I know, I know its been forever

My mother brought it to my attention that I have not posted in quite a while. I didn't realize how long it had been! Just haven't had a whole lot to write about and not much motivation to do it i guess.
Anyway, last saturday was the kindergarten graduation. Can't tell you how thrilled I was to get to go to school on saturday. I got to lead the kids in a song in sign language. I didn't really teach them the song. I think they got most of the signs from the internet. Then when they found out my minor was ASL they asked me to make sure it was right and to lead the song for graduation. This was like 2 days before they were supposed to perform it so I didn't change much. Its not like anybody would know if it was wrong. It went pretty well I think. I wish I had gotten some pictures from graduation, but I didn't. So the rest of the weekend I was pretty lazy. Went to Rhythm and Booze with Kristina, Abby, and Michael saturday night, but not much else.

This week has been really long and kinda boring. We had 3 age groups of morning kids. I don't teach the youngest group (amber) at all. I have a few classes with the middle group (jade). The oldest group (ruby) graduated so they come in the afternoon now instead. Some days I didn't even have class until 2:00 even though I had to be at school at 9:30. Not having anything to do made me feel really tired. Thursday and Friday we didn't have morning classes at all. It was parent orientation for the new semester. Thursday was orientation for the new kids and parents. Friday was for parents and kids that are returning. We have a lot of new kids coming in next week. Its gonna be scary. We don't even know our schedule for the morning kids. We know our schedule for afternoon, but they haven't told us what we're teaching or anything yet. So its gonna be fun. I'm going to have like no free time either. Ok, I'm starting to get stressed so lets move on to the weekend.
Friday we had Monopoly night at Kristina's. I think I mentioned before that Abby bought us Monopoly for Christmas, but it was all in Korean. We used Kristina's mom as a translator. It was credit card Monopoly too so that made things interesting. It was fun. Long, a bit heated at times, but fun:) Michael ended up winning the game. Pretty sure he cheated though...
Today I went to Korean class. We're starting to get more into conversational stuff. I now have 40+ stickers! Yay! After class, Michael and I went on a search for a Papa Johns cause I was pretty sure I had seen one and I thought I could find it...and guess what! I did! I'm getting much better at the whole directions thing. The pizza was delicious too:)

The weather was really nice today. It was sunny and not cold at all. We walked all the way back to the subway station, which is not a short walk, stopping to play on the swings at a playground on the way. I could get used to this weather, but it looks like its gonna be getting cold again tomorrow. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted!

Here you go Abby. These are some pictures from Kristina's birthday dinner:





Ok, be proud of me. You guys didnt even have to wait a week! This weekend was fun. Went too fast as always... oh well. I went to a temple with Abby on Saturday. No Korean class cause we had it Thursday night instead. The temple was pretty cool. Kinda looked like the palace except there was a lot of bowing and a few cats.

After that we went to Coex Mall. We walked around there for a while. Quiznos for lunch which we were a little disappointed we ate when we found an On the Border after eating. The mall also had a Sbarro. No mall in the US is complete without one, but this was the first one we've spotted in Korea. Coex Mall also has an aquarium and a kimchi museum. The kimchi museum was closed:( We didnt go to the aquarium either.
Sunday after church I went with Kristina, her mom and brother, and Abby to Apgujeong, which was supposed to be like the Beverly Hills of Korea. It did have a lot of the expensive stores, but we weren't overly impressed. We did go to this really nice italian place for dinner. The food was really good:)
And now we're back to monday... Not a whole lot of exciting news about monday. Pre-k kids pulling my hair, one punched me in the face (pretty hard i might add), you know, just an average monday.

Ok I know, I know its been a while.
Last week was not a bad week, but for being only 3 days it really seemed to drag by. I was very happy for the weekend to get here. Saturday I had Korean class. The new teacher was so much better. She called me and Kristina geniuses and she gave us stickers! Yay! We did a little shopping after class and then went home to rest before going to Hongdae to celebrate Kristina's birthday. A group of 7 of us ended up going. We had fun.

Sunday Abby and I joined Kristina's family for her birthday dinner. We went to this nice buffet place. There was so much food...and it was all really good! Natalia's birthday was Monday so after work we went to TGI Fridays. Yum! All the people who worked there were wearing fun hats. We bought one of the waiter's hats:)

And this week has pretty much just been a normal week... Nothing too exciting. It is spring now in Korea! It hasn't been quite as cold this week. Its gotten up to like the 40's. haha I remember when that was bad. Anyway, thats really about all I have for now. I'll try not to take so long to write my next post.