Stella's Back!

I'm ssoooo happy to have Stella back from America!  As you may or may not know, Stella was my very first co-teacher in Korea back in March of 2009!  She and I instantly hit it off and became the best of friends... and have stayed close ever since!  But she's spent the last 6 months living and working in New Jersey as an English assistant teacher in a 1st grade classroom... She even spent a couple weekends with my sister Amy in Manhattan!   That was fun to share my Korean friend with my American sister!

Tonight we met up in Nampodong, at one of our favorite Korean restaurants, for delicious, grilled at the table, thinly sliced pork, sprouts, and some other yummy rabbit-style-food mixed in! 

We picked up right where we had left off, which was sooo fun! 

I'm beyond excited to have my sweet Stella back!

Happy White Day!

It was White Day today, one of Korea's many holidays where men buy their girlfriend's gifts to celebrate their love!  According to wikipedia, White Day gifts are traditionally cookies, jewelry, white chocolate, white lingerie and marshmallows!  My co-teachers were especially counting on Aaron to give me some yummy chocolate, which I would in-turn bring to work tomorrow to share with them!  
Luckily, Aaron does NOT dissapoint!  He bought me a box of chocolates (mostly because I told him Okk and Monica were counting on him!) to go along with our date night to see Black Swan!

  

Thank you A!  I love you... and so do my co-teachers!

Happy Music Monday!

Forgive me for falling off the Music Monday's bandwagon a couple months ago!  I don't know what happened...  Anyway, I'm hoping I'll be able to redeem myself from my lack of follow through with Music Mondays, by sharing this gem of absolute genius and CRAZINESS from the children of North Korea!!

Monica wears TOMS!

You couldn't imagine the surprise on my face when I noticed that my new Korean co-teacher, Monica, was wearing TOMS yesterday!

I knew she was awesome, but now I REALLY know she's awesome!  When I asked her where she found them (since they're impossible to find in Korea), she said "Oh, I bought them online at the TOM'S website. My daughter told me that if I bought a pair, the company would give a pair to someone who needs shoes, so I bought some!"

*** 10 bonus point for Monica! ***

English Tea and Coffee

It's not what you think!  This post is NOT about English Tea, but it is about speaking English while drinking tea and coffee!  Yay!  Tonight, I went to a darling coffee shop in Nampodong with two of my single co-workers (the married one's always have to run home to their kids and husbands and start cooking dinner).  The best part about it was the fact that we spoke English THE ENTIRE TIME, and not the baby beginner English, the grown up - American style English!  Ahhh, what a wonderful treat that was!  

These two are some of the sweetest Christian women, and the most fluent English speakers I've met in Korea!  Can you believe I'm lucky enough to get to see them everyday at work?!  Such an answer to prayer!   Hyun Jung (math teacher), Me, and Okk (one of my English co-teachers)!