Welcome June.
Just had my usual 4,000 won 자장면 and did my financing in between bites. I am so on the ball these days with knowing where I am spending what. I have been keeping a journal where I write down what I’m buying and how much everything is. I’ve been doing it now for about 10 weeks.
This past weekend was great. On Friday night some of us went bowling in Hongdae at a pretty run-down bowling alley. Though run-down, it was still entertaining. At least 3 times the lane we were on broke down and someone had to go and repair the equipment that properly sets up your pins for the next frame. Poor Joe, it was always after he got a strike, so sometimes he didn’t get credit for his strike. That is until we complained and made the woman behind the counter go in and manually fix our electronic score board. Though I haven’t touched a bowling ball since I was in Denmark last July, I was proud to get a 134.
A crazy taxi ride later, and I was home and sleeping…and hours later ready for Saturday. For the first time since dating Joe I went out to his middle school and got to join the tail-end of his weekend class for about 20 minutes. He was teaching 7th graders prepositions and somehow I wound up correcting some of their sentences, too. I found his students to be very sweet and friendly. Definitely different from the kids I teach in Apgujeong. I guess being 50 minutes outside of Seoul, and certainly away from the posh Gangnam area makes a big difference! Not that my students are all bad, but it’s evident after comparing them to Joe’s students that my students definitely come from money.
