Short Week

I arrived back in Daegu at noon Thursday, and hurried home to change clothes before arriving at work by 1. The teaching was still heavy, as it's been all month, what with us being a teacher down and it being the winter vacation period for universities (and students come to study English when they don't have their college classes to worry about). I went after work to our monthly after-hours student-teacher party and then joined a group of around fifteen people at a noribang (spellings vary). There we took turns belting at songs for nearly three hours, after which our voices were rough and raw. But it was one of the most fun things I had done in some time in Daegu.

Saturday I had to work a half-day, and after hours I went to a dinner with my church friends. The door of the restaurant came off the hinges midway through our meal and we watched bemusedly as they refastened it lacksadaisically. We also got into a small argument because one of the members tried to insist that certain races held advantages over others, a notion that I largely reject. It was basically a nature versus nurture debate, and it grew uncomfortable as a comment was made to our single black member about his race's ability to jump and run faster than other races. Anyhow, after the meal I went to Doug's and watched Star Wars Episodes V and VI as David hadn't seen them before and wanted to fill in the story.

The day following I went to the Bible study and the 5p service. I hadn't gone to the service in a while because the simultaneous translation proved too frustrating to endure, and it was the same story Sunday evening. Afterwards I had a talk with my girlfriend that resulted in the demise of our relationship, to our mutual relief. It was about a week late, but it finally happened. Then I went to David's and saw the remaining episodes he hadn't seen, II and III, and that concluded my all-too-short weekend.