This weekend I started it off with hanging with Kelly, Minsu and my K friend Jessi. We went to eat dinner and then we went to the movies! It was great! We went to sleep at like 3 am so we decided to sleep in saturday morning! We woke up at like 11 and decided to get dressed and go downtown. We went downtown to get some stuff because I had to teach at church! So we walked around and froze because it was -6 degrees! We went into a store that is similar to the dollar store to get a few things we needed for our projects and then decided to pop into the Hello Kitty Cafe for a warm drink before we continued our shopping!
The cute drinks at Hello Kitty
I love posing with the strawberry pillow!
After a near meltdown in Alpha (A stationary store with aisles that are so small that two people cant walk down them at the same time) we went to the very busy department store becasue I needed to buy some make up! The make up I usually wear is about 30,000 won (26.00) but when we got there they were having a sale! I got my make up for 21,000 (17.00)! It made the whole trip to the very busy department store worth it! We then ventured to Lotte Mart to get some yeast because I needed to tryout my recipe for pizza. So we went there and it was of course extremely crowded! I couldn't wait to get home to my quiet and warm apartment! We had bought a bottle of wine and were going to settle in to prepare the activity for the kids, sip some wine and then make some home made pizza! We also wanted to make mulled wine, but to buy brandy at lotte mart it cost about 45.00 so we decided against it!
We made the cut outs for the kids and sipped some wine....it took us what felt like an eternity to cut all the little pieces needed for this project but it was really worth it!! Here is what we made with the Children's church
After we finished cutting out the papers we needed to get a few more things to make pizza so we went down the street to the shop. While we were in there we decided we needed to buy one more bottle of wine and went to the VERY VERY small alcohol section (we are talking two very tiny shelves to choose from) and guess what we found for 4,500 won (3.00)....YUP Brandy! So we decided with our pizza we would sip on some mulled wine! :-) We were very excited! So we had made the pizza dough a head of time and it was rising while we were at the store. When we returned it was perfect time to start to make our pizza. Here are the pics from that night!
After making the pizza we ate it and decided it was time to go to bed! We had to get up early for church the next morning. Sunday I woke up and went for a very frosty run! It was so so cold my joints hurt! I think I will be running in the boxing gym only until february! hahaha! After that we went to church and the kids LOVED the projects we did! We came home after church and made potato and leek soup and ate some left over pizza! We also made some Vegan Adventure cookies (the picture below)!! :-)
These cookies were so great! I am giong to make them again wednesday with Joanna! They are not only delicious but they have ZERO butter, eggs, processed sugar....only 100% maple syrup and 100%honey and oat flour (made from blending oats!) Also, I ordered vegan chocolate chips on iherb so even the chocolate chips were vegan! :-) I was very proud of myself! THey were a big hit at the ice rink when we went skating! They were all gone by the time we left! I made a few new friends because of my cookies! Kelly invited her friend Gerrard (heechil) to skate with us too! He's adorable! We all went to eat really warm soup and to drink a little soju after our skating! It was nice to eat something warm and delicious after being freezing on the ice! After we finished eating we went to a coffee shop to have keep the warm thing going! I really enjoyed talking to Gerrard and he agreed to help me with my Korean. So we are going tonight to have dinner adn practice our speaking! I am excited! He was so nice because where we were eating was one building over from where he lived, but he walked me about half a mile in the freezing weather to see me into a taxi. I really appreciate that about Korean men, they still have gentleman like qualities about them! I am really happy to make a new friend and to get to practice my Korean! :-)
I am so happy that my teaching is basically finished until after the winter vacation! I have my camp stuff prepared and the students will be doing a project for a lot of it! :-) I also only have to teach one week of camp instead of two! Here is a pic of my boy students watching The Grinch today! I get to leave at to stop by the post office on my way home, then I am off to boxing and then going to meet Gerrard. I hope I can make it through my workout tonight....I have been pretty tired lately!! :-) Here is to another great week! 3 weeks until winter vacation!! :-)
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