I went out for drinks last with 태진. He phoned me after he came back from seeing his girlfriend and asked me if I wanted to have some beer. He met me out front and we walked a little way down the road to a small 호프. We had a couple of beers and snacks, talked about girlfriends being difficult/wonderful and discussed the music that was playing on the radio at the time.

I knew from the beginning that 태진 was a really nice guy but it’s become more and more apparent as we’ve become better friends. He’s always looking out for other people and we get on really well. I feel compelled to improve my Korean quickly so that he doesn’t have to speak English all the time ^^”

Oh, and the above picture is for my mother who I know worries about me all the time. Well mother, there is no longer anything to fear because as you can see, I have all the necessities right here :P

Today I went to see Bangkok Dangerous with 태진 and 천진. We had to wait around a little beforehand so we played a little in the arcade and I kicked some ass on Initial D. Matt, I get this strange feeling I might be needing some Eurobeat soon :P Baskin Robbins was the next port of call and I had an ice-cream that I forget the name of. It was awesome though. The movie itself was quite different from what I expected but was still a good watch. Nicholas Cage’s hair really bugged me though :P

After we finished, we went to eat shabu shabu which was delicious and if I hadn’t still been feeling the effects of last night, I would have eaten a lot more. We decided against dessert and instead headed to Starbucks. After that it was back on the bus and back home.

And here are some little bits I wanted to say but didn’t want to put in a new post:

Go and watch ‘NEWS - Happy Birthday’ now because it is too fantastic to miss. Definitely sounds more like an 嵐 song but I’m looking forwards to live performances.

From Blog

Oh, and buy me one of the new iPod Nano’s and I will plug it into iTunes 8.0 :D

Yesterday was Max and Sunny’s last day at the academy and so afterwards, Max, 태진 and I went out for some drinks and nibbles. It was a nice little place that I’d walked past a few times and we sat in there and talked about everything for about three and a half hours. It was really good fun and it’s just a shame that Max is leaving to go to the army, but we agreed that after he comes back from China we’ll meet up again and have another drink.

Today I had no plans so last night when 태진 told me that he was having to work today I thought I’d take some ice creams to the teachers. Well, later on in the evening, after the shift finished, 태진 phoned me and told me he had bought me toast :D He came over to the apartment and look what he gave me :D I know I’ve said it before, but I really like the people I’ve met here.

Oh, and expect a lot of pictures tomorrow :D

. AT SCHOOL
School was busy but awesome yesterday :D All the students knew it was my birthday and they all said, “Happy Birthday, Alex!” when they came in. Some of them even gave me presents which you can see in the picture below ^^

And yes, that is Stand Up o_O My students are freaking awesome :D Credit for that purchase goes to Jennifer and I have to say I was totally amazed. You will also note the little chocolate cake given to me by Alice :D I haven’t eaten it yet but I’ll probably tuck into it tonight, after the concert. She was so sweet about giving it to me yesterday, it made me ‘blee’ a little XD The little flower was from Christine and William. There was a can of coffee too but I drank that at work ^^” You can see who gave me the Vitamin-C tablet in the video :P Oh, there was also a big, white chocolate cake from Max which we ate at the first bar and 태진 형 said he’d take me to the cinema next month when he has some money XD

I will definitely be saying some big thank you’s on Monday and better yet, there are still some presents to come :D

. AFTER SCHOOL
School was great, but it really kicked off afterwards. I’m going to blitz through the venues and then pick up on the best bits in the next paragraph.

01 Local restaurant for dinner [joined by Mr. Lee's wife, Sunny/Susan leave]
02 Small bar/club for beer and cake [joined by maths teacher's husband]
03 Smaller bar for soju and drinking games
04 Club for more drinks

Dinner was nice and I ate my fair share of the meat :D It was a shame that Susan and Sunny had to leave but I didn’t really imagine them staying. We moved on to the first club and started the drinking. I also got to eat some of my cake but not much because Mr. Lee told me I had to go and give some slices to the other people in the club XD 태진 형 was with me so it wasn’t so bad but damn, it was embarrassing. Oh, and that was after I had to stand up while they put on some special birthday light show and played this annoying birthday song XD

We took some pictures and a video so you guys could finally see who I work with :) There aren’t many pictures but I think the video is more than enough.

The drinking games involved the usual mixing of drinks and then mixing of anything and everything on the table. This included some of the liquids contained in the snacks we had. I did my share but Mr.Lee kept drinking mine for me so I didn’t get drunk XD When we left the second bar, I could feel myself being a little ’soft around the edges’ but I was still OK. Mr.Lee was definitely drunk, as was 태진 by the end but not to quite the same extent. Max and the rest were just a little sociable.

The best present was definitely getting closer to all the teachers and enjoying their company. I have some new phone numbers to call and it was great to come together as a team after a rough Summer. Mr.Lee said some really nice things to me before and after he was drunk which meant a lot and the other teachers said they had really enjoyed working with me and were only sorry they hadn’t spoken to me more ^^”

Got home at about 3am, grabbed a shower and went to bed ^^

As always, you can see all the media in the gallery :)

The night before
True to his word, The Boss was at the apartment at 11am on the dot and along with him came 천진, 태진 and James. To be honest, I could have done it without their help, especially 천진 and 태진 who did all the heavy lifting because The Boss refused to let me touch anything o_O We were done and out within the hour which really was pretty incredible. James took me to the new apartment and the truck with my stuff arrived shortly after. We set about taking the stuff up and once again were done within the hour. After everything was up, we decided there were some things in the apartment that didn’t need to be there so we took them down and put them outside to be taken away. Oh, and I should mention that The Boss called in a favour and got the guy to come round and fix up my Internet and TV while we were moving in. He rocks my world sometimes.

James talked The Boss into taking the rest of us for lunch [he had to go to go and see his mother] and so 천진, 태진 and I went and grabbed a table while The Boss returned the van. I love these lunches because it gives me a chance to get friendlier with my colleagues and this time was no different. I am now officially ‘friends’ with 천진 and 태진 ^^ The Boss was talking about how they should hang out with me and I was hoping the ground would swallow me up but they both said it would be cool :D Anyway, we ate our fill and then I headed back to the apartment to check out what I needed to buy and then went to the shops. When I got back it was cleaning for the next 5 hours before I decided I’d had enough and went online.