Our friend is here!

Wednesday my best friend, Tess, came to Korea for one wonderful week of fun and adventure. We have been having the BEST time visiting with her! It has been so great to see her after 9 months of missing her.

During the day today she came to school and met some of my students. She's a teacher in the States, so she had her class write letters to my third graders. My kids were so very excited to write letters back to their new American pen pals. It was a fantastic experience for them. They got to ask questions about the US and answer questions about Korea. Some of them brought stickers, photos of their families, and presents to attach to their letters. It was really sweet.


After school let out we went for duc-galbi, which literally means "Chicken Meat". We love it. It is very spicy chicken with rice cake noodles, cabbage, seaweed, and seasoning that is all cooked together in the middle of the table. After you eat the bulk of the meat then you get more rice, cabbage, and seaweed and fry it all up with lots more of the spicy red sauce. Delicious.


We ventured into Hongdae to show Tess the Seoul nightlife scene. We had a blast going to different places, walking around the busy (and cold!) streets and dancing late into the night. It was an awesome time.