Chrissy Renae

So the thing about Korea is that

1. The girls have perfect bodies

2. The girls wear perfect outfits every day

3. The girls wear heels evvverywhere

The thing about me is that

1. My body is..err.. not perfect

2. My outfits are a mess every day

3. I suck at heels

So I’ve been trying to work on all of those things a little bit because these cute little girls are very inspiring. And as mentioned before, the shopping here is to die for, so I’m trying to take advantage while I can.  (Being employed is really magical…and dangerous)

A very important step in my new attempt at being glamorous and not just a hippie bum was MY NEW HAIR. Sophia took me to this reallllly chic salon in Uijeongbu and I let them go crazy with the highlights and scissors. I was really nervous because of the language barrier issue and the i-have-light-hair-not-black-hair issue, but I was very happy with how it turned out. She even told me to come back next week for free “hair cleaning”, aka deep moisturizing, because “your hair is very very much damage.” I’d give the whole experience 5 stars, and now I feel very chic with my shorter straight blonde hair, over my longgg wavy dirty hair.

(please ignore my tired face. focus on the hair...)

I’m also trying to amp up the wardrobe a little bit, but I think it will be a drawn out process throughout the year. Beenish and I went nutso in Myeong Dong last night… so that was fun of course. Somehow we can’t bring ourselves to expand outside the Forever 21 bubble. But it’s cheap, and it’s beautiful, so how could we not love it?

spiderman,santa,subway... weird combo

meet myeong dong

that's my OOPS/ YAY face

This has been a bad week to not get enough sleep, because my kids are CRAZZZZY. Imagine the last week of school in June in America where it’s hot outside and everybody wants to be done with school and nothing worthwhile gets accomplished and you’re just counting down the seconds to the LAST minute of school. Well, the same concept translates to Korea, except that it’s December and instead of heat outside it’s pretty sparkly distracting SNOW and instead of being the excited student, I am the frazzled teacher.

So I’ve been trying to just roll with it and not let them get under my skin too much. Anybody who has skyped with me lately knows I’m not always very successful at it… Ha. We’ve resorted to a lot of youtube videos, silly role plays, and coloring projects this week. And pictures, because those make everyone happy.

the always-right-behind-me fan club

crazy, but allllways cute