Quick catch up

These last two weeks have been really, really, uneventful. We've had a lot of classes canceled because of middle school exams and while that is the perfect opportunity to go out and tour, it's also the perfect opportunity to do absolutely nothing! :D

So that's pretty much what I've been doing the last few weeks. Nothing. Nada. The biggest highlights of these last few weeks have been the following:

-Met Tara's friend who came up for Easter weekend from Hong Kong where he is an imagineer working on the designs for the expansions of Hong Kong Disneyland. Fun guy.

-Pajama days!!

-Cleaned my apartment

-Had an American afternoon in Itaewon where I went and bought pants, shoes, and made visits to What the book? (a new and used English book store) and the foreign food mart for burrito fixings

-Went to a ballet

Ta da! That's it.

The biggest event would have to be the ballet. I went with my friend Corinna. She had a Friday off and asked if I wanted to go with her to the ballet and since I'm a sucker for the theater (and for 10,000 won tickets which is roughly $10) I said "Heck yes!"

We met up in Itaewon and checked out some clothes, ate at an American diner, and then headed to the theater to see Prince Hodong. It was a fantastic show. The dancing and music were both fantastic, though really sad.

Two countries at war, the princess falls in love with the prince from the country trying to take over her country. They get married (with her dad's blessing... for whatever reason). He has to go back home to his country where his dad tells him he needs to take over his wife's country for good this time. The prince writes a letter to his wife and tells her to destroy her country's famous drum so he can invade. She does, her dad kills her, her husband takes over the palace. He sees her and does a really sad dance with her dying/dead body before killing himself. The end! D:

But it was pretty. And I had fun. :)

Here are a few pictures of the day:

A poster for the ballet.



A poster of "Famous Vegetarians" we saw outside this restaurant in Sinchon. They had pictures of celebrities but put wrong names on the pictures. I'm not sure if they just got the names wrong or if they are being deliberately misleading...



Corinna at the American diner. ^_^ V (that would be a smiley face with the peace sign)



Now we are all up to date and I can tell you about this past weekend when I actually went out and did something. On to the next post!