Isn't it ironic...??

# 1:  You know how I was so excited about the idea of living above a restaurant?!  Well, that was, until I realized that it's a 24-hour restaurant... and their lovely (insert sarcasm here), gigantic neon sign (which happens to be hanging right outside my bedroom window) makes it look like the afternoon sun is shinning through at all times of the night!  Isn't it ironic?!

# 2:  I've been internet researching netbooks online for the past week, because my macbook air hasn't been charging (so, it basically only stays on for 3 minutes and then - wala... shuts off!  uuuuggghhh)  So, this afternoon, I went over to a gigantic computer wholesale warehouse near Nampodong and bought myself a new computer!  Then, literally, as soon as I got home with my new "travel size" netbook, my macbook air decided to work perfectly!  Isn't it ironic?!

# 3: Lastly, I'm dating a 29 year old man, but as we're sitting here in my neighborhood's PC bang (because my internet is down), he's playing none other than... drumroll please... STARCRAFT!  Yes, Starcraft!  And I quote: "Dude!  I'm playing Starcraft!  I don't know how to do it!  Oh, oh, oh!  Wow, I'm movin'!  Look at me go!"  Might I add, we make fun of this game everyday, because our students think it's amazing!  Isn't it ironic?!

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!