alone together

deery-lou.
last friday we had a birthday party for caleb which lasted half the day. the other half was spent going over the "no tv week" activity book that the students had to do at home. i had to head the "no tv week" show and tell. needless to say it consisted of me doing all the talking. at least i got them to give me one word answers like "yes", "bike", etc. all in all it was pretty slack day. gotta love it.

here's a video of the kids


to see photos of the celebration click here!

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scatterbrain

deery-lou.
i've added an new entry to the poetry section of shot&scrawled. check it out & tell me your thoughts.

it's a holiday today. buddha's birthday. which means no school. yeah! but why was i up at 6:30 am. sob! happy birthday buddha.

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fine time

deery-lou.
fashion hurts! my new shoes finally arrived last week. i so love them. on the bottom they have a picture of a dragon. hehe. although i forgot how much it sucks breaking in new shoes. both of my heels have major blisters. however, that's the price one pays for looking good. and they so make me stylish. hopefully the process of breaking them in won't take to long. they are such a departure from my big ass platforms. here's a picture of them:


my sunday was spent running around all the beauty shops of ansan looking for a particular hair wax. the place that i originally got it from didn't have it any longer. i must have hit about 10 different shops. all of them a bust. during my jaunt across ansan i did manage to take some photos for my current photo series i'm working on. so at least the entire day wasn't a bust. i sent a text to the x-bf on saturday. as of 9:25 pm on tuesday still no word. hmm. perhaps he really didn't want to talk and just sent the message for the hell of it. thursday is a holiday. yeah! i love having short weeks and then on friday we have an all day party in kindergarten. can work get any better than that. all righty, time to watch the season finale of heroes.

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life is but a dream

deery-lou.
life has a funny way of throwing you curves. just as i've started to put the whole ordeal with the "x-bf" behind me he sent me a text last night.
hey sorry about not getting back to u sooner. was out of town for awhile. if u wanna catch up for your stuff and a chat let me know. sorry i took longer then i said. i understand if its to late but i'd still love to talk to you.
which of course brought back all these emotions. i had just gotten off the phone earlier with a friend where i told her i was over. honestly i never really expected to hear back from him. there's a big part of me that just wants to blow it off and continue with the way my life is going. and then there's the part that needs closure. needs to hear what he has to say. the whole "being away" excuse is simply that—an excuse. and a weak one at that. it's at these times that i miss being home the most. not having my closest friends nearby to talk about it. misty and i use to spend many evenings eating ice cream, pie, etc. talking about our boy problems while bad tv played in the background. god, how i miss that. thankfully i caught misty online before she had to work. it wasn't the same but at least it was something. i feel alot better having spoken to her and now know what i need to do. i've decided to go ahead and meet him. although as of this post i have yet to send him a text telling him so. i'm struggling with the words. there's alot i need to say to him and i believe that having a face to face will give me that opportunity. plus i'm curious as to what he has to say. i'm hoping that after we talk i'll finally be able to put it all behind him and move on. i'll be sure to let you know how it all turns out. boys suck! wish me luck.

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deck the boy

the e-bat

deery-lou.
what does pole dancing bears, paint it black, and 5:30 am all have in common? my friday night out. more on that in a minute.

friday started off with a trip to the children's museum with the kindergarten class. it was pretty standard as children's museums go. lots of interactive stuff for the children to get their hands on. lots of children running around. lots of tired adults. there was one part of the museum that i found quite odd. in the "family" section they had a doctor office with a pregnant patient. it was set up so that you could give her a sonogram and see the fetus on the scene above her. to the right was a light table display that had various images of the fetus. it just seemed to be a bit much for a children's museum. whatever happened to the good old stork theory.

doctor's office

builder jon

on golden skye

steven in mazeland

that night in my attempt to be more social i went out with some of the teachers from school. we went to junco, your standard hof joint that serves up loads of side dishes, has cheap beer, and by far the tasty chicken ever. for food industry workers they had to be the happiest servers i have ever seen. they were running around smiling, joking with one another, and extremely friendly. something you rarely see in the states. whenever they had to perform the birthday celebration song they all got into it. besides singing they had people wearing a giant bear and wolf head who pole danced. it was definitely a trip to watch. at some point "tee" brought back some koreans she met in the bathroom who joined us. more soju and beer was consumed. the korean guy kept telling us over and over that the girl he was with was his girlfriend. as if he was afraid any of us were trying to hook up with her. not sure he had anything to worry about there. for one thing i'm not into girls and the other is was far from being attractive. meanwhile his so called girlfriend kept telling me she wasn't dating him while she flirted with one of my co-workers. having enough of that we left and went to a noraebang. "c" met a hagwon owner in the bathroom who bought us a round of drinks. we convinced him to sing a song for us. then we had some random korean guy come into our room and ask us to sing a song for his girlfriend. before i realized what was happeing he grabbed me by my hand and dragged me to the singing room where his girlfriend and friends were. he couldn't speak any english so it was quite difficult to figure out what he was saying. i'm not quite sure but i believe he's an eminem fan. at least that's what it sounded like. he wanted me to sing a pop song for his girlfriend and i kept saying i don't do pop song. before i had a chance to sing his girlfriend got up and left. i told him his girlfriend no here, so me no sing. he brought me back to where young and "c" were so that young could translate for him. thats when i found out that he translated what i said earlier about his girlfriend as me telling him to break up with her. the whole time he kept hugging and grabbing me which was making me somewhat uncomfortable. he was definitely putting off a g-vibe. our time ended so we said goodbye to our new friend and headed off. we at bagels at young's place then i made my way home. i got to bed by 5:30 am.

on saturday i treked into seoul to meet up with betsy for her farewell dinner. yes, yet another friend is leaving "the land of the morning calm". it was hard motivating myself. not only was i tired but it was rainy out. a perfect day for laying in bed. dinner was nice. afterwards i bagged out on going to a bar and made my way home.

to view photos from the children's museum go here

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when jokers attack

deery-lou.
it's official. i have a new website for my photography & writing. it's called shot&scrawled. i will continue to use this blog for my personal rants. shot&scrawled is strictly for my creative outbursts. i'll be sure to post here any updates made to shot&scrawled. there's a permanent link to the right under the about me section. you can't miss the ever so fabulous photo of me that butterbean took. she's awesome. so far i have one photo series & one poetry entry on the site. if you have some time go take a gander. there's more to come.

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something beautiful

deery-lou.
i've been thinking about setting up a new blog for my writing and art. the idea is to have a separate space that doesn't consist of my regular rants of everyday life. i want to create a place were i can showcase my writing [short stories, poetry, etc] as well as some photography series i'm working on that don't involve your typical snapshots. not sure if having two blogs is necessary. so i'm asking you my readers to give me some import. let me know your thoughts. in the meantime, i've finally gotten around to upload the photos from my exhibition in july 2006. enjoy.

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white sweater

deery-lou.
for children's day which is may 5 here in korea, we took the kiddies to see spiderman 3. by the time the movie ended only half of them remained. most of them had gotten scared or bored. going to see a movie with a bunch of children is always a chore. i can only imagine how they felt watching a film in english and having to read subtitles. i know if i was their age i'd probably been bored too. overall i thought the movie was pretty decent. don't know if i'd say it was the best of the bunch but it was definitely entertaining. and that's just what movies should be. i could go into depth of what i liked and didn't like about the film but don't want to bore you with with that. i love superheroes films, however, i feel like they never quite come through like i hope they would. by far my favorite has got to be batman returns which is most likely due to michelle pfeiffer's portrayal of catwoman. meow! she kicked ass in that role.

andy, who was sitting in front of me, was quite fidgety throughout the film. numerous times i had to tell him to get off the floor. he also kept asking for popcorn. i had to tell him there was no popcorn today. the film was a bit too much for the children. those that lasted, however, ended up enjoying it so all wasn't lost. after the film we meant up with the other children who left at the park where we had lunch. after lunch they ran around blowing bubbles. i think i had more bubble liquid on me then actual bubbles blown.

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still take you home

deery-lou.
the signs keep coming my way. after 2 and half years taekwondo has come to end. at least for now. my kwanjangnim sold his school. both him and sahbomnim are leaving and a new master is taking over. so with that i decided to take a hiatus until i figure out what i want to do. its funny how things work out. for awhile now i've been thinking of a way to quit but never did. i knew that telling kwanjangnim i simply wanted to quit wouldn't fly. and since we had formed a friendship i found it harder and harder to just leave. there was always some amount of guilt lurking in the background, so i stayed. i'm glad i did. even though it took alot for me to show i always felt good afterwards. now my need for an excuse is gone. sure i could stay on, but i never really made a connection with the new master. plus i accomplished what i originally set out to do and that was get a black belt. i tried to talk to kwanjangnim about selling the school. there was a part of him that seemed to regret it. he mentioned how once the papers were signed the new master seemed to change and not in a good way. that was another reason for me not continuing. i mean, if kwanjangnim didn't think much of him as a teacher why would i stay on. kwanjangnim told me to call him if i ever head into seoul and we can catch a movie, have some drinks, etc. we'll see what happens. sometimes its hard keeping in touch with folk. hopefully we will. i wish him all the best in whatever he decides to do next. i did ask him to set up a workout schedule that i can do at home. i'm still waiting for it though. in the meantime i'm gonna take a month off and figure out what i want to do. i feel like i need some form of exercise and i know that if i join a gym i'll never go.

at school today we had "about me" book show and tell. the teachers participated as well. i threw mine together late last night. it was fun looking at the students pictures and hear them talking about themselves. it basically took all day and by the end it was like pulling out your hair. i kept looking for hot dads but there weren't too many of them. the scary thing is that i'm as old as most of the parents. no wonder the kids keep asking if i'm married. i told them that i wanted to be a ninja. hehe. tomorrow is another field trip. we are going to the movies to see spiderman 3. oh the joys of teaching kindergarten.

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epiphany

deery-lou.
here's a link to some pictures i took with my 35 mm. they cover various places i've been to over the past couple of months. enjoy.

photos are here.

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