another week has flown by.  i re-arranged my house this weekend, as much as i can.  i found a pair of earrings under my couch that i had been looking for for quite awhile.

bought tonns of fruit this weekend.  pineapple, cherries, melons.  love fruit.  i also bought a tonn of carrots and peppers to use as snacks and spent last night cleaning my house ( Read more... )

oh yeah. its the weekend.  i love the weekend.  i've been looking forward to it all week in fact!  friday night i practically ran to the resturant i was meeting friends at for dinner and drowned myself in beer.  latley school has been pretty stressful.  next week i have to take over extra classes because one of the teachers left.....so i'm going to ( Read more... )

discovered a hole in the wall bar near my house that is owned by a really sweet lady named Nami.  Nami is going to teach me how to cook Korean food.  Also, shes so cute I can hardly stand it.

My new Camera and I are getting along really well, and I can see this being the begining of a beautiful friendship.

I've recently remembered why I love mexican ( Read more... )

Booked and booked.  going to Thailand for summer vacation.  Phuket here I come.  Looking forward to beaches and beaches and relaxing!

Right now its raining and cold here.  Well, muggy with a cool breeze.  Strange for this time of the year.  The kids have a big test coming next week, and everyone is on edge.  All the teachers are NUTS.  Yesterday was ( Read more... )

been saving.  got a new camera.  enjoying taking pictures.  enjoying life.  making being sick again well worth it since i have a new toy to play with.


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i'm very upset today.  one of my coworkers was fired last night.  they don't really have a 'real' reason as to why they are doing this.  they have been telling him about complaints for weeks from hte parents, although none of them seem to make any sense (ie: he was listening to his ipod in class or he was taping the childrens mouths shut - all ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a long long day.  I was fighting with my kids all day, arguing over homework and class behavior.  I was happy when my 5th graders showed up (mostly because only 3 students out of 9 showed up because of elementary school field trips).  I played scrabble with them and we talked about compound sentences.  I actually really enjoyed the ( Read more... )

The mummingbirds are finished.  After a long week, being the end of preschool (and I mean that literally, since it was a short week that really felt like a month) the old preschool class is gone and the new kids have arrived ( Read more... )

China rocks on Chinese New Year, I don't care what the lonley planet says.  Yes, some things are closed.  Yes, there are so many tourists that sometime walking around feels like your in a mosh pit.  Yes, most resturants close around 7pm and that limits how and what you can eat, but holy crap the fireworks alone were worth it (not to mention the ( Read more... )

In 5 hours i'm on my way to the airport.  I'm going on my first ever planned tour (not counting the 'tours' they sent us on in Korea when we all first came here).  Shanghai.  I'm excited.  I'm happy to be going on vacation, its been a LOOONG couple of months.  The school term is almost over ( Read more... )