I'm speechless!!!

This woman took dressing her dog to a whole new level... Not only did her pup have a matching hat to go with her black and white polka dotted dress, but she dyed her dog's cheeks pink to look like blush and dyed it's tail to match! Come on people!!

I'm sooo hungry!

It's not uncommon, in Korea, for restaurants to have huge display cases outside their doors, with fake food, made to look like what they serve. Since I can't always understand the Hangul on the menus, I personally love this idea!! There's never a mystery about what you're ordering!!!

It's snowing Christmas care packages...

.... and I'm definitely not complaining!!

Yesterday, my good friend Aaron came over with some things that his mom had put in his care package for me, and today, I got a box from MY own MOM! :)

It was filled with lots of neatly wrapped presents!! (Thank you mom for using my favorite wrapping papers!!) She told me I'm not allowed to open them until Christmas, so they will be neatly placed under my teeny tiny Christmas tree when I get home tonight. :)

There's something about getting a box at work that makes the whole day wonderful! Thank you mom!! (and dad too, of course!) Love you both and feel blessed to be your daughter!

"Sweet Dream"

The following conversation happened about 5 minutes ago between my Vice Principal and I:

Him: Alexis, I had a sweet dream last night.
Me: Oh really, what happened in your dream?
Him: You were in my dream.
me: Really?
Him: Yes, you were in my bed (and motioned as if his arm was around me.)
Me: GYO GAM SUN SENG NEIM!!!!!
Him: We did not have sex. We just layed.

I am still speechless!!! Who says that?! I told Stella and she was dying laughing!

Attendance...

Everytime I leave work early for a business trip, to go to the bank, to watch another English class, because I'm sick, etc... I have to write down the date, the time I will leave and return, where I am going, and how I can be contacted when I'm there.

Then, I have to have the head teacher approve it, the Vice Principal, and then the Principal. And yes, I hand carry it to each person for their signature!

So, all you Millennium teachers who hate filling out "personnel absence forms," let me say right now, "SUCK IT UP! It's a lot better than what is required here!"

This is my very own attendance record folder. :)

My personal favorite "Reason" on this page is "a bitter cold" which was obviously not written by me!!  So funny...

The days highlighted in blue are my personal favorites... because 1) it's usually something fun, and 2) because I get paid 5,000 won for every business trip I go on to cover transportation costs!  Which is funny to me, considering I almost always get free rides with the other teachers!