The fact is, if I only taught college students I'd probably have moved back to America and opened a Chipotle by now. I also teach adult students, and they bring a nice balance to my work life. They actually want to learn English, as opposed to, well, a healthy majority of my college students. They are majoring in medical disciplines and I can't blame them for focusing less on their non-major subject of English.
In addition my adult students will ask me and my other foreigner co-worker out once in a while, maybe just for beer and fried chicken to longer trips out to the country for hiking or walking about. After, we often go out for beer and fried chicken.
Anyhow, two weekends ago we went about 45 minutes outside of Daegu to a retired student's newly restored country house. It was absolutely beautiful, with a full garden out front and a feral cat and her babies who had recently "adopted" the house as their new residence. After walking around a bit we went to a restaurant called "Old Road" (in English). And I was greeted by walls of absolutely brilliant vinyl. Now, most of these albums were reissues so maybe a true vinyl-collector would scoff, but to be in the middle-of-nowhere outside of Daegu and find these kinds of (very American) treasures was a highlight for me.
The beer was very good. The fried chicken was just O.K. but the setting made up for it.
And supposedly we're going back in a few weeks to help participate in tofu-making. (If this is all a setup to turn me in to cheap labor, I have no problem with it.)
Oh, and they had a piano that my foreigner co-worker (who has a Ph.D. in music) got to entertain the restaurant with.
It was a great time and I promise my next ten posts will go back to how horrible the world is and how we're all about to die.
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