Womens pants and me.

Uneventful weekend, nice weather.

After celebrating Buddhas birthday I ended up with a slight hangover Friday, so I was quite happy that all day we had scheduled "reading tests" - so basically I was to just sit there smiling at the kids I like and scowling at the ones I don't while they completed their tests. These 'tests' were supposed to take the whole hour so I was pissed when the kids would finish them in 15 minutes and I was instructed by the baffled Korean teachers to play an English game with them (no spin-the-bottle or pin-the-tail-on-the-giggling-teacher) for the remaining time.

I played Bingo with them instead.

Friday night I grabbed some food with a co-worker and ended up drinking SoJu and Beer in front of my building with several other foreigners - something that happens a fair bit I'm told when its warm (I've seen them out there when its freezing though, so I think the whole temperature excuse is crap).

Anyways, I managed to feel quite sick the next day (Soju!) but Keith and Gabrielle were coming into my area to visit Kangsan Travel so I ended up spending a fair bit of Saturday with them. Gabe bought shoes that I liked so I bought them today hoping she will be my twin (my real twin just wears Zellers hushpuppies all the time). The beach had a ton of white people on it, mostly soldiers I believe from the way their haircuts were and how they kept shooting at each other for fun. Later on I met up with Kevin and after dinner we went to a DVD Bahng to watch Casino Royale. Kevin will never be a Bond girl with his attitude.

And today (Sunday) I didn't wake up until noon - so after wondering whether or not I should just call it a day and go back to sleep I ended up walking around to try to do some shopping. I hated shopping in Toronto because I didn't know what to wear, didn't like to spend money and hated the employees of stores hovering over me - here its exactly the same except they speak in Korean (while the other store employees mostly snicker). But the worst part is that there is very little direction in how the stores are split up between men and women. I didn't know, nor did they tell me, that I had managed to select 3 pairs of womens jeans (it probably didn't help that I was also holding a skirt I was going to possibly buy for Sophia).

Sure the pants felt quite snug and I could've pulled them off had I a nice blouse and my voice just the slightest bit higher - but I put them away, quite dejected. And yes I did have to walk out of the change room into the main store to see myself in the mirror not trusting my instincts and no, I didn't take any pictures (sorry Alistair).

After that I headed down towards the beach and ran smack into a gigantic Christian festival with thousands and thousands of people - it was insane how busy it was.

So I accomplished nothing this weekend - only 7 more months to shape up before I ship out!