friday's letters/5

dear buddah,
thank you for being born, and thank you korea for recognizing it as a national holiday and therefore taking off work. we're heading out saturday morning on the motorbike and heading to a nearby island to go camping on the beach.

dear korea,
thank you for your amazing beaches that we can camp and build epically awesome bonfires on. we will be thoroughly enjoying it this weekend.

dear sister,
just saw the latest of your pregger photos. you have exceeded my expectations for not being on bed rest yet (she's tiny at just 5'1", i thought she'd be laid up by month 4!) AND my expectations of how cute we all said you'd be knocked up. can't wait to hold my niece in august!

dear hubs,
i think it's sexiest when you wake up early and make me breakfast. i won't argue if you decide to do it more often.

dear motorbike,
i'm not thrilled about the idea of sitting on you for two hours tomorrow and you making my butt more sore than an hour of squats. please be nice.

friday's letters/4

{this is one of my favorite kindi students...chocolate. whenever i asked him what was on his shirt he would get really excited and yell "it's SUNNY!" oh and timmy is behind him trying in any way possible to get in the photo}

dear boss,
thank you for surprising me by switching my schedule. a four hour workday on friday kind of rocks.

dear doctor,
i know that you were trying to talk about tissue survival rate or something (i kind of zoned out) but i couldn't help but laugh when you mistakenly said "your survival rate is 30-50%".

dear middle school students,
i know you don't think i'm funny but thank you for laughing at my cheesy jokes anyway. takes the stress of being a teacher away.

dear mogis,
i know i taste good to you but can you please leave me alone and possibly bug the hubs for awhile? i'm starting to get stares in class from scratching so much.

dear kindi student parents,
please stop changing your kid's names. a)it's already hard enough to memorize the names of the 200+ students that i have and b)when you change their names to genius, strawberry and storious, it's hard for me to keep a straight face during class.

My Haute Thoughts

When a connection seems broken, the universe finds a way to reconnect... guiding us back to the source with light and love.

No matter where I travel in the world, I always know that there is nothing like a connection with a stranger that proves to be life changing. I've had this experience happen to me in some of the most unlikely places, but each time teaching me something about myself that makes me a better person.

The connections with people who are brought into your life for a much bigger reason... to help you find your purpose are powerful. It reminds me of the Chinese proverb, The Red Thread of Destiny... some connections can never be broken. The next time you run into that person who seems to be connected to you, in ways that you can't explain, consider the possibility that he or she may have been sent by the universe to help you walk into your destiny. Just remember even "angels learn how to fly."

Has this ever happened to you?

friday's letters/3

dear seoul,
as always, you were amazing. with your foreign food that makes us 5 pounds heavier going home, your "big" size shopping and your sardine like subways. we'll be back soon

dear fellow expats,
lately you have made me one happy gal. i'm so glad that so many awesome people have decided to invade the island lately. it has made living overseas and away from everyone we know, almost extremely easy

dear hubs high school,
please serve more western food. or at least korean food that a westerner's weak stomach can handle. i really don't want mr. diamond's swim trunks to fall off two summers in a row due to lack of meat on his good lookin' bones.

dear middle school students,
i know you have this weird obsession with me reproducing soon but i'm just here to tell you, it's not gonna happen. sorry

seoul escape

we're back! but definitely don't want to be. it's really difficult for us to come back from vacations, even if that said vacation was only two days. seoul was great as always and remains one of our favorite cities to visit. even though it's the second largest city in the world according to population, to me, it doesn't feel like it. i compare it to chicago during rush hour. busy and crowded, of course, but not unbearable. while we were there we:

ate amazing mexican food...twice. our island doesn't have any mexican restaurants that we currently know of so when we have the opportunity to have it, we indulge to the max.listened to some amazing jazz music at the oldest jazz club in koreaand tried a brazilian energy drink

friday's letters

dear esl student,
when i ask you to turn to page 10, i'm not asking you to repeat after me. same goes for "don't do that."

dear mister,
i love your initiation of date nights...and that you've become ok with my love of skip-bo

dear egg lady,
every week i come to by my eggs from you in the market and every week you greet me with a smile so big it takes up your entire face. i have no idea what you're saying when you try to talk to me but i always love stopping by.



in other news...we're heading to seoul this weekend with friends and couldn't be more excited! seoul is just a short 4 hour bus ride away. i love being able to have a city get away on the weekends and play tourist along with doing some seriously needed shopping. our washer here has a mission to stretch and destroy my clothes and i am sorry to say that it is winning.