Highlights of my Day... Monday, December 24

1. Woke up today only to do more marking. Byung Hyuk says I'm living in the stone age cause I'm doing ALL marks by hand, but to retype it all over again on Excel... the 300 some Korean names and student ID numbers... no thanks. Mind ya, this is taking me forever!

2. Decided today that maybe I should get into the season spirit and buy some Christmas presents for my friends. Up until today, the only one I bought a present for was Hanna.

3. Surprisingly enough, the mall wasn't so packed. Yesterday it was much worse actually. And so, I did some Christmas shopping. I loaded up on lots of goodies for Mi Nam, spent way too long looking for a present for Q, and I bought Hanna's daughter a gift too.

4. Apparently the new manager at the KB Bank was definitely in the festive spirit today cause when I walked in, he greeted me with a candy, took all my bags and escorted me over to the VIP room where he then helped me do my banking... wow!!! I use to get this special treatment from the old manager cause he was friends with the Cheonan Trump and he knew I was too. But this new manager, wow, so nice! I was expecting to wait about an hour or so but surprisingly enough, I was in and out of there within 10 minutes. That's a new record!

5. It's been pretty hard for me to get into the Christmas spirit this year cause I know I won't be seeing my family till the summer and, oddly enough, as much as I really don't like snow unless I'm playing in it, no snow during the Christmas season just really doesn't sit well with me. I think I've only seen about an hour of snow this year. No sooner did the snow fall but then it went away.

6. Today I went shopping wearing a pair of jeans, my cute brown boots, and a sweater... jacket definitely not required for the weather we've been having here.

7. I know, I know... it's Christmas Eve and I really should be spending it with my boyfriend, but instead, I stayed home. I just don't really feel like celebrating right now. Last year I had Kim Tae to cheer me up at Christmas, this year he's in Australia and so I thought about him a lot today. I wonder if someone is there to help him through Christmas like he was there for me last year. I tried to message him on msn but his status was set to "away".

8. Later in the evening, Q called me and practically begged me to come see him. His brother had come in from out of town and so I thought it best that they spend time together, just the two of them.

9. I was almost convinced to come over when Q got his brother to call me. He's so cute. I think he's a year younger than me but he's way more sweeter than me. We've only talked once prior to him calling me today but it felt so nice to talk to him. He told me that his "heart so happy feeling" because his brother's "heart is warmed" by me.... so cute.

10. I really miss my family right now. Staying in Korea this year for Christmas was the dumbest decision I've made all year... seriously. I should have gone to visit. I tried to catch my parents on msn tonight but had no luck and so I called it a night and curled up with Mi Nam on the floor.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do they know?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-- George Moore