one thing that sucks about living in korea is that my dorm has a midnight curfew. and if you miss the curfew you are stuck out until 5 in the morning and you also get demerit points and if you collect enough demerit points you get kicked out of the dorm. it's all very ridiculous. you can sign out at the front desk, though, and just stay out all night. that's what a few of us did last night. we went to a bar first, and then when they kicked us out we just bought beer at a convenience store and sat at the amphitheatre drinking. but at 3, the guys decided they wanted to go back to the dorm. and since i love climbing up onto awnings and crawling into windows while completely shitfaced, i went with. i only fell once, off a pile of salt bags. landed on my hip, and i can tell there's going to be an impressive bruise there soon.

girls are also not allowed into the guy's side of the dorm, so i was all, "OMG, i'm peeing in the guy's bathroom!" it was exciting.

today you can see hand prints and scrapes all over the awning. it's pretty funny.

so i've been hanging out with one of the english professors (kent) lately. not really by choice, he's just kind of obsessive and calls me all the time. he's from north dakota, so we have some commonalities and he just likes to have someone new to talk to who isn't either a student or a colleague (he mostly talks about his spanish girlfriend). i went over to his apartment the other day, and his roommate's friend (chris) was there with a dog he just bought. cutest little thing. he was terrified, but i started talking to him and he wagged his tail and came over and curled up in my lap and it was love. his name is petey and he followed me around the apartment all night. he even tried to leave with me. chris was going to just give him to me, but i can't exactly keep a dog in the dorm (it was funny because chris just assumed i was another teacher at first). so now i'm all worried about petey and hoping he's ok.

i was also at kent's apartment when eric called once. he's been calling me lately, just to say hi and talk. he's been at his home, since it's a holiday week right now. but he got all upset that i was at a guy's apartment, and it was super cute.

last weekend, some friends took me to chiak mountain (which is quite near here) with the intentions of climbing it. i didn't know then that it's like the third tallest mountain in korea. i made it over halfway up, though. before i lost the ability to breathe because i still have a cold and also am slightly asthmatic. two of the guys went on to the top, and the rest of us were like, "yeah...we're gonna follow you at a slower pace." and then we sat in the sun for a while and went back down.

today i think i will just stay in. i'm too tired and bruised to do anything.