Experience the Norebang (Nor-a-bong)

I had my first full week of teaching and finished the week feeling exhausted, yet so happy with this job. I feel so much joy, excitment, and fulfillment working with these kids. I wake up everyday and can't wait to get to work! On Friday, I was a little worried of where the weekend might take me because my first weekend in Korea was very boring. I was so secluded from everyone at the temporary apartment. However, during the week I had moved into my official apartment with two other girls (both very cool) and set up my room and made this place my home for the next year.

Friday after work, we went and had Galbi again (still delicious) and then went to a quiet bar and drank and talked for a bit. We then decided to go the Norebang. I had no idea what this was but everyone seemed estatic about it so I tagged along. Apparently, the Norebang translates to "song room" and it is a place where you go and rent a private room for you and your friends and you sing Karaoke. You can sing any song you wish, whether it is Korean, Japanaese, or English. A fellow teacher who is a skinny, white boy from Canada got up and sang Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady." It was very hilarious, but I was honestly quite impressed with his rapping skills. I wanted to just watch and observe the Norebang festivities, but that was just unacceptable with the other teachers. So I got up and sang my go-to song "Sweet Child O'Mine" by Guns N Roses :) It really was a ton of fun. Once you get over the fact that you are in a room with your friends and singing to yourselves, it's not so bad haha :). The Norebang was pretty busy because Koreans love Karaoke!

After the Norebang, we wondered home and I drifted off into dreamland very quickly. It was a tiring week and the weekend was off to a great start!