I just came home from a really nice night out with my friend Kelly. I did some shopping on my own downtown, which is always interesting. The stores here are different from home in that most of them are very small, don't have dressing rooms, and only have like 2 or 3 of each item. Luckily for me, I'm the size of most Koreans so pretty much everything here is just my size. While doing my shopping I came upon two really funny Konglish things, one being a girls clothing store called "Pooing" and the other being a handbag that had in big bold letters "MINUTEMEN. MEATPUPPETS. DESCENDENTS. ANGST." on it. I was so tempted to buy it just for the sheer ridiculousness of it, but I decided against it. After shopping, Kelly and I had some McDonalds for dinner and then went to a coffee shop downtown called The New Yorker. It has the best chai tea I've ever tasted (and those of you who know me know that's all I ever order at coffee shops) and American style magazines, so I was in heaven. It was great just to have a laid back night and talk to one of my girl friends. I think we're going to make it a regular thing.

Not much else new here. I was sick all week, so teaching kind of sucked. I'm feeling better today though and I'm going to join an awesome gym my friend found that is literally less than a block from my apartment. You miss a lot of cool stores and things here if you don't look up when you're walking around, because often times there are things on the second and third floors of buildings. It's a weird thing to get used to, always looking up when you're walking around the streets.

If you're interested, here's a Korean song I'm currently obsessed with. It's a rapper by the name of Outsider and I think I heard he's one of the fastest rappers in the world. Wait for the middle of the song...it's insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rk8d3yV4Sw