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Yeah, it’s snowing. Then it’s going to possibly be in the 50s on Friday. What is this, the midwest?!
I would be going out tonight for St. Patty’s, but I am boycotting snow in mid-March, and I’m still a little sick. I am seriously 진짜! so sick of winter weather. Get me out of here!
The baby sitting with her parents behind me just yelled, “TACO BELL.”
Apparently, I have a child somewhere out there.
Also: Thanks for all the video ideas!
Today in my youngest class, one of our words was “log”, so I showed them the classic Ren and Stimpy Log clip. It doesn’t even matter what I show them—if it’s a video on the internet, they go crazy for it.
Any suggestions for short, silly, and child-appropriate videos to show my kids when we have down-time?
Through some of the 10 Magazine back channels (Thanks Ku Lee at MLA!) we are now able to confirm that the brand new 3-floor Taco Bell in Itaewon will be likely be opening sometime in May assuming no construction delays. (So much for the article we previously linked to saying it would open in March.)
Stephen Row of Taco Bell Korea put to rest rumors that they are also opening a Yeoksam location, saying, “We’re just focused on having a successful opening for our Itaewon location right now.” We’re guessing from the number of times this article has been shared on Facebook that they’re going to have a very successful opening.
We’ll keep in touch with Taco Bell Korea and bring you the exact opening date as soon as it’s confirmed.
Three floors!
It’s almost 7pm, and all I’ve done today is sleep. I didn’t think it was possible to sleep this much. I did wake up around 1 to eat something little and watch the new Gossip Girl episode finally, but then I fell back to sleep. I do feel a lot better, though.
Meet my co-worker Jaclynn. Here she is with the owner of a bar we went to last night. She is ridic, I love it. Today she gave me medicine and we ordered pizza and watched Funniest Home Videos. Now I’m going to hide in my room for the night, basking in my unshowered glory and hopefully catch up on reading or Korean studying. Maybe tomorrow I will actually make it outside.
TACO BELL IS OPEN! I would like a verification.
Someone wanna bring a Cheesy Gordita Crunch, a bean burrito, and loads of hot sauce to me in my sickbed?
I’m so curious about what their menu will be like. It’s sad how many friends have offered to go with me. You would think it’s all I ever talk about. (It is. My blog comes up on the first page when you Google “taco bell itaewon”. Haha.)
One of my students told me I look like Jessica from SNSD today.
“Thank you, but she’s Korean. I do not look Korean.”
I don’t know if it was because I was dressed Korean-y with glasses and plaid, but it’s bizarre being compared to Korean celebrities.
On another note that encompasses the general weirdness of my neighborhood, a nine-year-old, chubby, awkward male student of mine asked about my glasses today.
“Teacher, glasses Fendi?”
“Uhh, yes. How do you know?”
“My mom likes Fendi!”
I couldn’t do anything but crack up, imagining how much she has to talk about luxury brands for her odd little boy to instantly recognize their logos on his English teacher’s frames.
The same moms can also be seen forcing their children to speak English-only in the Lotte Mart (“But I want THIS candy!” Stomp, stomp, stomp, pout.), and buying their kids $300 pairs of purple Uggs that they will outgrow in six months. Samsung-dong. Ridic.
jgh2:
I took antibiotics last week. I took them as I was supposed to. WHY ARE YOU RETURNING.
For some reason, Korea causes people to get sick an obscenely abnormal amount of times. I don’t think I’ve ever been sick as often as I was last year. It wasn’t ever anything serious, just cold after cold after cold, but it’s so annoying. It’s already started for me and I am not happy!!!
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