sshibal!
Mood:  caffeinated
i'm not even going to tell you what that means. but it's a great saying anyways!

man, my sister is such a bad ass. I love her. She's not like anyone elses host siblings! nope! A few days ago she got her ears pierced! such a rebel! lol i love it, but her mom and dad would kill her if they found out! so we couldtn tell anyone. then today i think the art teacher saw them and made her take them out. that was too bad, it was soo cute!! cna does really really cheap ear piercings! i'm going to get a few more holes in each ear, maybe tonight. we tried going after yoga last night but it was closed. a lot of the stores are still open until 11 at night, it's great, the store next door the the apartment is always open, i think. and people are still up and trucking around at 10 at night. sometimes ji-eun will come in and ask if i want to go to the store with her, totally unexpectedly, and i'm like...its 10:30..... and her... its ok! yoga doesn't get over until 10, and my mom was perfectly fine with going right then to get my ears pierced. she didn't find out that ji-eun had hers pierced but i guess it doesnt matter now either.
and today i was waiting for kim gabin, and i see ji-eun at the other end of the hallways get sent out of class, with j'i-eun, (kim gabins daughter) and get the bamboo stick treatment. yes ji-eun, that's my girl. haha. then 5 seconds later mi-jong gets sent out too.

I taught ji-eun the phrase "what the f***" actually me and dany, i wouldnt wanna take all the credit for such an accomplishment :) Hey i'm here to expand her english vocab :) here no one knows what it means or if they do it doesnt have the same effect it does on native english speakers, because they arent use to hearing it. so the exchange students swear openly and teachers seem totally unphased by it. ji-eun, in the middle of mc.donalds asks her mom in korean if she knew what what the F*** ment. "--- --- what the f***?" and her mom...."hmmmm what the f***?" and she repeats it and thinks about it for a few minutes. i was crackin up soo bad! ji-eun is so fun. mom realy wants her to be able to come back and visit for like amonth or so when i get back. that would be so awesome!!it's a long process though, we're till looking into it.

today we visited a middle school that was doing the same sort of fextiveal thing we are doin the 24. ti was such a bigger shcool and they teach german japanese french spanish and english. sooo awesome!!! everyone, and it's a school of 800 kids, was fascinated by us. mostly julian, an girls were literally falling over eachother to talk to him. the guys are always shy no matter what shcool, but we did have a pretty impressive crowd around us too. me and dany went walking around, and the whole time had a huge mob of people around us. they loved us, seriously!! WHY DIDNT WE GO THERE INSTEAD OF DONGGANG!!! oh my it would have been so great! sooo greawt!! but j park didnt want us going to a city becauses its too rough. i'm like no no rough environments are good! haha i love it there, and all the people, and we were celebrities! it was the best! they are more drawn to the blonds than they were to me dany and emilio. but i get over it. i had my share of admirers. when we first walked into the auditorium we all got a huge applause! wow! and people constantly taking pictures. at first i didnt wanna go i wanted to sleep, but i'm so glad i went now. i hope we go to a highschool in a city. emilio and julian are trying to arrange for us to go to seoul, and rose wants to go to busan. i'd rather go to busan cuz it's not as over run with foreigners, and i gotta admit i like being treated like a celebrity.

well we dont have yoga today, so i'm goig for a jog with my mom in a few minutes. yay. also every sunday i'm going to start taking spanish classes with ji-eun. I'm the only exchange student who doesnt know at least 2 languages fluiently. julian french and english. emilio spanish english dany same, rose spanish english japanese, and me....english. just freakin english. i hate it. i wanna learn german and spanish and korean and japanese! lol like thats ever gonna happen. but it would be so fun! i also wanna visit mexico and german. but i dream big and accomplish little. i'm like that. i've gotten over it.

yesterday we went to the elementary but we got to spend time with the third graders. we hadnt' been with them yet. they are the best!! relaly! they are so sweet! we were taking an english class, "do you like chicken? yes i do! do you like chicken? ohhhh yes! do you like fish? no! i dont! do you like fish! no i dont!" in a sing song voice. annoying but the kids were so cute about it. they asked me all sorts of do you like this do you like that questions. we had to choose agroup to sit with for a game we played, and they like dove for our chairs to get us to sit with them. soo cute!! we also had to spend another excruciating class with the scary 5th grade teacher. but it was ok, we didnt' really do anything, nor did we learn anything, but at least he didn't expect us to teach the class, or relearn all about triangles. :)

i guess that's all. i got a few more books on learning korean. even though i cant find any free time to read them. ji-eun said she would help me but the poor girl is out straight studying herself. i wonder what they will quiz us on in december. i hope its not like the normal tests cuz im not learning any of the actual subjects. my korean is progressing slowly too. better ask kim gabin

our festival is in 4 days! i'm nervous! my class doesnt know a dance at all. we tried teaching them some simple dance moves, but they are making it difficult, they cant come up with moves on theri own, an we have to place them individually in rows like we want them to be for the show because they are incabeable of getting into rows with out clumping into circles or fighting about who stands near who. that could be embaressing. i can see us trying to set up for like 15 minutes for a song that lasts 3. damn.

we'll see, i'll update about the festival. the exchange studnets get to sing the kegari song, the frog song! yay! its cute and we have moves for it too. we learned that probably the first week we were here. it should be fun. but it involves standingup infront of a lot of people...

ok im going jogging now, later

lori