Chuseok!

Ok, so Friday was a pretty good day. First of all, I taught my first college class. I mean at first I thought the class was just something the students wanted to do and it was just me helping them learn English, but it's actually a real class that the stduents are auditing. An actual professor came in the class to do a small introduction of who I was and thank me for teaching the class. Then he prayed over us and left (at KCU they pray before every class meeting). That was a neat experience. Now I think about it, I got papers to grade! Anyway, that evening I met up with Ted Simons, a graduate of Oklahoma Christian who is here teaching in English in one of the schools. We went to a noodle shop with three people he met at the church he had been going to. First we have Hannah. Hannah is a girl from the United States who is an international student in London who is on an exchange program here studying at Korea University. Then we have Anna. Anna is Finnish and she's also here studying at Korea University as an exchange student. Then we have another young man, I forgot his name, who is also here teaching English in one of the grade schools. After we ate noodles, Hannah had to go back to her dorm, but the rest of us went to Ted's apartment and played Apples to Apples. We wanted to play at a coffee shop but after we walked to the Olympic Park and found out that it closed at midnight we just went back to Ted's. It was my first time playing it, but it was pretty entertaining. When we got done it was like 3 o'clock in the morning so I just stayed the night at Ted's place. That was my first night to spend away from the dormitory.
This morning Ronda introduced me to her friend Anna Marie who is Indian but is a citizen of England. She's been here for a few months teaching English. We went shopping at the Hyundai Market then we did some more shopping in Itaewon. It was a long day! This weekend is Chuseok weekend, which is one of the biggest (if not the biggest holiday) on the Korean calendar, so everybody's gone home for the holidays so to speak. There's only a couple people left in the dorms. And when I say a couple, I mean a couple. Luckily, because of the holidays, we're out of school on Monday. I'm starting to like Chuseok already.