Stood Up!!!

So on Saturday we were so excited to be going out on the town. In the city that is, the Seoul Night Life!!! Whoa!!! But not so fast. Our new friend we had met two days prior left us standing on the street corner for a half hour in the freezing cold, and never showed up. Boo!!!
We had originally settled on a time and place to meet on Saturday evening, in front of Pizza Hut at 7pm. Sounds simple right, well we guess not. We thought oh, maybe there was another Pizza Hut in our area but then thought that this could not be the case, because we were only a 3 minute walk from our apartment. So we waited and waited and it was sooooo cold. It was not the temperature that got us but the wind was blowing so hard, making it freezing. We kept wondering what could have kept him so long and not coming at all. After a half hour we had enough and went back home to our warm apartment and made our own party, playing Uno and drinking beer. What a Saturday night.
We found out two days later via email that our so called new friend had lost his phone and was tied up because he lost his cell phone. Whatever, lame. So as Courtney would say he is Diced!!! And for everyone else, he is cut, 86ed or whatever. He said sorry and that was that. So much for date two. I think we were too eager and too desperate, lol. The weekend was not lost though.
On Saturday morning, Lt and I had breakfast with some foreign teachers who live in our neighborhood. Latanya got in touch with a girl named Amy through her co-teacher at school. They talked briefly and made a date for Saturday morning where a few of them usually get together for breakfast. The place is called Park Avenue, they serve waffles and egg croissant sandwiches among other items. It was good, I had the sandwich.
We walked in and met Amy and her friend Delaney. Later a guy joined us named Tidus. The girls are from Canada, about four hours out of Toronto. And Tidus is from Nebraska. They were really nice it was good to chat with them. They said they would be more than willing to help us adjust to living in the area if we needed. Amy is leaving in a couple of weeks though. They are throwing a party for her soon, we are invited. We will make sure that, that experience goes better than our last one.
Talk about a small world my friend Jared who I had studied abroad with was partying in Seoul on Saturday. During the St. Patrick's Day celebrations his friend took some pictures. In his photo album, that I saw online there in the crowd was Amy and Tidus. They don't know one another at all. Crazy I know. Well we definitely should have hungout with them on Saturday.
On Sunday we took a day trip into the city to see one of the five main palaces of the Joseon Dynasty. That story will soon follow so please stay tuned.
Dan N Tan