I've been surviving on kimbop and bi-bim-bop, as I am moniless until tomorrow but I am very much looking forward to getting my first paycheck. At that point several off us are going to try to find a bar that I heard about that might be interesting. I'm not planning on drinking as a had a little too much rum a few nights back and trying to teach classes hung over is not, really not, fun.

The weather has definitely gotten muggier, though no hotter. The temp seems to be holding around 86 with a humidity of a measly 155%, so it should be fairly livable, right?

I'm heading out to a video-bong later to catch a movie. I'm not sure I mentioned but a video-bong (bong means room) is a little different from a regular movie theater. Micha took me to a video-bong last week and we watched Snatch (a fun movie by Guy Ritchie of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame, which I liked). They really are rather small, crowded and slightly cluster phobic little places to watch movies in, but it was weird and fun, and hell their air-conditioned so I might spend my summer in one.

It is the fourth, and I'm kinda glad I'm not Hammond for the craziness that I know will be inspired by a September 11 fueled fireworks display. I'm actually excessively happy about not having to deal with it. For those of you who are aware that I am living in the future, let me tell you July 4th was dull and fireworkless and really really hot, so stay indoors eat ice-cream and veg.

I've gotten better at getting around to places in cabs. I know if you say "shin-ay" they will take you downtown, and if you say "soo-sung donga" that will take me to the large department store near my house. So it's all good.

Um, let's see, nothing horribly exciting since the end of world cup. Mostly just trying to keep up with everything that is going on at work, with which I won't bore you. The kids here are really allot of fun. They are so cute.

Aside from the crazy silly fun of dying Micha's hair nothing much as been up. But I think I finally did manage to give him highlights. Micha finishes his year here next week and will head back to the states, which is sort of a pain, since he knows allot of Korean and has been generally happy in helping myself and the other teachers adjust. If nothing else it should be crazy. I tried to mail some postcards last week at which I was mildly successful and I seemed to have managed to pay my electric bill.

I was rather upset when I committed a sort of social faux pau by suddenly gagging on a Korean drink that was supposed to make me feel better. It tasted like log juice (the ever so tasty mountain root juice) but I thought it was going to orange juice, and I ended up choking on the stuff, much to the dismay of the Korean teacher who bought it for the teachers to drink so we could recover ourselves and teach. Ah well.