so, the first part of this week was kinda crappy. kinda real crappy. i had this massive head cold (from staying out drinking until 6 a.m. one night, but we'll get to that later) and i mostly felt like dying. and being the idiot that i am, i kept going to class because i didn't want my professors to have a bad impression of me. i did skip one class yesterday, though. and then i ran into the teacher later in the day. but she was cool. she was like, "don't forget there's no class next week!" she's a super lady.

but i'm better now. my roommates got all worried and kept buying me medicine and shoving pills in my face. i don't know what they were, but i kept taking them. and i guess they worked and i didn't seem to be allergic to them, so everything's good.

ok, so this last weekend, there was this huge festival in seoul for my university (yonsei) and our rival (korea university) where our schools compete in pretty much every sport. the kids are crazy about it! everyone jumps and shouts and cheers and sings during the entire game. i just can't keep up with them. plus i'm not all that interested in sports in the first place. but i went to the hockey game and cheered as much as i could. and then we went out drinking, because it was rachel's birthday, not that we ever really need a reason. but this was special. we had a pretty big group at first, which made it somewhat awkward, because there are always those people who don't quite like each other, and there are strange tensions going on, but as the night went on, people kept drifting off and the group got smaller and more manageable. one of our korean friends (brian) was guiding us around and bringing us to random bars. he also helped us find a cheap motel, which was sweet. it was basically a dirty sex motel. there were shelves of porn on each landing going up the stairs, and each room was equipped with condoms and several bottles of lotion. and toothpaste.

sometime during the night, we ran into brian's korean roommate (eric) and some of his friends, so they joined us. we ended up in this pretty awesomely dingy bar and drank quite a bit of soju. brian was completely amazed at how good i am at drinking. he couldn't get over it. pretty much the best way to impress korean people is to be an awesome drinker. and i am that.

eric and i hit it off pretty well. he had this little stuffed dog tied to his arm (i don't really know why), and he gave it to me. i asked what its name was, and he whispered to me, "p-e-n-*-s." then tiffany asked, so i went, "PENIS!" and everybody laughed.

after the bar, we just kind of wandered around the streets for a while. it was already pretty late, so most places were closing. so we just bought some liquor from a corner store and sat in this little park and drank. one of the awesome things about korea is that you can do that. you can walk around drinking a bottle of soju and people just think you're cool. eric and i were holding hands by this point, and it was super cute. we ran into a group of drunk korean kids, so we all got together and played drinking games.

around 6 in the morning, we decided to head back to our sex motel. eric walked me back, and then we stood near the lobby-type area smoking for a while. he was like, "i should go home..." and then we walked upstairs and he bought a room (and the lady gave us like 4 toothbrushes. wtf?) and we had sex. in a sex motel. it was pretty sweet in a really dirty sort of way.

around noon, he and i walked up to the room i was supposed to stay in with my friends. it was pretty funny, cuz steph wasn't wearing a shirt when she opened the door and she was like, "i wasn't expecting you to bring company!" we hung out for most of the day. went to a soccer game in the evening. it wasn't the most awesome day, because i drank entirely too much and slept only two hours and i pretty much felt like crap. but it was amazing. because i had sex in korea.

i haven't seen him since then. we've texted a bit, but i have the feeling it's going to turn out like it did with scofield. which i guess everybody here totally knows about. and everybody totally knows about me having sex, too, but we have some insane gossipers and it's not like i keep anything secret. i like being gossipped about. good or bad, i just like when people talk about me. my friend rachel told me that she and some other people decided that i have the type of personality to be totally stuck on myself, but i'm funny, so it's ok. and i thought, "yeah, i AM pretty funny."

oh, by the way, i found out that the reason scofield would never talk to me was because all his friends teased him about our kissing (because that's what they do...it's a lot like high school) and he got too embarrassed. and i guess now he's all into this korean girl, so whatever.

i should go make sure my roommate didn't lock me out of the room.