stranger

that would be the name of the korean ahjushi that mans the english village guardhouse at night. so when you come home at night, you get to say "hey stranger!"

yesterday there was a mock teaching of an insect class for teachers who never got to teach it yet, and all the teachers got to make these little shrink art keychains hahah it was so fun, i made a lakers moth of course. oh and i didnt get to watch the game cuz i was too tired this morning but i knew we would win so...feels good to be back in the finals!!

so, erick took me and ern out to dinner last night. he said he tries to do this with all the new teachers, he watches out for all the teaching staff, esp. the younger ones. a big puerto rican poppa bear. we went to a meat place and stuffed ourselves silly, then walked around "downtown" 양평 and got ice cream from baskin robbins. dudes, baskin robbins has ice cream fondue! brilliant. we didn't get it, but that doesn't mean i'm gonna stop thinking about it anytime soon.

another great thing about korea: green tea ice cream is literally available everywhere. you can get it wheneverrr you want. even at the tiniest ghettoest store. dream world.

after walking off some of our meat and ice cream, we went to this amazing tea house called 천년찻집 that was like a little bit outside 양평 past about a million neon love motels. they had these notebooks that you could write notes in, very korean. we drank some tea that was really good in the beginning when it was nice and scalding hot, but then it tasted like acupuncture office after it cooled down and became bitter. but i felt like it added maybe 10 years to my lifespan. 10 years of life for 5,000원...pretty good deal.

thousand-year tea

no i didn't do that, but i thought it was really cute.

random mini zoo outside the teahouse...those bunnies were to die for...so clean and white and cute and friendly and i definitely want one.

taxi driver bought us 뻥튀기 on the way home, we said hi to Stranger, and then called it a night~ oh yea the taxi driver blatantly ran a red light and erick was like "ahjushi!" and the taxi driver was like "빨간불 means 빨리 빨리!" 

then i woke up this morning with crazyyy HIVESSS...EPIC. FAIL. the big ones this time with lots of swelling, not the small redder kind. yes there are different kinds of hives, i am rather familiar. anyways they are passing fairly quickly but still realllyyy sucks. i guess i need to be more careful with what i eat? jeez why is my body such a pansy...

i remember one time like 3 years ago i got really sick and sutton said "dude you would think that your immune system would be better than this since you freakin laugh all the freakin time. oh man maybe if God didn't make you such an easily amused person, you would be dead by now. maybe you're supposed to be a lot weaker than even this." and...i think that's really true. both of my parents were reallllly weak as children. my dad as a baby was actually pronounced dead for like a whole day. my mom never could participate in gym class and actually even stayed home from school a lot all the way through high school. anyways back to the main story: hives suck.

because i'm so hivey, i've been just taking it easy today..ordered weird korean pizza..watched anime with ernest..probably just gonna watch a movie and maybe go into town for dinner and drinks later on. i gotta get better by tomorrow cuz i have to teach! boo to teaching on sundays~

erick is taking us and this other teacher brani [new zealander chick] to midnight shopping in 동대문 next saturday~ aka the hunt for the weird saggy-butt spandex pants to buy as eunji's souvenir!!