unusually busy

I am sooooo glad this past weekend is over with! I cannot tell you how exhausted I was after the Kindergarten end-of-the-year performance on Saturday, since it seemed like I had been working nonstop up until that point...not that it was hard work or anything, I just value my free time that's all. So yes, it's over & done with, thank god.

Everything went really well, better than even I had imagined it would. The kids didn't mess up anything too badly and the parents really seemed to enjoy seeing their kids up on stage dancing around, or acting, or singing, or whatever it was that they were doing. After it was all over the other teachers and I went out to dinner at this little seafood place we've been to a couple of times before. I tried something called a sea cucumber which was this raw, slimy greenish blue thing that had a texture not unlike raw oysters. It didn't taste all that great so I didn't try another after that. We also had some seafood kalguksu, which is this homemade noodle soup, as well as some steamed scallops and mussels. Those were both really good. The dinner was compliments of my school's director since we had worked so hard to prepare for the performance. She also gave us the day off yesterday since we did spend all of our Saturday setting up for it too.

So on Sunday I just basically sat around my apartment and relaxed...nothing too extreme. I finished one book and then another the following day entitled "The Reader". It was ok, though not one of my favs. For my day off on Monday I walked around the city since it was so nice out and then in the evening I went down this side path I discovered on the way back down from Mt. Namsan. The path led to this little park where there was a playground with swings and a climbing fort. I swung on the swings for a while and then proceeded to climb around the fort like a monkey. The few passers-by I saw probably thought I looked rather strange playing on a playground by myself at that time of night, especially since I'm not exactly a kid or anything. In any case, it was fun. ;)

Today I am back at school waiting for two other teachers to come back from a meeting so we can all go out to COEX mall for dinner. The supervisor of our kindergarten is leaving tomorrow to go live in Hawaii with her children since she's going to be attending a university there. The dinner tonight is her going-away party. Should be fun.

This weekend I've got dinner planned with a friend at a Greek place in Itaewon on Friday and then the usual anime get-together on Saturday afternoon. I think we may be going out somewhere that night as well since the weather is actually supposed to be bearable. Maybe dancing or something...who knows? Sunday I'll probably be staying inside to relax and veg, or I might possibly go running or hiking in the afternoon. There's also that hash thing I've been wanting to try out that I mentioned in one of my previous posts. Still haven't gotten around to running with all of them, but I'm planning to as soon as the weather warms up a bit. After all, I did just get myself a new pair of running shoes for the occasion...the Asics GT-2100s, and I love them!

Anyway, more later...and I'll be posting pics of the performance from this past weekend as soon as I can get around to it.
:)