I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

People In My Neighborhood (May 29)

  • After school today, Winter and I went back to the Garden Lady from whom I bought my little plant. She was excited to see us, it was so cute! And her sister was there too – we went back and forth in English and Korean (like 30/70) about nothing in particular. It was so much fun :) Another man also came up to us and was speaking in very good English. He said he only finished elementary school and taught himself English! And now he was also working on Spanish and Chinese. Wow. It was a really great hour spent just making great connections, enjoying basic human interaction :) 
  • Winter and I then went down to the bus terminal – after getting tea/coffee, I sent her on her way to Daegu and I walked across the crosswalk back to the bus…where I met Ashley! We hugged in the middle of the road and, when I found I out she was going grocery shopping at HomePlus, I joined her. We spent the next two-ish hours slowing crossing everything off her list (and a few things off mine) and just hanging out. It was a great surprise. 
  • When I got home, I made dinner and guacamole! Nom nom nom. I didn’t have chips (got those later) but it was even great on crackers. Woohoo!

Cherry tomatoes, olives, green onion, carrot, cucumber,
salt, pepper and avocadoes (2), of course

  • Then I finished the evening with a fabulous Skype date with my sissy! I haven’t talked to her since I’ve been here so it was that much more awesome. She basically didn’t know anything about Korea or TaLK (totally not her fault) so she was asking fabulous questions – definitely prepared me for those questions that I’ll be bombarded with when I get home! We talked for almost 2 hours and really just got to catch up. It was really wonderful :)
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