Sold!

One of my goals in returning to Korea was to become more involved. I gave myself the option of leaving it open-ended as to HOW involved I could be and in what arenas I should I could become more involved.

Before coming to Korea I browsed through some Facebook groups and came along Nabiya, a cat shelter located in Itaewon. It's a haven for kitties young and old and is run by a fabulous woman, Allie. I go in once a week to volunteer (clean 'em, feed 'em, and cuddle with 'em) and have been doing it now for over 2 months. And now I'm actually a lucky foster of cute Casey (or as I like to call her, "Lil C"). Casey is from Camp Casey, a military base north of Seoul. She's about 8 months old and is a sweetheart and the perfect little Southern Lady. I thought of renaming her but if I did that it would make it harder to foster her and not just snatch her up and adopt her. It's VERY hard not to but I know my lil man, Bosie, is waiting for me back in Texas- I'd like to think he is eagerly awaiting my return but my mother likes to point out weekly that he's most likely forgotten all about me.

Anyways, Nabiya joined forces with Animal Rescue of Korea, aka ARK and held a fundraiser at Rocky Mountain Tavern in Itaewon last night. Supporters came out in big numbers to see live bands (some good, others not so good), hear a hilarious MC, win some loot in a raffle, and witness a date auction. I had the (lucky?) opportunity to put myself up on the auction block for a good cause. But let's face it, I was just really desperate to get a date in this city!

My friends came out to support/witness/laugh and point at me as I went up and stood among the crowd of auctionees. I surveyed the "competition" and thought, not too shabby. Some decent money should be raised. The date auction started at around midnight and the event had been going strong since 7:00 so I assumed people were decently liquored up.

The first girl went up and got 110,000 won. Not too shabby and then it was my turn to go up. My skills at hamming it up fell flat and at one point, I thought I could hear the cicadas outside, but slowly I got up to 80,000 won and the lucky winner was, *drumrolll* Mikey Teacher!

So we're going to celebrate with some On the Border and enjoy Lady Gaga at Olympic Stadium tonight!