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 :)

Sunday, July 1, 2012

No One Mourns the 위키드 (June 30)

  • Today’s highlight: Rachel and I saw Wicked!!!!!!!!!!! We have wanted to see it together since March and today was the day! We found the theater perfectly fine, got our tickets and had a seat. We were at the back of the 2nd tier balcony in the theater but it didn’t matter. The performance was amazing, possibly better than the other casts I’ve seen. The actress playing Elphaba did some fabulous variations on her singing parts, but they definitely fit. And the girl who played Glinda was amazing. She added so many little quirks and personality things and the audience just loved her. Plus, I got to enjoy my favorite part as far as costumes go – the Emerald City dresses :) And there were screens with Korean subtitles on either side of the stage for all the Koreans who go to see English musicals. They were funny to read – at one point there were little cartoon hearts around the characters! And I have no idea why. It was so much fun and completely worth it. I have now seen it 3 times in 3 different countries!
 

  • After Wicked, we met up with Grace, the exchange student who stayed with the Paynes during our senior year of high school. When I knew here at Mattawan, I didn’t even realize she was Korean! We are friends on Facebook so when she said she was coming home to Seoul during her summer vacation from grad school, we made an appointment to get dinner! It was really cool. She’s so sweet, friendly and funny – I don’t think I got to know her well enough in high school to realize those things. And her English is great! It was cool to hear about her life in Texas (where she goes to school) and, to boot, we had a really yummy Italian dinner that include pasta in bread bowls and truffles! Nom nom nom.
 



  • We had to say goodbye to Grace after dinner, so then Rachel and I headed up to Namsan Tower in the hopes that we would be able to ride up to the top of the tower, which neither of us has done yet. However, it was REALLY foggy and, though the tower looked really cool in the fog, the ticket seller advised us not to waste our money and go up tonight. Darn.

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