Jessica's Birthday etc

Last weekend, I went to Seoul to celebrate my South African friend Jessica's birthday. First, we had Indian food them met up with everyone in Hongdae for drinks. After the first bar, Jessica already had one too many long island ice tea's and ended up getting sick and going to a hotel. She missed the rest of her party but we went to a few bars including one that looked like a cave inside and a building for the middle east on the outside. It was really cool but not many people were there. It was a fun night- lots and lots of dancing. The next day we went and got some more nice western food and headed back to Dangjin.

Jessica's Birthday

Shaun and Jessica

Let's rewind a little bit and go back to Friday at school. It was May Birthday party. Only two students had their bdays in May and they are from our 5 year old class. Sandy and Polly. We ate lots of fruit and cake and they got presents from their classmates. 

  Friday was also teacher's day. Many of the students parents give things to the teachers. It was really sweet. We mostly got carnation flowers and cakes. I got one $50.00 gift card some lotions. Nick teacher ended up with about $300.00 in gift cards and vouchers. He made out the best! Not all parents give things but most of them do. I have so many carnations I dont know what to do with them! It was very nice. Even today (Tuesday) my student Andrews parents brought in loads of pizzas and coke for all the teachers. Of course I couldnt eat any of it because they were all smothered in meat...but its the thought that counts!

Thank you cake!

two news girls Aileen and Esther with some of our Teacher's Day goodies!

Saturday and Sunday were pretty uneventful. I started doing yoga on my rooftop  which was really nice this weekend because the weather was amazing. Saturday night we had dinner and watched "The Other Guys" at Nick and Nats. 

On Sunday, Natalie made a bunch of a really nice vietnamese style dinner at her house. It was really delicious. She even made some nice marinated tofu for me! 

Yesterday after school Dom, Nat and I all went to the big superstore to get our hair cuts and buy groceries. I just got a trim and they both got a cut. After buying food, I looked everyone for my keys and they were nowhere to be found. I ended up making a big salad for dinner at Nick and Nats and sleeping over because I THOUGHT I was locked out of my house. It turns out.....my keys were hidden in a poster I had in my bag and I didnt notice until this morning! Oh well...they have a really comfy mat in their living room I passed out on and Nat was nice enough to give me fresh clothes to wear to school. 

Tonight I made it back into my place and did some sunset yoga on my roof. It was really beautiful watching the sunset. At 9 ish, a few of us went to a cafe to meet a new girl in town. Her name is Brooke and she is from New Zealand. She seems really nice, she also works at a Hogwon (private school) like me.