Busy Day

Today was a pretty packed day. Jacob and I went back to the *Kanival Pizza (I misread the name the last time and there is no "r" in the name--I think that is a mistake because the theme of the restaurant is very carnival-esque with little jester masks to give the bill and dangling lights that look like circus lights plus other decorations and color schemes...) We ordered the same thing-as it's the special. It was really good.

After lunch, we went to his place and he realized there was an internet problem so he worked on fixing that. Then it was time to head to the GOA'L meeting. The meeting was an "Extraordinary General Meeting" to try and change some of the articles etc of the organization to meet certain NGO requirements. (Or something like that) It was very official feeling and proper. In the end, not all of the points were able to be addressed because of some other discussions and back and forths between attendees.

When the meeting was over, Jacob and I headed over to the meeting place for Kasey's birthday dinner. We were supposed to meet outside of Dunkin Donuts and walk to the restaurant together. We were a little early, but it was still kind of nice outside. Kasey and J (her boyfriend) arrived early as well and we chatted with them and then moved into Dunkin. Our friend Todd arrived and we waved him inside. He also was part of the InKAS mentoring program the 3 of us did last year. He moved back to Australia earlier this year and is on vacation until December here in Korea. The other members were all arriving a bit late. Finally we had most of the group and moved to the restaurant.

Kasey made reservations at a meat buffet place. It was so bizarre. There was no one else in the restaurant and the workers there seemed to be so bothered by our group coming in. I've never seen a place look so annoyed to have customers! It was so strange. The food was pretty good and it was fun talking to some new people. I sat with Jacob, J and Thomas. Thomas played soccer with us once, and Jacob knows him from doing a teaching job together. We also talked a little bit with the table behind us; a guy Jon from soccer, Todd and Kasper. Most of the people there I knew at least a little bit.

After dinner, we moved to Thursday Party to have cake and play some games. The people working at Thursday were all dressed up in Halloween costumes. Many of the guys were happy because they had on an EPL soccer game. Someone bought Kasey a Hello Kitty shaped ice cream cake. It was strawberry and pretty good.