Well, hello, old friend!

I must say that I am becoming a firm believer in the power of Facebook. While, I don't use it for much more than connecting with people (no, I am not a candy crush saga fan, or whatever is more popular now), this is the third time that I have been able to meet an old friend in their home country due to Facebook, and it is the second one that was possible due to one of my status updates! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Hyeyun, our former exchange student (10 years ago!):

She came all the way from Seoul for the day, just to see me! We went to T. G. I. Friday for lunch, and I had an absolutely wonderful bacon cheeseburger and fries, yum!!!

 

 Hahaha! I am now the tall one, instead of being the short one, like when I was ten :-P

After eating we did some window shopping, went to my Bible Study together (woo hoo!!!), a little more shopping and then we had to head back to the train station for her to catch her train back to Seoul. It was so neat to see her again after ten years!

I was really hoping to go to Busan, the second largest city in South Korea, which is on the Sea of Japan (also know as the East Sea) this weekend, but it was very rainy, and who wants to go to the beach in the rain?! So, as of right now it is on the slate for next week!

Today (Monday) was the regular Korean class and teaching English. One of my Korean friends and I went out for supper. I am proud to proclaim that I can now use chopsticks quite well (even though people keep trying to give me a fork!) another win for Abby, woo hoo!

 

Proof of my chopstick prowess! And yes, that is a french fry that I am eating using my chopsticks. They don't use hands here, okay! :-P

Tomorrow is class as usual. Wednesday we have another holiday. I am beginning to think that Korea has more holidays than Russia! Friday, in place of class, we are going on an excursion to another city! No clue what we are doing there, but not having class sounds great to me! The less they teach us, the less they can test us on, right? Well, here, that's probably wrong, but it sounds nice!

I hope everyone is doing well! 32 days until take off!