Carpooling Story – hilarious!

It’s about 40 degrees in my school, so it’s imperative that the heater in my office works, or my hands will freeze off! Today, my heater broke, so Stella called a guy from Admin to fix it. As he was leaving, he mustered up a sentence that sounded something like: “I watch you at bus.” I thought that sounded a little creepy for my taste, but he soon clarified that he drove by me this morning as I was waiting at the bus stop. He asked “You carpool me?” I wanted to laugh, but knew he would be embarrassed… So I just answered, “Yes! I would love to carpool you!” So, for the rest of the year, I’m going to carpool him!!

They think I drink well!

Last night was our first “teacher meeting of the year.” Don’t be fooled… It’s not a meeting at all! It consists of driving to an awesome traditional Korean restaurant, sitting on the floor, cooking amazing meat and seafood at your table, drinking soju (liquor) and makeju (beer), and doing it all with EVERY teacher at the school! It’s not a mandatory thing to go to, but no one ever misses it! Tonight, one of the teachers motioned as if he wanted to pour me some soju. I thought, hey what the heck. I’m in Korea… do as the Koreans do. I’ll try one shot. Well, that led to another teacher wanting to pour me a shot. Then the Principal handed me a shot glass and motioned that he wanted to pour me some. I laughed and said, “aniyo… aniyo” which means, “no, no.” His old man smile was so darn cute though, I couldn’t help it. I let him pour me another glass of the disgusting liiquor. After I drank it, he did a big thumbs up and yelled, “Alexis is # 1!!” …and all the teachers started clapping! It was a moment I won’t soon forget!