how we managed to fit about 40 people in Annie's apartment I' ll never now but we did it somehow. Last weekend was Annie's Christmas party. At first she was worried that no one would come but that never became a problem.

Friday we stayed in Yeongwol and vegged out. Then on Saturday morning kate dragged kim and I to her school to help out her nativity play (which was performed on Monday). She gave me the music and sent me to the students for a few hours and they worked on costumes. When that was finished we piled into the car and drove to Taebek to pick up brianne and her dog Ger. We got to Gangneong around 4:30 and after dropping our stuff off at annie's we headed out to meet up with Seamus, Stephen and Mike at pizza hut (mmmmmm pizza). After stuffing out faces we left Stephen and Mike, kidnapped Seamus and heading back to annie's to get ready. The party was great. Tons of food, homemade eggnog, good people, and complete with greasy mcdonald's breakfast and eggs.

The Monday was kate's play. I got out of school early and headed to kate 's school where I instantly became the backstage manager. The play went really well and kate was relieved to no longer have that stress over her.

Then the final update this blog was election day (or as the Koreans say is "erection day " they have problems with r's and l 's). everyone got the day off of school so kate and I took the new high school teacher (a New Zealand girl named Frankie) to Jecheon. Kate and I got needles jabbed in our noses and Frankie bought a guitar. Then when we were eating lunch we met some other foreigners and ended up talking to them for the rest of the day. They were really cool and now we have friends in jecheon.