On Saturday, I woke up early and Skyped with my youngest sister, Jodi, for 2 1/2 hours!! It was a wonderful way to start my morning! :) After that, I ran to the subway to meet Lisa. We had a seminar from 1pm-4:30pm a few subway stops away. Neither one of us was looking forward to it, but it was a requirement. At least we had each other...
The seminar was pretty uneventful and quite boring. The guy running the training, Robert, is the same guy who did my initial 3 days of training before I started teaching. He's a really great guy, and he presents well. However, this information wasn't anything new, so it was boring. At one point, Robert called me up on stage to participate in a role-playing activity. I had to play the "teacher," and three other seminar people played the "students," who all had specific roles to play. I had to find out how each student was feeling based on my interactions with each one of them. It was pretty brutal, but I managed to get some laughs from the rest of the group...
After the seminar, Lisa and I headed home and grabbed a quick dinner at the rice ball place on the corner. We both went home and took 30-minute power naps, and then met up at the subway station again. We were going to Itaewon to meet a friend of ours and some of her friends for dinner and drinks...or so we thought...
We met up at 8pm at the subway station and went to a Mexican restaurant. There were six of us total, so unfortunately, we weren't all able to sit together. Lisa, Fahmida, and I all sat together, and Allen, Steph, and Ollie sat together. The food was okay, nothing special, but we had great conversation. When we were all finished eating, we went outside and talked about where to head to next for some drinks. Well, apparently there was a miscommunication between the other group about staying in Itaewon or going to a different city. It turned into a really awkward argument/discussion which Lisa and I did not wish to be a part of. We had come a long way to meet them in Itaewon, so we were just going to stay. While they fought, we quietly excused ourselves and just went our own way. No need for drama. We were there to have a good time and explore a bit, and that's just what we did. :)
We ended up in a pub called "The Rose and Crown" and had some drinks. We went on the second floor and sat right by the window. We felt the nice breeze and had great conversation. I've really enjoyed getting to know Lisa more and more. She's a really cool girl, and I'm so glad we're teaching together!
After that, we explored a bit more, went into a Canadian pub (for Lisa's benefit...), and then headed back to the subway. Itaewon is where the line-dancing bar is, but besides that, I'm not familiar with the rest of the area. We ran into some really cool places, so we're definitely going to check those out in the future!
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