another thing that i haven't really gotten used to here is the way "westerners," especially around my building cause a lot of english teachers live here, decide to strike up a conversation with me just cause i'm a fellow "westerner," i.e. obviously an english teacher too. i mean whenever i see someone who isn't korean i just kind of smile or nod if they look in my direction cause they always seem to want recognition that we are the fellow oddballs in the vicinity or whatever. but often people decide to start talking to me, as if we already know each other. hayley and i have talked about this, and it's just a bit weird to both of us. it happened again today as i was walking to the grocery store. this guy saw me and was like "hey! are you an english teacher?!" yep. whoo.

today i played real scrabble at cindy's, as in not online scrabble. i much prefer it online cause it tells me whether something is a word or not, hehe. but i think i did ok.