It wont stop snowing

Today, I was pretty unproductive. Yes, I did finally finish washing my clothes; it only took two days. Apparently, owning a dryer in Korea is pretty rare. So, between washing clothes in my mini-washer and hang drying every item, it took a while. I was also able to catch up on my shows: Modern Families and Brother’s & Sisters. Can someone tell me what the hell happened to Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice? I mean really…they haven’t aired anything for weeks and I’m pretty sure the last episodes were not the finale. If so, they were pretty shitty finales. Just making a point. Maybe I'm just being impatient and they just haven't posted the latest episodes online yet.

With my above accomplishments noted and the realization of my laziness, I decided to leave my apartment and get some fresh air. So here I am at Caffé bene with another hot chocolate down and my fingers ready to tell all about my “exciting” day.

It's snowing a lot today. It literally hasn't stopped all day. I won’t go as far to say, "I hate snow," but I highly dislike it. Plus, the boots I own suck. Instead of buying cute brown boots I should have been more practical and bought boots that doesn’t allow slush to seep in. My socks are basically soaked and I only walked a few blocks.

Since, I have nothing else to really talk about, I’ve decided to use this time to chat about the direction and goals for my life within this next year.

Goals:

1. Save a ton of money
2. Live it up

Well, that was easy.

The warmth of my chingus

I've been criticized by my fellow *chingus/co-workers about not mentioning their names in my blog, so I will now refer to my co-workers individually by name - I don't want to make anyone feel left out.

Today Ian (a fellow foreigner) and I went on a journey; a voyage to find the post office. Neither of us knew where we were going or exactly where the post office was located. Between his knowledge of the Korean language and my excellent sense of direction we actually found it. Plus Mieka, another chingu of mine told me it was on the University campus. After our campus tour and visit to the post office we stopped at Kenya Espresso where I enjoyed a hot chocolate, wrote a few letters and wrote in my journal. It was nice.
*Chingu(s) - Korean for friend(s)

I had a great Christmas thanks to Shanna (yes, you are finally mentioned) and Mieka. They hosted a Christmas brunch where they also played Santa and handed out gifts. You can't see it too well in the picture, but they gave me earrings and a snazy headband. I do have to say I cooked some mean bacon and eggs plus the mimosas were a great idea!

I don't have too much to say. I'm still procrastinating learning Hangul. AND....I'm super excited I finally have one follower...thanks Felipe!!

Bye Josh teacher...I'm glad you made it back to Iowa safe! Who knew Santa was so young and skinny.

song of the week:

Samgyeopsal and Soju

I had the most amazing meal tonight - Samgyeopsal! What is that you ask? It's pork belly with a ton of other items put into the middle of a lettuce wrap. It's fucking DELICIOUS!! Can I say the F word? Oh well too late. There's just no other word to emphasize how good it was. We have two teachers leaving and unfortunately tomorrow will be their last day. However, because of their departure the staff went to the Samgyeopsal restaurant to eat and I was able to be touched by the bacon Gods. Samgyeopsal is my new favorite food. While at the restaurant we had tons of beer and soju, which is similar to vodka. It's good.

Activities day went well. It was busy, but fun. I also got the results back from my health assessment...I'm clean.

For my fans, I'll try and take many pictures this weekend and post them some time next week.

Off to my friends...

Poor kid

I wasn't going to post anything today, but due to popular demand...here I am! Today was another day in Kwangju, S. Korea. The past two days have actually been excellant. I just feel like I'm truely getting settled and I live here now. Everyday I obviously teach, but I try to learn something new while also trying to reinforce and remember the old things -- my Korean still sucks. Maybe next week I'll instantaneous pick it up. We do have winter break and I do actually plan to study and practice. Hopefully I can atleast get Hangul, the Korean alphabet down by this next week.

This morning the topic of the day for my Kindergarteners was Science. We had little toy circle things that had a dip in the middle of it. The goal was to get the "wheel" or ball into the dip by moving the circle toy in a circular motion. For the most part, most of the kids got it right away and it was super easy, but unfortunately it wasn't easy for everyone. One of my kids could not do this to save his life. Like I said above, you just had to move the toy in a circular motion, but no not Jason. As I'm helping other students I look over to see Jason doing this:

Jason was vigoriously shacking his toy and crying uncontrollably. As you can see, he was really upset that he couldn't do it. After seeing this, I immediately went over and as I started to help, Mr. Independent jerked the toy away and continued to shack the toy and cry. I of course tried to comfort him, but could only handle about 15 seconds of it before I was forced to turn around to cover my mouth from laughter.

Tomorrow I get my health results back. Hopefully I'm clean and passed. tomorrow is also another special activities day - Christmas! We have fun festivities planned for the whole morning: making snowman and....well, that's all I actually know, but there are three other stations. It should be fun!