Korean winter, and we were amazed at what we were watching......."The Fuccons" a TV show, in which there are these mannequin like statues, the father has this creepy cross eyed look and a horrible under bite. The mother is constantly gasping...madness. Needless to say, in last nights episode, the little boy is in the room with a much older woman, who is, slowly undressing. With the news of the pedophile in Korea and the absolute inappropriateness of this show...how on earth does this make it on the air on TV? I can understand being able ot buy the DVD (which you can on Ebay) but on cable?
My students are unruly and today I walked out of class with two cellphones, four drumsticks, 2 pencil holders and a fist full of anger....
1. The students don't listen, to me or the Korean teachers
2. They talk over me, over each other and over and over.
3. They kick each other to the ground...there is nothing wrong with this here.
4. At this time, in winter, they all have runny noses and gross hands and like to run up to me and touch me.
5. I am sick and this week they are all just bothersome.