Pisces Love

An-nyong haseyo!! I just want to spread a little PISCES love to everyone celebrating their birthday around this time. I must admit, I've had my share of gatherings this month for birthdays and it feels great. It's been a pretty good week and my kids seem to be coming along more with their english. I'm heading to Daegu tomorrow to celebrate my soror's birthday so I'm looking forward to that. Just so you know I made the purchase of a lifetime and the gift that I really wanted for my birthday was my guitar. It's a six string acoustic guitar with the electrical option w/ amplifier. I'm so psyched!!!!! I don't really know how to play that well, but before I came to Korea I was working on it so we'll see how much I progress.

Thanks to you tube and other sites, there are videos and other learning material to help me along the way.

The weather is warming up and the Koreans are getting crazier so we'll see what the spring has in store. Maybe I'll get out more and try to open me a bar-b-q spot!! I'll have this place on lock when it comes to good eaten!!! Anyway, your word of the day is, "dwejee gaw-gee" and that means pork. EWWWW!!!!! Holla!!

Happy Birthday to me!!!!!!

Life is good and I have no complaints! I recently celebrated my birthday and I must admit, I had more fun then I ever would have imagined. Before I go into all the birthday festivities I have to tell you what happened last week at school and this will be brief...I promise. To begin, one of my co-teachers received a package and it was this little plate that had her phone number on it. I asked her what was she going to do with it and she said she was putting it in her car. Of course I asked why and she responded, "because Korea has such limited parking, when you park somewhere and that spot is reserved, they call you from this number and you have to go move your car. That's why you see all the cars with some sort of contact info in them." I told her, we don't do that where I live. At least I don't and that's why we get towed or booted. She said here, they don't really do that unless it's like really major and the car doesn't have any info in it, but for the most part, they are required to have it and I just found that quite interesting. Ok enough of that.....MY SPECIAL DAY CELEBRATING ME ENTERING THE WORLD!!!! First off, I left to go to Seoul on Thursday night and we began by going to this club called Helio's located in Itaewon. It was great and there were so many people there, of course half of them being military. It was me and and a few of my friends and after that we left to go over a friend's house and the partying continued from there until everyone was too tired to do anything else. On Friday, I had a get together on post in Yongsan and it was even better. All my girls were there and I had this awesome cake that one of my frat brothers got me and we danced and drank the night away, but it didn't stop there either. Keep in mind, I'm being brief with details b/c I would have to write a lot to tell all and I'm not up for it at this point. So Saturday, I went shopping and I bought the birthday gift that I wanted, which was an acoustic guitar and it is so gorgeous. It was purchased with the money I made Friday night, so no complaints there!!! LOL! After shopping, I attended another Mardi Gras party and it was cool. I had lots of fun and it's not even over b/c My sorority sister's birthday is Thursday so we're getting together for that also and I can't wait. I love the month of March!!!! Anyway, all was well and hopefully this weekend will be even better! Pics are on facebook and myspace so email me if you want to check them out. Until next time, your word of the day is, "Seng-eel chooka ham-needa" and of course that means Happy Birthday!!. God bless!

Better Days...

So the last time I wrote I was upset with the weather just a bit, but I must admit it has changed drastically. The days are pretty and the sun is shining, while the nights are a little chilly but soft as ever!!! It's great and I'm feeling better. YEAH!!!! Not only that but my birthday is coming up of course and I don't know if I'm excited at this point or a little homesick. Last year around this time, I was surrounded by the best of people(Ayana, Eboni, Kelli, Nichole, Cabral, and Raven) and I so miss them dearly. This birthday won't be the same without them but I'll make it work. It's actually off to a good start b/c some of my students decided to surprise me and they really got me b/c I started crying!!! I was so happy tonight and they were just shocked at how emotional I was. If they only knew how much I wanted to be home in America!!! It's all good though b/c they are such great kids and they really, really , really made me feel good today, especially w/ the chocolate cake. . .em, em good!!! Let's see now, last week I was a little angry at some of the rug-rats b/c they broke my glasses. That's one thing about Korean kids, they are always playing and they think everything is funny, no matter how serious it is. The little boy that broke my glasses literally just said, "Teacher, teacher, sorry, sorry" and then he went right back to playing like nothing had happened. Of course the Korean teacher had to scold him and call his mom and then she had to have them fixed. It was nothing that major, but still he could have seriously injured me or himself. It's all good at this point and I have new glasses so no worries. I found out recently that Koreans have another special day and it's actually on my birthday.(March 14th) This day in Korea is known as "White Day" and this is when the Korean guys give the girls gifts and candy. So to sum it all up, on Valentine's Day, that's when the GIRLS technically give the gifts and on White day, which is a month later, is when the guys reciprocate and give their gifts and they tend to be more expensive of course.(By all means, merchants love this day as well as Valentine's day!!!) Not only that, but in Korea, they even have a designated date for the single folks, which of course is exactly a month after White day falling on April 14th, and I'll bet you'll never know the name of this day...."Black Day". So if you had love, got love, and then lost love all in a three months time frame between February and April, then you hit the jackpot with all those Korean holidays. Now I don't think that these days originated here(maybe Japan I think), but they sure have been adopted!! Good Luck Lovers!!! As for your word of the day, it's "ke-ee-ku" and that's cake. Peace!

Sick of the weather!!!!!

Ok at some point I would love to be able to wear a t-shirt or or at least a light jacket, but it doesn't appear as if that's happening anytime soon here. This weather is the craziest and I can never determine what to wear b/c of it!!! It's CRAZY!!! At this point, I'm sick and congested to death!! My ears are stopped up, my nose won't stop running, and my vision is slightly blurred....Talk about issues. It could always be worse, so I must stay positive. On another note, all is well at school. The kids are back in public school from a long winter break and hopefully at this point we'll be getting more in the afterschool program now. (which is of course where I work) To help us promote, before school and after school, we pass out packets with our info and the programs we teach.

The kids and parents look over the info of course and then decide whether being a part of our program is something they want to pursue. This is the crazy part though; so we're outside by the school right and Annie says, "Kisha more kids are going to come now b/c they see your pretty face." Then I tell her, "They only see me when I'm at school or walking back and forth to my apartment. Other than that, these kids don't even know what hogwan(private school) I work at." Then she points up and I see this big poster advertisement with a picture of me and some of the kids on it. I couldn't believe it!!! I was cute of course, but I'm thinking we were just taking pictures with the kids b/c we all were in the photos that day. She said she wanted it to be a surprise and it definitely was. I told her I wanted the banner when they took it down. HEHEHE!!! So that was the excitement of my day and I felt very special. It' s good when you have such a positive impact on people and you're doing good things in life. What more can a girl ask for?!! Oh yeah, except for a great birthday present!!! This of course is my birthday month, so hopefully it will be splentastic!!!(new word) It's the 14th and I can't wait...We'll see what's in store! Your phrase of the day is, "odee ka-seemneekka" and that's "where are you going?". Until next time, c-ya!!!