World cup week God in heaven I love this place

Dear diary, ( you happy now Steph)

Korea has become what can only be described as a city wide party. Thousands of Koreans were pouring on to the streets to watch Korea play soccer. Pretty incredible site to see. I myself joined Suzy, and a few of my coworkers to watch the game at City Hall, where 60,000 people were cheering and dancing. Before the game I had the distinct privilege of watching some of the finest Korean bands play. This included After School, one of the huge K-pop groups here. before I move on I would just like to mention that Korean music is Abysmal, and I simply cannot understand how it is doing so well. Watching the game was one of the most incredible things I have ever experienced. I sang danced, and was asked to take pictures with tons of Korean people who were ecstatic to see a white guy cheering in Korea for their beloved team. The game was a draw, but by the way the crowd reacted you would have thought they won a war. After yet another all night session in korea I went to class to teach with a lost voice, but loads of energy from the night before. Come Saturday night I was excited to watch both USA, and Korea play in what i thought would be my best night here. As usual the night started off amazing. This time the pre-game show in Coex featured "2pm" one of the biggest groups to come out of Korea, and the first K-pop I heard when i got here. It also started to rain really hard out, but we all bought ponchos, and the rain just made it better. Needless to say the night was looking awesome. My group of friends and I were even filmed cheering, and were asked a few questions about the game by a local News station. This was the fourth time I was on camera since I have arrived. Naturally as promised I gave a shout out to Steph. As you all know Korea lost, and this was just the beginning of my night going down hill. We moved the crew over to Itaewon, a big foreigner area in Korea to watch U.S. play. The whole night we were sitting next to this couple that was cheering for Ghana and pissing everyone off at the bar. This only added to the annoyance I felt when America lost. It was still fun to watch the game, and Korea really showed me a great time this passed week. I guess I can't complain. This weekend I'm off to deokjok- doe island for a July 4th party with about 20 co-workers and friends, so expect a good post next week.

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1) Awesome old guy in full blown devils attire

2) Korean friends for the night

3) My crew at the tail end of a great night

4) Saturday night Korean game. My co trainiees

5) Myself, Bessy, Omari, Laura, and some adorable Korean kids that I want to steal

Let the good times roll. Yet another crazy 2 weeks.

So let me begin by saying that I will definitely be taking a couple week hiatus from the drinking scene. It has been an incredible 2 weeks. First I was given a raise and now teach a series of upper level classes that all have been going well. My most challenging, but interesting class is master debating and persuasion. Yes I am now a teacher of master-debation. I have head that joke so many times, that it has officially been ran into the ground. The class is amazing though. It has given me an opportunity to really hone in on my teaching abilities, and to work with kids that are arguably smarter than I am. LOL To the fun stuff. My friend Chau had some friends from Cali visiting, and I pretty much spent my passed 2 weeks hanging out with them, and doing all in my power to show them the time of their life. Truth be told I succeeded, but at the expense of yet another couple of weekends of abusing my body with the night life Korea offers. On the bright side I have managed to continuously lose weight because of my steady diet of Korean food, and the fact that I spend at least 6 hours a weekend dancing. I think Im actually starting to get pretty good, either that or the alcohol has taken a worse toll on me than I thought. To sum up our time spent together, myself, Chau, Nguyen, and Thuy spent the passed 2 weeks singing, dancing, laughing at each other, and then waking up the next morning and regretting it. All of the girls were troopers, and Nguyen is like a 4'10" ball of chaotic energy. She parties with the best of them. I took everyone out to my to place here in Korea; Hongdae, and we barred, and clubbed until the sun was out on more than one occasion. It was awesome. because of my complete lack of desire to drink I saw Nguyen, and Thuy off on saturday morning and after some tears I went camping with the "new crew" This consists now of myself, Chris, the lovable Angie, S-Suzy, and our new edition from Colorado Kyle. He was stuck homeless for a couple days so he crashed at the casa de Alex, and witnessed the damage that Korea can do. The camping trip was awesome, and much needed. We played camp games, volley ball, and a little frisbee, and then retired to a sleepless night cuddled on out hard wood floor tent in our 2 MM thick sleeping bags. Still It was a humorous night being yelled at by Korean families to keep it down, and being virtually hated by all surrounding parties. disclosure- We apologize to all Korean families for any pain and suffering we may have caused you on saturday night. As for the Agima's, cry yourself a river. lol Korea continues to amaze me and the good friends I have made here will prolong my desire to leave this place for quite sometime. Thank you to all parties included.

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1) Noreabong with Chau, Thuy, Nguyen, and Johnnie Mains my Canadian Coworker

2) Backup dancing for Chau and Nguyen

3) Hongdae street, yes that sign says "Sexy, Booby Booby Party"

4) getting down with Nguyen

5) 630:am after 8 hours of partying.