Black Friday??

Today felt like the longest day! I was out and about later in the evening and was talking about what I did and I had to stop and think--was that today??

Last night I had trouble sleeping and went to school with only about 4 hours of sleep. Classes went fine. We got a LOT of homework/assignments and tasks to do though. We also started on chapter 19. I found out that our finals will cover everything from the beginning of the semester, not from where the midterms ended!

I came back to my room and got to chat with Joe before heading to Gangnam to meet Ginger. (She is my adoptee friend who did the Inje program and I met in September.) We decided to do a bit of shopping in the underground shopping mall at Gangnam Station. It felt like "Black Friday" to be out shopping-though there were no great sales and not crazy lines etc.

Around 6, I asked Ginger if we could walk over to Yeoksam Station so I could go say hi to Mr. Lee. So we walked over there and I got a big hug from him. I don't think he recognized me at first, because of my haircut. He kept patting my face. I was able to talk with him a little bit better than before, but I still struggled some. We told him we were going to be going to eat and then he told me to wait and he went downstairs. When he came back up he handed me some money and told me to have a nice dinner!! So sweet! We've made plans to meet in a few weeks, but because of the difficulty we have communicating I'm not sure where or what time! He said he will call me, so I'm hoping I have a Korean interpreter for me!

We walked back to Gangnam and looked for a restaurant. Along the way we passed a street food vendor--he had dough and little cast iron molds-one in the shape of a peanut and one in the shape of a walnut (the nuts in their natural form/shape). He put real nuts in the middle and then filled them with dough. It smelled really good so we decided to get some of each. We got 2 big bags full and each bag was only 3,000W. We finally ended up picking a kimbap kind of shop to eat dinner. I ordered kimchi bokkum bop (kimchi fried rice) and it was a lot more spicy than I was expecting), but it was good.

After dinner, we went back to Erica and CJ's apartment, where Ginger is staying. (Erica and her family are in America, I think I mentioned that on Tuesday) Ginger and I hung out until CJ returned from work. She was hungry, so we ran to McDonalds-there I was able to get another ice cream cone. :)

We came back from our food run and watched some movies on tv and talked before we all just kind of fell asleep.