Birthday!

I am digging the fourteen hour time difference between the US and Korea right now, probably because it meant I got to celebrate my birthday for two days! And the fun doesn't stop! Not all of my presents have arrived yet, so I have even more birthdayness to look forward to!

Anyway, my birthday fell on a Thursday this year, and that meant working. Work was decent enough. On Thursdays I have two actual classes to teach and 3 "tutoring" sessions, which means one-on-one babysitting. I was in a cheerful but lazy mood. I brought origami paper with me to my kindergarten class and we made paper fans and drew pictures of rainy and sunny days.

My youngest tutoring student made chain paper caterpillars with me. They were the cutest pink and green caterpillars ever. In my last class of the day, my brightest student "Sharon" made me a card while I wrote down her spelling words on the board.

I have been anxiously awaiting some packages in the mail. Only Mike, Carole and Brandon's arrived, but that was okay. After work, Michael took me out to eat at Yumsem for cheaply priced Korean food. Gimbap and Koreanized Udon Noodles make for a delicious meal. Afterward, Michael was fairly insistent that we get a cake. Ice Cream Cake! Those who know me well know my favorite birthday cake is an ice cream one. Baskin-Robins makes a pretty good cake. We chose this one because it was the prettiest. Michael lit candles and sang to me and everything, but those pictures are not available because someone thought he needed to wear only his boxer-briefs.

The cake was part cherry, part hot-fudge sundae with nuts flavored if you are wondering. We took a gamble and it turned out to be a pretty good one. We'll be going back for Michael's birthday next month!


In a group effort Michael and his family got me a "practical gift" - a supply of environmentally friendly, flushable litter and a Litter Kwitter. Thanks guys! We're going to try the toilet training thing again with Gizmo. We did it once before with mostly success, but Gizmo had a litterbox buddy, Morpheus, who wasn't too keen on the idea of using the toilet instead of a litter box. So we went back to the litter box. Now we just have to wait for the thing to get here!