and in korea!
and i was the only white person there!
i planned on just finishing my one beer and getting the hell outta there
but the place was so cool!
it's called LP bar,
and the owner just plays old records.
mostly neil young sounding things.
and LP bar is beautiful with little string lights and RIGHT by my apartment!
the korean guy next to me started talking to me and buying me beers, haha.
he's a business man now with his own international trading company
but he was a theater actor for eight years before that.
he's been to seattle and l.a. and new york, but wants to go to boston.
he likes china, but NOT beijing. too smoggy.
he was born in pusan, the seaside town, and he wants to help me if i ever want to go.
i should go in winter when there aren't any tourists and the water is really clear.
he usually comes out with friends, but sometimes they talk so much he can't even think and he just wants to hear the music.
he's jealous of people who can play instruments well.
he's going to a drumming school nearby to improve his drumming.
there's a gym nearby (the governor of california's gym) that i should go to because maybe i will like korean food too much and get really fat.
he illustrates this fatness with a cartoon drawing of fat me.
lovely.
what a night.
i decided to drop by this other place "barboom" and found michael from work and this other guy, stephen.
we left to go to a huge german brewhouse, but they were closing, so we went to torro's (which is closing for GOOD) for one last $2 pint.
michael is really a good guy - very low-key, drama-free, and humble - a true breath of fresh air around all the bragging and the foreigner drama llamas.
stephen studied history and then sociology and women's studies in university in canada,
so it was fun to talk to someone about korea and perceptions of america and being a woman in korea and all that in a sociology-y way.
but there was this girl there who was crying for literally five hours.
michael was just like,
"i don't understand this!"
she was upset because she's in love with this korean boy who was there, but he doesn't like her.
they went on two dates, but he's just not into her.
i felt like as the only other girl, i should try to comfort her, because the boys sucked at it,
but she was drunk and i'd only met her once before.
but i was just thinkin,
thank goodness i left the drama back in the states!!
i've only cried once here and it was because i was confused and embarrassed and homesick, it was most definitely NOT over a boy.
but really, being rejected flat out by someone you really like can be worse than getting dumped by an actual boyfriend.
"the one you love and the one who loves you are never really the same." - invisible monsters by chuck pahlaniuk (what i am reading right now)
debate that if you want, but there's some truth in it!
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