The start of another week...

...means the end of a great weekend.

What a great weekend it was too. Friday night I met up with the Gimhae foreigners crowd at B&G, but we ended up at OB Camp where there's an actual toilet instead of the squat pots. Ordinarily it doesn't matter whether we sit or squat, but since Abbey broke her foot in a crazy catastrophe of a way (ha ha) her squatting abilities have ceased to exist...It was a good night.
Saturday I headed to Pohang to visit friends and the orphanage. Every time I arrive at Sunlin Orphanage, I get really nostalgic...I spent 2.5 months living there during the summer of '04, walking up the big ole hill still knocks the breath out of me, but hearing the sounds of children running around makes me smile. There are two kids there who I could take home. This orphanage is a non-adoptive orphanage so most of the children are in some contact with their parents/family but they live in this government run establishment...which by the way is a great and wonderfully directed place...the staff members really love these kids and the kids really look up to the staff. I often wish I lived closer so I could visit it more regularly...if I can make it once per month I'll be satisfied...

After visiting the orphanage I went into town to meet two of my Korean friends from Handong. They were both at Calvin two summers ago! Eun Jin's mom owns a beauty salon so I got a free haircut and some products. I was really nervous at first because she kept hacking away at my length and I didn't want to end up with a crazy Korean haircut...think mullety, bangs bangs and more bangs, and feathery wispy strangeness...She didn't use a regular scissors once, it was fairly dry when she cut it and she kept chopping away with a thinning sheers, which by the way makes my hair do crazy things, but I trusted her anyway. After a style and some product I was relatively happy with the results...the three of us ended up having dinner (spicy spicy fried rice - yum yum) and I then split and went to Beethoven's, a foreigner pub, to meet up with teachers who I had met before. It was a great night.

Now it's Tuesday...only 4 classes today. The weeks are flying by and it's almost Thanksgiving. I'll miss the turkey, the mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie, but oh well...I'll just eat rice and seaweed instead...aren't you jealous???...mmmm