St. Patrick’s Day Celebrated with Seoul

Any reason to escape the reality of the slave labour that is working at Brighton… is embraced with open arms. Will, Roberta, our friend Cara (from another school in Ansan), and myself took it upon ourselves to make St. Patrick’s day a religious affair… in which our “Sunday’s Best” was the scarce green pieces an expat might own in Korea and our worship was to consume ridiculous amounts of green liquid until we felt as though we really had found that pot of gold under the rainbow.
The day begun with the subway ride to Itaewon… a great kebab from the Turkish street vendor ($3.00 make you hollar)… and then the worship commenced at the Wolfhound- Irish Pub. Dan and Blair (other Brighton teachers) made an appearance for a little, Canadian Created, ‘Trivial Pursuit’ and then left us as they found us. Later in the evening, a group of 20 Ansan characters showed up to join our party… the whole pub crowd seemed to quadruple in size shortly after their arrival… and the mingling/ dancing began. Actually, the dancing didn’t stop at the pub. It continued the whole subway ride home. We “rocked out” complete with air guitar supplied by Will… though we all ‘danced to our own (ipod) tune.’ The best part was the little old Korean man who cheered us on with random claps, or Will singing to a random whom was trying to watch a baseball game on his hand held t.v. All in all, it was a successful attempt to add some Irish to our Seoul experience.