My little life in Korea :-P

The last few weeks have been pretty fantastic, overall. Nothing too out of the ordinary, just having a good time living my little life in Korea. I've been spending a lot of time with Nick. We've been pretty good about alternating sleepover nights to keep things fair ;-) but I would make the trek out to Siji nevertheless. I've also been going out more than I had been in the past. We've gone out dancing at Old Skool, where Nick knows the owners and most of the people are pretty cool, several times. And it's great that when we go dancing Nick and I just dance the night away. Last Saturday we didn't get home until after 5AM. I've also gotten to hang out with some of the people from his neck of the woods. We did this trivia night thing on Sunday (I need to brush up big time... :-p ) and it was a lot of fun. Nick kicked ass. I love his big, sexy brain!
--- Nick and I at a Bar-B-Q on Sarah's roof in Siji.--- Nick is making his silly face. He's so cute.
I've also been going to salsa pretty regularly. I like it a lot, though I do get a bit frustrated because the salsa on two thing feels so foreign to me. I don't like feeling like an amateur but I think I'm just having to learn to deal with it. The only thing that sucks is that when a Korean guy asks me to dance it takes me a minute to adapt to their style, because they do NOT lead the way men are supposed to. They lead in really vague, soft ways and with very little tension so I get a little flustered. But I am getting better. Salsa Hwang is great and hopefully I will be able to start teaching a salsa class for foreigners sometime in the next month or two. That would be great. My real goal is to start a Rueda class, but it may take a little bit of time for Koreans to be open to the idea of Rueda. Oh well.

My eyes are feeling almost completely better. I do feel that they get a little bit dry sometimes but mostly they're doing really well. The only bad thing is that they eye doctor told me I cannot go back to Hapkido for a month after my surgery. For the record, this completely sucks. The last thing I want to do is delay or regress on all the progress I've made. But I just need to resolve to not spend the next three weeks sitting on my ass. I'm going to work out a lot harder than I have been so that when I do go back to Hapkido I'm even stronger. Nick got me the best present, he installed a chin-up bar in my apartment. For the moment all I can do is dangle from it, and not for very long at that, but I think having it there makes me want to make progress.

The only thing that has been a little tricky is that for some reason I feel like the shit is about to hit the fan at my school. Liz (who happens to be my best friend in Korea) is leaving at the end of July, sniff sniff, and they haven't found anyone to replace her. They don't really seem too concerned about it. Also, a lot of the foreign teachers have been having concerns that are being completely ignored by the management, even though they've been told over and over and over. Megan has a bunch of bugs, Luke's apartment is a shithole, and Liz had been after them for a long time to set up an extension of her contract (which would have helped them a lot more than it would have helped her) and they just haven't done squat, about anything. I'm not currently having any specific issues, other than the fact that I feel like stuff within the school is run really inefficiently, but I think the last thing they would want is a pissed off Cuban in their midst. Hee hee. Koreans aren't really used to confrontation so we'll see what happens, because if Liz leaves and they don't have anyone to replace her and we get stuck with a bunch of extra classes, then like I said... The shit will hit the fan.

On a more positive note: I'm really looking forward to going to Mudfest (on July 12th), which is exactly as it sounds. It's thousands upon thousands of people all gathered on this beach, covering themselves in mud. It sounds FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC. The only sad thing is that Nick goes home for a month right after Mudfest, so I'll miss him. But that just means I'll have to eagerly await his return. Also at the end of July I have a week break. Unfortunately, Liz will be gone, Nick will be back in the states and due to the LASIK thing I'm going to be pretty broke at that point, but I may just head over to Busan by myself and veg on the beach to relax for a day or two. I just won't get to have a big trip or anything. But that's not too bad.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention that I dyed my hair black and it has bangs now. Random, I know. But I think it looks really cute.