Me and Jaime and my new haircut. It's too bad the photo's not straight on, because then you could see the fauxhawk.

Korean friends

Despite the fact that I'm in Korea, I don't really know any Koreans other than the teachers at my school. But a few weeks ago I met a woman my age who works in the same building as I do. I run into her around town and at the gym all the time and it took me forever to remember her name (it's Min-jong). But she was always so excited to see me and her boyfriend was in town this weekend (his name is Un-yong) and we all went out for some drinks after she and I got off work tonight.

They were so nice! They cracked me up, kept saying how excited they were to have a foreign friend. And I could truthfully respond that I was really happy to have Korean friends. They said they want to visit my home in the States and I said they are always welcome, that my parents love to have people from other countries stay at our house. So Mom and Dad, stock your kimchi refrigerator.

Jaime, me, and Amber (two of the foreign teachers at my school).

a good trade-in

I didn't feel that my little scooter was going to cut it, so I decided to trade it in for this bike. The Koren boyfriend was part of the weekly special, a good incentive to buy now!

Actually, I rode to the coast with three friends today and these really intense bikers parked their bikes right next to ours at the beach (wanted to make us feel insufficient or something). So I asked for a ride, because who doesn't want to ride on the back of a superbike with a Korean man decked out in all that gear? I mean everybody loves a ninja.

He and his friends sure got a kick out of me asking for the ride. I speak next to no Korean and they spoke no English, but I was determined. I just grabbed my helmet and waited for him to invite me up. I felt like a celebrity with all the cameras that came out once that happened. I'm laughing cus he made me put my arms around him for the picture.

Tomorrow I'm going to go see Sung-mo (the man I bought my scooter from) and ask him to find me a Korean boyfriend with a bike like this.