Amanda Takes Off...

After my Korean class yesterday (where we learned to talk about hobbies, sports, and food), I met Michael and Leslie for dinner. We met Michael's friend Xiandong (completely guessing on the spelling), a guy from China who's here for business. We had some dinner together and then went to the strangest bar I've ever been in. It's called Moo (무) and for some reason it was decorated with a mushroom theme. An exciting thing happened at Moo: we found out that I knew a Korean word that neither Michael nor Xiandong knew. 석류 (pomegranate)! So we had pomegranate soju, which tasted much like Kool Aid...

We went to a noribang afterwards, which was made more interesting by the fact that Leslie is a trained operatic singer. At one point Michael handed me the second mic and made me sing a song with him--in Spanish. He said, "You studied Spanish, didn't you?" So we sang Quizás, Quizás, Quizás together. A very abbreviated list of songs sung include Leslie and Michael doing a very exciting version of Copacabana, Xiandong and Michael singing some Korean song called Ha Ha Ha, and me singing Dylan's One More Cup of Coffee which actually has verses, not just Dylan Mumblin'.

Leslie and I will probably be getting together one weeknight this week sans Michael. She's a good egg.

This afternoon Ali and I met one of our students and her family at Outback Steakhouse for the student's birthday. Somehow this ended up with all of us wearing goofy hats (that the staff gave us, mine was a pumpkin) while the staff sang a song for her and took our picture for her to take home. I was also asked my blood type. I have no idea what my blood type is. O? At any rate, very nice family, and very kind of them to invite us out for lunch.