weekend

I've come up with a great idea. I'm going to become a poet. But rather than spend time thinking up my own poems, I'm just going to use book reports that my students have written and apply proper punctuation. Check it out:

For the first time I saw,
You were like a rabbit
Caught by a wolf, was found.
But that was not the content:
The fox is the story 
Of his own good snaps,
And the rabbit seems to be 
Very clever. 
I do not think
I'll read the story, 
and not have counsel.

Be honest. If I showed that to you and said, "Hey check out this poem I just found by W.H. Auden," would you have any cause not to believe me?

My last post was about how cold it's been. I wrote that thinking Spring had arrived and the cold days were a thing of the past. Do you know what happened a couple days after I wrote that? It snowed. It was only for about 20 minutes, but it was snow nonetheless, in April.

This weekend we finally had some nice weather. On Saturday I went with the girlfriend to a town called Buyeo. Without getting into too much Korean history, about 1,500 years ago there were three kingdoms in Korea. Baekche was one of those kingdoms, and Buyeo was the capital of it.

There was a museum there, and outside there was a reproduction of a royal palace and a town- what things would've looked like back then. Today we went to a mountain, and poked around at a Buddhist temple there. So, not an ordinary Easter Sunday. Also today I convinced the girlfriend to let me drive her car for about half an hour back from the mountain. Suffice to say I swore a lot during that half hour.

Last night I did something I'd never done before in Korea: I played beer pong. My usual haunt had a table set up in a back room, so some friends and I played. I had my fair share of struggles during the game, as it had been ages since I played and so was in bad form. Both sides were down to their last cup, when an opponent sank his shot. Seeking redemption, my partner missed his last attempt. There I stood, our last chance and only hope, every eye in the place transfixed on me. I paused to address the crowd. "I was put on this Earth to make this shot," I told them. With steely eyes and a flick of the wrist, I sent the game into overtime and the bar into a dither. Not a minute later I repeated the feat, and victory was ours. If you knew me in college, I know what you're thinking right now. You're thinking, "Of course he did."