Gossip Magazine Project

Last year, my aunt Debby sent me a ton of STAR magazines to keep me up on my celebrity gossip while I was out of the country!  After reading through them, I put them to good use!  Today in my English winter camp, each student had to make their own magazine by cutting out pictures and writing sentences about each picture!  

They literally wouldn't stop!  They loved looking through gossip magazines!  I even gave them break time to get up and play, but no one left their desks!  haha!

They worked so hard on these that I didn't have any extra time to teach other stuff for the day!  I love days like this! 

Cheers to gossip magazines making my day of teaching a breeze!  Thanks aunt Debby!

My new internet company...

Aaron just looked up my internet company's phone number, online, to help me get my internet up and running at my new place, and I kid you not, their company slogan is:

CONTACT US

Knock us any time, it's Always Open!

Can you say sexual innuendo?!  My gosh!

A night out with girlfriends...

... is the best way to end your week!

On Friday night, I met up with these 3 near my old apartment in Goejeong!  I hadn't laughed, as hard as I did that night, with these three South African girls, in a long time!  I only wish they were all staying another year!  Bongi and Truchen will be leaving at the end of this month to go back to South Africa.  As you can imagine, a lot of tears will be shed that day... 

Moving Day!

It's official! 

I've moved to Yeongdo Island!

Yesterday (moving day) was actually a much easier day than I had imagined that it would be!  Aaron and his co-teacher helped me by scheduling for a moving company to come and bring all my boxes, suitcases, and some furniture down the 5 flights of stairs!  What a wonderful surprise that was, since I was originally planning to bring everything down myself (with Aaron's help) and load them into taxis over and over again until everything was transferred!  This is just a small picture of how much needed to be moved!

At 1:00pm, on the dot, 2 older Korean men, probably in their 60's, showed up to my door, ready to work!  They were amazing!  One guy carried both of my gigantic suitcases on his back, while the other one carried about 60 items of clothes (including heavy coats) down on his back!

And thankfully, this handsome gent' showed up to help too!   I literally only had to carry 1 box down the whole day!!

Within 45 minutes, everything was loaded into the truck and ready to go! AMAZING

And about an hour later, everything was then brought up to my new apartment and scattered all about!  (and PS: Why do I always get stuck with the apartments that have crazy wallpaper?!)

I had a TON of unpacking to do, which if you know me, you know I was exstatic about!  There's no better high for me than to take a room like this and make it look organized and beautiful!

Luckily, with Aaron's help, I was able to unpack nearly everything yesterday! YAY!   I slept on my floor last night, which is where I'll be sleeping for the next month and a half until I inherit a bed from my new school!  I was pleasantly surprised when I woke up with no soarness!  

I'm including this picture of my building's staircase because I love the tiles on the wall and the granite steps!  It actually reminds me of a hostel I stayed at in Paris, years ago!

And thank goodness I love Samgyupsal, because my new apartment is literally right above a Samgyupsal restaurant!  I'm on the 2nd floor of this building... My apartment stretched from the 2 little window's on the left to the black horizontal siding on the right!

I really love my new place and can't wait to be completely settled in!  I'm actually sitting at the neighborhood PC bang right now, surrounded by teenage boys playing Starcraft, because my internet hasn't been hooked up yet!   Luckily it's only 90 cents an hour and the boys are quite entertaining! :)

Time to get back to unpacking!

Skype time!

One of my favorite things about having a boyfriend with the same job is that we have all the same free times while at work, which we usually fill with lots of skype chats! :)  

On Tuesday, Aaron was away from his desk, so three of his 5th grade boys got brave, and typed me a message that said "I WANT SEX  BYE."

When Aaron got back to his computer later in the day, he noticed their message and pulled them aside and said, "I'll either have Mrs. Jang (his Korean co-teacher) call your parents and tell them what you did, or you can write Alexis an apology letter and read it to her on skype tomorrow!"  Of course they chose the later, which produced lots of laughs for Aaron and I!  

Here are their letters!  "Please absolve" is my favorite chosen phrase!  It was so hard not to laugh when they were reading them to me!