Hi Korea, I'm Here!

Last post of the crazy update.. Sorry for the length.. I'll try to post more often :[

In other news my carrot sprouted leaves and had lil roots coming out of it. I performed surgery on carrot and eventually made it into small carrot sticks. I should have taken pictures during the surgery, but I was too into dissecting the carrot. :[

Oh I also got another hair cut at the same place. Anthea got a hair cut elsewhere a few weeks back but it cost 10k without hair washing and styling. Mine only costs 20k and has both :D I decided to go ahead and get a haircut because my ondol was broken and I didn't want to take forever washing my hair by dumping boiled water on my head. It took long enough to wash my body that way. After the ski trip, I came home and turned on the heat.. it was working for a few hours but all of a sudden the power would go out. Good thing I knew where the circuit breaker was. I flipped the switch back on but it would immediately overload again. I don't have much plugged in so I went ahead and disconnected everything before I tried again. Next try, nope back into the dark. I walked around trying to think what could be wrong. Only thing else to disconnect was the refridgerator. Since that would have really been bad I didn't even want to try it :p I then saw the ondol control pad and was like.. HMMMMMMMMMMMM and pushed the red button so it would be off when I flipped the switch again.. and wa la! It worked. I left it off for about 3 hours before I turned it back on. It was fine all night long.

But the story continues.. I had school that day so I turned it back off after my shower and went to school. When I got back I turned it on for the heated flooring.. everything was fine and dandy until 7pm and boom~ there pops the breaker again. It made me sad :[ This time I left it off all night long until the next morning.. next morning when I turned it back on for hot water it was working fine! See the pattern.. it's slowly dying. I thought it was ok though so when I mentioned it to Jang, I was only joking. But on Friday when it tripped the breaker again I finally messaged Jang and was like, it's totally dead. Jang said "boil water with a stove. cheer up." She's so nice. She called the landlord so the landlord and the repairman would come on Saturday night and fix it.

That morning I tried my luck with the ondol. When I turned the hot water button on, something in the gas cabinet was rattling like crazies. I was in my room at the time so I kinda thought it was just some sound from the neighbors. So I'm like cool, at least I can still take my shower. Nope..... once I turn the hot water on in the bathroom, the power goes out lol. Thankfully though, hot water seemed to still work out of my kitchen faucet so I got a large bucket of that and also went ahead and boiled water in my teapot. After I finished the water in the tub, I put in the boiling water and started adding cold water from the shower to the tub but I had accidentally pushed the handle just a tiny bit past the middle and the lights went out again. It was pretty frustrating.. Just a tiny little tap to the left killed the power!

So that's when I decided to just go get a haircut :D I thought it would be ok since when I got back everything would be fixed.. but no...... Jang messaged and said that the landlord and repairman would instead come the next morning. Anyway when the guy finally came and looked at it, I had thought my landlord said "4" (ne in Korean) so I thought she meant it would take 4 days to fix. But in reality, she meant "I/me" that she would be coming back with the repairman to fix it the next day. I was pretty surprised and relieved to see them the next day. I was also going crazy b/c they kept using all my clean things. They used my clean bathroom shoes, used my expensive toilet paper to wipe stuff, used my clean tub to catch the water they needed to drain, my new clean kitchen sponge, etc etc.. I kept trying to get them to use the stuff I have to dirty things but they didn't understand. I was cringing everytime they picked up something else. I did get some yummy Daeboreum rice + seaweed from the landlord though. It made me have a crap load of leftovers b/c I had cooked that day (enough for a few meals) but it was still yummy :p

Since the other post is unbelievably long, I'll just add it here.. Ashley and I went to see Marley and Me on the 25th and omg it is tear wrenching!! The movie was really really good but everyone in the theater was crying.. My tears kept streaming.. I was on the verge of sobbing haha. Few days before I had been watching all of the 2nd season of Clannad so I was already in sad mode.. I balled while watching that btw.. With all that said, if you have time, watch the movie!!

currently uploading videos of my students.. will edit post when it's finished~