So I have finally arrived in Daegu and it’s freaking hot. One of the advantages of this is that because I sweat so much I now only have to go to toilet as much as a normal person. Which is nice.
I met my co-teachers Friday – Mrs Shin, Miss Oh and Miss Young – and visited my school for the first time. My co-teachers are all ridiculously nice. We went out for dinner and Miss Young asked if I wanted to get up at 4 o clock the following morning and drive two hours outside of Daegu with her to take a photo of the sunrise over a harbour. Once I’d stopped laughing and realized she wasn’t actually joking I said yes. Unfortunately due to an inclement forecast we were forced to post phone.
Instead I accepted my other co-teachers invitation to English Club. This is a group of around 25 Korean people who meet once a week for a couple of hours to speak English together - There is however, one other english guy in his 50's who seems quite obviously to be a recovering alcoholic/crack addict, only no-one but me seems to have noticed - Apart from that, it’s very nice and very civilized. Everyone sits on the floor, sipping tea discussing the conversation topics provided.
Afterwards we all went out for drinks, which were slightly less civilised. The night ending with the man sat next to me (who everyone kept calling Kim Jong-il due to his unfortunate resemblance to the diminutive dictator) vomiting into his own hands after downing 18 shots of soju.
Funny in any language.
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