bfast- special k with milk, mini banana

lunch- kim chi, rice, non-descript (i.e. I have no clue how to describe it, but it was good) soup, some kind of vegetable looking thing that tasted like a type of root, and the yummiest ginger chicken and orange squash-type vegetable stuff I've ever had!

dinner- rice with sesame seeds, bell pepper, mushrooms and tofu, and orange juice to keep the swine away!

I was delighted to have hot water this morning! The hot water works only intermittently and I have yet to figure out the schedule (if there is one)...

It was a very cold morning, so I brought a to-go mug with hot tea...

As you can tell, my day got off to a good start!

I was again in my office all day long, so I just worked on learning Korean. I took a break for lunch, then hit the books again. I concentrated on learning Hangul, the Korean alphabet. I think once I have that down, everything here will be much more pleasant - I will be able to read the signs!

Around 2pm the kids started flooding into my office... I was visited by so many of them today! They saw I was learning Korean, and they all got really excited about playing teacher. I was exhausted, but learned a lot :)

My baby, the boy who always comes and shows me his drawings/reads or tells me stories, was hanging out a lot with me today. He was still reading me a book when 5 o'clock came, and I told him it was time to go. He was walking the same way I was going home, so we walked together.

I was getting nervous, thinking "hmmm I hope this kid actually lives this way and isn't just following me home!" Between my Korean and his English (totally a credit to his grasp of the English language here...), I figured out he was going to piano lessons and they were apparently held right down the street from my apartment. He walked me all the way to my apartment building, and I asked if he would be okay walking the rest of the way to piano lessons alone. I was nervous to leave him all alone in the big city, but he does that walk every other day by himself, so I let him go. What an amazing little kid.