My co-teacher has this tradition every friday now. I ask her how she is and she responds, "TGIF". Now, I think it's great and all that she knows how to use this acronym (it would not surprise me if a Korean used it on a Tuesday), but I hate people say that, especially with regularity. People that say "TGIF" are probably the same people that have season passes to amusement parks and call 'soda' by the sadly cute attempt of 'sody pop'.

My host mom invited me out to see her play in a volleyball game. Lauryn decided to come along and see the spectacle of ajuma sports. Turns out, the game was actually a high school reunion and was more of a spectacle than one could possibly imagine. Don't worry, it included karaoke. We got hounded to eat dinner with them, despite our explaining that we had a birthday dinner to go to, and eventually we caved. At dinner I made an awkward admittance at Lauryn being my girlfriend and immediately the women were inviting themselves to the wedding which was complete news to us. In Korea, the rule is to roll with it, it's too bad they think her name is Helen.

I got some Hambeok being tailored for me as a present from my school. I tried to steer clear of the heinous color scheme of hot pink and blue, but I had to settle with lavender. At least I got to choose the color. My host dad took me shopping for a teapot, told me which one to buy (against my will), and then bought it for me. When he pulled out the bills I decided he had chosen the best one. I'm starting to get the feeling my host family sleeps on a pile of money and not a yo.

I finished my diving course, and though I again have some ear trouble, it's less than the first time. I think I've seen the doctor more times than I've seen my dive instructor. Anyway, diving's pretty rad when you're not bleeding from the ear.

Online scrabble has sort of taken over my life. If you're looking for a game, just email me. I'm always down, just as long as you don't put down the word 'upo', I don't care if scrabble thinks it's a word. Upo means nothing. It is merely and acronym which is illegal in Scrabble and therefore not a valid word. I want my fucking turn back scrabulous.com .