Here is what I have been up to this past week!

Saturday!
I went to Seoul to meet up with some English teachers that I had met online.  I was kind of iffy about meeting them, since I don't really do the strangers on the internet thing (with a few notable exceptions).  Before meeting up with them, I went shopping hardcore and bought some (real!) jade ( Read more... )

I am not much of a meat eater, never have been.  But I love many types of seafood.  Well, except for sea squirts and octopus, but that's neither here nor there.  But in particular, I LOVE crab meat.

So this weekend, since I found myself boyfriendless and with absolutely nothing to occupy my time with, I decided to try to cook some crab!  I figured ( Read more... )

Let me preface this entry by saying that I know very little Korean.  I've been studying, but making slow progress, because for some reason I have been having real troubles wrapping my head around the Hangul letters.  My Korean knowledge is basically limited to two categories. The first being completely random and useless phrases that are in my " ( Read more... )

I have been thinking a lot about my future lately, and have come to a startling realization.  I am enjoying the crap out of teaching.  Sure, I have bad days.  Sometimes I think I am doing a terrible job.  But most days, teaching gives me a certain sense of centeredness.  It's not like I wake up every morning and go "GOLLY GEE WHIZ HURRAY ANOTHER ( Read more... )

Today I had to grab a quick lunch because I was meeting my friend Hanchul in the afternoon, but I woke up very late.  So I decided to run down to Family Mart (a chain of convenience stores) to find something quick.  Korean convenience store food is generally even weirder than American convenience store food, but I grabbed a tuna salad sandwich, ( Read more... )

My apolgies for the longness of this.  Read it anyway, mofos ( Read more... )

For Christmas any other year, I would have spent the holiday sleeping in a bed that used to be mine in a room that is now filled with computer parts and the cat.  If you would have told me last year that I'd be spending this Christmas Eve drinking Hennessey and watching the three on three b-boy championships in Korea, I would have looked at you ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know it's childish, but I decided to decorate for Christmas today. And by decorate, I mean cut crap out of construction paper and tape it to my wall! I've not been homesick at all until now that it is so close to the holidays. So stupid arts and crafts always cheer me up. Yay!

This is right above my computer desk!

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I know I've been a little post-happy lately, but I like sharing my Korea experience with all of you!


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I am sort of ashamed to admit that, until yesterday, I had never been on a motorcycle before. Don't ask me why, but motorcycles have always been on my list of irrational fears. Motorcycles and crickets, not necessarily in that order. I think it's because motorcycles to me seem to indicate sudden and messy death. When you're in a car, at least ( Read more... )