Awesome news! We found (thanks to some other English teachers we met this weekend) a bookstore with English books! And okay, the prices left a little to be desired (I paid 21 dollars for 2 paperbacks) but books! BOOKS!!!! I can read again!! Their selection wasn't exactly huge, but they had some surprising things. I picked up 2 books after much (much much much much much) deliberation and prodding from Aaron; 1 that I had already read (a comfort book, if you will) and a new one to read. My comfort book was Pride and Prejudice and the new one is The Kite Runner. Of which I'm already 1/3rd of the way through. I'm trying to read it slowly and not in one sitting like I usually do. But it's difficult. I'm going to try not to spend all my money on books. No promises though.
Anyway, it's been a relatively low-key weekend here. We spend most of our time in our apartment, which is kind of sad when you think about it, but Aaron doesn't want to ride the trains up to Seoul to wander around. We're settling into a routine here with school and everything, and trying to decide where to go on vacation this summer. There are so many places I want to visit. I would love to go to Japan again (as a tourist this time and not a student) but I also want to see Thailand (though maybe not right now), Australia, New Zealand, Russia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, India...the list goes on.
We went out Friday night with a large group of English teachers and had a very good time, but the rest of the weekend we've just been relaxing for the most part. We did go out and do some shopping. I bought those books and also a new purse for 20 bucks. I am trying to find some decent dress shoes without heels but the ones I've seen are either too ugly or too small. We are going to head out this afternoon to do some more searching, and I'm probably going to pick up some new clothes while I'm at it.
I really didn't have much to blog about here, just wanted to provide a small update about what we've been doing lately. As you can see, not much of anything interesting, though we did meet some new people I sincerely hope we can hang out with again. Sometimes it's nice to talk to someone who ISN'T Aaron, and I'm sure he feels the same way about me. :)
I've got a HUGE collection of ebooks if you need. I can probably e-mail them to you 2 or 3 at a time. They're mostly .pdf .doc and .txt files, so they aren't very big. It all depends on how comfortable you are curling up with the laptop instead of a physical book.
ReplyDeleteOther thing, you forgot Singapore on your list of places to go. It's so much prettier than Hong Kong.
~Jacob
I totally enjoy the small blogs too!
ReplyDelete