Monday Malaise

Greetings,

My best intentions of writing this blog regularly are starting to vanish faster than a bottle of soju around an adjoshi.  Last week was pretty uneventful.  I renewed my visa last Wednesday.  I was pleasantly surprised that this occurred without much incident. 

On Friday, everyone at school went out for dinner.  We ate duck and drank soju.  The old repairman at the school wanted to fight.  He drank too much.  He was ultimately brought to his senses by several colleagues.  I drank so much soju that evening that I left the establishment with the wrong pair of shoes.  They aren't even a nice pair of shoes.  They are too big and smell like rotting kimchi.

Saturday was an uneventful Halloween.  I walked in the rain to Home Plus to buy a pumpkin and some wine.  I carved my Jack o Lantern and watched some insipid golf movie.  My girlfriend fell asleep on the couch. 

Sunday involved a game of screen golf.  I need more practice and more exercise.  My arms are quite stiff this morning.

Today is quite cold.  I am bored at work as usual.  The speech contest is underway.  Of course I am not required to take any part in the speech contest.  After all, why should the native English teacher in any way evaluate the performance, or memory, of his students. 

I should never ever read the Korea Times newspaper.  It is full of banal stale articles and both veiled and explicit racist fear mongering.  There is one little weasel at the times, Kang Shin Who, who deserves an economy class ticket to all of Dante's circles of hell.  I just don't understand why anyone would write articles in English then insult the core reading demographic.  According to that little kimchi stain, all foreign teachers are drug using sex offenders.  Sigh*  This is an unfortunate reoccurring motif and weekly one is subjected to this same theme again and again.  It makes one feel a little depressed after a while.

This is all I care to report for now.