costco in seoul

wow, today turned out to be the longest day ever. horace and i were late in meeting christine and jane. we still haven't figured out how long it actually takes from our house to subway station to destination. we were actually 30 minutes late. which also meant we were late for the ils teacher conference. and now lets talk about that conference. SNORE! we basically sat through two hours of a one year teacher telling us how he teaches his class. the whole thing was basically useless. it would have been much for informative had they had someone from the coporate office talking to us with some actual useful information. he really didn't say anything that i hadn't already figured out.

once that was done we had to wait an hour for jane and christine to finish with their meeting. while looking around the school we noticed that all the classrooms had teachers desks. of course before leaving horace showed jane and now i think we are getting desks. yeah.

jane treated us to lunch at kahunaville resturant where their motto is "new feel, new meal". i ordered bbq pork tenderloin which came with mashed potatoes, onion rings, and veggies. all i can say is sooo good. they had a little gift shop in the resturant with i found pez. how excited was i since this has been the first time i've seen pez here. the best thing about it was that i didn't have any of them. they had a line of hello kitty pez. i bought them all. jane and christine had never seen pez before so i opened one up and showed them how it works. i've also taken one step closer to being korean by purchasing a cell phone charm. it seems that everyone and their mother has something hanging from their phones and i didn't want to be left out. i got the little anime guy with spikey purple hair. he's wearing a blue mask that covers his face completely except for his right eye. he even came with a little book.

our final destination of the day was costco. yes, it's actually just like costco back home with everything written in english first then korean. it was a little bit overwhelming because there were so many people. i didn't buy anything for myself there but we did get dictionaries, books, and other supplies. jane did buy me some pepsi to drink at school. she is so thoughtful. again i couldn't have asked to work for better people. its such a nice break.

i'm going to spend the rest of my evening doing nothing. i'm so glad to be in my apartment right now. music blarring, lights out, and my new pez. goodtimes.