Friday 

Friday

Alllrighty then. Today went fine. Glad it's Friday. I got my confirmation number today!!!! Woohooo! So I go to Japan on Thursday...yep...I just float across an inlet on a boat to JAPAN! HA! I love it. So I stay there a night...and then come back the next day. That will be interesting. yet another foreign country with another language, etc... sounds like fun to me. SO glad I have that number now anyway. I hope it all goes smoothly

Well, I just went downtown Guangju with a coworker for diner and a stroll. Man, it looks like mini Robson street stores, and I mean MINI. With Robson street being a whole neighbourhood!! It was night time...and the streets were brighter than daylight! IT's all that fabulous lighting I tell you! Wait till I post these pics!!

We went to eat in a perfect restaraunt if you ask me. There was a section with chair seating, and a section with floor seating. Of course, I asked for the floor seating. Woven 'bamboo' or straw mats on the floor that were about an inch or so think. The dark wood laminate tables that were so classy looking that who cares if they were laminate!! I've noticed a LOT of laminate here. It's also mixed with solid wood too..but mostly p=lam (plastic laminate). LOVE the colors they use.

We happened to bump into a friend of Rachels on the street who happened to be a white guy and his Korean girlfriend. I felt like HE was the foreiner! it felt like..hey this isnt right.!! Ha! And the interesting thing about it was...he spoke fluent Korean. HA! He was really nice. His name is Matthew and his girlfriend's name was something in Korean. She spoke quite good English too.

I find myself speaking to EVERYTING and EVERYONE like they know little Englilsh. Ya...and I think that I feel quite comfortable here because of living in Vancouver. Honestly, at times I really dont feel like it's much different. Its the same feel and atmostphere...and I'm used to hearing Chines and Korean and any other kind of languag earound me all the time anyway. Nooo big deal.

The stores are ful of purses and (oh man I gotta get me a Louis Vuitton) but the problem is that everyone has one! They're just 20 to 30 each. Depends on where u go. WOWzers!! Funny how much counterfeit' stuff is here. No complaints though....;)

Oh yes, I happened to walk by 2 stores in one day that had chunks of cow or wahtever hanging outside. How hoofs an dlegs and other parts I hve no idea bout and dont really honestly want to know1

Oh yes...it was pepero day today. Kids are amazing. They just come up to you and give all their stuff way without even considering it. Lesson to learn right there. I got a hug box of peperos. I gave most of them back to other students. It's so sweet.

Oh, and did I tell you that a girl came up to me out of the blue and gave me an orange? I felt like the 'real' teacher with the 'rreal apple'!!! Awwwww!

Okay..I'm falling asleep. Will write tomrrow...