Quick Birthday Post

Random photo I stole from Lexi of our school's building. That's us... SLP. We are on the 2nd floor.



I'm so sleepy! I've been so busy and can't seem to get in bed before 2 but tonight I'd like to! So I'm trying to get this blog up quickly!


For my birthday, well it fell on a Wednesday and its actually 1 of 2 longest work days out of the month due to having to stay an extra hour for phone teaching. So I actually worked 9:30 am- 8:00 pm on my birthday! But the good part was it fell on the same day as the celebration for all the kindergartner's August birthdays! Lots of cake and fun things. Lots of photos with the birthday kids and then a little singing contest in the play room that was adorable.



Birthday Part 1: Wednesday August 19th:



Montana Class (I have them once a day):


This girl wrote me an adorable birthday card. I might have to show it off in a video blog...


Very sweet class!

Michigan class (3 times a day!):
Don't let that shy smile fool you....



I think he thinks teacher has cooties. We could not get him to relax at all. Seriously. That awkward arm position is the best we could do.
They love doing this heart thing here in Korea... haha. This students are my trouble maker class but still so fun!

My kindergarten co-teacher Erica lighting the birthday candles in Michigan class. She's the best!



Guess who blew out all the candles?





Michigan and Montana class for the singing contest!




These aren't even my kids but they were just so cute!



In the teacher's room looking awkward for my cake.




At least Julie paid attention. :P haha... and the people on the other side of the camera you can't see.






So after school Marika had some people over for Australian style steak sandwiches and home made chocolate mousse... oh my god! So good! The dinner was for our 2 Korean co-teachers that are leaving our school for greener pastures! We will miss them! Marika lives in the same building I used to so her apartment is similar to my old one.


I had to bust out the camera for Marika's home made chocolate mousse feast!




Ivy Teacher and Allison Teacher. Ivy left the school last Friday (2 days after this meal)! :(



The group of us squished in! We did it!



Sean with all the ladies. We love his hair can you tell?


I love how Sean and Cindy Teacher are posing for another photo and I get Marika about to take a glorious bite of her creation. :) Oh, and so... Sean is the one that got me this job! And then Cindy is the other teacher who is leaving. She leaves the school tomorrow! Ahh!





Birthday Celebration Part 2: Itaewon dinner and Hongdae drinking Friday August 21
Lexi and Hee Jin were my photographers for the event since my camera is annoying to bring out!


Itaewon is like the foreigner area of Seoul. So my friend Katrina suggested a restaurant just one subway stop away that gave me one of the best sandwiches of my life. A good sandwich is pretty rare in Korea, and what's even more rare is cheese. And what did I have but the most awesome, feta, olive and salami sub! I was in heaven. Sadly we all totally spaced on taking photos in the restaurant and had to settle on a quick pick in the subway:

Lexi, Me, Katrina, Julie. Katrina and Julie had to get home early and couldn't go out with us so I was glad we got to have dinner together!!


So to kick off the night in Hongdae we went to "The" Park... basically its a small area with a playground. You are allowed to drink on the street here so some people love to sit at tables and chairs and drink cheaply from the convenience stores. The park is even better! The convenience store there is called "Good Times". Obvious jokes there! :) Sometimes there is live music but always people just hanging out and drinking. Sometimes there are funny foreigners doing theme parties, like last week a bunch of people were tied together. In any case most times I went there there was no live music but this time there was! The guys were really good too and were sitting right next to us! They played some Beatles and some Jason Mraz. Should have taken a good photo with them.

I believe the guy behind me has a black drum you can't really see:



Lexi, Hee Jin and I were the only ones that turned up at first but that was ok because these girls are so awesome!


So that's Soju! Nothing classier than dollar bottles of soju in the park! The cocktails just get too expensive! For those that don't know, Soju is a traditional Korean rice liquor that is had with meals. It's comprable to vodka but sweeter and about half as much alcohol. Should have taken a photo of the whole scene. It looks like we are just hanging out alone there but ther are actually tons of people all around!


Went walking to meet some friends and happened upon these fish with the 2 eyes on one side. They are gunna be someone's dinner! Mmm...


Finally found Sean and his friends!



So after we went to our usual bar but it was super crowded so we hopped across the street to this unknown (to me at least) hookah bar to chill out.





Looks like we are trying to convince Sean of something he simply is not buying.



So as is our new tradition in the spirit of being cheap, we wait til the subway runs again at 5:30 in the morning. Note for concerned parents: This is really the most responsible way to go! Because A. The subways stop at 12:30 am!! (way too early to have any fun!) and Hongdae is far so taxi fair is quite expensive. And B. It's pretty much best to stay out of taxis here... just saying. Crazy drivers!




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