i'm here, really i am: so it's been about a week since i last updated, right? it's children's day in korea so we had a vacation. don't u guys wish there was a children's day in the US? some girl said that EVERYDAY was children's day in america. maybe so.

well, i've gotten sick, AGAIN. i think i've gotten sick in korea about 5 times now. in less than 10 months. that's messed up, huh? bad pollution and sick kids are the main causes. argh. i don't feel really bad, but it's hard to breathe sometimes and the sneezing isn't helping. but me being sick didn't stop me from playing 5 and a half hours of "texas hold'em"! i'm crazy, i know. last night we started around 9:30 and finished around 3. what da heck, huh? but u don't realize how time flies when you're up. haha. i lost the first time i ever played, but not again after that. not sure if that's a good or bad thing. haha. but yeah, poker's pretty fun.

so jonas and sean are coming at the end of may!! jonas will be here in korea until i leave which is great b/c i'll have someone to go to teeny bopper concerts with! :D he'll be living a lil far from me, but that's cool. how cool is that someone u know pretty well is over in a foreign country with u? i hope he has a great time here. elisa's in shanghai which was news to me. anyways, maybe i'll be updating u guys on adventures with me & jonas soon.

i saw "starsky and hutch" the other night. not sure how it did back home, but it was pretty funny. i heard it wasn't as funny as zoolander (which i still haven't seen), but there were some hilarious parts. "DO IT. DO IT." has now become a catch phrase with some of us.

i was thoroughly disappointed the other night when mavs got eliminated. it wasn't a good day for me. but things got a lil better when our boss bought galbi for the faculty that night. turned out to be more than $1000. but what was even more impressive is that i've never seen so many teachers drunk at one time before. hahaha. it was a pretty funny sight to see. funny how alcohol gives married women 'liquid courage' to say things to unsuspecting 20-something males. haha. and some teacher, er, teachers wanting to know "our dirtiest secret" and then mentioning, "i'm really a man!" it makes u think. :) later that night, me and a couple of friends went to the casino again. but not before a drunk friend of ours tries to stop our taxi with the "shawshank redemption" pose tim robbins gets into when he finally escapes (but later my friend tells me it was from "platoon). i ended up cheating the casino twice. but it wasn't REALLY my fault. i was playing this dice game called "tai-lai" where 3 die are popped around like popcorn and u place ur chips on odds u think the die will fall. pretty easy. i lost the first time around, but i was the only one playing and the 2 dealers didn't realize so i played again and won. it was $5 a chip and i was actually up to $45, but that's when one of the dealers probably got me back for my cheating. he kept saying that i'm betting too low (i was only doing 1 chip at a time) and suggested i put in 2. i did and lost. i did it again and lost. i lost all my earnings and came out -$15. well, actually -$10, but they AGAIN didn't catch me and i walked away with my chip. i don't do well at the real casino. i do better at my poker nights with the other teachers.

i watched an episode of "the o.c." the other day. pretty good. and i've been listening to britney's "everytime". that's a great song, too. maybe i should buy her cd or something.

it seems like some drama has been going on back home at Church and i feel so helpless out here, able to do nothing. i'm really hoping some of it will be over with as fast as possible, but it doesn't look like it will happen that way. these days i've been feeling a lil more homesick when i hear stuff about home. i think i feel the loneliest on the bus. i dunno. it just gets me in a mood. however that mood is quickly shattered when i get to school. i had one SEVEN year old girl in one of my classes all of a sudden start crying. it wasn't bawling crying, but tears were streaming down her face for 30 min. she wouldn't tell me what was wrong (prob b/c she couldn't say it in english) and refused to tell 2 other korean teachers what was wrong. later on, she tells my korean partner teacher why she was crying. "Because she was sad", the teacher told me. "She said her life was sad and that's why she cried." WTFREAK??? this girl is 7 years old korean age which means she could be 5 or 6 american (or NORMAL geez) age. seriously. i was so shocked i laughed. what do u say or do to stuff like that? koreans, even from an early age, have a hard life it seems like.

alright, i probably wrote a bunch of random stuff that didn't make any sense since i'm in a pc room listening to "everytime" and having this stupid lil kid beside me coughing and clearing his throat violently every 2 min. geez. anyways, i'm missing u guys back home like crazy. (^.^)v

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