Hello, Kitty. Why don't you have a mouth?

One of my students rendering of me. Pretty precise, I think. Quite simpsonesque.

Hi my family and friends!!

Hope everyone is happy and healthy. Life has been pretty eventful, and things are only going to get more busy starting on Wednesday. On Wednesday my friend Michael is coming to visit, and on Saturday my friend, Brian, is flying in also. It's going to be crazy fun! We were all supposed to go to Japan together next weekend. Sadly, because of my works obsession with Swine Influenza prevention I can't go with them.

Also, my friend Mark moved up to Nokjiwon from Middle School this week to help us out. Which is nice of him. We really, really needed someone to help out.

My Korean lessons seemed to have plateaued. They were canceled two weeks in a row. I'm still trying to study though. I wish I could practice more.

This past weekend on Friday I went out with some friends for drinks to de-stress. At the Hof (a place where you order food and grab a few drinks) that we were at there were 3 business men sitting next to us. 2 of them were pretty well gone, and the other was just feeding them more and more booze. The 2 extremely drunk guys both passed out in the hof. We decided to take some picture with them. Once the sober guy had enough of making fools out of his friends...he just left them. They slept there for the remainder of the night, and were still there when we left. What a great friend. Comedic for us though.

The next day I basically just did a lot of preparation from Mike and Brian's visit. Then, on Sunday I had made plans to go and meet up with my Korean co-workers. We went to this museum for a Hello Kitty exhibit (which was way over-priced might I add) then we went to eat some lunch and ended up at the NORAEBANG (노래방)! Which is, essentially, a singing room. We had tons of fun messing around, dancing, and singing til our throats were sore.The day before we went to the museum, my friend, Casey, pointed out that he hated Hello Kitty because she had no mouth. I, not being a huge fan of her either, never really noticed this until he pointed it out. Ironically, when I got to the museum there was a sign that "answered" the conundrum...kind of...not really. To be frank, it didn't make any sense at all.If you can see it, it says: Why Hello Kitty doesn't have the mouth?
To share her emotion with other people.
Makes absolute no sense, and is in bad English, but oh well!
I've also been listening to podcasts lately. Since it is kind of hard for me to get regular access to the news, it is one really nice method of staying informed. I've been listening to numerous ones, however, one has really piqued my interest. It's called 'How Stuff Works', and I highly recommend it to anyone I know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ They had one really interesting broadcast about future innovations last week. One of the innovations they think would be helpful now is an international language. Did you all know that there was an international language created in the 19th century called Esperanto?!? Weird, don't you think? 2 million people speak this language apparently. If you want to learn it you can go to this website: www.lernu.net/

Also, I want to wish a very happy Father's Day to my Daddy!! I miss you so much, and I wish I could be home to celebrate this day with you!! All my love, Dad!Alright, well that's all for now, folks! I'll try to update again soon.

Love,
Marg