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I always feel so terrible when a weekend comes and goes and we do nothing of interest, because I have no pictures and nothing to write about… but I figure this week enough has happened to warrant a full update.

So lets see, Work….. Work is going well. We are about to get some nice well deserved time off, which will be super excited, but once the holidays are over we will be back to the grind, except more work. In Korea, during the January month the kids have off from school, so instead of just having a break like kids in America have, parents sign their kids up for more than normal extra curricular activities. Meaning, this is a great time of Year for Hagwons to get new students, and provide more classes for the old ones.

Joseph and I will each be picking up a class of students ( he will be working with the older students with a Newspaper discussion class, and I will start a brand new class of fresh Korean kiddies learning the basics of phonics.) So now we start an hour earlier, and may possibly get off an hour earlier, which would be awesome.

Hmmm social life… doing much better, there have not been any foreigner parties in a while, so we have been hanging out with our friends Dani and Malcolm more. We went to see the movie Avatar last night which was really awesome. The best part of the evening was this picture we got outside the bathrooms…. Check it out

Apparently women sit, and men have to throw their leg up like a dog..... or maybe he was doing the " I have to pee dance".

We are planning a fun Christmas day extravaganza with them too! So I am looking forward to that. Dani will be providing the entertainment, I am working on a menu and the boys…. Well they are going to show up and possibly be in charge of snacks for the rest of Christmas day! ( but more than likely just show up!) So I will hopefully remember to take a million pictures and that will be a fun post!

Also tonight we went to dinner at Pizza hut. And I got pictures of Joseph and I in our new hats. Joseph finally found the hat he was looking for, and I replaced my old awesome hat I lost on the bus with a significantly less cool version, but it keeps my ears warm so I won’t complain too much.

Joseph putting on " the hat"

Looking very "buisnessman" in his hat. It perfectly matches his coat, it is awesome!

I also bought a really nice headband that I wore to the movies the other night, so I took a picture of that too. The big bangles on the headbands are really popular here so I decided this was one Korean trend I kinda liked. Hair accessories are so cheap here, I love it.

Well we are off to chill and maybe rent a movie. Tomorrow we have work so it will be an early night!

If anyone has any ideas for cheap Christmas dishes that I can make without a real oven, comments or ideas would be appreciated, I am already planning mashed potatoes, buying a precooked chicken (turkey is nowhere to be found here) and maybe some green beans, but I would like another side dish and possibly some kind of desert that you don’t have to buy in a box or bake…. Ideas?

A short update, but an update none the less! Merry Chirstmas to everyone!