back again....

Needless to say I think my blog has felt a little neglected the past so many days -----

Things have been going well here in Korea. I am happy to say that it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas here. In front of Lotte Hotel/Department Store there are lights and snow flakes and an even a huge CHRISTMAS TREE !!!! I love it!  I have never been somewhere (big city) that really decorates. I told Zack the other night while walking I felt like I was in New York or something and he laughed at me… One, because I have never been there and two, because I sounded like a real country Alabamian. LOL

I have been having meetings out the wahhhzooo at work – learning new dances etc. One meeting I found out some parents did not think I was so great and another meeting where I found out I was doing great and my director was very pleased with me. She said everything she asks I just say, “YES” and do it (serving)!!!! Personally, I would say things are going well. My “little ones” class that ranged from 4-8 kids depending on the day has now grown to between 12-15 depending on the day of the week. My 6PM class has also grown from 2-4 students to 8-10! Today the director told me that when I came enrollment was at 33 and it is now at 70 and she is hoping to reach 90 by the beginning of December!

The other night Zack and I went to an “all you can eat” kind of place --- with tons and tons of (meat) --- it was very yummy, but I got sick from eating way too much! I told him we could not go back there for at least 6 months … I think it might take me that long to recover.

I have been on bus patrol a little more and usually the rides last about an hour or longer now since we have so many new students... It takes a little longer getting them all home.

Interesting things since my last blog

-       I tried to cook Mac N’ Cheese one afternoon and caught the noodles on FIRE… not a little flame, I am talking real FIRE here. Zack has limited my cooking to getting tangerines out of the frig and calling McDonalds to deliver. LOL

-       My photo shoot went really well and it was a lot of fun. I already got my pictures back. The students in their class all had to shoot the same pictures and they were the only group with a foreign model (me) and the pictures were of a blonde BCBG model… so hopefully they will get a good grade on the group project!!!

-       I am partly Korean… I knock people out to get a seat on the bus/subway…. I fall asleep on every bus ride…. I am NOT ashamed to RUN to catch the bus….And I do not know how to walk in a straight line.

FUNNY FACTS

The other night I was planning on going to HOMEPLUS (kind of like a Target) and I got off at the WRONG stop… so I started walking and then 5 blocks later I get on a bus to head to Zacks and as we rode past the next block we passed HOMEPLUS – LOL (I was ticked) --- then after arriving at my stop I get off the bus and go down to cross under the street and I’m really hungry so the Krispy Kreme Donuts were not helping --- and the HOOOTTTTTTT SIGN was ON… so I could NOT resist!!! I went in and got 4 --- why not 6 I dunno??? I was so hungry I decided to eat one going home and I get one out and it was COLD --- then I get in the elevator to go up to get Zack and look at myself in the elevator mirror and I realize I DID NOT PUT MY MASCARA ON --- and it is now 8PM…. I went all day without it. HAHAHA

Also – Zack and I have been under the weather. Keep us in your prayers…. Not like we can just run to Primed to get a Shot and a Z-pack. Lol

Love and Miss Everyone Like CRAZY!!!!

SHOUT OUTS

:  To my Montgomery AG gang who just had FNO this past weekend. I know it went great and I pray it is the best one yet and that you make history with the amount of money you raised for STL to help change lives across the world. Make me proud - this is the first one I have missed ever!!!!

: To my Crystal/ Krystal(s)

On bus drop off last week Udene looks at me and asks, “What’s your name” and I told her and said you know my name, what is your name…. and she said CRYSTAL/KRYSTAL…. I wanted to knock that 5 year old out. I was thinking you have had that name the entire time and I had to learn your Korean name. I said you have an ENGLISH NAME??? She said yes and laughed and said YES, CRYSTAL/KRYSTAL!!!! LOL

KIDS….. hahaha

This Week:  You guessed it, Bus Patrol again!!!

Before leaving my director looks at me and said that one was sick – she was coughing with a runny nose…. The whole nine yards, I mean all the kids were really.

We are riding right a long and she is coughing and crying for her mom – I’m trying to calm her down while sitting by her. Normally I would have picked the child up and held them but this time I just didn’t. Moments later the child PUKES all over herself and me. I am not talking a little bit. It went all into the seat we were sitting in and into the floor in front of us. I don’t know how that much came out of her little body. I am trying to yell at the bus driving and he does not understand a lick of English. Luckily “Crystal’s” mother was riding with us. I turn around and explain what has happened. She helps me take the little girls jacket off etc…. while I try and take my own jacket and scarf off that are covered. HAHA ---- all the while the bus driver just keeps on driving and all the kids are holding their noses and screaming. It was an adventure to say the least.

I tried to go home and change because once we got to the next stop and I got out my jeans were covered…. I had been sitting in it the entire time. LOL – the bus driver helped us clean out the seat etc and we finally got that little girl to her mother. The driver couldn’t take me home, he said he was too busy. HAHA --- back at the school I had to hand wash my clothes in a shower area with conditioner. Zack took my jacket to be dry cleaned to following day – thank the Lord!!!