Seollal---Lunar New Year----COULDN'T HAVE COME SOONER!!!!

Holy cow, after weeks and weeks of teaching non-stop since our last vacation in September, our holiday time has finally arrived. This weekend is the Lunar New Year, a 3 day holiday, that all of us teachers are gladly celebrating.

Most of the teachers I know are taking a trip to Seoul, while some others are visiting other countries. I'm still not sure what I'll be doing for most of the time, but I will most definitely be R&R-ing. Hallelujah.

Addiction

This tasty treat has been filling my fridge since August 2011. I adore this yogurt. I don't even usually care for yogurt all too much, but thanks to my previous teacher and friend, this here goodie was left for me to devour when she evacuated our apartment. Now I can't stop. If you have access to this you MUST try it.

**The exp. date was not/is not 2010 on any of my yogurts.

mry crsms frm KOREA

 Chrimbus brunsh

Shabu Shabu dnr

Christmas weekend was filled with food, snow, friends, and soju. It was a little weird not being at home, but nevertheless I had a splendid time sans the hangover(s).

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Winter Semester

Last week we started the beginning of a new semester. It is always a VERY busy time because we must make syllabi, tests, answer keys, along with preparing our new material/reading class books, etc...

My life still doesn't feel real here. And when I am too busy to even think, time flies, and I wake up on a Saturday morning and can't believe  the week is basically over.

I am trying to be optimistic about this semester, but INTENSIVES are looming ahead, and I can't help but feel anxious.

Intensives start on December 26th and they invlove all of us coming in an hour and a half early every day for a month and teaching 2-3 extra classes a day. (AH!)

Pro---extra pay
Con---no life

3 weeks. 3 weeks. 3 weeks.

Lady Angry Birds?

What my students have driven me to buy...

and forced me to think is cute.

Koreans are so kind!

In my drunken stupidity, I lost my iPod touch last Friday night. Since I have owned it, I have become quite addicted to the thing, so when I realized I had dropped it in the street somewhere on my way home, I was unbelievably angry with my clumsy self. I raged for quite a bit when I got back to my apartment, and woke up in a sloppy, pitiful stupor that quickly turned me into a maniac "needing" an iPod immediately. Somehow, I found someone here in my town selling a used touch for 300,000 won (about $260) so I quickly handed over the paper to have an iPod once again. Well, 4 days later I get a call on my Korean cell phone from a Korean who speaks little to no English saying that he found my iPod and that HE WOULD BRING IT TO ME. At first I found this a bit creepy so I said we could meet right by my place. Anyways he brought it to me in perfect condition, saying he found it on the side of the road. How do things like this happen here?