Had a great 26th birthday here in Korea! This year fell on a Tuesday, so not much partying going on but still very eventful.
Around 11:30am, Chels told me we were going somewhere special for lunch. We went downstairs and the whole English department from school was waiting for us. We hooped into two cars and drove 30 minutes south to Bondang to the Daily King’s Diner “The Original American Dining and Brunch” Let’s just say it was well worth the drive. Actually I’ll not say a little more as it did take Bryan a lot of convincing of our coworkers to get them to travel that far for lunch.
After much, painful deliberation into my important birthday lunch eating decision, I settled on the Daily King’s Chili Burger. This thing was staked with all the fixings, some surprising very good chili and fries on the side and a Coke to wash it all down. The meal was quite the delight. Let’s see if I can remember what the others got as well:
Megan got the BLT (her fav), Chels got a bacon cheeseburger, Bryan got chicken parm, Ran hee got chicken fettuccine, Ray got chicken parm, Isaac got the Daily Kings omelet, and Grace got the bacon cheeseburger.
We then got treated to a free desert waffle with whip cream and syrup. We were all stuffed and needed to get back to Dongtan for work. The weather has been pretty crummy this week, lots of rain and this morning some snow. It was raining pretty bad on Tuesday when driving back and as such we hit a car accident on our way back. We were stuck in traffic for about an extra 25 minutes.
We finally drove past what was left of the accident and saw a lone BMW with no front in, followed by its motor that had been seperated somehow during the crash. The other, I think five cars, had already been towed away. I hope everyone was okay, because the cars were far from it.
Now on to the wonderful presents: Chelsea got me a keyboard off of Gmarket, still waiting to have it in my hands, but it’s on its way. Isaac got me a badminton set and a package from my parents arrived that day as well which had some wonder summer sausage in it! I can safely say I cleaned up.
Throughout the day then, my students wished my happy birthday, a couple classes sung and so some small gifts from a few here and there. To end the day, my coworkers came out with a lite cake around quitting time and tried to sing happy birthday to me in English. It was fantastic to see and the cake was delicious, thanks Rachel.
If this happens to be my only birthday in Korea, at least it was a good one, but I have a feeling there will be more :)
~Ian
