"Cricket...Cricket..."

I am currently sitting in the teachers’ office completely alone getting high off of gas fumes. All the teachers are some sort of workshop and since it's in some language I don't quite have the grasp of yet, I decided to skip it. While the teachers are out students are refilling all the heaters with what looked like gasoline (and smells like!)

I had a very boring birthday last week. I didn't even remember it was that special day until I was halfway to school. When I got there I found a cake on my desk and a few of the teachers gathered around and sang a pretty bad version of "Happy Birthday" with rhythm losing clapping the whole time. Everybody was really nice so it wasn't too bad. The cake was made from new potatoes. After school I went to TGIFridays to have a $14 hamburger then headed home to cry in my pillow. A friend did give me a book on learning Korean; I don't think I'll be getting to deep into that one.

Went to Pra...let's start over...Went to Seoul this weekend to buy a camera and see some good (and my only) friends. We had fun and got full on food and booze (and received a $25 discount because the waiter liked my toosh!)

The camera...Seoul has a special area of the city just packed with electronics. Anything you want you can find it and usually damn cheap (in Korean standards that means USA price +10-20%) I went shopping around in regular stores and saw the camera I wanted for an obscene amount of money. Went to the electronics mart and it was almost 50% of that!

I took the slow train there and back, so 11 hours in travel time for less than 24 hours of Seoul time. Well worth it!