Well, it's almost mid-November. Actually it's Remembrance Day back home, which means a long weekend. I wish I was having one of those right now. November and February are the only months here that don't have a long weekend. This month is gonna feel super long!
So, what's been going on? Well, fall has been beautiful here. It's almost everyone's favourite time of year here. September came and went really fast. I went shopping with Heather in Myeong Dong as Dennis' birthday gift to me. I can't shop with him and Heather can't shop with Luke, so the obvious thing to do was go together. Men. Haha. We only went to 3 stores and were out of there quick because it gets so busy, and plus Heather and Luke were hosting an football game at their place on their huge projector screen. Packers vs. Broncos. Heather and Luke are from Wisconsin and our other friends, Mariko and Brandon are from Colorado. Anyway, Heather and I went to Forever 21, Zara, and H&M. I think I spent over $200 and it felt good!
I was pretty much sick for the entire month of October, so that sucked. We went out for Luke's 25th birthday, twice. First we went to Jinsu's (his Korean friend) coffee shop and went to the Rainbow Room in Gangnam (a 30 minute cab ride from our place). The Rainbow Room is a hookah bar. We smoked orange tobacco and some other kind of tobacco, which wasn't as good as the orange. Luke was super wasted and passed out there. Pretty funny because he spent about 20 minutes convincing us to go there because we were really sick and just wanted to go home, and then he ends up passing out. We didn't mind at all because he just wanted to be surrounded by friends on his birthday and how could we say no to that? The cab ride back was awesome. The cabbie packed 8 of us (9 including the cabbie) in the car so that we could save money! Haha! Out of the 9 of us, only 2 were girls and the rest were very big and heavy boys. I don't know how we did it, but we did, and it ended up being $5 each instead of $15. His second birthday thing was the "real" celebration. We went bowling, which was super fun! I've never played 4 games in a row before. Haha. Next we went to Jinsu's coffee shop where we had Korean bbq and Wisconsin style bbq where they put the bbq-ed burgers and hot dogs in a pot of boiling beer and onions. It's quite juicy and tasty! And we had lots of drinks, of course. It was a bit awkward being there at first because Luke was pissed off at Jinsu. When we were bowling, they got a phone call from their friend James who was helping set up at Jinsu's coffee shop. Jinsu was going to close down his shop for Luke's birthday and decided to charge each of us $12 each (I think). The money wasn't a problem for any of us, we told Luke. But we, especially Luke and Heather, were pissed off that he just decided to pull that on us right before the party and not weeks before when the planning started. Luke let James know how pissed off he was and I'm sure James let Jinsu know. Needless to say, Luke tried to pay Jinsu at the coffee shop, but Jinsu didn't take it. All was well after that. Heather bought a huge sheet cake from Costco and one of their Korean girlfriends decided it would be funny to try to throw the entire cake in Luke's face. She wasn't able to do it, but their other Korean guy friend there did. Only a fourth of the cake was left, and Heather did not look please at all. She was pretty excited about the cake. Ah, well, it was all in good fun. The smarter thing to do was just to get a piece of cake and use that instead of the entire expensive sheet. Purple and green icing ended up on my white jacket, which I just got from the dry cleaners a few weeks before, but no biggie. I tried cleaning it off, but I couldn't get it all. I'll just drop it off at the dry cleaners again, but this time I should pick it up sooner than 6 months later. Haha! The dry cleaners jokingly got mad at me for taking so long to pick it up! Anyway, after Jinsu's coffee shop we went to the Norae bang (karaoke room) next door and sang for about an hour.
The girls and I didn't make any cupcakes in September for some reason, but for Halloween Heather and Mariko wanted to make these cupcakes for their kids, so we did. Here they are:
October was also quite stressful for me because I was in charge of the haunted house at my school and I just had no idea what to do. It turned out to be quite good and lots of kids cried. Success!
