End of January

Life lately has been not too exciting. Very crazy with work, report cards are coming up again, making final tests, the dreaded kindergarten talent show, and a new semester starts in March. I have had trial classes with these Korean babies... 4 year olds... who know no English and I have to teach with the moms/grandmas in the room in the hopes that they will like what our school has to offer and send their babies to our Hagwon (school). I could elaborate on the workings/ disorganization of the above but I will leave it to your imaginations.
Otherwise, I have been missing home a bit again. Mostly all you wonderful people. It is interesting the lack of real communication one has when they do not speak the language. I miss those random real conversations that one can have throughout a day. My friends here are lovely but we do eat, sleep, work, breathe together so at the end of the day there are moments where we just sit together and really have nothing left to say. We know it all! ha!
Yet it is motivation to go out and ‘do’ more in order to have new events/personalities to talk about. Roberta and I recently had a big Saturday where we went to see the Van Gough exhibit in Seoul. We actually went to the wrong Museum by accident (thinking we had the correct one) and toured around and then found the art gallery with Van Gough. The exhibit was everything I could have hoped for! (Impressionist painters are my favourite). We toured the galleries and marvelled at the paintings through the 14209093209858 Korean heads that were also admiring his work. It was spectacular nonetheless. From there we headed to Dongdaemun a crazy street shopping area of Seoul crowded with the oddest bits of clothing. Dog hair clips (think something a child would wear but 28 year olds wear them!), next to piles of shoes, next to (apparently legitimate yet questionable) hiking gear.... you name it... and it is here. Ohhh and the ‘delicious’ smell of simmering silk worm larvae.... mmm mmm mmm.... yeah no ... but it is sold on multiple corners as a snack. Does anyone want me to send some?
Finally, we finished in Itaewon (foreigner area) for some Mexican food and found Holly (Incheon Kiwi) and Camille at the bar. Good times and random meetings were had.:)