kimchi pancakes

saw no less than 3 piles of vomit..what we kindly refer to as kimchi pancakes..on the way to the bus stop today.

cultural Friday

last Friday after camp, instead of going home to nap the day away, I met a couple of friends in insadong.  we had a traditional Korean lunch and then wandered down to samcheongdong to check out some museums in the area.

first, we ran into the art sonje center and decided to go in to see the collection by the Japanese artist, Shinro ohtake.  some of his stuff was really good and interesting, and others were just collages of old boxes a scraps of paper.  anyway, it was worth the 5,000 won to get out of the cold.

the next place we went was the gallery Hyundai to see the collection of "erotic" paintings from the joseon dynasty.  there were no English captions for the pictures so that was disappointing, making up our own stories was just as fun.  plus, we brought along a friend who can speak Korean so he helped translate when we needed it.  my favorite story of the day was about a picture of a woman squatting over a pot trying to preserve her "woman juices."  God knows what they needed to do that for.

Seoul grand sale!

almost every store in the city is having a huge sale right now.  last week at h&m, I got 4 shirts, 1 pair of pants, and a dress (that's way too small) all for 34,000 won ($35!).  one of the shirts was literally 1,000 won.  how is that even possible?!

also, I guess normally I only buy things in sm/m/l because the two things I bought in my "normal" size fit at least 2 sizes smaller than they should.  what's up with that, h&m?  way to make people feel large.

back in the frozen land

I've been back in Seoul for about a week and a half now.  I have to teach 3 weeks of winter camp and then go back to school for 3 weeks before "spring vacation."  I'm already halfway finished with camp which is sad because I actually like camp days..I finish at 12:10 everyday and go home to nap or meet friends!  it's pretty awesome.

currently I'm sitting in the subway station waiting for my friend to arrive to go shopping and eat delicious food!  I haven't gone anywhere more than 20ish minutes away from my house since I've been back so this is quite the adventure today^^