ma chigi bung bung...ma chigi!

So over the past few weeks I have learned some valuable lessons and experienced some new and exciting things:

A trip to Seoul made me realize how impatient I truly can be...as well as enlightened me to the fact that I am not made for a big dirty city!

I saw my first "love cock" exhibition in a subway in Seoul, can you think of a better place to display such a thing?


I have mastered the art of wasting between 5 and ten hours a day on the Internet searching between Facebook, Hotmail, Myspace, CNN and People.com.

I have shown a Korean family of four the art of pumpkin carving and they are now convinced it is a "ritual" or "ceremony", I said it was just for fun, they chose not to believe me.

I have had my breast felt by both a Korean woman and a Korean man...asked by the woman doctor, "does your partner suck very hard on your nipple?". Ummm...no.

I have tried to explain over the phone why I was at the doctors and resorted to saying, after 10 minutes of lost explanations, "My breast is sick. I will show you tomorrow."

I have taken an ice cold shower.

I have eaten Dukgook...(rice cake soup and my all time favorite meal) a record 30 times since coming back to Korea. To Koreans, each time they eat this meal the become a year older, that has me at 57....I wonder what happens when I hit 100.

I have taught Korean children how to play 4 square and am now trying to remaster it as I did in Middle School.

I have come to the realization and admitted that I need Daniel in my life. I think I have known since I met him, however, for the first time when I was sick it was him that I instinctively needed to hold my hand.

I have realized that I have become my mother constantly asking "does that belong there".

Its been a week!!! Pictures and more to come!

To Busan and back on 160,000 won

I don't know how I did it, considering my spending, especially when traveling can get out of hand, but I successfully made it to the other side of the country, shopped, ate, partied, slept comfortably and returned with only spending 160,000. I am well proud of myself.

On a less happier note, I have realized each Monday that I am behind trucks filled with chickens, stacked cage upon cage, maybe 14 high, where are they going? and now, after realzing what it is that is blowing into my car, I now have to drive to work with my windows up! Today when I leave I will tell my boss I will be 10 minutes late as to avoid being stuck behind the truck.

I also saw a random cow today, would have a picture but I forgot my camera at home!

Other than that, I am here in the library at my country school, bored out of my mind and very angry that Greys Anatomy hasn't been posted on line by anyone who does not speak french yet...come on!!!!!

Off to try and get some work done!!!

Fat Dog

That is what the t-shirt of this chubby little fifth grade boy read...Fat Dog. I asked them to pick their favorite food and then I listed off about ten items asking them to raise their hands when they heard the one they liked the most, this little child raised his hand ten times, each time with more and more enthusiasm. Too cute!

The weather has gotten warmer it seems, tomorrow is "Korea Day" and so we will head to the beach.
This morning we woke up a little more tired than usual, Daniel gave me his shpeel about why we really should sleep with the glass sliding door closed...noise...lights etc. and explained how last night was louder than usual. I just shook my head in agreement as it seems that we have this same discussion each morning.
As it turns out, once I got in the car with my friend Alroy he asked if I had heard the huge crash last night. Turns out there was a three car pile up...not on the highway but in our small parking lot!
Because of the way Korean people park, they block each other in, parallel park in between one another in a jigsaw puzzle format, doors unlocked, cars in neutral...some idiot pulled in, slammed into one of the cars which in turn smacked into the other making for a chain reaction...needless to say, the guy drove off leaving ga pile of damaged cars.

I refuse to park in the parking lot and will instead drive around for a half an hour looking for a spot. I have made the mistake of thinking I was in a place where I would not be blocked in only to come out the next morning and see how very wrong I was. Thankfully, in each Korean windshield there is a tiny pillow with the owners phone number crocheted in to it...genus.
Off to a Wednesday vacation...asssssa~!
xj