So I recently found out that I live very close to the community center for my area, and they have a huge sports/exercise complex! It's just a 5 minute walk form my apartment. Rhea, Grace and I decided to start doing Taebo (태보) there two days a week. For two days a week, for four weeks, it's only $28, which I would say is a pretty damn good deal. I'm on my second week, and it's really fun. It gets hard, because we move around so much, and by the end we are all dripping with sweat. And the best part is, I can understand a lot of what my teacher says. A lot of the moves, like back kick, uppercut, side jab, are all Kanglish (English words slightly modified to the Korean language), and if you look you can basically follow him. But when I listen I can understand him saying things like "come forward, go back, 4 more times, other side" so I'm excited that I can understand that much! Next month I'm going to start doing it three days a week (for only $38 a month!), so hopefully that will keep me away from the night life on Fridays.

The place also offers classes like belly dancing, dance-aerobics, yoga, pilates. And they have a nice looking gym as well. Daniel is thinking about joining the gym, but I have to ask a head manager for approval because he doesn't have an ARC card.