Sok Bosa Temple

Just a few Buddhas

A temple on the mountain behind our apartments that Danielle and I hiked to. We arrived just in time for some beautiful afternoon light!
This term has been going well. Last weekend we had a work party that was attended by our companies CEO. It ended up being quite and eventful night, quite different from all of our previous branch dinners. Aaron has talked about how in Korea since seniority is such a big deal whenever you would go out with your co-workers the boss would have to be the one leading the drinking because if the boss didn't drink than no one else could. With our previous branch manager she would not drink and so no one else would and all of our work functions were clearly segregated between the Koreans and the foreigners and had been super awkward. This dinner was the complete opposite. The CEO and our branch manager Lia definitely led the drinking by ordering tons of soju and beer and doing shots with everyone. Quite the wild dinner! Eventually, once everyone had gotten some good drunk bonding in we were all sent to a Korean club another exciting experience. The club was huge, with lots of tables and then a big dance floor in front of a stage. There was a band that played all the top K-Pop hits with lots of dancers and singers and tons of lights. Between songs the stage would change- part would spin around or someone would be lowered from the ceiling to DJ between songs. It was only acceptable to dance during the fast songs and everyone ran off the dance floor for the slow songs. Our CEO was a typical creepy older Korean man who didn't speak a work of English but didn't let that stop him from talking very loud and very close in Korean for long periods of time. Eventually we took our leave and met up with some friends for a calmer end to the evening. While it was completely bazaar to see our boss and co-workers completely drunk it has made work much more enjoyable as I now know the people that I work with! And all it took was a night of heavy drinking.