Day 104: Catching Up

After David Copperfield I went back to Ilsan with the gang and we stayed up late playing Trivial Pursuit, to help us practice for The Contenders. And I won - yah! ;-) The whole quiz show thing is actually a bit up in the air right now. Andrea's sister back in Canada is very sick and most likely dying and she needs to fly home as soon as possible, however things at her job are making that complicated (long story, but let's just say her boss is a fucking bitch.) She's not sure when she's going to be able to fly home, but it may have to be before we go on the show, which has been tentatively scheduled for June 16. It would totally suck if she couldn't come on the show with me, but it's for understandable reasons, that's for sure. Steve is currently on 24-hour back-up notice in case Andrea has to go home earlier than the 16th. Either way I'm still gonna be on it for sure!

Last night marked the beginning of a 48-hour stretch of time where I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME on the damn subway. Out to Ilsan Wednesnday night, back to Shihung on Thursday morning, to Itaewon on Thurs. night, back to Shihung on Friday AM, and then back again to Itaewon Friday evening. HOLY FUCK! By the end of it all I was sick of riding those trains!

School was alright on Thursday but I was so excited to see Henry, who was flying in that evening, that it felt like the afternoon was crawling by. By the time I got off of work it was starting to rain... Sprinkle turned to drizzle turned to pitter-patter turned to definitely-needing-an-umbrella turned to downpour turned to virtual monsoon! What a lovely welcome to Korea for Henry! I met Henry at our motel room that we had rented for the weekend - the Seoul Motel right on the main drag in Itaewon. It was so cool but SO STRANGE to knock on a motel door in KOREA and see HENRY FROM VANCOUVER answer the door!

We went out for dinner to a casual Western restaurant called Gecko's Tavern and it was so great to catch up with one of my best friends. We had a nice relaxing dinner then headed up the street to a really cool lounge called SoHo for drinks. It was a dead evening in Itaewon - the streets were near-empty and we were the only patrons in the lounge! I guess the monsoon rains* werem keeping a lot of people indoors tonight! After our drinks we headed back to the motel room for an early night to bed. Tonight was the beginning of a great little 'mini-vacation' for me that was only 3 days long but felt so much longer.

*okay technically they're not monsoon rains. Korea doesn't get monsoons (too far north) but it does have a 'rainy season', that typically runs from June to August. Tonight's rains were just really heavy and how I imagine a monsoon feels like. I had to put this in cause I know some of you are nit-picky about these details! ;-)