Aigo....

I'm headed off to Naejangsan tomorrow to go hiking with some friends and look at the fall leaves. Can't wait to take pictures!

Spent about three hours today going back and forth to the immigration office to replace my lost alien card. It's a pain to get down there, stand in line, and come back, but it might be worth another trip if it means I get to keep my alien card the next time I leave the country (they confiscated mine when I left last year. It's been annoying trying to slowly replace everything in my wallet. I had my Florida driver's license, social security card, my American bank card, not to mention about 6 different cafe point cards. My Bank of America card is on its' way - free of charge- to Korea, I've gotten a new card for my account here, and I got a new subway card this afternoon. I keep calling the club, but my expectations and hopes are low that my wallet will ever be found again.

What do you mean there's no Tooth Fairy?

Three of my kids had loose teeth today, so I asked them if they were going to leave their teeth for the Tooth Fairy. They just kind of looked at me. So I asked on of the other teachers later if they have the Tooth Fairy here. Turns out that you throw your teeth over the roof for good luck - there's no money involved. How they throw them over the roof when they live in apartment buildings that are 15 stories tall, I have no clue.

I went to the immigration office on Thursday of last week. Lee had gotten my results back from my physical at the hospital (no diseases or any problems to speak of - clean bill of health all around), so we took them to the immigration office to apply for my alien card. I had to give them my passport, that I'll get back in about 2 weeks. In the meantime, they gave me a little white piece of paper that says I'm allowed to be in the country. At least, I think that's what it says. I'm looking into taking a class or doing a language exchange to learn Korean.