Eye Spy: Expensive S**t

After a little sleuthing I managed to find the bag I saw on the subway the other day that I decided I needed to have. It's some crazy $1,500 Burberry bag. I don't think I need it anymore.

Good-bye, self-esteem

In Korea, the national hand signal for "no" is making an "x" with either your arms or your two pointer fingers. Either way, it's nice that you can communicate a negative in such a simple way.

On to my story.

As the evenings began to cool off a few weeks ago, it was apparent I was in need of a warm hoodie for walking the dog and just general things you do when you live life walking and biking everywhere. There's an Abercrombie/Hollister section at our local "HomePlus" (Target/Superstore equivalent) and I decided I deserved my little piece of SoCal style. So, Thomas and I biked down last Thursday before work to make the purchase. I excitedly locked my bike, and made my way to the olive green hoodie I knew was the one for me. The sales girl proceeded to take it off the rack and help me into it. And help I needed. As I squeezed my first arm in, it was apparent this wasn't my size, but I squished my other arm in just to make sure. In case I wasn't already positive, I zipped it up. Had I needed a corset with a fuzzy hood I would have dropped the 58,000 won in a second. Thankfully common sense kicked in and I took it off to see the size. Medium. Hmmm, that's a bit of a blow. Oh well, "larg-ee?" I asked, in my very sophisticated Korea-ficated English. The salesgirl looked at me, crossed her two pointer fingers in an "x", and proceeded to giggle as she stated "no!". Now imagine the giggling trailing off as I turned and walked away.

So what did I do? Went next door to the Outlet store and dropped way more than I should have on a fabulous, down-filled, puffy jacket (size small). Take that, lil' bitch! Oh well, I'm a heck of a lot warmer and it was actually a far more practical purchase. Still, if I could go back and give that lil' Korean gal a slap, I just might.

Bare Bones Science

Here's what my Science lesson for the day was:


The lesson was about making secret messages and how to see through paper. All I know is that this combined with my art lesson a couple weeks back is making for some serious unexplainable giggles in front of my sweet, innocent students.

In other nude, I mean, news, I don't actually have any other news. I just wanted to use that clever little pun I'm mildly proud of. Anything to bring a little piece of Carrie Bradshaw to Seoul.

So long

Life hasn't been terribly busy, but I've been a little neglectful posting. We just had a four day weekend which we spent caring for our little snipped puppy and I'm happy to report he's doing wonderfully. I do have a question, would you give your dog medicine that came from a package that looked like this?:


So I don't know whether to laugh at the dead dog, or the dog licking the dead dogs a-hem.

Onto something else very important: my curriculum. In one of my ESL classes (young but advanced kids) I get to teach Science and Art classes. Being the good teacher I am, the first time I look at the Art lesson for the week is usually when I open the book minutes before class. So you can imagine my surprise when I see this is my Art lesson last week:


The assignment? Draw a picture of yourself taking a shower. Hmmm. If the kids weren't all under the age of 10 I would have been pulling another lesson outta my a-hem. But I figured at the least I'd get a couple good photos for a blog post outta it. I was right. Here are my two personal favs:

I call this one eunu-riffi-ch.

This one is titled KEEP OUT!

At first glance the crotch area may look like pubic hair, but it's actually Korean that says, "you will never see this, it's private"! That one is courtesy of one of my favourite (and most witty) students.

Now if only Science was as interesting as Art.