so the past two weeks have been cake. between working one day...by that i mean teaching morning classes two weeks ago and then last week working 3 days...and friday doing absolutely nothing. it was crazy. and now i am getting ready to enter into a 5 day week. but on the bright side, i only work two full weeks then we get june 6th off. hahaha. so no complaints. i do love these public holidays. :)
wednesday night i went to another FC seoul game with my friend sanghoon. it was enjoyable though the weather was pretty good.
thursday was teachers day which meant letters, flowers, crazy gifts and pizza! unbelievable! truly! then on thursday Sejong University was having its festival so baejee invited me to come hang out with her. so i got to see where she goes to school and met some of her friends. the two of us went to a ghost house which was cool. hehe, baejee screamed like a crazy woman the whole time -and we even had a male escort! haha! then we were watching DJ DOC perform and we ended up meeting some Italian guy which i had to interpret between Baejee and the Italian whose accent was so thick that i struggled to understand him. :) good, random times. haha!
so this weekend was crazy despite a slow start and a thoughts that it would be pretty chill, but somehow i have a way of not allowing that to happen....so friday as i said, i spent the day just making letter flashcards and random odds and ends i have been wanting to complete. taught 3 crazy afternoon classes which went pretty well.
on saturday i met up with my language partner lee and worked on my korean for 3 hours, which is coming along. slowly but surely. i am trying to get more serious about it. though i have great vocabulary deficiencies i can plan to meet people in korean and even text in korean. hopefully i will continue to improve. :) then i went to itaewon where i went to foreign world. and found TEXAS PETE!!!!! yes, im not even kidding! you can't get it in western new york, but i found it in SEOUL! i was sooooooooooooooooooooooo stoked! i mean, i am stoked! so i guess a party with some chicken wings is on the agenda for the month of june! yanny and baejee, prepare. i love party planning! :) anyways, so i jump from korean to texas pete to swahili. i met up with my friend mary and we had dinner in a cute irish pub.
speaking swahili in an irish pub. :)
then we moved to an african pub where they ate - and they even had the bowls of water to wash their hands before they enjoyed ugali. swahili was flying around. and actually i met a guy who is a professor of swahili at a korean university. is that sweet or what? so it was an evening of africana. i love cities! i love multiculturalism! loooooove it!
then sunday church and such great cultural convos. there is so much i am leaving out right now!!! but i will fill in the gaps. then lunch with church friends. then i met up with sanghoon to visit the museum to see korean art work (korean treasures) and then to a buddhist temples and then out for dinner. which, mom and lacie - you will remember soondae. i think we all do. well i think what i ate was a variation of that, soup style. so soondae which is either cow or pig intestine. i dont remember which. well yes, so soup of beef intestine. it was ok. hahaha. not soondae. which i am building up the guts to try again....:)
so thats my life in a nutshell. i hae been having some great cultural convos and i will fill those in. i think this entry is so lame because its like me listing my day events rather than how i am doing or what i am doing.
in case you were wondering, im doing great. i did today think of my family - my pastors parents were visiting - so i though of my sisters and family and i almost started to cry.
almost.
and i thought. ok, yes i would love to see my family! i would absolutely adore it! but then what? you know, a weekend would be great to eat, drink and be merry together. but then what? so i miss people and if i could pay money to transport them to see me for even just an evening, that would be amazing. but i do love what i am doing here.
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