in light of recent events i will make a top 10 frustrating things that i have experienced in korea.

starting with...

1. this is definitely the most frustrating: i lost my hat.
it was on a day i was supposed to meet up with a friend but i had a few too many hours to kill. i went to the movies by myself and later as i was in a completely different part of seoul i discovered my long time canadiana hat was not in my bag, it fell out in the theatre. that hat had the most character of all the clothes i own.

2. the event that just happened: i'll tell this one after all the other stuff.

3. class: there are many many frustrating kids, and stories related to class. i'll pick 3, but i can't pick which was the worst. my first job i taught brothers with zero ability for knowledge retention, and one brother that would always cry if he didn't get his way. literally. with every single game we played. or actually anything we did. he was brutal.
the other class was 2 supposedly higher level girls that refused to say anything. i mean anything. i took it to the very base response. i asked them what color they like. they refused to even say that much. i actually stood there literally for 5 minutes waiting for them to say anything. they didn't, and then the class bell rang.
the final class was just hard to control in a manner of respect they gave me. in the end i think maybe 4 or 5 of the students dropped out. i partly blame myself, but they were also a bunch of brats.

4.losing my mp3 player
this was a brand new mp3 player. i was tired of my old one. she i went out and bought a nice brand new mp3 player. i then promptly lost it a couple weeks later on new years eve. i still don't know if it was stolen or it just fell out of my pocket.

5. the great dilemma of satisfaction. that's all i can mention of it.

6. deciding on a job. too many to choose from, and so many to screw you. i think i have been screwed by the deciding process a couple times.

7. girls: girls are frustrating in general i guess, but the most frustrating are the inexplicable premature ends.
-during my 2nd job near the start i had a date with a girl. maybe i'm a bad judgment of my charm, but i thought it went pretty decent. but she still stood me up the next time. and refused to return text messages.
-another one that confused me was a girl that called me each day for a week. then after that she refused to call answer my calls, or call me.
-the truth came out with one girl about standing me up. she said she was afraid of english.

8. my old manager. i don't know what to say. he was inappropriate, greedy, sleazy, juvenile. i was rather annoyed when he personally attacked my character on my last day there because he didn't want to pay me for one day, i argued against this.

9. losing my scarf. it was a stylish scarf. i actually don't know how i lost it. i even retraced every step to try and find it again.

10. running out of batteries on the bus and being forced to listen to the epitome of bad music the bus driver likes playing.


so the event that just happened.
my friend sent me a text saying she just arrived back in korea but she was stuck because it was so late. she didn't want to take a taxi because there's been some bad stuff with taxi drivers and lone ladies at night. so i decided to be over the top nice and i offered to meet her with a taxi. i got all the way to the airport and found out she wasn't there, she took a bus into seoul. so i took the taxi all the way back. i then discovered her old text message that said she would be in seoul not at the airport. so a) i wasted $80 b)i wasted an hour c)the girl just thought i was dumb. nothing more. absolutely nothing good came from all of this. in fact, while i was in the process of riding my taxi, the girl actually did take a different taxi that night.