More photos Wednesday

Today is ESL mid-term exam day. That doesn't mean anything much very exciting, except I'm going out with work afterwards for dinner, which should be fun. Here's another half-hearted update because I don't feel like typing :)

First - this is the Dongdaemun fabric market. It's really huge!

This is the building from the outside. 6 or 7 floors of fabric and fabric crafting stuff.
Awesome and totally overwhelming!

This is in Myeongdong. These guys freak me out.

Traditional Korean dining.

Traditional fermentation of soybean paste

Pork galbi!

Bugs. They taste like bugs.

Drawers are finished! Kinda funky :D

Cherry Blossom Sunday

Spring has sprung!

Back to five things Wednesday

Yes, I've been slack again :) I'm not *that* super busy, but somehow all my time goes... somewhere!
This past weekend I found a gym I want to join, bought some shoes for hiking, went to a wedding, worked on my trash-drawers, watched some Grey's Anatomy (AKA: best show on Earth), and just about strangled Andy. Not really his fault, he's just a naturally annoying person.

But, anyway, some photos:

Funny warning on the back of the knife I bought. hehe "keep the scissors out of children" :D *stab stab*

My drawers 'before'. Stay tuned for an 'after' one day soon.

Fittata in a rice cooker

Dark chocolate almond banana

My new shoes

All dressed up for Andy's friend's brother's wedding.

And now, back to five things so far this week that have been awesome:

1) Having Monday off is amazing

2) I found a gym and will be joining this week

3) I'm having a lot of fun redecorating the drawers

4) I made a lovely carbonara over zucchini for dinner last night

5) It's been really sunny - I hope it holds out until Saturday, I'm going hiking again :)

Got my hair done Monday

Oooh, two posts in one day :)

I went to Dongtan on the bus this moring (I love Dongtan) to go to 'Blue Ocean Hair Salon', which had been recommended to me by another foreigner here in Osan. I booked in last week for a perm! Yeah, the permanent curly kind. It's been on my bucket list for a while, and I finally got up the courage to get it done.

Well, it took a good 2 hours and involved these funky plug-in hair rollers and a lot of waiting, but $65 later, I was curly! It's a lot messier than I wanted, but I think that's just how they styled it for me. They put some wax gunk in it, and to me it just looks like my hair is dirty. We'll see what happens on Wednesday when I wash my hair :D

And, without further ado, some pictures:

'Before'

After!

It's growing on me the more I look at it :)

Hiking update Monday

I'm being super slack about keeping up with my blog, I know. And then, when I do feel like updating, I get overwhelmed thinking I have to write so much, but it's my blog, so I can write little if I want to :D

So, on Saturday I went hiking  It was supposed to be an easy beginners hike, but conditions changed and we had to hike a different way and it was very steep - scaling rock faces and climbing up and down very steep paths with ropes. It even started to snow at the end of the hike! It was a really awesome day, though, and something I'll definitely do again.

Here's a video one of the group made of the hike (not me!), followed by my photos: