Caveat: Cool… But Strange

That's probably the best I'm going to get.

Saturday, in my PN2 class, that's the phrase Boyun used, to describe me:  "Teacher.  You are… cool.  But, um, strange, yes."  I felt quite pleased – that's pretty good, to get from a rebellious and mildly obnoxious 8th grade girl, who is notorious at Karma Academy for wearing too much eye liner and for having a foul mouth (in two languages, no less).

Working Saturdays is going to take some getting used to.  I've managed to reach almost 4 years in Korea without regularly doing this thing that most Koreans view as utterly inevitable.  So I might as well get used to it.  I never do anything with my weekends, anyway, right?  But I do seem to make use of the "down time" in a sort non-productive, recuperative way. 

Fortunately, today (Monday) is Korean Memorial Day.  So I get a holiday.  And a two-day weekend, after all.  What will I do with this holiday?  I might try cleaning my apartment – I feel like I'm living out of boxes… it's a little bit college-dorm-room-esque.

I went to Costco, yesterday.  Anytime I feel the slightest bit homesick for life in America, I can go to Costco.  It's an instant cure.  And a good way to find relatively inexpensive, "real" cheese (as opposed to plasticky Korean stuff, which, although I love it dearly, I sometimes grow tired of).  This time, I found some actual Swiss cheese from actual Switzerland.  I also found granola.  Wow.  I might eat that.

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