What's New...
I finally caved in, and for the first time in my life i have a cell phone. Here in Korea - land of technology - every man, woman and child (including ALL of my students) has a better cell phone then me. Mine is old and GHETTO... but it can make and receive calls, and I guess that's good enough. I really struggled with the decision to finally activate mine (which was actually handed down to me by Sarah Cation when she made her move to Thailand), as I've survived without one for so long. But in the end it just makes sense to have one.
It's taken me forever to even figure out how to use the stupid thing. Yesterday, it took me my entire break to send a text message, and for atleast a week i was sending them with no puncuation because i just didn't know how. I'm a technological idiot...
So, my kid's laugh at it whenever i whip it out to check for messages or the time (as i never wear watch, something else i'm apparently against)... but that's the cross i bear as a poor english teacher trying to survive in this mass of foreign asian chaos.

Today, Jessica and i also spent the day shopping in the 'the express bus terminal'... impressive name i know. This is an overwhelming underground laberith of korean shops, similar to a flea market. Mostly we were searching out cheap and funny kon-glish covered clothing (notice the use of illiteration)... it's amazing some of the non-sense these crazy koreans come up with. I mean, there'll just be a grouping of random words on a shirt that have NO meaning... whatsoever.

ie. Love bright the world, apart consign we see you recycled!!! Horse!!!
***i just made that up, but that could very well BE a shirt that you might find in korea... it probably even makes more sense then most of the shirts i've seen around here

Although, there were a lot of pretty funny ones, most were just too ugly to even consider buying... even for the whopping $3-5 they were being sold for. They just can't seem to get it right with fashion in this country. However, when you find something good... it's GOOD. Case in point are the two pairs of shoes that i spoiled myself with by buying today...

1.) these boots are chocolate brown VELVET!!!
i could just eat them i love them so much


2.) how cute are these little white beaded mocks-(short for mocasins)

and the best part about them is - THEY HAVE FOOT PRINT SOLES!!!
(I'm obviously very excited)

Sorry that my shoes are the best things that i have to write about right now... I'm going to HONG KONG in two weeks, so more exciting things are to come.