2 updates:
1- This thing they made me go do RULES. It's basically a playground for ENglish? Like the kids play hackysack and have to use English or whatever. But there's an obstacle course and the kids have to say "Can you help me up?". I basically fucked around and threw little rubber balls on them and went down the slide for like 3 hours. Then I gave them a basketball and read under a tree. I get to do this 4 more times.
2- Our AC broke a few weeks ago. They took out the unit and brought it back a few days later good as new. However, in Korea, there's like a pipe on the outside of all AC units to keep it from dripping on the sidewalk, I guess? But to attach the pipe you have to be on the OUTSIDE of the unit. We live on the 9th floor.
Last night I'm sitting in our apartment waiting for my wife to get home when all of a sudden I hear something knocking against the AC unit. I look up and there's a fucking rope smacking it. About 2 minutes later, a guy comes down the rope. He's sitting on a fucking old piece of wood that he's tied the rope to from every corner to create a kind of swing. Let me reiterate this: There is no harness. He has like 2 paralell 2x4's that he's drilled holes in and attached ropes to. Also, this is not a climbing rope. This is just like a length of rope you get at the hardware store and it's old and fraying. He's just kind of letting himself down slowly and then he goes to work on our AC. Eventually his boss, who was on the roof, comes into our apartment, opens the window and starts handing him stuff. There's a man dangling from the roof on a fucking playground swing and this guy is handing him stuff from an open window. I've never seen anything more dangerous in my life. Then there's like a break in the action, he left a tool upstairs. So the dude dangling out our window on his little swing fumbles around in his pockets, finds his pack of smokes and lights one up. 9 stories in the air, dangling from a homemade swing, smoking a cigarette. We decide to go up the roof and see what his set up is like.
Insanely, it's as slapdash as we imagined it. There are these hooks in the roof and he just tied a couple of knots and down he goes! There's a dude up top keeping watch. So, eventually he finishes, but he can't pull himself up, so he just like lets himself down the other 9 stories, packs it all into a truck and takes off. But his buddy on the roof proceeds to do the 2nd most insane thing of the day.
There's like a 3 or 4 foot ledge on the roof. This dude, in crappy little house slippers, literally LEAPS up unto the ledge, LEANS over at like a full 90 degree angle and just starts pulling up the now slack rope. It was the balliest and possibly dumbest thing ever.
And that's how they fixed the AC.
