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 :)

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Miss Fourth of July

  • Happy 4th of July!
  • Preparing for my 4th of July lesson made me really miss home and summer! I'll be there soon enough though :) Carrying out my lesson almost made me cry. Well, actually, it was the students who almost made me cry and it was before we started talking about the holiday. Ah well. Only 9 more days with them. My 6th graders seemed genuinely interested in the info I gave them ("Migook [America] and Yeonggook [England] fight...Migook win!") and all the students enjoyed the mini-apple pie treats I handed out.

  • After school, I headed downtown and ended up making a new Korean friend! I was looking at a shoe store and she asked me "Do you live in Pohang?" I was shocked she was just talking to me and then it registered how good her English was! We talked a little bit - I had to get over my shock and act like a normal person - and then she said, "Can we be friends?" Seriously, that happened. I said sure! After exchanging numbers, I warned her that I was leaving in August but she said, "That's still enough time, right?" I said yes :) It was so cute! I'm excited to meet up with her soon.
  • I met Ashley after that and we went to this kimbap restuarant near the busstop downtown. As we were tasting our Korean skills (the menu was totally in Korean), we saw a bug flying around, with a string attached to it! We thought that was strange - until one of the restaurant workers caught the string and dragged the dragonfly back to it's post...they literally had a dragonfly on a leash!!! I kind of thought it was to catch mosquitos, but it also served as entertainment for the workers...the woman who caught it put it near/into an ajusshi's ear and was holding onto it for kicks and giggles. It was really funny, completely surprising/ridiculous and totally Korea.
  • Ash and I ate smores tonight to celebrate the 4th! Dad sent me the supplies and it arrived on Monday. I was just going to heat them in the microwave - and then we realized we could roast them on the stove with chopsticks! So we did :)



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