Woo hoo!! I got a camera!! (sort of)

The teacher that I am taking over for (sort of) at SLP sold me her cellphone --and cellphones here are AWESOME--like, a million phones you have never and will never see back home, and SO cheap in comparison, and so cool. Mine has a built in subway map and schedule, day planner, korean-english dictionary (and an app to quiz you on your "weekly vocab"--like it will literally generate "tests" and "quizzes", cool!), a 2.0 megapixel camera with a little wide angle mirror (and i mean LITTLE--this thing is like a grain of rice in size) that shows you what you are taking a picture of--so you can self-take cutesy couple photos with your korean BF and know that you are always in the shot! haha). So expect lots of those soon (minus the Korean BF... and probably the cutesy-ness).

Oh! and everyone has these cutesy little dangly charms hanging off of them. like EVERYONE. Grown men will have like... a full sized teddy bear with a pom-pom outfit that folds out into a hand mirror hanging off the end of their phone just walking down the street. I haven't got one yet, but I have my eye on this rhinestone-encrusted, hand-mirror-converting plush kitten that has a real fur tail and a clip-on rape whistle. We'll see. It's three dollars... so a LITTLE pricey. ;)

I went boxing day shopping--NO SALES. how disappointing. Well, i shouldn't say NO sales, but they were sales that just happened to coincide with boxing day and the two were in no way related. There was a sidewalk-sale-type-thing at this awesome book store at COEX called well... i always think "Barnes and Noble", and i honestly think they probably just tried to make their name sound like that even though it isn't--a lot of things are like that: faux-American names and "looks", even though they aren't. Anyway, it's about as big as a Barnes and Noble, but I got the COOLEST stationary. So cool. I can't wait to send people letters with it. Oh, and I bought a puzzle-- a really pretty one! Lisa, I'm bringin' it back: puzzling is cool.

Koreans LOVE stationary, like there is a stationary store, or a sticker store, or a pen store, on every corner. I think I'm going to buy an "Elite Banana" pencil case, but I haven't decided if i want the tin one, the big, locking tin one, the plush one, or the regular but chocolate-dipped-with-sprinkles one. Elite Banana, from what I understand is some... Korean thing (comic? show? who knows....) that basically depicts an actual Banana, doing "elite" things such as golfing, picking up chicks, having massages, going to cocktail parties, dining out, etc. Basically the funniest thing i have ever seen. Soo.... yeah. SO far I have just seen this elusive banana character on pencil cases, white out tape things, pens, agendas, memo pads, clipboards, stationary, and mugs, but I will search out his original location and report back soon.

Mmmmm.... and I just finished my from-powder Caramel Machiatto... so I'm out!!