kiss club

where to even begin. this day was like a bad flashback to the days at haf. when petty gossip and jealous women feel the need to create office gossip and mayham. it was also the first day of my 10am class with lisa. she's about 5 and she's so smart and cute. she's fast becoming my new favorite. it was during class with her that i heard all this yelling out in the hallway. i opened my door to see what was up. sammy and princess [i've changed ferrets name to princess since she admitted that's her nickname] were at it like alexis and krystal from dynasty. if there had been a pool or mud they would have definitely been in there rolling around pulling each others hair. i told them to be quiet and shut my door. the yelling continued so i went back out and noticed horace had popped his head out too. i told him i had asked them to keep it down once already. he walked out and told them to be quiet. meanwhile lisa is at my legs listen to what's going on too. i went back into class and continued my lesson.

during the break between classes i went into horace's room to see what was up. now to go back in time a little. one day horace and i were joking around with sammy and asked if something was going on between jk and princess. unfortunately with all the lost in translation i'm not sure if she knew we were kidding around. at the time it seemed that she did. anyway back to the present. i'm in horace's class and he told me that this morning sammy came up to him and told him that jk and princess had gone out the other night and wondered what she should do about. he told he to do nothing. of course she didn't listen. instead she confronted princess and the whole blowout occurred. it really doesn't matter where one lives be it san francisco or korea office gossip is always lurking around the corner.

i decided to ask sammy directly what that was about and also to tell her that if this should happen again please take it outside or into a room with the door closed. her story consisted of the following details. she asked princess if we could be informed in the future of when a new student arrives if they have their books or not. this came about because half way through my class i realized that lisa didn't have a workbook and i had to leave class to copy 8 pages. princess replied by saying she's too busy dating jk to worry about actual school business. and that's when the fight broke out. sammy told her that horace and i thought somewhere was up. princess replied by saying she didn't care what us "foreigners" thought and made some other comment about us. this is what sammy told me but knowing that we only get half of the story i'm taking it all with a grain of salt. my feeling is that if its not said to me directly i'm not going to assume anything. princess apparently called jk and left the school for a period of time.

after lunch i got called into jk's office. princess had told him everything that went down with her and sammy. he brought up the "relationship" thing and asked me if i believe what he tells me. i said yes. he went on to tell me that there is no relationship going on with him and princess. he brought up the whole "i feel like we are family" and that he wants me to trust him. i told him i did and that whatever happens in his personal life is his own business. i mentioned how unfortunate it was that we even have to have this conversation because this was the last thing i wanted to have happen. i went to explain that i've already worked in an office environment where people were constanstly putting words in other peoples mouths and that horace and i were doing our best to stay out of it. but we have these people who are telling us half stories and mentioning are names when we really aren't involved and that gets frustrating. i told him that i'm here to do a job and that's teaching the children. having two women screaming at each other isn't good for business and is definitely something that the children don't need to hear. he told that he'd like both horace and i to come to him in the future if we needed to say anything. he also said that in the future he would let us know about any new student and other vital information we need to do our jobs. and then before leaving he asked me to tell horace everything we talked about. didn't we just have a whole conversation about talking directly to the person. i asked him if he thought it might be best if he told horace himself and he said he was too busy. welcome to korea.

i was a little pissed about being dragged into this mess. granted i realize that some of its our own fault for joking about princess and jk in the first place. at least now we realize we can only joke with each other. i kind of felt like he should have spoken to us directly. i went for a walk to clear my head. when i returned i told horace what went down. he went in to talk to jk anyway. he wanted to clear the air about some other gossip going around about horace and i not wanting jane, his wife, in the office. horace told me that jk realizes that we joke around and he mentioned how korean woman like to gossip and it was basically written off like that. no hard feelings on anyone's part except for the fact that princess has been ignoring us. oh well.

towards the end of the day things seemed to mellow out alot. i actually spent the last 40 minutes talking with both jk and princess. my new work method is now pretend that everything is all right. that's my hogwan afterall.

all day long i was trying to figure out an excuse to get of going out with the tae kwon do class. i couldn't think of anything. finally around 9:30 i decided to join them. what the hell i thought. one thing i did realize from the outing is that new student now known as scrappy doo drives me crazy. the whole car ride to over to ryan's apartment is was non-stop talking. he's goal in life is to find a rich wife so he can shop, watch tv, and do nothing. i wanted to push him out of the car.

from ryan's we walked over to emart to meet heather and her boyfriend. the whole gang was there even dr. no [frodo] as ryan refers to him. we went to this club called kiss. when we got out of the elevator we were greeted by korean men in gray suits. they spoke to tb and the other korean girl who works with heathere and then lead us to a table. this place was unbelievable. there were all these table and booths, a dance floor, and a stage. when we arrived there was a dj on stage. they have all these various performances throughout the night. djs, bands, dancers who strip down to bra and underwear, russian go-go dancers in cages. it was crazy. the table next to ours kept coming over pouring us more and more drinks. there was definitely lots of dancing and drinking happening with our group. the best part of the club is the uniforms. on the back of the coats they have "kiss" in big yellow letters just like how the band spells it with the lighten bolt like "ss". i want one. next time i'm going to try to steal one.

from the kiss club we made our way to a singing room. you know how i love those. there i did my rendition of "love hurts", sang "beautiful" with jenny, and then "white room" with ryan. it was pretty cool evening. master shin was actualy very low key the whole time. on our ride back to ansan tb had someone drive his car. in korea that have a service where someone will come out to drive your car if you had too much to drink. how great is that. since we had an extra person i got stuck riding in the hatch batch. on the way home scrappy was again non-stop talking. at one point the master asks him to be quiet. that was priceless. when we got to ansan i looked at my watch and it was 4:30 am. yikes. dr. no, the master, scrappy, and tb were going for hang-over soup although not the blood kind and tried to get me to go. i told them i needed to sleep. we said goodbye and off i went to find my bed. i slept so well.