"A" You're Adorable (Apr 25)

• Today was a rough day with the children. Complete lack of listening - and caring, really - on their part, so I was frustrated by that. But then overwhelming frustration washed over me; the kind that makes me question my effectiveness as a teacher, both here and in general, what to do about teaching my current students and my decision to be a teacher. It was not good and tears definitely happened.
• I did have a cute conversation with Do Hyeon about the rain on my way home. The after school care class lets out at 5 pm, which is usually when I'm headed home. Today, I "taught" him the words "rainy" and "wet", as it was drizzling and there were puddles everywhere. Also, I told him to watch out as a car was coming behind us and he said "Thank you!". That was kind of cute.
• Nonetheless, after school, I hopped on the bus to Gyeongju. This may sound a little extreme but, being the next town over, it's only about 30 minutes from the Intercity Bus Terminal (the same amount of time it takes me to visit Abby/Joe in Heunghae - and less time than to visit Ashley in Wolpo - and they are technically in the same city as I am!). I ended up meeting Nia, Nate and Jeanette at THE most adorable cupcake shop in the world. I guarantee that it is. Of course, I didn't bring my camera with me. So we'll go back. Nia and Nate left to go to dinner and Jeannie and I just relaxed in the adorbz atmosphere. I ate a tiramisu cupcake and drank a caramel macchiato, and then we shared a cookies n' cream cupcake. (My stomach was whining a little bit throughout the evening, from all that sugar.) It was fabulous. We also discussed our devil children, the pointlessness of the letters C, X and Q, and the idea of having our own cupcake shop (called "Adorbz Cupcakes", of course). When the shop closed, we went looked through the boutiques in the area...and made purchases. It IS payday, after all :)

New shirt :)

Then, we met up with Sai at HomePlus. I purchased some fun prizes for my kids, Sai bought groceries, Jeannie bought a shelf thing, and we saw adorable bunnies and a LIVE GIGANTIC BEETLE. EWWWW. We ran away. It was my favorite kind of grocery shopping, roaming almost all of the aisles. I like my HP (it's bigger and makes more sense to me) but the trip succeeded in making me feel loads better. After a short trip to Jeannie's apt (in which we managed to squeeze a few minutes of She's The Man), I made my way to the bus station and successfully (with the help of a driver) boarded the last bus home to Pohang. I appreciate my friends :)