familiar faces

it's so good to see some familiar faces in this oh-so-foreign place! life is funny....i was planning to teach english in korea long before i caught wind that these two friends of mine were doing the same. meet my peeps, smilja & aaron.

smilja and i went to grad school together in costa rica. we lived in the same neihborhood there and shared many a bottle/box of wine during that adventurous year. :) she has been in korea for about 3 months now (veteran compared to me) and teaches at a school about 40 minutes away on the subway.

i met aaron this past october while campaigning to get obama elected. now he is here teaching theater to 3rd and 4th graders. he also happens to live in the same part of town as me (gangnam-gu), only 2 metro stops away.

i love having partners in crime. makes exploring all the more fun!