Friday night I was going to meet Emily, Ann, Allison, and Shabata for Vietnamese food in Sangmu. I was going to take a taxi because of the weather, unfortunately, so was everyone else! I couldn't get a taxi for the life of me! The busses were traveling slow, and it took about an hour to get there! I was pretty frustrated by the time I got there, cause I hate being late. Everyone else was behind schedule though, and it turned out I was the first on there!
After dinner, Ann, Emily, and I met some Korean pilots downtown. 12 of them to be exact. They invited us to join them, and of course we thought it was going to be very awkard. Luckily, they were good at English (one had spent 4 years at a base in Colorado Springs!!) and we were able to joke around with them. It sounds like it could have been uncomfortable, but when we left 2 hours later, the three of us had nothing but positive things to say about them and had lots of new stories and things to laugh about together.
Saturday morning, we had our "End of the school year" festival at school. Originally, it was going to be cancelled because of Swine Flu, but luckily they were able to throw it together at the last minute. Overall, it was great. Since the school is only 1st graders this year, they knew most of the kids that performed and really cheered for them. There were flutes, poetry readers, drummers, a rock band, lots of skits, dancers, and groups that danced to the latest Kpop songs (my favorite). Some of the boys even dressed up as girls- they had lots of support from the crowd!
The pictures of the performances turned out okay, but the lighting proved difficult. I did take a lot of video, which have been fun to watch again, I'm just not sure exactly on how to post those. I'll try to work on that.
Later, I met Mihey (my co from Suwan), and we went to visit Hyunju (my co at Seongdeok) for dinner. I can't believe it worked out that I was paired with both and that they are best friends! They're both wonderful women, I'm so lucky to have them. Hyunju lives on the 20th floor in a beautiful apartment with her husband and her precious 3 year old. We had a great Vietnamese dinner. Seems like I've been having a lot of it recently!
Hyunju also wanted me to wear her wedding Hanbok after dinner. We took some group pictures in front of the Christmas tree. Here we are:
A popular Christmas party as you may or may not know is the Ugly Sweater Party. Well, there aren't many ugly sweaters here, but there are lots of sweatshirts! Emily hosted the Ugly Sweatshirt Party this weekend, and we had a great time laughing at everyones bad English sayings and funny designs. I had made awards at work earlier in the week. The 5 categories were Fugliest, The sweatshirt you would actually wear, Worst English saying, Best overall, and Most holiday spirit. Vann nominated me for Fugliest, he said "It's so bad, I can't even look at you!" I didn't really think it was that bad, but 9 people voted for me, so I ended up winning. Kenny won both Best Overall and Most Holiday Spirit because he stripped down to boxers with a 10,000 won bill on them and the presidents face just happened to be right on the front!
Here are the winners of the awards!
So it was a very good weekend, but I can't wait for school to be OVER for 2 months in just 4 short days. Only 6 days until Manila!
I was robbed...
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