um. cool.

so, people are here! people with whom i can go out and drink! but, the new kids don't seem like much for drinking. i took a couple out tonight, but it was pretty quiet. then khalid showed up and i was all, "woo!" apparently he's been here since like noon today, but he got bored and took a nap and i didn't see him until around 10:30 at night, and we still have curfew, so it was still pretty quiet. but we talked about that time we went to seoul and got so drunk we were throwing up all in the street. man, that was awesome.

i spent a lot of time last week hanging out at angie's house, which was pretty cool. she asked if i could stay an extra day, so i was all, "sure!" then after i'd agreed, she informed me she wouldn't be there but that i could go out with her brother, and i was like, "...oh." dang. that pretty much sucked. but her mother went with, so that was ok. i just call her mother "omma" now, which is the korean word for "mother." i still don't know angie's brother's name. i don't care to know. i don't care to have anything to do with him, but omma really likes it when i spend time with him and i don't like to disappoint her. so i spent the day with the two of them.

angie's brother asked me if i have a boyfriend, and i went off on this long thing about how i don't want to have a boyfriend in korea because i have to leave in 4 or so months and it would be hard and etc. but then he was like, "no, i meant just guy friends." and i was all, "oh! yeah! i have a lot of those." then he asked me how many. i told him i never really counted. then he started talking about relationships, and he said he understood we were just friends (i made sure he understood that), but that he hoped we could someday become "lovers." and i was all, "no."

that was one of the hardest days i've spent in korea. angie's brother is the type of person who has to have 100% of your attention at all times and never stops talking and never stops trying to show off and never listens to what you say. i would be talking to his mother and he would still talk to me. i would be on the phone and he would still talk to me. we were at this big mall and my phone died, so i told him i had to go run and get it charged (i knew where to go because i've had that happen to me before), and he was like, "ok," but then he wouldn't let me go and dragged us around the whole mall looking for a place to charge it and finally we wound up back at the front at the information desk, so he asked them where to go, and they told him to go to this store called "buy the way." WHICH IS WHAT I TOLD HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. i kind of snapped. started yelling at him about how he doesn't listen and if we had just done what i said, we could have been done with it an hour ago. he sulked for a little while, but then he perked right back up and started jabbering away again. i was too pissed off to even look at him and just tried to ignore him the rest of the day.

he is seriously the most aggravating person i have ever met and it is so frustrating that he is the brother of my best friend in korea. and it is even more frustrating that his whole family seems to want me to hook up with him. ick, no.

i don't really want to spend all my time complaining about him, but it is so hard not to.

anyway, i told him i had plans that night, just so i wouldn't have to spend the rest of the day with him. it was kind of a lie, but luckily for me i was able to make plans with another friend (jay) once my phone was finally charged up again. jay is leaving for china next week to study for a semester, so i wanted to hang out with him anyway and it happened to be good timing. i really like jay and i'm sad that he's leaving. he says he'll come see me in the states some day and i'll have to buy him all kinds of alcohol when he does (he always pays for me when we go out drinking).

i met jay in sinchon and we had dinner and then went out for drinks. and ended up drinking quite a few bottles between the two of us. and then i found out he had to work the next day and i felt pretty terrible for asking him to come out, but he said it was ok and we just kept drinking. we stayed out pretty late, and he said it was too late to go back to his house, so we got a motel room. we watched some tv (happy gilmore was on) and then we kind of ended up having sex.

i really need to stop sleeping with my friends like this. it always makes things kinda strange.

it was nice going out tonight. onam's (the bar everyone always goes to) has been closed almost all winter for remodeling and he just reopened a few days ago, so it's the first time in a while i got to go there. and onam was like, "hey sara!" and i felt all cool cuz he knows me.

i think i might go to seoul with khalid tomorrow. just to go. but we'll see how i feel in the morning.