Meeting a fellow american

This week has been pretty low key for the first time since I got here. Just been teaching and heading home after school nothing too fantastical. Until Tuesday. I was talking to Michael on the phone when a fellow American teacher sent me an im she had seen my post on Dave's esl cafe and she lived nearby( turns out she is across the street from me). We spoke about different things and she seems cool. We have a good amount of things in common( turns out a few of my students go to the academy she works for). Yesterday she had a bad day at work and just needed to talk and grab something to drink and eat. We met up on the pedestrian bridge by my apartment and we went in search for a place that was open and looked like it had English speakers or would understand my very limited Korean. We found this restaurant/bar the owner was nice, and he spoke some English. In Korean when you go to a restaurant/bar some places make you buy like an appetizer. She's allergic to fish so we asked for and pointed to chicken. What we got was shrimp tempura. Lol. We just hung out and talked about everything and anything. It was fun to speak to someone where I didn't have to slow down orr explain what I meant. The owner gave us some extras like fried calamari and some sauteed kimchi. He was interested in where we were from. It's cute in Korea when they see a foreigner the shop keepers who speak English want to "bond" or want to have share something in common with you. Like the owner of one of my favorite chicken places he's visited New York and he told me he's been there and wants to go back and talks about the different places to see there. Anyway we left off with plans for me to take her shopping at the Lottemart and to take her to Itaewon. I feel lucky to have been placed in my school. I have seen alot of things in a short time and learned how to do things that I can give my advice and opinion to others.