Last Sunday Kat and I decided to go for a stroll around Kumdan to take some pictures before I left. Little did we know what the day had in store.

After walking around we went for a beer before I headed to the PC room and Kat went home. Shortly after sitting down a woman came over wanting us to speak English to her extremely shy daughter. Initially the daughter was too shy to speak but eventually got over it managed to say hello. Having very little English the conversation was short but she kept coming back over and trying again.

The next thing we knew the waiter had brought two more beers to our table pointing at the girls mother. We thanked her in Korean thinking it was very nice of her. In Korea you don’t buy a paint ech glass is 500cc and as I were feeling the effects of one beer the PC room was going to be interesting after two.

Then a very drunk guy who was sat at the table next to the woman and her daughter decided to try and talk to us. Here we hit a major problem; his only English was: “I don’t speak English” and “shut up!”. That however didn’t stop him buying us a third beer and taking it upon himself to join us.

He tried desperately to talk to us but with us not speaking Korean and him not speaking English his efforts were fruitless.

Needless to say I didn’t make it to the PC room on Sunday evening. But on Monday morning I did get my first experience of teaching with a hangover and it wasn’t fun!

* Posted by j150vsc on 08/06/2007.