A sad day

Went to Kung Fu tonight, was a bit of an experience.
Walked up to the place and got harassed by Korean school girls.
"Hello" "Hello"
"Hi" "Hi"
"Handsome boy"
Anyway, that's nothing that new.
It was funny, however, 5 minutes later when they walked into my dojo.
Turns out a couple of them train there. Luckily they got bored pretty quickly.
I'm in a new training centre at the moment, a Hapkido place and it's been awhile since people have been so fascinated by my skin colour.
Anyway to the sad story, as I've already alluded to.
The Kung Fu gym is no, found out last Thursday the master lost a legal battle with the landlord and must be out by this Thursday.
It's a sad day, so for a little while we're training at the Hapkido gym next door, just keeping out of the classes' way.
The master is looking for a new one.
Went to see the master at the old gym today after training. It was kinda depressing, boxes everywhere, and instead of an eclectic playlist of 60's pop, 90's pop and Korean rock, there are these absolutely painfully sad Korean ballads, and the master is just plain in the dumps.
He gave me a training uniform and a pair of his old training gloves as a gift.
It was not a fun experience to see him like that, but I'm sure he'll find a new place soon

Happy Pepero Day everyone

Happy 빼빼로 데이
I officially have less than 3 months left.
I am also officially hungover as fuck.
Went out to Hongdae, the student area of town, actually just full of foreigners
Got quite drunk, and went to a hookah bar, was fantastic, not so much now though.

Ouch

Here's my story in MSN form, just for a change

Me: hi
Carloona: hi brad!
Me: you wouldn't believe my evening
Carloona: try me anyway
Me: Well, i finished work, and me Dave and Birgie went to Costco
Carloona: ok, so far believable
Me: so we get there and Dave decides to chill on the first floor looking at a new camera, and I wait with him
Me: anyway this has nothing to do with the story, Birgitta goes home
Carloona: still believable
Me: me and dave finish shopping have some dinner and head to the subway unnecessary overladen
Carloona: don't tell me you guys left your stuff on the subway
Me: so we're standing there and I check my pockets and wonder where my entire paycheck in cash is
Carloona: oh god
Me: after a frantic tearing through my stuff I realize it ain't anywhere there
Carloona: oh my god
Me: so I just leave everythin strewn next to the train with Dave and start sprinting, up outta there, outta the subway and off down the street, scanning and running.
Me: Eventually I realise I don't recognise anything so I assume I went the wrong way so I cross the street and start running back in the other direction
Me: then I spot Costco, I had run right past and then kept going about twice the distance again
Me: I dash across the 6 lane road
Me: and run into Costco
Me: the front gate is chained up and the staff are cleaning up
Carloona: and did you find it?
Carloona: aaaaaaaaaaaah
Me: Im looking at the bottoms of all the trolleys, and I run into the bathroom, not anywhere there
Me: so i run to the front desk and ask "English?"
Me: and she replies "Englishee"
Carloona: good enough
Me: apparently she doesn't she grabs the nearest guy, he speaks about the same English as my Winnies class
Me: I'm like I was just shopping here, I had a white Shittibank envelope with a lot of money in it
Me: and he looks at me half blankly and grabs the phone and starts calling around
Carloona: oh god
Me: about 4 or 5 calls later he passes me the phome
Me: and a guy says hi, I explain whats happened and he's like okay, put me back on with my staff member
Me: so I do, they talk for thirty seconds
Me: and he gets out from behind his desk, I'm like what
Me: and he says something something elevator, and I have no idea so I follow him
Me: We go to the goods elevator which subsequently takes the longest 20 sec of my life to drop one floor
Me: He waves and yells at some guy and we go into the office where some guy is crawled under the desk reaching into their safe,
Carloona: ....!
Me: part 2 will cost you 39.95
Me: plus gst
Carloona: gst?
Me: silly americans
Carloona: phft.
Me: anyway, he comes out with my envelope and I almost kiss him, they ask for the normal, my name number and how much is in there
Me: fucken stoked
Carloona: jesus fucking christ brad.
Me: 1.7m won
Carloona: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Carloona: tell me please you'll never be that BONEHEADED again
Me: pretty intense huh
Carloona: yah. and I wasn't even there

I just had the most intense experience of my trip, details will follow, but lets say I came so close to losing 1.7million won (about $NZ2600)

Halloween

Woohoo Halloween tomorrow,
Have been amping all my kids for a couple of weeks now, Boston Campus generally puts on a good halloween.
The formula goes, get the kids upstairs, watch a scary movie,
The teachers go downstairs into their classrooms and wait, then the kids come down and get the Bejesus scared out of them, then there's a room to room Trick or treat.
This is all followed up by a trip downstairs to play some games with candy prizes,
And finally the Haunted House, which most of the kids refuse to enter.


However, this year, management decided instead of having fun the kids must jump in a bus for an hour to go to another business owned by the same Umbrella company ( a Health Spa) and spend an hour posing for photos to advertise the spa (in their costumes) without any semblance of fun. Then an hour back, then late lunch and home.

Sounds like a fair trade.
Motherfuckers

However we have managed to convince them to let us build a haunted house anyway,
So we spent an hour and a half after work getting it sorted, should be fun.
Too bad they will hafta be rushed through.

In other news the biggest pain in my Kindergarten class, Jina, is outta here

Korea in two words

I was in the One Time (cornerstore) next to work today at lunchtime buying an icecream and a Korean guy walked in and summed up Korea in two words.

소주 있어요?
Soju isseoyo?
Do you have soju?

Is Brad teacher an alien? How do you know?

I think Bread teacher is alien. Because he speak English very well and look like alien. And I think Bread teacher is alien.

I know brad teachers eye’s blue and teachers hairs are yellow and He speak English very well

He speak Korean not very well

Yes it is.

Because he is speaking English and he have long nose. And eyes are blue and he have yellow hair.

Brad Teacher is alien.

Because frist east people’s hair color is almost black and eye is brown.

but west people’s hair is not black and eye is not brown

I know Brad teacher is alien because he look like alien big nose and he speak English

he has blond hair. he write English

I think that brad teacher is a alien. .Because, he is a amarican person. And also he is so funny. And I do not like amarican people.

because Brad teacher said not Korean. and said English. and he’s face was not same to Korea people’s face. and I think Brad teacher was know a Korea speak but. not well. veryvery small Korea speak. Because brad teacher said don’t said Korea. to we speak Korean. but he don’t say Korea speak.

These are pretty reasonable level kids.

Sadly I found out today that Chris told them the contextual meaning of Alien and thats why I'm not green and scaly... Boring

Where for art thou life?

I've been up to a bit lately, seen the sights, only one more to go, the DMZ, the trip is booked for mid November nice and cold.

I've finally applied for Medicine in Auckland next year, two weeks to spare.
Let's all cross our fingers.
I then tried to apply for Otago just in case, but looks liek I'm two weeks late.
Made me realise all my eggs are inthe one basket. So I've spent the day looking into Aussie universities and realizing alot of them have already closed applications too.
A couple close this Friday so I got to get into that. Another couple need a different but similar test to the UMAT, one closed yesterday.
Ahh last minute epiphanies suck when there's deadlines.
Though I have found out most Aussie med degrees are only five years, and a couple have 4 year Grad programs, why the fuck have I not looked until now, that's right, I'm a serial procrastinator.
University of NSW and Monash are all thats left and I think they need GAMSAT

I'm actually seriously considering looking into Canadian Unis next.

Firstly, Ouch Sam, Ouch.

Anyway here's your update:
I had a shitty week,
Janet's got a new face
and I really neeed to get round to sending off my application for med school

Done

I just read through my last few posts and have realised maybe I don't suck at writing, well they held my attention at least.

Anyway I have now booked and paid for a flight home from the 7th December -11 December to attend an interview, 1.3mKRW later.
Now to apply for Med School and request the Monday 10th interview.
Also I have found out that Otago doesn't require an interview for Graduate Entry, so it'd be silly not to apply, but I really don't wanna live down there, I think.
Well time for work, it's gonna be a hard two days until the public holiday on Wednesday