This weekend I decided to take a much needed break from city hopping. Okay, so I went to Gwangju on Sunday but only for the day!
Friday night I noticed a dresser sitting, unattended, in my hallway. Our apartments come furnished with a wardrobe, dresser, TV, and fridge and it was the same model as the dresser in my room so I assumed the landlady was just moving furniture around. However, after a few hours of watching it sitting idly outside my door I decided to call Joo and ask her if she thought it might be up for grabs. She told me to wait another hour or so and if it was still there, it’s all mine. I waited patiently and after exactly 60 minutes I went outside and dragged it into my room. After that, I left it sitting in my front hall for the night and went to catch up on some sleep!
I spent all day Saturday cleaning my apartment, getting the smell of cigarette smoke out of my new dresser, and rearranging my room. Now my room is fully equipped with 2 dressers, 1 wardrobe, 1 fridge, 1 bed, 2 foot-high tables, and a chair that sits on the ground. My furniture makes me feel tall.
Sunday I broke my vow to have a relaxing weekend and not go anywhere by going to Gwangju to meet up with my English coteacher. Her name is Justina and I assist her class on Tuesday and Friday. She is a traveling English teacher so she has another nearby school that she works at Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I met her around 4 and she took me downtown and showed me some cheap places to shop! This didn’t end well for my bank account but I did have a lot of fun!
After that we went for “sam gyup sal” and soju. Sam gyup sal is pork belly (looks a lot like bacon but doesn’t taste anything like it) that you grill on your table. You grill the pork and different vegetables in front of you and when they’re done you take scissors and cut everything into bite size pieces. Then you take leaf lettuce and sesame lettuce and put beef, sauce, vegetables, and rice in the middle and wrap it into a little pouch. Once you have everything bundled up you literally shove the entire thing in your mouth. I wouldn’t recommend sam gyup sal for a date or anything but otherwise it’s absolutely delicious! Justina told me that Koreans also say sam gyup sal and soju go very well together so we split a bottle between the two of us. Basically you take a drink of soju and chase it with this sam gyup sal pouch. If you happen to really dislike the taste of soju this is a great chaser because you have to focus so much on eating the food that you forget about the soju.
Once we were done with dinner she brought me back to the bus terminal and I headed home.
Pictures of my rearranged room, sam gyup sal, and me and Justina in a photo booth are at the end of my Life in Mokpo album. I’ll repost the link below:
Today, I had an exceptionally good Monday. I woke up and it was sunny, my busses were on time, and all my children behaved! Good Mondays are always a good sign for the rest of the week! Also, I rode the bus from Shijong to Yeongam with 3 of my 6th grade boys and they did a great job at speaking English on the way! I was so proud!
Now I’m going to hang up my laundry and attempt to get to sleep a little early tonight!
xox
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