As I am waiting for my hair to dry on this late Saturday night. . . early Sunday morning let me tell you about my Saturday.

Well, I had no private lesson today which was nice, so I got to sleep in today without stress about a lessson, which was kind of nice. I met my friend Chang Woo for lunch here to talk in English/Korean lesson. We ate at a Korean restaurant and I had tuna kimbap and then we went to McDonalds, he had a sundae I had coffee. It was cold today and there was occassional snow showers. I am beginning to think that winter could possibly be my favorite season. The cold weather makes me feel so alive, and I love to dress in layers anyway so it is perfect. Today at McDonalds during one particular heavy snowfall for about ten minutes it made me feel so much less stress. Watching it snow, the white pure flakes, in this huge city of buildings almost gives me some sense of peace and I feel like time is going slower. It is so peaceful and to even walk home in a light snow shower while the sun is peaking through at the same time almost makes me day! The snow doesn't really stick in this city, but that is okay because I am beginning to love winter and dread summer! I think sometime before the season is up I am going to go with a friend(s) outside of Seoul to a mountain area and the fresh air and walk and see a lot of snow! So exciting because I want to enjoy all four seasons here in Seoul!

I have decided also today to be excited and explore as much as I can while I am here and be content. . . easier said than done I know, but I am going to try. Tonight I went with my friend to 63 Building in Yeouido, the Manhattan area of Seoul. 63 building is currently the tallest in Seoul and I paid 21,000 won (22-24 USD) for the aquarium, IMAX theater Mystery of the Nile, and the sky deck of 63 Building. The aquarium was cool, but not the biggest, I enjoyed the penguins the most, I could watch them all day. The IMAX was cool and a good movie and I had an English translation device too so that was cool. The Sky Deck was cool too at night to see Seoul, it is a big city! There was a bar/coffee shop up there, didn't get anything. There was even a man playing saxophone up there, but it was like Korean drama theme love songs. A lot of people on dates up there. It was very sophisticated, neat area though.

Then we went to a Mexican restaurant, La Casa Loca, the highlight of my weekend. I don't know why but my friend made sure we were going to eat there because he made reseravations at 8 for us to eat there. It was very nice and sophisticated in this nice area. We ordered chicken enchillada, chicken fajitas, and chicken tacos. . . with of course chips and salsa some guacamole too, so good! It was like a gourmet Mexican restaurant though. . . and I even had a margarita which tasted very good! It was not exactly cheap the bill came out to maybe 75.000 won (about 77-80 USD) we had a discount so it only came to maybe 65.000 won about 20.000 each, but it was worth it. I was so happy! There was three of us by the way my friend Chang Woo met us later. Then we took the bus back again and it is about an hour by bus from where I live. It was so nice though because the roads were so wide, a richer more modern area from my home neighborhood and less crowded on the weekend since it is a business district so mainly crowded during the week. I really enjoyed it!

Then I came back here and as I was walking home not too far away from the bus stop, who do I see on the road? My boss, and he is like we are drinking now, "what do you do?" "You drink with us?" Since he is my boss and older I was like sure, okay I drink with you. It was his wife, him, a Korean teacher from Saturdays, and then later the other American teacher came. I maybe had three beers, and we ate fruit and stuff it was actually a good time. My boss was very relaxed and since I can understand a lot of his style and English more it is much better. I was very happy, he actually complimented me tonight a couple o times, very surprised. He was like sometimes after work I go out with Shawn, the main Korean teacher and he talks about how I am good now and have a good teaching style. He is like you were slower to adapt (Haha, and I laugh too), but now I don't worry about you. I was so happy to hear those things tonight!

For those of you who got my email updates, I have pictures that I will include an email of 63 Building, Mexican food, and pictures of my boss and his wife, and other teachers. Yeah! ^_^