It's been one week since you looked at me, threw your arms in the air and said *your crazy*
Mood:  lucky
its been a week! i'm such a slacker! it was an uneventful week, so that should make the fact that i havent updated more acceptable. the weekend was good.

saturday i didnt go to school, even though they woke up me at 8 like they expected me to go. by 8:30 when we were suppose to leave and i was still lounging around in my pajams i think they realized i meant what i had said about staying home on saturday. its my mental health day. sat around drinking green tea and coffee, and writing or reading. not like i dont do enough of those during the week days, but it was relaxing for a saturday morning. the night before jiyoon and ji-eon and my mom had all gone out to they gymchilbang at 11 at night. i dont see the appeal of this...especially because it involves sleeping on thoe uncomfortably hot heated marble floors. nope, ill pass,and just sleep in my own bed, thanks. they got back at around 6 am on saturday morning and my littlest sister ji-eon was still expected to go to school.

i cant really remember anything i did during the week besides going to school. after that i pretty much just dragged myself home at 3, and stayed at home for the rest of the day. its a lot to take, all the korean girls screaming and bouncing around and nonstop chattering. its like being locked in a room full of bats. or maybe chittery birds. except im trying to comprehend what they are saying and understand the situations.

sometimes when my oldest sister ji-yoon gets home from the university, we go out for exercise. its just a walk around a few blocks of my house but its better than nothing, i know. she says she wants to join the health club again, but i can think of a million excuses that prevents me from going. really, im just too lazy to make it worth the 30$ a month it would cost me. its warm enough now to just go jogging at night, if the mood strikes. *which it hasnt for like 6 months...but who knows!*

nal-ssi-ga choh-a-hae. the weather is nice, it rained a few days ago, but it was warm still. i'm going to have to start wearing sunblock walking home. it even smells like spring time. i'll be getting all use to the warm weather here, where they actually have a spring, uninterrupted by freak snowstorms. then i'll get back to maine in june, and there will still be snow on the ground. hah! maine....
wednesday was warm enough that i didnt have to wear a jacket to school.woooahhh! unfortunatly...my wallet is in my jacket, and my house key is in my wallet.....so i was waiting outside for an hour for mom to come home and let me in. :) leave it to the american.

today is my little sisters birthday! that means...more cake!
class over, more later maybe

lori anne


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~now is the later i was refering to earlier~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

since ji-na didnt go to school on a sunday she had to have punishment. yah skipping school, normal-- not sunday church school stuff but they expect studets to attend regualr classes on a sunday--...oh my sister is such a rebel. :) i can almost be reasoned with about school on saturday. it could work and some schools do it in the usa. but school on sunday... is morally wrong. especially for a chrisitan school. didnt god get sunday off too? he can probaby accomplish a lot more than we can in a week, and if he's allowed to break for sunday...well i think its only fair for us to be able to too.

just a rant, because taking that to a korean school board would probably get me deported. they are that serious about their education. koreans are sooo smart. lots of people i meet brag about their sons or daughters getting into harvard or other ivy league colleges in the usa. i figure anyone who studies for 16 hours a day should be able to pass a harvard test like it was nothing. theres definitely no where in the usa that offers highschool and middleschool education like that.

saturday my host parents left for someplace over night. yay house party! no not really. but ji-eon had a friend over and ji-yoon had a friend over and her friends boyfriend. his english is really good, to everyones amazement. they are always shocked when a fellow korean is able to communicate well with me in english, like woah no one was expecting that! haha. we stayed up until 3 watching movies, talking and showing eachotehr photo albums. it was a good time.

dany and emilio were allowed to leave their school campus, ((which only happens like two times a month)) this weekend. but they were at emilios house and we didnt get together. its not easy since we live about an hour apart,and have so little free time. i dont knwo how we are going to work out the visa for dany if she doesnt haev time to do any of the paperwork required, or even have time to take the interview. :( all this stuff to do, and zero motivation. well, thats not new...i havent been motivated or inspired to do anything for a while. dont know whats up with that.
theres too much and too little going on at the same time, does that make sense to you?

on sunday ji-eun called and talked for a while. she was worried since rose had left for the usa that i was going to too. i havent talked to her, (ji-eun) since graduation so it was really nice. earlier i was expecting the call from dany and emilio, so sort of expected her to invite me over and then we'd meet up with dany and emilio. that would have been a weekend plan...like normal. but no, she had just clled to talk, which was fun too. dont know what happened to dany and emilio but they never did get around to calling :( bums.

ok, well anyways- ji-na is chickening out on getting the piercing wth me. she says this month they are doing a clothing check on all the students and they check for piercings too, so she doesnt want to have to remove it before its fully healed. but i'm pretty sure its an excuse because a-ra told her how much it hurt. thanks a-ra. haha

noh wae nae mahl shibal?? and they say im not learning korean?! ji-na taught me that, it means why are you ingorning me? but shibal is roughty translates into the F word.... people get a kick out of listining to me say it. ji-na ="lori lori say to her what i taught you." me- "noh wae nae mahl shibal?" **shreiks** :D im make my host family so proud.

also, st pattys day came and went with out any recognition. how dissapointing. they dont appreciate the irish like they should. ji-yoon was doing homework and yells, "do you knwo what today is????" me- "st patricks day!" her-"um... thrusday." well ya that too.... she had never heard of st patricks day. not that i really understand it, and i dont know who st patrick was, but i just assumed it was an international holiday. :( crap

and that is everything *that i can remember* that happened this week.

lori anne