oh no someone shaved my bean!!
Mood:  lazy
Weekend finally, and I have nothing to do! Where is everyone?! We only have one day off, and I spend it doing nothing at home. I'm such a loser. I guess it could be worse, I could have to go to an academy all day like Ji-eun does. But what happened to going shoppig?? And I wasn't able to get ahold of any of my friends this weekend, like I'm usually able to do via aol or something. I've got this new program up and running, skype and I've been able to talk to mom and gram on there already. That was really exciting, mom told me gram was just over the moon to be able to hear my voice even though I'm so far away. Mom said to send her some pictures but seriously, everytime the subject of mail comes up, I get that much more frustrated! wow I could go on forever abut how disgusted I am with that entire situation. The nerve of some people. If you pay to have something delivered it shouldn't be the postmans decision whether it gets there or not. That's so illegal, but it happenes so frequently, shouldn't we be able to sue or something!? we're still hoping it will get to tracy, it was so expensive, and the cost to send it was an exhuberant amount too. but no, you ALSO have to get insurance or you can bet your ass it will NEVER GET THERE. m*th** f***ers grrrrrrr.

ok this is me moving on to a new subject! (feel free to post comments, sometimes I feel like I'm spilling my guts to a blank wall... it's depressing)

It's october. It is deffinately Autumn. The leaves are slowly changing, but the land is still green because of the rice fields. The air is brisker, but the change isn't as subtle as it is in Maine. Some days it's too hot for the winter uniform (which I can't fit around my waiste any more *blush* but hey it was too small to begin with!) Then other days it's so cold you have to wear a longsleeved shirt, and a swaeter and that usually isn't enough. Emilio and Dany have never felt weather this cold, and it was hilarious listining to them describe their reactions to it. Dany said she woke up in the morning and her room was all nice and warm. Then she opened the door to go out into the living room, and froze, hand still on the door nob, she couldn't move. Literally frozed in place. Of course mexico never gets nearly this cold, Dany and Emilio were taking the cold days far worse than anyone else. We were suppose to hit up Gunsan today to buy some nice boots *maxine style boots* and goose down jackets. But we have to take a korean with us shopping and no one could go because everyone is knocking themselves out studying for this upcoming midterm. I'm not worried. I think I have what I need to know down pretty well. Maybe even then some. We'll how different the tests are, can't wait. hah...

Autumn is really my fav. season, something in the air is just so *sigh* I don't know what it reminds me of, but something really relaxing. Everything good happens in the fall. wonderful wonderful de ja vux. idno how you spell that, but that looks right.

I only had 2.5 days of school this week including saturday. thursday was such an unmotivational week, I've been so resistant of anything. But the korean is coming along better than ever. I feel like I'm absorbing everything I hear too. hey maybe this is what rose was talking about! oh oh oh! and rose wasn't in school at all this week. I didn't talk to her over cheosok break either, so i'm craving my rose dosage right about now! haha. but no, seriously, she's been really sick, so I'm worried! Just read her blog, so she is still up and kickin, but I'm too scared of telephones here to call her. I'm such a bad friend. :( But we had to go on with out her... Thursday was an elementary day. It was fun, even though I had to practically be dragged there, and forced to participate in everything. We spent some time with the kindergartners, *you could actually see dany's face light up*
dany- is this the school with--
me-yupp it's over there.
we read to them but they didn't know what we were saying, but it was a good change of scenery anyways. We went to the 4th grade and had arm wrestling competitions. The teacher just abandoned us with the kids. Those kids are beastly! Some of them almost beat me. and they are only 4th graders!! I'm pathetic. but it was fun. Then we had an english class with th 3rd graders. We sang "who is she who is she? she is julie julie is my friend....who is he who is he? he is -- some korean name .."skn" is my friend" Oh I hated that cuz that song was stuck in my head all day. Then back at the mid school I had to teach the english class, all 30 students, by myself. we played hangman, since that's a well liked game, and I didn't have to teach them anything. Then I misspelled vegetables, and looked really stupid. I love it when I do things like that. My face turned about 5 shades of red on top of my already noticable sunburn from cheosok. I'm a failur at english. Even at a 5th graders level. haha On Friday we grouped all the classes together in the cafeteria and played a game, I don't know the name. It's a Korean game. That was a pretty big hit. oh oh oh, love is in the air....blah blah blah, EUN-YOUNG has a boyfriend! oh its the talk of the entire middleschool!! I feel like a middleschooler again! haha it was so cute, during the game they were holding hands and they ended up winning over all. So adorable. oh the innocence of middleschool. We've been expecting to get a puppy all week. We gave ann away a while ago, duno if I ever wrote that. Not a big loss cuz she was really mean, and smelly, and the only time i ever saw her was when she escaped her confinement and attacked me or my ankles. bad ann! so she is now residing with the grandparents. But we were suppoes to get a shitzu. That sort of fell through, I dont know. But saturday after school since I didn't go to Gunsan I just took a 5 hour nap. Oma woke me up and told me were goin to the animal hospital to get our new dog. and me what!? yay. It looks like a bishon frise, but oma insists it's a poodle. it would be much bigger if it were a poodle, but my korean isnt advanced enough to argue with her. I got to name it of course. We couldnt call her ann cuz tht was already taken. So I named her Bean. She's about a year old. and she was free. soo cute! she's my dog! She sleeps in my room, next to my bed, and i get to clean up all her messes *big sh-- eatin grin* I'm surprised how possessive I've become. Since nothing here is really mine, what I do have, I get territorial over. This is MY DOG and this is MY GUITAR, n this is MY CAMERA, so on and so forth. not a habit I am intending to keep. I feel guilty. I just recently became aware of it, but now that I've noticed it I can cut down on it right?

Today has been pretty much totaly based around BEAN. At 9 we took her to the hair salon next to the apartment to have her shaved. I didn't want to cuz she was so cute and fluffy, and she woundnt get cold. But I guess host dad had a prob with it. So the woman got out her shavers and just started hacking away at bean. it was a messy job and she kept cutting bean. she nicked her real good above her tail, and again behind each ears and under her front and back legs. she cut it so short bean will surely die of the cold, and right now shes covered in razor burn. shes practically bald. I couldn't watch the end of it, she was jsut so ruthless, bean is a wreck! so we took her to the animal hospital to get her nails clipped. he cut them too short, and one started bleeding really bad. that got all over eveything,and to stop the bleeding he burned the end up it, wchich like,melted the tip or something. That was so painful to watch. Disgusting. But he gave us some clothes for her cuz the weather even now, that's really mild, is still too cold for her. but we got her home again in one piece (barely) she is not happy with me. She stays with me, right now shes sleeping next to my comptuer chair. Shes deffinately my dog. I wanna bring her home with me. How much woul it cost to bring a dog back?? haha oh my bean is so cute!

so I guess that's all fr now

-lori-