Chrissy Renae

Oh my goodness I love it here. Last night was SO funny/awesome, I hope I never forget it.

Unfortunately we lost the volleyball match, 3-2. Koreans play with 9 on each team, and you don’t rotate. They also do not mess around.. these games are intense. Every time back and forth was like hit, set, SPIKE. Like a real volleyball game is supposed to be I suppose, but I’m just used to unskilled volleying back and forth I guess. So that was really fun, and everyone was very nice about the fact that it was my first time playing. “You are such good volleyvall player.” I only hit it like three times, so I don’t think such a judgement can really be made yet. None of the other 8 players spoke any english, so that made things pretty interesting as well… Playing a sport in another language is like a whole experience in itself.

So after volleyball, the teachers from both schools all went out to eat at this super traditional restaurant. We all sat on the floor at two longgg tables covered with little side dishes and there were a bunch of burners on each table. Then they brought out all these plates of raw duck and veggies and throughout the dinner you just threw them on the burner and cooked it, and then dipped it in the sides. OH and they had this minty lettuce stuff that you could put the duck and toppings in and roll up. Like a LEGIT and fresh PF Chang’s lettuce wrap. Yummmm it was all SO good.

After dinner they busted out the karaoke machine, and it was SOOO funny to see the teachers go crazy on that thing. Once the soju was busted out, inhibitions were gone and all these serious old people just went crazy singing and dancing for like hours. And everybody was super nice and kept coming up to talk to me and welcome me anddd made me do karaoke. I don’t think I’ve ever done karaoke in America, yet last night I belted Kelly Clarkson in front of 50 Koreans. Hilarious.