Well its official. I'm finished applying for law schools. (except for a few odds and ends I have to tie up. Law schools seem to be pretty anal.)
I have applied to:
Univ. Michigan
Univ. of Florida
Univ. of TN
Univ. of Iowa
Univ. of California at Berkeley
Vanderbilt
Lewis and Clark
I did the whole damn laborious thing while sitting at my computer after classes at school. Its kind of interesting to think that if I get into law school or graduate school, I will have begun the whole process while sitting at an elementary school in Korea.
Anyway, my birthday came and gone and I must say it was wonderful. We began our celebration at a bar downtown called J's Story. After an embarassing incident in which I spilled a plate full of chicken onto the floor, we settled in and had a great time with our giant party of fifteen or so. Surprisingly, the westerners left kind of early (with only me, lisbeth, andrew, duncan and amy to represent). Daeun brought many new Korean friends (and some old ones I had met on a previous trip to K0rea). They closed down the house with us that night. WE ate tons of food and drank lots of beer, courtesy of Korean Drinking games such as Baskin Robin's 31, Stupid Game, Image Game, and Sense game. We left J's Story to dance a bit further down the block at "Jane's Groove" which was amazing. It was like the Korean sister of Sassy Anne's. We jammed to MIA and other familiar tunes as well as some K pop and a random 90s hit here and there. (think jock jams)
We closed out the night with a noreibang session at "luxury" noreibang. This is a karaoke house that is designed like a luxury hotel, so you check in and have someone lead you up to your room where you're served drinks and whatever else you need on cushy couches or cute kitsch rooms.
Note: Forgive me if my writing seems a bit airy, I've been reading "confessions of a shopaholic" and it seems to be rubbing off on me.
Description of Korean drinking games:
Baskin Robbins 31: Each person in the group can count in intervals of 1,2,or 3. The person who lands on 31 has to drink. This game is fun if you have a large group of people that is hard to coordinate or if you're really drunk because its an easy game. The fun lies in screwing over the person who lands on 31 (because you might let them off easy by just saying "28, 29" and letting them say "30" to screw over the next person with "31."
Sense Game: This is a game in which the total number of people in the group must count one number to add up to the total number. FOr example, if you have six people playing, each person must count a nunber until it adds up to six. The catch is, you can't be the LAST person (in this instance, the person to count six) and you cant say a number at the same time that someone else does, or you have to drink.
Stupid Game: Drinkers sit in a circle. One person turns to the next person and says a number that is different from the number of fingers they are holding up. The next person in line has to turn to the person beside them and say the number that was previously designated by the number of fingers held up by the original person, but also hold up a different number of fingers. This continues until someone messes up. for example, if lisbeth turns to me and says "three" but holds up two fingers, I have to turn to Andrew on my other side and say "Two" but hold up, say, five fingers, or some other number.
Image Game: THis is the "you can only play this in a place like Korea" game. Players hold a chopstick up in the air and point it to the person they think most fits a certain image. For example, one person will say "The person who is most likely to get plastic surgery" and all players have to point to the person they think, based purely on image, will get plastic surgery. The koreans love it even if the americans are slightly uncomfortable. They hardly ever get offended and lots of peple drink. We don't think twice about playing now.