M.I.A

I feel terrible that I've been Missing In Action for the entire month of August but it was a seriously hectic time. As I had anticipated Intensives were a royal pain in my ass. I was teaching about 47 classes a week, and for those of you that don't know... It's A LOT! Nine or ten classes a day leaves you completely drained. I was starting at 9AM everyday and on most days I wasn't getting out until 10PM, when the cleaning lady kicked me out. It was pretty draining but luckily it's over and for the next month at least I'll have a much easier schedule with only 31 classes a week. Still, as is obvious, things at work have been a little frustrating... and now it's about that time for me to start looking for a job for my second year in Korea. For a little while I toyed with the idea of staying at my same school for a second year, but now I don't really think that that's possible, or smart. I'm hoping to get a better job but we'll see what happens.

In other news, my Ninja is also M.I.A. He was supposed to be back here on August 15th and he's still not back now, and it's the 31st. There were some issues with his Visa requirements taking too long and now is when he just finally got his Visa, so he should be back by the end of the week. YAY! I'm excited.

My salsa classes have been going really well. There has been a relatively steady number of people coming to class and I think Mr. Hwang is happy with the amount of people that are coming in for my class. Especially a few of my friends here, Elly, Yoonjung, Jess, and David, have been coming more regularly and they are really getting better. I even got to show them what a rueda looks like because I got to meet a couple of people who know how to dance rueda. They really liked it. Just last night there was a big salsa party at Babalu, and yet again I was the only foreigner in a room full of Koreans. But I'm used to that by now. I spent all night dancing (from 7PM to 2AM it was nonstop salsa). The most exciting part though was that I got to meet the guy who is running the Korea Salsa Congress and he asked me to help him out as kind of a Hispanic liason for all the Hispanic performers that they're flying in. They would put me up for the weekend and get me passes for all the Congress events. How awesome is that?
--- I took a trip over to Busan on a small vacation and I got to meet up with Jesus (that's obviously his spanish name) my new Korean friend and he took me salsa dancing. :-)

After salsa I headed over to Old Skool, which has become my hangout spot on most Saturdays after salsa. I've been out at Old Skool until about 5 or 6AM every Saturday for the past 6 weeks just about, but it's a lot of fun. Mostly, I just hang out with my Hispanic peeps that I've met downtown. I even got to meet a bunch of people from a Brazilian dance team. They are awesome dancers. For the record, there is nothing like dancing the lambada with a Brazilian guy. I was just happy that I could keep up cuz they are like professional dancers, so I felt proud. But last night I was a little tired so I left at like 3:15AM, too early right? :-p--- Hanging out with at Old Skool with a some friends. The giant next to me is Luke teacher, whom I work with, and the other two giants are friends of his but I just know them as Creepy Drunk guy and Random Guy.
--- At Old Skool with Megan and Christine.

On a completely random side note - I felt that I should share - last weekend Christine decided that for her birthday we were going to have a cross-dressing party. So I decided to go dressed as Nick. Considering that we have the same hair, I felt I could pull it off. And pull it off I did. I repeatedly got the comment, "Holy shit Susy! Is that you? I thought it was Nick." Nice huh? Lol! In fact, Nick even showed his mom a picture of me dressed as him and she said, "Nick, you look kind of like a girl in this picture." His Mom!! I think maybe I did too good of a job... You can be the judge.

--- Me (dressed as Nick) on the left, with my "boys" for the night: Elly, Jess, and Yoonjung.
--- Most people got really into it, they weird thing is that his "boobies" were being held up by my bra... yea it's a little weird.