Mosquitoes... in December?!

First off, I've seen two mosquitoes in the past week here!  I saw the first one in the elevator of the Holt building, and I was positive I was imagining things. I was sure it was some other kind of bug that just looked like a mosquito because its December!!! But, when I told Nik he told me he had killed one just the other day at his apt. Then, while I was at his apt. studying, I saw another one. And it was HUGE! so I killed it.

Anyhow, this weekend was really fun.  On Friday, after class I worked from 2-7 and then met up with Supho people for dinner.  It was really fun ~ got to see a lot of people I haven't seen since camp! which ended in August.  Plus, there were a few people who I hadn't seen in two years!  I arrived late because I had work until 7. We ate shabu shabu (hot pot) for dinner and then went to Minto, a tea and coffee cafe.  We got a huge room for our group and had drinks and cookies and ice cream.  I actually didn't eat much of dinner; it goes in courses and since I got there late and the last course is rice with eggs...  So, I ate ramen at the coffee shop ^^

On Saturday, I went with my friend Joo to a deaf musical.  What is that, you may ask? I asked myself the very same question.  It was a play all in KSL (Korean sign language) with voice interpretation. I don't know KSL (no, it isn't the same as ASL) and my Korean isn't great, but I got the gist.  I mean, the story line wasn't too hard to follow, and after the show, Joo, her friend and I concluded it was basically the same storyline as "Step Up", the movie.  haha!  If you've not seen "Step Up," the story takes place in a high school in the 'bad kids' class.  They don't care about school and just mess around all day and are on their 7th teacher of the year.  This teacher comes in really wanting to connect with the kids, but fails, initially.  However, after finding out about his students backgrounds and home life, he comes up with a plan to have them put on a musical and do a dance to build their confidence, and he succeeds.  The last scene of the play was of the students and the teacher doing a choreographed dance to the song Champion, by Psy.

*photos courtesy of HyunJoo Chu

 actors, director (woman) and some other important people... ^^

more important, not worthy people and the actors

Joo unni, her co-worker who played the teacher, and me~

Prof. from KSL interpreting program and ...?

at a cafe after the show

"Step Up" plot line or not, it was really good and I really enjoyed it.  And afterwards, Joo introduced me to some of the people.  The person who played the teacher is her coworker and I also met a professor at Nazarene University and works in the Korean Sign Language Interpretation Department.  He knew ASL because he attended Gallaudet University in Wash. DC!

Later on, I met up with Nathan for dinner and after dinner we met up with Nik~ We went to some bar near Jamsil, which was surrounded by strip clubs... odd.  The bar was really nice though.

Speaking of which, I was walking home from the subway station yesterday and there were all of these business cards with scantily clad women with phone numbers scattered on the ground.  They've actually been there for a few days and initially I thought someone just accidentally dropped them, but I realized yesterday that they must have done it on purpose.  Because it wasn't just in one concentrated area, but all down the sidewalk... I guess the person was too embarrassed to hand them out to people, so perhaps they thought if they just dropped them on the ground, interested people would pick one up?... Odd advertising tactic.

Then on Sunday, Nik and I met up to study... We ended up cooking a huge meal! I made latkes and he made spaghetti~ We also had green beans and salad and fruit. Yum!!!
And we totally procrastinated from studying for a good 6 hours... After preparing, cooking, eating, digesting, and going for a walk, we finally cracked down and studied some~ It was a good end to a fun weekend ^__^

*didn't have an actual camera, so we took these photos using photobooth on Nik's computer...

먹자!!!