Long Weekend Ahead - Friday Oct. 25, 2007

I'm trying to remember what I did on Thursday. I was supposed to teach four classes to make up for the class that I couldn't teach on Friday, but one of the classes was practicing for the festival. So, instead, I watched class 2-3 practice and only taught 3 classes.

After classes, I headed to Julie's apartment for tutoring. I took a taxi there instead of taking a bus. I didn't have enough time to catch a bus. Julie and I only did about an hour lesson. I headed home to finish getting ready to go to Seoul. I left on a 5:30PM bus. There was so much traffic that the trip that could take only an hour and a half ended up taking three. When I got to Seoul, I found my way to the subway and just decided to meet the others at Insadong instead of our hotel room. Insadong looks a lot different at night, but I managed to find them. I met up with Nika, Colleen, Jen, and Susie. Susie is the assistant Fulbright director (or something along those lines). I had only met Nika at PIFF and Kyangju. I met Jen at the Kyangju conference as well. This was my first time meeting Colleen. We met at a bar and sat around drinking and eating for a while.

I really have no idea why this was there, but this little creature was chillin' on the wall on the bar.

Susie headed back to her place after the bar, and the other three of us headed to the hotel room. The hotel room was quite small. There was enough room for the four of us to sleep on the floor on mats, and there was a bathroom. The floor was heated to a very toasty temperature. We went to sleep pretty early because of our early morning the next day.