Greased Lightning!

Today I had my second dance practice at work, my 4 years of jazz training didn't help me a bit. For one particular dance sequence though, I can honestly say that I miss the firm snug hold of my XXS dance-belt.

Oh, why are we dancing you ask? Because we're Korean! You know when companies have those big "play-days" when all of the separate branches get together and do various team-building activities? Well every year GnB (my company) gets about 150 schools together to spend an entire Saturday doing these games during the day before having a big dance-off and then getting drunk at night and returning home feeling nauseous but special. Since this is my first and only year being here I was slightly disappointed to hear that it is usually only the Korean teachers that attend it - but after some whining from another Canadian teacher we all get to come now.

The dance is something that each school does (and practices obsessively) as 1st prize is $500 to take the staff out for dinner, drinks, and noraebahng - but I think its just for bragging rights really. My school has decided to imitate this extremely popular dance video that was all the craze here a few years ago - like the Macarena was in Canada, but I assume much much cooler. I hope so at least. Since Blake isn't coming on the trip, and Nicole dropped out of the dance - Kyle and I remain the only "whiteys", so as to not completely mess up their great choreography I convinced them to let Kyle and I act as stupid funny people who basically stand at the side of the stage grinning like goons before we do a brief dance as the song changes (they have mixed 3 songs together). The Korean sense of humor is that the stupider you look the funnier it is, which is why we will all be wearing afros (for some reason I will be wearing the one afro which is 'half-bald' as well). ha ha?

We are leaving Saturday at 3am and taking a bus for 7 hours + all the way up to the North-East coast. Busan is on the South-East coast, so we are basically as far away as they can come. Once we arrive we will do the "play-day", the dance contest, eat and drink, and get right back on the bus again for the multiple-hour journey back down to Busan. So its sleep all day Sunday and back to work Monday.

I'll let you know how it goes on Sunday.

PS- Don't eat a Big Mac combo plus a McChicken sandwich right before you go to sleep like I have tonight. I feel fat and gross.