At 6:30pm I left my apartment to catch the 9700 bus all the way to Sinsa, which is close to Gangnam. From there I caught a taxi across the bridge to Itaewon. Met Vanita, Michael and Mark and headed to Shakraa for some pretty damn good lamb vindaloo.
Met some other people after that, and then headed to Phillies. Jeepers, South Africans seemed to come out of the woodwork, in all shapes and sizes. There seemed to be no Australians anywhere, and just a few New Zealanders, and one motherlessly drunk Russian.
One guy, Chris, left the bar as the game started to go and get his springbok rugby jersey. He's also worked in Bristol and Edinburgh, and done those transafrica bus trips. Interesting guy.
I met another guy, Pieter, who has written an illustrated book. He says it cost him more than W11 million to pay for the printing of 2000 books. Or was that 200? 2000 books at W10 000 apiece is W20 million.
The book itself is very basic, but it's good to see someone get off their butts and do something in this tricky business. He is aparently married to a Korean, and is soon starting his own hagwon. He must be in his 60's. Seems like he is here in Korea to stay.
The boks played brilliantly, and then made mistakes. Was a bit of a scrappy game, and for a while it looked like it was going the other way.
I think the altitude was in our favour, and the home crowd, in a big way. It was good to leave the bar with a win.
As I was leaving a Korean waittress called Helen was telling everyone in Afrikaans, 'Jy is mooi'. Quite funny.
Outside it was still very warm. When I got home my thermostat said 28 degrees Celcius. Ooooch.
Next week we play New Zealand. The Boks can't afford any mistakes against them.
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