Friday Night

After work, I went back to my apartment which is maybe a three minute walk away; much better than twenty to thirty minutes. When I came in my apartment had a tv, desk, chair and bed in it. I was told that I would have to talk to someone at Avalon to get cable and internet, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to check anyway. I dug my computer out from my backpack (I carried my computer with my whenever I left the motel, it made my backpack much heavier, and made me appreciate the short walk to my new apt), set it up and plugged in the ethernet cable I brought with me into the wall. How many people do you know that would actually bring an ethernet cable with them to a foreign country? It never crossed my mind that this might be a strange thing to do. As you should be able to guess, I found the internet. For some reason, unknown to me, the internet and cable were never turned off in this apartment so right now I am using both for free. Hopefully this goes on for a while.

I didn't spend much time in my room. Everyone was going out to a bar to celebrate the end of James working at Avalon. They met up outside the mini-mart at the bottom of my building. Then we headed off to a Western bar a short taxi away. This is when I learned that a taxi only costs a couple bucks. The whole Won concept with 1,000 = 1.00 was starting to make sense.

I had some Jameson and Jaegermesiter, both of which were delicious. We played darts, and I met new people that knew this group of teachers because they shared a common interest, rock climbing. After the frolicking good time was over, around 1-2 AM, we migrated outside to take multiple taxis back home. As it turned out, there were more people than could fit in two taxis, leaving myself and DJ to wait for a third. Instead we went inside and kept drinking. We had a good conversation about music and then we talked with the owner of the place for a while, he was British and lived next to Roald Dahl when we was a kid. A couple hours later, we left the bar, and just decided to walk. I think it was only a ten minute walk. He worked at the elementary school, and shared some stories about Korea as well as back home in New Orleans.

I got back to the apartment around 4am, and just crashed. However, I didn't have a blanket to sleep under so I just slept on the mattress and used my sheet, which is apparently another strange thing for someone to bring, as a blanket. I woke up several hours later freezing cold.