Discussion with Jill

I may be annihilated for this. But I love the conversations I have with this girl. Ridiculous. This is in reference to a FB update she left about the length she goes to for her students.

Jill

well were watching run lola run in my 3/4 class today, and i had to get the movie. so i called last night before i went out to get drinks with some friends to see if they could hold it. and apparently they can only do that for an hour, so i sort of freaked out at the girl about how i really needed it, etc. so she let me rent it over the phone with my credit card and said it would be waiting on the counter for me to get sometime before close

so i went out with my friends and ended up staying out till like ten and got nice and tipsy and had to go get the movie still

and just like wander into blockbuster in my leopard print heels clearly been drinking and am like "i rented a movie on the phone! and its supposed to be behind the counter!"

and its like this obscure german movie

im positive the guys working talked about me when i left

i was looking so ridiculous

8:45pmJon

...leopard print heels??

8:45pmJill

hahah yes

8:45pmJon

jill

i'm posting this monologue on my blog

8:45pmJill

oh lord

8:45pmJon

ITS TOO LATE!

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Thailand!

Alright, Thailand adventures. I will summarize the trip as I did in an email. "Funniest part. a french dude came and yelled at us AS WE WERE SINGING MY BIRTHDAY SONG so we went and pissed on his front door. that's...not the best idea...but we had a LOT of whiskey. oh and we got blessed by a monk! on top of a mountain! oh and we rode elephants! and we were molestered by the village idiot in sukhotai! and we adopted a cat for the night in literally every place we stayed! Jenni got attacked by monkeys! I got a naked massage! so awesome!"

videos are on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/jh64487
Pictures are on FB.

Enjoy!

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Ice Skating in Gwanghwamun

Gwanghwamun is right in the heart of downtown Seoul. I suppose it's the administrative/arts sector. On one side is the US embassy, which sadly looks like a friggin military bunker, and on the other is the Seoul Arts Hall. I have no idea what the purpose of the arts hall actually is. I've been several times and events are either private or being held at the other Seoul Arts Hall in Gangnam. I think it's just a stellar building that high rollers can be brought to so Korea can show off, kinda like they do in Pyongyang. Anywho, between these buildings is an open area that featured the snowboarding qualifications for the winter olympics. that was pretty awesome even if it was impossible to actually get close enough to get a decent view. p.s. i actually took that badass picture.

The next awesome thing was definitely the Ice skating. basically they froze over the entire pavillion and allowed people to skate around it. Tickets and rentals together only cost 1,000 won and covered an hours worth of skating. it was both cute and hilarious to watch the uber concious koreans desperately trying to look cool. most of them had never skated before and simply walk-skated along the ice. A few of them, mostly the younger kids, were actually pretty awesome and were racing around annoying everyone with their awesomeness. I worked as hard as I could to capture a video of someone wiping out but a watched pot never boils, and koreans never do windmill falls when they sense someone is watching. We had a lot of fun though and i just wish it was closer cause I would totally go again! p.s. i definitely did not take this CG picture.

Oh i did take some video of the iceskating though. This one is just of ice skating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlFJYStF7xk. and this one is of an old skating master I followed around for much of the night. He would even raise his leg as if he was about to pull a jump and then he'd pause, seem to remember his age, and think better of it. Talented and wise! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzSBvhQNJ0A. enjoy :)

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School Festival Day and Sports Day

There's a student rock concert and dance routine on youtube. Next year I have decided that I will be part of the show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7b6pqipM4

This is actually an old event that I only just got to. Basically it was a school festival day where all the achievements of the students are shown and celebrated and the kids run around the school yard doing activities. The activities ranged from the interesting (bb gun range) to the mundane (straw distance spitting contests). Overall is was a great way for the kids to relax and appreciate all the hard work they had accomplished during the year. Here's one of the art projects that I thought was hilarious.
Homework is the devil!

Sports day was another exciting event. all classes competed against each other in various sports events. The highlights were the coed track events and tug of war. My favorite was playing soccer against the students, and destroying them! This is one of those times where the responsibilities of the principal is clear. He's in charge of the pop gun.

get it sir, get it!

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