I'm sitting at the front desk at the school waiting for Paris and the Director's husband to come back with the kids so I can say hi and get on with my day. I'm sipping on instant black coffee (that's the only barable way to drink it) and am pretty tired from this past week's activities. I started going to the gym this past Tuesday morning and have been everyday since for a total of 3 mornings! lol. Monday, Jacob's mother brought us a Baskin Robin's icecream cake. I was so excited until I took the first mouthwatering bite and discovered that icecream here is pretty different than home. Just didnt't hack it. Mind you, it was good and I still ate it all up, lol but I was expecting home!
Tuesday, Paris and I took our Morning Kindergartens to plant trees! They were so excited (I was too). We all piled up in the bus and drove out to, what I am assuming was a tree farm. We found a small plot to start digging up and then doesn't this old Korean man, and I mean OLD, come out from nowhere yielding his spade and waving it around! The director's husband had to calm him down and explain that the two teachers and 3 kids weren't trying to steal his trees... we wanted to plant more. I just stood there, in awe taking it all in. Hilarious. The best part was during the old man's rant the kids werre trying to hold this man's hand and say hi. At any rate, we got the plants planted and the seeds hoed, the kids had a blast and we took a lot of pictures!
On Wednesday the director and her husband took all the teachers out for dinner! We had Tuck-ki-be Gwangju's claim to fame... it's ground pork and beef mixed into almost a hamburger like patty. The pattys are glazed and BBQed. The appetizer is this crazy good soup made of beef ribs that just simmer and simmer all day and then fall off the bone! So you eat that first and then the Tuck-ki-be come on a small platter and you take your piece and wrap in in a lettuce leaf with a bit of rice, chili pepper paste, a jalepeno slice and some garlic, wrap it up and devour. So good. After dinner we went for coffee and dessert. I got home around 10 30 and crashed!
Ohh I almost forgot the best part of my week. I received my alien registration card, I got a bank account and a cell phone! I am a truely landed immigrant now! Haha.
Immigration card was pretty simple, bank account I just asked Kerri to write down all the essentials in Korean and then the manager knew some english so we made it work. The cellphone was by far the biggest pain. The guy must've been new becuase it took, combined 50minutes for him to actually hook up my cell phone. Then it wouldn't work so I had to bring it back and he made it functional. I still haven't made a call but I have received msgs so I know it works.
Tonight my closet arrives and I am so excited, I think I dreampt about it last night. Might test out my roof top this weekend if the weather is nice and I think that's all I got.
Missing everyone!
xoxoxox PLH