So this week I had a slight disaster with dying my hair.

Jo and I dyed it on Tuesday night, but because I had dyed it a pretty dark brown previously, my roots took the dye more, so I ended up with slightly ginger roots! We went to the hair dressers at 9am the next morning, but unfortunately that didn't take and I still had slightly ginger roots. So I had to go back AGAIN on Thursday when finally my hair was all one colour, so one hair cut 3 dye jobs and £24 later I was all sorted!

This is also the last week of term. I went out with my adult class. (Have I said how much I love my adult class!?)

We went for a meal, some beer and then headed to a noribang!!! We had soo much fun and some funny conversations. The girls are pretty good singers and dancing and did some really good renditions of some English songs! I think this is the way to teaching English, at the noribang!

For activity day today, I just played games with the kids and we had snacks.

I am so ready for Thailand tomorrow. All packed and ready to go and so excited to see Sommer. Sommer, I met while volunteering in Guatemala, we had a reunion in June 2008 in Florida, so it has been about 18 months since we have seen each other.

I am also looking forward to some sun. It snowed again this week, and is windy and cold. I am ready for spring!!!

See you in a weeeek! :D

Crabs and Cocktails!

Went for dinner last night to a crab place. Eating in Korea is always an adventure as you are never really sure what you will get, if you ordered the right thing, if they understood your order!

You could pick your crab out

Then they brought it all prepared for you

You could also feed you child to the crabs...

After I headed downtown to some western style bars. It was wall very bizarre as there we so many GI's that it didn't feel like I was in Korea anymore!

This weekend is Lunar New Year it's a pretty big deal here and also means I get next Monday off! There seems to be the same sort of atmosphere as Chuseok with the big gift sets out in Lotte Mart. KM gave me a beautiful gift boxed one - holding 10 cans of Tuna! Which is actually more useful than the 10 tubes of toothpaste she gave me last time.

I feel like I need to mention my adult class again. We have so much and fun and random topics always seem to pop up. Last lesson we ended up talking about drag queens, speed dating and how one of them had thrown up in a taxi because she was too drunk. Bear in mind that the majority of the class is 40+ housewives!! The lessons are definitely a cultural exchange for all of us!

They also told me about a part time job as a 'Pusher man'. This is literally a man who during rush hour, is paid to push people onto the subways in Seoul!! I don't think this still happens, as they have introduced double doors now. But I couldn't believe that this job actually existed!