In a New Light

I recieved a totally different hair cut this weekend. Ashley came over to Seoul on saturday. Ashley, my roommie, and I went shopping at Ewdae- and that's where I got my hair cut and my rommate got her hair colored and streak. It's a little above my shoulder now. It's so wierd because I'll reach over and touch my hair but there's hardly any left. I guess I'm so use to it being there. Cutting my hair is symbolic- I'm trying to let my past go and be more of what I want to be and not what others regard me to be. 22 years gone in a snip. My head definately feels lighter.

I had to wonderful and yummy Thanksgiving dinner this week. The first, wednesday was put on by our RA. There was very good food. The only disturbing that happened (which was surprising and immature) was that the supposedly "leaders" hid one pumpkin pie, went in the back of the kitchen ate it. It was a stingy act, that at all what Thanksgiving was about. There was a lot of people that came to the dinner, and I could understand that that just wanted a piece of the pie...but to hide it and pretend that there was none left was just plain not right. Hmmm....Thanksgiving was definately interesting. Anyways, the second Thanksgiving dinner was held by CIEE. Suzanne our director had a friend of hers make the main courses- mashed potatoes, stuffing, turkey, ham, veggies... it was very delicious. This was a cool event because we got to see come of the CIEE students that we don't see around school.

Angela and I went to Apgujeong and Lotte World (place were "Stairways to Heaven" was filmed)today. Apgujeong was supposedly the "rich" area of Seoul. Which I definately agreed with as we walked by imported car shops. We tried to find one of the shopping districts, which we couldn't but luckly we came across another shopping district. Shopping there was definately out of my realm....
Lotte World was very cool. It was just like any amusement park except it was inside...think of Mall of America. We didn't get the chance to go in the park because we got there later in the day and didn't want to waste money (so we'll go there next saturday). Anyways, there were lots of shops outside of the amusement park. We got to see (from above) the skating rank that appeared in most Korean dramas. Yeah!