Not a Coliseum, but the other thing

Its the eve of the final Monday of this month. This will not be a post about the kids, rather it will be a post about my weekend, my thoughts, ideas, and experiences of the past three days. It's not going to be that exciting. Don't worry.
Friday. Work was good. It ended on a weird note. First, after lunch, (not on my watch), Mark was playing ninja. He turned his head too fast and gave himself a GIANT paper cut on his nose from my laminated calendar. Then, when I was vacuuming, Peter opened my door and yelled "IT'S FRIDAY!!" this startled me and I screamed and jumped and fell down. Then, I was working on a 26 page document of spelling words. I was finished with A-K and Z-S. I had been periodically saving it, but the last time I clicked save, the network crashed and the whole document got deleted. Awesome. See? Friday was weird. So I stayed in that night. I watched T.V and knit. Knitted? I don't know about the past tense of that. I went to sleep at about 12. That was awesome.
Saturday. I met Ian on a bus and we went to Itewon. Itewon is a section of Seoul that in by an U.S Army base. There is a lot of shopping and souvenirs there and stuff. Its not a bad place during the day, but its super sleazy at night time. Ian did some shopping. We then went to a casino. My first time. We did some slot machines. Then Ian played Roulette. I watched. It was an interesting experience,  but it was super crowded and we really just wanted to play black-jack. We could not get on a table. So we stayed for about an hour. We then journeyed back to Suji and met up with Peter, Bill, and James for dinner and a standard Suji night.
Sunday: Hung out with Ian all day. Listened to music and discussed philosophy. We had Mexican/Korean food for dinner and I went to bed at 9.
I'm still trying to decide what to do with my future. I still don't know. I am still not on facebook. I feel good about that. Here is a picture of my super short hair.

Things are good. Five months left. Starting to freak out. Three day weekend this weekend. And then no more time off til winter break.
It is fall here. The weather is not humid anymore. Mosquitoes are out with a vengeance. Its getting dark earlier and earlier.
I hope all is well. Keep my future in mind and shoot me an email with thoughts or even just an update about YOUR life. I love you. I miss you. Keep on trucking!
katiedale09@gmail.com   OR youreahoagie@gmail.com

Earth Fire Wind Water Heart

Chuseok was a four day weekend. I really wanted to go to a beach, but its a terrible time to travel, so noone was up for it. It was a pretty standard weekend. I did go for a hike and hung out with some friends. 
I shut off facebook. I chopped my hair off. I have been avoiding making any real choices and focusing on teeny, tiny things that I can made a choice about. I played screen golf last weekend. That was fun. I'm not that good at it, but I enjoyed hitting things as hard as I could. We had a field trip today. It was a traditional Korean village/temple/palace thing. They're all over and I've been to a few, but they're also usually a good time. It was a tad more stressful this time, mostly because I was responsible for a lot of little people who were more interested in running around and playing with the dirt than listening to anyone. They did have a drum lesson. They did a good job. The funniest part was that all the kids were doing a good job and playing on rhythm and as I was thinking WOW! I'm impressed, I saw Markman. Mark was sitting in the middle of the group hitting his drum at random intervals and singing to himself. I started laughing and the boss saw me laughing so she started laughing. Elise is back from Canada. Yay. Shes up in Seoul, about an hour subway ride. I'm excited. That's the big news of the week. One week of this month. Then five months and I'm out. Pictures of Chuseok. Pictures of the day. Happy fall!

 Kristen and SaraClark at the top of a mountain. Chuseok.

 Looking down on Seoul. Chuseok.

 

 The corner of the guard post building at the top of the mountain. Chuseok.

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 SaraClark and Peter. Travlers. Chuseok.

 The place we went today. That tower in the back is that Namsan Tower that I went to with Sophia that one time last winter.

 Robot Class. Sally, Daniel, Jessica, Mark, Jenny, Tom, Amy. Sally was mad because I made them stand girl-boy.

 Peter Teacher and King Class.

 The drum room. In black and white.

 Black and white building.

 Field trip lunch time circle. Lunch: kimbap.

 The corner of the building. Yeah, they all look the same. It was a beautiful day.

 My little drummers.

And again. Drumming ad loving it.

51! Plus, adorable hanbok overload!

Dad's birthday is Saturday. In honor, I had Robot Class sing. Please keep in mind that this was done on Chuseok, and they were extremely wound up and had trouble focusing on anything.

 

You may be thinking, "man they're wearing weird clothes." Yes. They are in fact wearing traditional Korean clothing called Hanbok. They wear these for Chuseok and weddings. Chuseok is sort of like Thanksgiving. Its in September, and its based on the full moon I believe. This year it falls on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. They also observe the day after. Therefore,we have a four day weekend. Yay. The following are pictures of Puppy and Robot classes looking unbelievably adorable. Adorable.

 Amy. (R)

 Tom (R)

 Thomas (P)

 Julie (P)

 Mark (R) (POWER!)

 Daniel (R)

 Elly (P)

 Jenny (R)

 Sally (R)

 Jessica (R)

 Tei (P)

 Jini (P)

Me and Robot class.

Puppy class is five. Robot class is six. Kate left our school because she lives so far away and her four year old brother is ready to start school, so they moved her to a closer school. Happy Chuseok!! Happy Birthday Dad!! Love you!