String Bar

So I've completely failed on taking anymore pictures so far... but I figured I should say something about the weekend. Friday night, Kate and I had plans with teachers from the town over to go to a bar for foreigners called String Bar. We were supposed to get there around 1o:30, but being the first week of work, and still not on a normal sleep schedule, we both fell asleep until about 11:30. Oops! :)
We ended up going to the bar a little after midnight. That was an adventure in itself. You see, Kate is night blind, so she can't see much except for brighter lights when it's dark out, so we walked arm in arm down the street, looking for a cab. Once we got to a busier road, we hopped in a cab and gave the driver a scrap of paper that said in Korean where we wanted to go (courtesy of our boss, Jasmine). He laughed at us and drove us there. He even gave us a discount, probably for being foreign and naive haha
Once we got to the bar, Kate, the girl we were meeting, bought us each a beer and the fun began... we ended up staying until about 4am and getting a cab ride with another scrap of paper to get us home. While at String, we met a lot of really cool people, some teachers, like Kate, Will, Kerry, Nikki, Pete and John (from Canada, England, Canada, Canada, England, and Canada respectively), and others like Mario, who's from Germany working at the steel factory here. Everyone was very friendly and nice. They were all amazed that it was our first week. Apparently most of them hadn't met other people foreign teachers for their first 3 months or so.
All in all, a good night.

On Saturday, we were invited by Kerry, Nikki, and Pete to go to a soccer game at the stadium on the island. Both teams were Posco teams, Posco being the big steel company, and at the end of the game, they gave away a Sonata, so there were 13.5K people in attendance, almost double what they are used to seeing. It was fun listening to the announcers and doing their little cheers- very high energy. However, the most entertaining thing to me was the 5 boys who would not leave Kerry alone. They were just being friendly but it was hilarious to see them talk to him in English and Korean. I just hadn't seen kids do that yet. It's getting me excited for Monday, where I'll teach 3 after school classes from about 1st-4th grade. I'll let you know how that goes. :)