I felt the need to get down with my bad self this past weekend, so I did.

Last Thursday and Friday, my school had level testing for the students. For the students, its very stressful as it determines if they can move up, or if they have to repeat that level again. There is intense pressure from their parents and from their peers. I had no idea what to expect. But it was very stressful for teachers also. There was no actual teaching for us, which was great. But for 2 days, we were distributing, collecting and marking listening, grammer, speaking, vocabulary and level tests for all of our students. We each have 12 classes, so there was a lot of paper. By the end of work on Friday night, we needed booze. Lots of it. Denise, Steph and I went for dinner and had delicious sumgupsal (sort of like bbqd bacon) and beer. We headed to the local Canadian pub called Beer O'Clock for the rest of the night. We chilled there with some more cocktails and some shooters. It was a great way to end the week.

Saturday, I was hurting a little. But after 3 bottles of juice, I was good to go. Denise and I met up with a guy she met here named King. He's in the military and is really nice guy. He's been here for 2 months and has only been in the military since April. He's originally from Atlanta and is 22. He used to work for Bad Boy Records, but felt he wasn't learning anything there so he moved on.

He hasn't seen much of the city, so Denise and I took him to some of the more popular areas. I realized that I am fascinated with military life. I was asking him so many questions about how he got in and the way things were in everyday military life. He works in human resources at the base. Everything is structured, with curfew, rules, chores, procedures, etc. Duh, I mean how else would it be. I got so much info from him, so here are my favourite parts:

- One random story that came up was about him and his friends were out partying and one guy took a pee in a bush. He didn't get caught, but if he did, then he would be sent to military jail for 1 year.

- It takes $85,000 to initially train one soldier. This covers lodging, clothing, basic training, food, medical and dental insurance, you get the picture. I asked him about soldiers being discharged and its not something that is done lightly because of the investment that is put in.

- King was recently in the hospital with penumonia. Military medical coverage is unreal. There are all the things that one would expect from insurance. There are bonuses like having one plastic surgery procedure of your choice for free. When he got his wisdom teeth out, the bill was $4000, but he paid nothing. While he was in the hospital, King said he could order whatever food he wanted. Not hospital food, but basically any food that he could get on base. They have pizza places, Burger King, other burger places, pubs, Korean places, chinese food, italian food. Everything.

Anyway I thought he was really awesome and he said that if Denise wanted to visit the the base, I coud come too. Wooo ooo!

Saturday night we headed back to Beer O'Clock because there was a big bachelor party coming into town. Trevor, the bar owner, told us this the night before. It was a single girl's dream. Denise and I were 2 out of 5 women. The rest of the bar was full of guys. Turns out there is a supply of eligible bachelors here. We stayed there for a while then headed to the clubbing part of town called Hongdae. It was a great night. Denise and I met so many people and it was really fun to go party it up. I hadn't done it in a while.

Sunday was a write off. I loved it. I watched 3 movies and had a huge nap. Back to school yesterday and the retardeness of level testing.