Oops! I was off living my life and not keeping up with my journal! Hahahaha!

It's looking more and more like Christmas here which is pretty exciting. Lots of lights and trees around. I'm preparing to order my Christmas cake. I'm leaning towards the Coldstone Hello Kitty House ice cream cake.


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I think there was a text message that went out to almost all of the salary-men saying to wear light blue shirts today... Very strange ( Read more... )

So it's Wednesday night, and this week is my vacation week. I had thought about going to Japan, but it's just so last minute for me and I didn't really feel like going on a trip, so I decided to stay here and do random things during the week ( Read more... )

My kids are driving me crazy! They've all suddenly become very talkative. Most in English which I'm OK with, but some of them are talking in Korean WAY too much during class time. I'm gonna start sending messages to their parents if they don't stop! I'll be SOOOO happy when tomorrow is over ( Read more... )

Just finished the first "week" of the new term. We worked from Wed-Sat instead of the usual Mon-Fri. It felt like a really long time, but I think that's because of our 10 day break beforehand. I only have today (Sunday) off this week. I've mostly been sleeping and watching tv, but I'm going to go out to dinner with my best friend here in Korea and ( Read more... )

So an outbreak of swine influenza has reached some ESL teachers, and now our school is closed until June 3rd. During this 10 day paid vacation, teachers are not allowed to go anywhere. They are supposed to wear face masks if they need to go somewhere for food, but may not use any public transportation or go anywhere for an extended period of time. ( Read more... )

I got my Canon digital rebel today. It's called something else in Korea and Japan, but it's the 12.2 Mega-pixel DSLR that I've been dreaming of for months <3 I paid 40,000 won (a little less than $30) more than I wanted to... but the guy threw in a Canon camera bag, a 2 GB memory card, and a battery charger for the car (not like I have a car... but ( Read more... )

I went to the Noryangjin Fish Market (노량진수산시장) for some sashimi dinner! It was a lot of fun! The market is open 24 hrs a day. You buy the fish and then take it to an eating area where you can either eat it raw (and sometimes still alive) or have it cooked Korean BBQ style.


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So now that the weather is getting warmer, it seems there's a new festival every week. On Sunday April 26th, there was a festival for Buddha's birthday, the Lotus Lantern Festival. I forgot to take my camera with me, but I did get to bring back a bunch of free stuff :)


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So I have pictures of some of the stuff I bought recently.


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