A great start to my first weekend

Here is a great example of how wonderfully strange Korea can be! Thursday night after work I went to a Cat Cafe with some co-workers, yep that's right a cafe with cats. You walk in, take your shoes off, order a drink (no booze, really kids, do you want drunks playing with the cats!) and go play with cats! They had about 15 different cats just running around, mostly kittens and lots of toys to play with them with. Attached is a picture of me at the cat cafe - hehe.

Afterward we went out for a few pitchers of Cass (Korean beer) and some celebration shots with Edward, who also first started and Danielle and Greg (a couple from the Midwest who recently graduated college). Korea After that we had some Korean BBQ with pork and soju. One type of pork they have looks like a super thick piece of bacon, its just not cured. Once the pieces are cooked, they still are half fat and half meat. I tried two pieces (one by itself and one in a leaf) and tore off the huge pieces of fat that overtook the meat, and yep, still don't like pork! While Korean food is great, it does include a lot of meat and I am looking forward to trying more of their veggies dishes. :) The soju taste like watered down vodka, so it is very easy to drink too much. Anyway in true Korean fashion, soon enough it was 2 AM and we made our way home. doesn't have a wide beer selection and of the native beer they have, Cass is one of the most popular and its not great but surely will due for a ice cold brew.

Korea is notorious for drinking, mostly among adult men. It is very common to see puke on the sidewalk and men stumbling around. My fellow teachers were telling me about journals from the kids talking about their dads 'eating soju' and how they wish their dads were home more. I am sure more to come of this later as I get to know my students.

Last night, Friday, we went out for a co-workers birthday after work. His name is John and he is from Shamburg and went to U of I, small world! Dinner was great, I was happy to get a chance to socialize with more co-workers. After dinner we went out to a bar where we met up with the Ilsan campus (same hogwog but different campus) and went out to a bar called Ba Boom. Ba Boom is all for dancing and drinking, they played a mix of American and Korean Pop. I was referred to as white girl, taught two Korean girls the cupid shuffle and they showed me some synchronized dance moves to the Kpop songs. We stayed out until 5:30 am and honestly the bar was still going strong when I left. At Bar Boom I was happy to hang out with Koreans because it is mostly foreigners at my school. Hope everyone is having a fantastic weekend! Love ya!