Soju? Oh Noju!!!

Hey Team!
The following is a joint post written by Deb and Kelly in the third person.

Sooooo though it seems an entire month has passed since we first embarked on our great journey east, we find ourselves beginning work week number two. This post concerns the past weekend, and has only been postponed until this late Monday night due to the intense severity and deathbeddery that is the Korean hangover. Anyway...

Friday night Deb and Kelly made their first jaunt into America Town (henceforth referred to as A-Town). For those of you who don't know, A-Town is a magical land peopled almost entirely by American GIs and Filipino hookers (AKA "flippers"). Upon entering the first bar of the night, Kelly and Deb found it odd to be the only females in sight that weren't looking to pick up Johns.

**Here's how it works. The ladies of the night come over to SoKo on entertainment VISAs - as singers, actresses, what have you - and do wonders for A-Town's economy by getting the guys to buy them $10 Kool-Aids all night. Fortunately for us English teachers, MPs show up around midnight or so to herd the drunken GIs back to base in time for their 1 am curfew, leaving scores of open pool tables and dart boards.**

But back to the story at hand.. Deb and Kelly, escorted by two gentlemanly Canadian coworkers, went completely unaccosted by the GIs, and were presented with a "very expensive bottle of rum"..."Captain Q". The bar mistress even offered us a complimentary plate of...cucumbers. This is what passes for barfood in A-Town. The rest of the night was spent in general merriment and a great many doses of the Vitamin Q. And Kelly got to play pool against a Flipper. Goodtimes.

SATURDAY!!

Oh boy. A great feast was had at aformentioned Canadian coworker's apartment. The food and drink was all a-flow, and our boss even showed up to join in the festivities. This guy is a party animal. Kelly made up a fantastic new drinking game which, as the night goes on, becomes increasingly more impossible....as drinking games are wont to do. Players attempt to pass a 10 won piece (the size of a penny) around a circle with chopsticks. Anyone at fault in the dropping of said 10 won has to drink. Deb was bad at it. Kelly wasn't much better.

So when the bottles were drained it was time to move on. But not for Kelly, for whom it was time to pass out. Deb, three coworkers and the boss-man then headed out to the much-anticipated noreabang - aka KARAOKE!!! Despite a slight lack of sweet American songs to choose from, this was great. Everyone, specifically the boss, completely rocked out - but it soon grew time to move the party elsewhere.

The group, sans boss, ended up at a local watering hole, where Deb encountered a particularly overzealous Korean girl. Seriously, this chick was lovin' it. Completely disregarding the two guys, she grabbed Deb's hand, shouted in awe about her general physique, requested the song "Beautiful Girls" and pulled her onto the dance floor. She bought Deb a shot and continued to make a scene for the duration. This is the most recent and most extreme case of a contstant stream of completely heterosexual love** shown to Kelly and Deb by totally random Korean girls.

**It really should be said here that same-sex affection in South Korea is entirely different from that in America. One will constantly see same-sex friends, whether male or female, and of any age, holding hands, walking arm-in-arm, or just plain hugging it out. On the contrary, male-female physical displays of affection are improper and rarely stray beyond the occasional hand-hold. The real way to display one's coupledom is to wear matching shirts or even entire matching outfits. Ha.**

Ok, so she grabbed Deb's chest too. But she seriously wasn't trying to hit on her. Seriously.

Pictures coming soon!!!

Love, Kelly and Deb

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