Rabbit, Rabbit

Today I loved my kids. Today I look forward to seeing them tomorrow morning.

Now, whenever I write something like this I look back on it during those long periods of blog-update silence (now you will all be able to tell when I'm too depressed to write :) and hate myself for being anything close to happy. But right now it's the damn truth. Leo had this loud, excited "MISS ADRIANA!" for me as I was walking into the building and he was jumping out of the school bus that had arrived on my tail. He bounded up the stairs and held out his hand, demanding a high five. I've always been the one asking for those in this place. Then he did it three more times during the course of the day. THEN he earned himself 3 black marks (I give them out when any of the kids annoy me) and lost a sticker for the day. The poor kid only needed two more stickers to fill out his Chance Tree (they get a prize every time they do), so he ate all of his lunch for the first time so he could still get his present.

Freaking adorable.

Dammit, children. Stop making everything so difficult.

Korea remains Korea, even in the aftermath of a November unlike any other I had ever had the misfortune of crawling through. Highlights include the epic stroll I took with my friend Marina when we tried to go to a bikram yoga class and ended getting lost in Apgujeong, otherwise known as the Manhattan of Seoul. We took pictures of mammoth (I'm not kidding, words will never be able to describe how insanely big they were) King crabs in a tank outside a restaurant there, and admired the lovely flower arrangements outside the string of posh car dealerships that lined the road. Wait - those aren't flowers, they're cabbage. Yes, purple and white cabbage blossoms added splashes of color to the well-groomed bushes. We ended up at Praha Castle - a Czech themed bar that had us both sighing for home.

I also went to an open mic for poets and comedians at a delightful Itaewon hole-in-the-wall, sipped red wine and ate a real Greek salad with real feta cheese, and listened to a round of spoken word entertainment that left me feeling confident enough to go back there tomorrow and read something of my own.

Now I sit writing law school essays I think I may be a little too loopy to be writing right now. Just how serious are these supposed to be tone-wise?

Haha. Loopy Adri.

Thank GOD November is over.