no pics today.

i was going to go to a baseball game tonight but the remnants of a typhoon started hitting us today right when i was leaving work. so the rest of the weekend it will be raning. a couple random observation:

-no one wears rain coats. just umbrellas. on my way over here people were looking at me weird because i had my raincoat on. screw them! im completely dry.
-about 80% of young women i see wear high heels-sometimes very high- with short skirts -sometimes very short
-the close elevator buttons actually work
-most of the things you expect to be sweet (candy/captain crunch looking cereal etc) are anything but sweet and things that are not supposed to be sweet (like break) are sweet
-any tshirt with writing on it is ALWAYS in english-well engrish- (sometimes "french" though i can tell it's "krench") i have yet to see a single tshirt with korean on it

the hair on my arms is quite a marvel apparently. i'll be sqatting down at a table helping a kid with their english and all of a sudden i will feel little fingers rubbing the hair on my arm. when i turn to see what is going on there is (this has happened exactly like this a few times) some kid completely entranced and absorbed in the hair on my arms. the whole world except my arm has disappeared.

I say hello about (literally) 50 times a day. about 80% (popluar number today!) of the kids that i see in the hall say hello to me. no matter how big or small the group. everytime i walk by a classroom the class gets completely disrupted because everyone is waving and saying hello to me. i think it might be wearing off a little though. we'll see when my novelty wears off. apropos if any of yall have self esteem problems you should come to korea and teach elementary school for a couple weeks.