Drift Reality > South Korea > December 2000

It's been a while since I've written about Korea but there have been so many curious occurrences and I feel like it would be a real shame if I didn't jot some of them down.

The date is December 6. I have been seeing this girl named Dong-Mi. She is absolutely great. She is cute, honest, and intelligent.

Click here to view a short film with Dong-Mi.

She came over last night and at about 4:00 AM, my roommate returned home with a girl. They spoke for a little while and then went into his room. Shortly thereafter, I heard music emanating from his room and I realized that he was singing songs to her - they were Christmas carols and he was playing accompaniment on his sythesizer. To make matters even more strange, the girl would occasionally add a drunken sounding accompaniment. This went on for quite some time. Finally I had to knock on his door and ask that he keep it down.

My roommate is another addition to a group of teachers that are less than normal. About one month ago, we were sitting in the kitchen when he told me that he had seen two ghosts in his room. One of the ghosts was a woman and the other ghost was a young girl. They were apparently quite "friendly," because all they did was stare at him for a while. Apparently, this was the second time that he had seen the ghost in his room. The first time, the ghost had manifested as a spider on the floor, which seems to me like an odd manifestation for a ghost to choose. I tried to take things in stride and I simply nodded my head and inquired whether or not the ghosts had been Korean. He said they had been.

Several weeks later, he told me that the ghosts had returned, only this time, the ghosts had not been as polite. They had been more aggressive but he could not explain how.

The final ghost appearance occured about one week ago. He had been sleeping when he was awakened by a spinning blue light on the ceiling. Apparently, this was another ghost, I told him that in my opinion it was probably just an acid flashback and he seemed to acknowledge this possibility.

His sexuality is another facet of his character which is a source of interest to me. He seems to be heterosexual until he gets drunk. At this point he says that he vastly prefers the company of men, adding that he loves going to gay clubs, and that he sometimes thinks that he is gay. When he makes the latter point, he is always quick to point out that although he has a strong feminine side, he has never been attracted by the thought of anal sex.

Last Friday I was hanging out wiht him and another teacher when he told us that one of the other teachers at ECC "has a very strong feminine side," and that sometimes, he(my roommate) "just wants to reach out and grab his breast." The situation became increasingly interesting when I found out that he had actually grabbed this teacher's breast in the past. Finally, yesterday, I was speaking with the victimized teacher in the staff room when my roommate walked by, slapped him on the ass, and said teasingly while wagging his finger, "You were asking for that one."