I'm pretty sure of it, if not better. But only because y'all contributed to the great start. Those back home as well as my coworkers, students and friends here. My day started with talking to all of my family, including the twins and Addie, who I haven't talked to since I've arrived. I got my hur did, for only 10 bucks and it was the best hair cut I've ever had. They did the most amazing hair wash, it was like a scalp massage. I drank coffee, ate pastries and leisurely made my way to work by 3 pm. Some of the students were kind enough to bring me gifts, back to the generosity of the people here (I have more examples coming). I received a pencil case, notebooks, pencils for my pencil case, a handkerchief, and coppee (coffee) drinks. All of which are token Korean things. In addition my coworkers got me a cake with candles, sang me happy birthday and gave me a gift certificate to E Mart (it's a Korean thang) along with a card. From work I went straight to meet people for dinner. It was a great group of friends ranging from people I've known since the first night I got here to people I met at dinner that night. It was a group of almost 18 from Canada, America, Korea... all over. We went to eat Korean bbq at a top notch restaurant. The two Korean woman who came along to dinner, who didn't know who the hell I was before that night, brought me a gift from The Body Shop. After dinner we headed to one of my favorite dives. My favorite 'cause it reminds me of places in back in Athens, small, dark and plays live music ranging in quality, every Wednesday being open mic night. We met more friends at the bar and continued the fun with pool, music and dancing. After all it was a school night so it ended at a reasonable hour in order to be able to function for work the next day. I want to thank everyone that contributed to making it such a good day, I am so thankful to have y'all be a part of it wherever in the world the birthday wishes came from.
Tomorrow I will be heading two hours west of Busan by bus to hop islands for Korea's Thanksgiving (Chusok). Most of the schools have Monday and Tuesday off next week so there will be a bunch of teachers camping on various islands in the area. I have a cell phone now, although I'm not sure how it works with foreign calls. Here is the number just in case: 010-5844-2097 (I got to pick the last four digits). Sorry this is a dinky post, the next one will be good. Promise.
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