long time - back in the ROK!

Yes, for now I am back in Korea. Back to teaching, back to drinking, back to eating Kimchi. And it's damn nice to be making money again. Ah, yes, money. So very nice.

Last night I was out with my new coworkers, drinking, eating and celebrating a birthday. We started at a local place here in Bundang called Indio. Big tables, lots of people and cheap anju. After a few pitchers of makju we left and headed over to a place called Rose Tattoo. Now this being Korea, there is a strong push for young people to get married. There's also plenty of prostitution and the stuff in between. Things like room salons. Bars where you pay for a woman's company all night long. Now there are also those places where they try and act as matchmakers. Upscale wannabe places where the help will drag the women over to you and set you up. Rose Tattoo is one of these. There were four of us, three white guys and one Korean. We ordered drinks, we danced and we paid the help to drag girls over to us. It didn't quite work. Waiters dragging scared thirty year old women over is weird. Then they come and sit and can't speak more than five words in English.
But the oddest thing that happened was in the bathroom. A first really. I walked into the bathroom. There was an attendent there. And while I tried to piss he massaged my shoulders. Now I was really drunk, so it seemed far more surreal than it was. So for this, I couldn't whiz and had to tip.
Hmm, maybe that wasn't something to admit to. But after five in the morning hit and the lights came up it all ended. The facade was broken and now there were simply thirty year old drunks, broke and tired.