friday night live...

deery-lou.
taekwondo class consisted of jumping, jumping, and tumbling. me no like the tumbling. especially when having to do it backwards. i always feel somewhat dizzy. its funny to watch the kids though. they roll all over the place and seem to have a blast while doing so. from tumbling we went on to jumping. we practiced jumping hurdles then the long jumping. it was pretty fun. i crashed into the hurdles once. the hurdles were these foamy block things. they were quite soft so no injuries. the rest of the class was spent practicing kicking. kicking will be the death of me.

after class i headed to jungang-dong to meet up with a new peep, bonnie conquest, that i met via blogspot. i think she's been stalking me for some time. blogging has become the new way to meet people. i love it. we went to wa bar for some drinks. it was pretty packed when we got there so we had to sit at one of the drink bars. i call them drink bars cuz in the center is all sorts of bottled beer/drinks on ice. you simply just grab what you want. we opted for giant drafts. we tried to order a pitcher but for some reason got the old arm cross sign meaning "NO!" through the course of the evening we met a lovely "in love" korean couple. the girl so wanted to chat us up and vice versa but seeing that our korean was awful and her english not so good it never really took off. it sure was fun trying though.

here's what i learned friday night…
1. three giant beers on an empty stomach not so good
2. i sweat like a pig
3. some public bathrooms reek so bad its hard to pee
4. people really do eat kangeroo
5. everyone has a story to tell
6. don cas [breaded pork cutlet] with gravy rocks my world
7. "service" is the best thing ever [hi free peaches]
8. sometimes i think i talk too much
9. meeting strangers can be fun

on the way home it was raining. half way home i realized i actually HAD an umbrella in my bag. unfortunately it wasn't quite big enough to cover two. the rain died down to a drizzle and we decided to forget the umbrella all together. as we passed by the now closed restaurants there was an ajumma outside of one. she pointed to my umbrella, started talking to us, and motioned about the fallilng rain. i could tell she was wondering why we weren't using it. i smiled back shrugging my shoulders. she laughed. i'm sure she thought what fools we were. and perhaps we were but sometimes cold rain feels so good.

be well…