The Weekend of the Rooms.

This weekend we decided that we were going to make the absolute most of indoor space, because it's very, very cold here now.
Saturday morning Lindie and I went shopping for clothes.  We found a place a few days ago that sold pj pants that we could fit into (for CHEAP too!) and we both desperately needed them, so we thought that MAYBE they would have something else for us as well. . .
. . .they didn't.  Not a single thing.
So, a few more unsuccessful shops and an entire stuffed crust pepperoni pizza later, we gave up and headed home.

Do you remember Dave?  Anyway, later that night we met up with him and went to our new favorite PS3 place, and played Tekken and Sonic Racer.  Poor Dave lost all of the Tekken matches (mwa ha haaa) and poor Lindie lost all of the races (awwwww) so we decided to leave and try something else.  We saw a Wii room the day before or so and thought maybe we would try it out, but when we actually got outside it was so cold that it literally froze any desire we had to walk anywhere, so we went to our favorite 4D theater, again, instead, which was much closer.  Plus, Dave hadn't been there.  When we walked in there were kids everywhere, and they were all telling us as much English as they could.  It's really awesome because, when they're not your students, kids here have a tendency to make you feel like a celebrity (unless they make you feel like a leper, which also does happen, but this time, mercifully, not) so we went in the photo booth and took some silly photos, played a couple of games and took off once again, while all these tiny little kids shouted "GOODBYE!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!"
awesome.

THEN we headed for a place that Lindie and I hadn't tried yet: DVD room.  It's literally a room with a big screen, you choose a DVD, go in there with your friends, and watch a movie.  Pretty sweet, right?

Very large screen

VERY long legged Dave

Look how big that couch is!  There's subwoofers under there.  Very cool.

Lindie, making herself at home. . .

. . .absolutely nothing new about that! :-)

Movie time!!

DVD rooms are really fun.  We decided that we needed to include that into our regular stuff.  :-)
So, after all the rooms, all the gaming, and the movie, we went home.  Then Lindie and I stayed up watching Scrubs way too late.  Way too late.  Because, in the morning we had to be up to meet two of Lindie's students.  So, when 5am rolled around, we finally managed to get some sleep.

The next morning, I rolled out of bed and got ready.  At 11:30 Lindie and I caught a taxi to Shinae to my first movie theater in Korea experience.
But first, we had to run into a bag shop and buy new bags.  You know, like you do.  Then we met the girls, Cherry and Julia, two of Lindie's best students, and the two biggest balls of sunshine you could ever hope to meet.

We bought tickets for the movie, then went to get something to eat.  Buffet.  Awesome.

Meet Julia and Cherry.  Really awesome and completely-different-from-each other-friends.  They're 16, and really cool.

Here's what Lindie and I ended up with:

Corn salad, spicy chicken, noodles, garlic bread, chicken curry, mushroom soup, and non-alcoholic berry wine tea.  

Chicken, spicy chicken, ceasar noodles, salad, corn salad, pumpkin and cherry casserole, veggies.  I used the flash so everything looks white, but actually it was really colorful and delicious.

Dessert.  Yum.  :-)

Ice cream is awesome.  :-)

Right, Lindie?

Totally.

Then it was movie time.  After we properly stuffed ourselves, of course.  :-)

Cool students with a cool teacher.  Good times.  :-)

 Lindie and I are both really out of the loop as far as movies go, so we really had no idea what we were seeing.  It ended up being a REALLY crazy movie, so we needed to decompress afterwards.  And how better to do that then to play games where you shoot stuff?  I can't think of a better way!

The girls shooting something in a Pirates of the Caribbean game.

And of course, what day would be complete without the traditional street game?

And the traditional, poor Lindie winning nothing.

 We went to a crazy busy stationary shop where they sell all kinds of cute stuff, and we were there for a while, just looking at everything.  Then, we lost Julia while we were looking at enormous stuffed dogs, so Cherry went off to look for her.  It was funny because Cherry looks around for her for a second and then says "I'll go find her.  Teacher, you stay here."  So Teacher said "okay." and we waited and waited for them to find each other.  Finally, I walked to the front of the store and found Julia instantly because she intercepted me while I was trying to get to the line to pay.  She pretended not to understand me when I asked if I could get past her to pay, so we stood, her blocking me in an aisle for a while.  Clever girls had a plan up their sleeve and Lindie and I had no earthly idea.  :-)

THEN!  We went to a singing room!  Because you HAVE to do that, right??  So we did.

I kind of expected them to be shy, and maybe they were for a second, but Lindie and I sang one, and then they sang one, and I decided to tape them because I thought they sounded really good.  I hid the camera though because I was worried that if they knew they would stop.  Silly me.  Anyway, here's how it started.

I don't know what this song is called, but you hear it a lot around here, and I thought they did a really nice job with it :-)  As you can see, Cherry is not shy.  And Julia, I think, was beginning to feel a little better around us. . .

Lindie and I sang a couple more songs, and the girls decided to do an English song on their own:  Take a Bow :-)

They were feeling a little better now, I think.  So, we picked the song that we hear everywhere, and that all of my students are always begging me to teach them, the terrible but catchy Tik Tok:

Nice job, right??  Feeling a little better now.  So, then it was time to really get everyone loosed up with the oh-so-scary Lady Gaga and the song we all know so well, Poker Face: 

After Poker Face the girls showed us a really cute Korean song, Shy Boy, and Lindie was relaxed enough to try and sing the Korean. . . :-)

Then, I don't know if you remember back in the summer when Albert, Lindie and I went to the beach and this guy ran up to us and said "sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry" and did this dance for us, which we later learned was an actual song and an actual dance and a song that we actually really love.  Even if you don't remember, we made the girls do it for us.  So, here's "Sorry" with the dance. . .the Seated Version.

That song really got the party started, and by party I mean the dance off.  I don't think we sat down for the rest of the time.  By the way, you get an hour usually in these things, but you can win time.  These girls were so great they won us about an extra hour.  For the whole second hour we were dancing.  Really cool.  So, here's Singing Room Sorry, the Standing Edition :-)

Then we taught them the Macarena.  I have an about 20 minute video of this, and then about a 30 second video of this that I can totally post, but seriously, it's the Macarena.  Hey!

Besides, there are much better things to show.  They started really feeling it, and it ended up being the best time in a singing room I've had so far!  We didn't score hardly anything toward the end because everyone was too busy dancing!  Here's Tell Me by the Wondergirls.

THEN it was time for one of the foreigner favorites, by the same band, Nobody, that everyone knows and I'm going to REALLY miss when I go home!  Take it away, girls!

but wait!  there's more!!  :-)

Good times :-)  Well done, girls!  :-)

Very cool girls :-)

At the end of the night.  I really hope we can do this again!  :-)  Very fun day :-)

 Right before they left, Cherry says "Teacher, do you want number 1 or number 2?"  So, Lindie says "ummm...2?" and Cherry turns to me and says "Then you'll have number 1?"  We had no idea what they were talking about, but then Cherry pulls out two little packages out of her bag with rings and matching earrings and gave them to us.  That's what the girls were doing in the stationary store :-)  Too cute!!  They are just the sweetest things!

Here are the rings, aren't they adorable??

Lindie and I headed back toward our town, called Albert and went to the DVD room once again :-)  Great end to a great weekend :-)