He shows up at my door....

bearing gifts of morning time coffee, chusock sized boxes of melons, kim chi (that his mum made) and once at 6:30 in the morning with an umbrella. I'm trying to figure out if it's him being uber Korean and having to bring me something each time he comes to my house or if he is just the most amazing person ever.

But the language barrier is strong, and I'm feeling it a lot, mostly because I just can't ramble on and on at a high speed about anything and everything. it's just not possible. If we are together and someone calls me, i switch from slow English for beginners to BFF on the phone with swearing and slang in .1 seconds and his face contorts and he has a different English to study.

But it's really nice having a boyfriend that is Korean (well, I'm saying boyfriend here but really i have no idea!) I get a new view of Korea. Korean people's houses and Korean friends who don't speak English or are not English teachers. Trips to the countryside and places that only Koreans seem to know.



Last weekend was a long one, with no work on Friday. Jenny and I decided to have a little shit show and started our day with a drunken picnic and continued it all day through bars and nori bang.

some eye candy...

look at how absolutely adorable the 5 year old kindies are.

picking blackberries makes me excited! reminds me of the
days as a young lass in the brambles in Ireland

ok this picture is absolute halair, i'm so into it, probably
singing some song (most likely ABC rock) that the kids are
so not into. what i really mean to say is
teaching your children makes me make this face

well no, not really

you know it's going to rain now

and also rain 5 out of every 7 days for the next two months. monsoon season divinely blows. we were supposed to go camping this weekend, another long weekend, but it's been raining (and i mean RAINING!) everyday since urm maybe last week sometime. I also keep on biking to work and other various places hoping that I'll be biking through those 1 hour no rain blocks that sometimes appear. today made it - dry pants and all! the last 3 days, not so lucky!

So I'm really into owls. why? i dunno, big eyes and the twisty head thing and maybe because of the word hooters? i think it's mostly that 70's feeling of brown and orange colours and memories of crocheted and knitted owls for years ago.

nothing much today, prattle and ramble and bramble bee me.

last week we took the kids to 양방 for a picnic at a cottage that my boss owns. we had a wonderful time picking blackberries and eating watermelon and I just couldn't help thinking how wonderful it was that this was my job.

outta touch

with a large group of misfits that i call my friends and that i clearly belong with. It's like I've forgotten that the phone and the post exist. I like writing letters but now i'm lazy and maybe slightly depressed or just not wanting to do a lot of things i used to really enjoy. Anyway, this out of touch-ness has got to end because really one day i will show up at your door and I would like it if we remembered each other's faces.

but enough of that. It's monday. should we talk about the weekend? I haven't posted on here in awhile, mostly to avoid talking about my life

but this weekend, fantastical. 1st Hong Il and I had a day date planned (this is pony tail boy) where we scooted all around town on his little scooter. being me of course i was terrified the moment i got on the thing, i really really REALLY don't trust people driving me on any kind of two wheeled vehicle. I won't sit on the back of your bike unless i'm drunk and it takes a lot to put me on the back of a scooter. but by the end of the night i was like, holy shit i've never had so much fun. We biked to this huge market (like the food terminal down in etobicoke) and i met his brother the fruit wholesaler. then we went to Lotte Dept. Store , which is just a giant mall, to go ICE SKATING! yay! thank god i went with nash and brock in Amsterdam because I was totally not scared at all and didn't fall once! and ice skating on our first "date", really, best ever. then 2nd, kim and alex called on friday and they come to bundang for the weekend, so i meet kim and we run around town to bars with friends and then end up in Hongdae (the cool area to go and party) and dance at seoul's version of the dance cave until maybe 7 in the morning.


here is a picture of me on one of the 20 hour train rides in india. i love it because i want it again and again and again.
it's june now and life is ever changing.

i'm really happy for a bunch of things this month.

ponytails included.

my students are all wonderful and it's a long weekend AGAIN!

let's just hope this early monsoon we are having will not last forever.

ciao bellas and different fellas