good times!

hello folks!
so another greatttt weekend! on saturday i met up with yanny who is my coteacher - she is one of the two korean english teachers and so we split 2 levels of classes and she will have them tuesday and i have them wed, etc. so we work pretty closely together. luckily for me she traveled to canada for a year. and so she speaks english really well and also understands what it is like to be in a whole new country. so it has been great getting to know her and to work with her.
we went to the national folk musuem which had all of these amazing artifacts from the past kings and it was amazing! all of the official seals, the clothing, the placenta jars - just unbelievable. ;) haha, then we went to the palace which was again so beautiful. and they actually had the buildings set up as if the king still lived in them which was really cool. bc none of the other palaces had that.
then we went and had traditional tea at yanny's favorite spot in insadong which coincidentally was the same tea spot that patricia took me too. and let me just say its amazing! its indescribably, like when i go there i feel like im going into a hobbit hole. there were birds next to us in a little cage! and i had some cinnamon tea with a persimmon in it. and it was cool so it was like a slushy. it was really great.
then we walked around the markets and i got to beat some rice paste. hahahaha. it was so hard that it took me two or three trys to remove the mallet from the rice paste. and everyone was watching and taking pictures and i was like trying to get it and trying to look like i wasn't trying to hard. hahah, yeah you know. trying to be cool or something. haha, it was fun. and very funny. then i think the guy tried to kiss me after we took a picture. weird. haha.
then we walked around all the little tourist shops and the really expensive shops. i got dad a bday present. my first present i bought here. i could easily spend sooo much money, so i just don't spend any money.
then we got street food! and its not like you just buy it and walk away, you get like a plate and a drink and you stand there and eat your food. they had soondae at the stand we went to but i told everyone how i cannot eat it - so we didn't get any of that. but everything else was fantastic. so i have no fear. not that i ever really did, but i wondered if i should. nope. it was fantastic!

it was a great day and so nice to get to look at yanny's canadian pictures and talk about our experiences and life as it is. it was really great and we talked of all the other things we need to do in the future so many adventures to be planned!

sorry if my synopsis is short, i should be sleeping now. so feel free to ask questions!

until next time