Ouch!!!

This is hilarious! All of the teachers from my school went to the country this weekend for a teacher training. One of the male teachers got really drunk and ended up passing out on one of these electronic heating mats that had been turned up to the highest setting. (By the way, getting drunk at teacher outings is not only acceptable... It's encouraged!)  Talk about a culture difference...

FYI: You always lay something over these so they don't burn you... you don't just lay on them. In the morning, he woke up with a gigantic burn / blister on his calf, about the side of an adult hand! He's had to go to the hospital to receive burn treatments. This morning, he's limping around like a gimp, and everyone is making fun of him! That's what you get for getting drunk cool guy!

"Umm, Thank you."

I was just given this vegetable, or root maybe... by a co-worker. She said it's not a potato! What the heck is it?! It's huge!

Korean Church

The Che's invited me to their church last weekend for a special service. It was their church's 60th birthday, and an orchestra/choir performed famous hymns throughout the service. It was an interesting experience, as it was my first experience at an all Korean speaking church service. I had no idea what the pastor was saying, but I stood when everyone else stood, clapped when everyone else clapped, and laughed when everyone else laughed. I didn't want to seem out of place, you know?!


The choir sang 7 hymns. I knew most of them, not by their lyrics, since they were sung completely in Korea, but by their rythm. I loved it!

7 Luck Casino

I'm having a lot of luck these days at the Korean casino and am starting to think of it as my new source of added income! I played roulette tonight, and put between 2 and 5 chips down every hand and literally only lost 3 hands the whole night... and I was there for about an hour and a half! That's incredible, incase you weren't aware! I ended up walking away with 57,500 won. Thank you Lotte Seven Luck Casino!

Go With The Flow

This morning, I walked into my classroom at 8:45am (15 minutes before school starts) and my kids were already sitting in their seats. Come to find out, school started at 8:45am this morning, instead of 9am, and Stella forgot to tell me!

Then, instead of 10 minute breaks, we had 5 in between classes! This surely was NOT enough time for the kids to release all their built up energy from sitting in class for 40 minutes, and definitely not enough time for me to have some peace and quiet to prepare for the next class! They were crazy and nearly uncontrolable today - which is NEVER the case!

And I just found out that I can leave work at 1pm instead of 4:40pm today! I have no idea why, and I'm not gonna ask! I'm learning to go with the flow around here, and am becoming surprisingly more and more laid back as the days roll by! - And to be honest... I kinda like the new me!