it's HALLOWEEN time

Went costume shopping in Dongdaemun this weekend..if you walk straight out of exit 4 and turn right, there's an alley with a few costume shops and party supply stores.  I found this place last year and was surprised that it even exists since halloween is not really celebrated by many Koreans..unless their children go to an English hagwon.

..will not be going as a horse, but I did pick up a sheep hat hahah.  My friend is going as Lil bo peep so I guess I'm her sheep.  I have nothing else to wear with this hat made for a child so it should be interesting.

Want.

Who wants to buy this for me and then mail it to Korea???

Moving

I was sitting outside today during my one period break, "taking a rest" as the Koreans say.  I was just messing around on my phone when I looked across the playground and saw some huge ladder-like thing that I figured was cleaning windows?  Then I watched as this box-like shape moved from the window to the ground in a matter of seconds.

Intrigued, I continued to watch as the platform moved back up to the window (sans box shape) only to be loaded up with something else and shot back down to the ground.  By the time my break was over (about 40 minutes), the whole move was complete.  It was totally awesome.  Can you imagine living on the 12th floor of a building and having to take at least 10 trips up and down the elevator lugging all of your wordly belongings?

1. you'd be drenched in sweat.  and 2. it would take forever!  

Check it out!

Update on my (digital) perm!

I have discovered something amazing called...MOUSSE!  I guess since my hair has always been straight, I have never had a need to use something like mousse before.  When I got my first perm, I started using things like "anti-frizz" serums, curl "essence," leave-in conditioner, argan oil, etc.  Nothing was reallyyy taming down the massive frizz (that admittedly only I could notice).  

I stopped by Olive Young one night on the way home from the gym (as I often do).  As many times as I have perused the wall of hair supplies at this store, it just never crossed my mind to get mousse..so I did.  I went with some brand called Keratin in a yellow bottle and POOF!..my hair is no longer a frizzy mess and my curls stay put all day.  I usually scrunch in the mousse after applying some form of leave-in conditioner or anti-frizz serum/cream when it's still pretty wet, then air dry.

I know it looks better different using mousse because I get new comments from my students almost once a day when my hair if freshly washed and moussed.  They go something like this:  "teacha..your hair.." / "teacher, poma??" / "curly??" / "teacha, i think you changed your hairstyle" / "teacha, hairstyle..bling bling"  

I'm not sure why, but they didn't really start noticing that my hair is curly until I started using the mousse.

Here's a picture of me yesterday at work (Korean style of course)..about 2.5-3 months after getting my last digital perm.