They invent her a new world with oil skies

Tomorrow I start English Camp and I'm looking forward to it for several reasons! First of all, my classes are 3 times smaller than normal and I only have 4 of them per day. My largest class has 9 kiddo's which should make it easier to grab their attention and keep it!

So, my first class is at 9am and then I get to come home at 12:10pm! Hoorah! That'll last for the next 3 weeks and then David and I are off to Thailand.

Speaking of Thailand, I'm starting to get so excited! I can't believe that I left for Brazil a year ago...it seems as if it were only a few months ago when I was stomping around in the Amazon and enjoying the beaches of Rio!

Anyway, David and I have officially booked our hostel. We're staying at Lub*D for an incredibly cheap price since they're having a special promotion (buy 3 nights, get 1 free...that's 4 free nights). The room we booked is a private one for only David and me so that'll be nice! Tomorrow evening we'll book our tours.

We're signing up for 2 or 3 including a visit to Tiger Temple, a temple where buddhist monk's raise tigers and you can pet them, etc. We're also planning an elephant safari of types where we'll ride an Elephant around the jungle for a while. How exotic is that? Of course there will be several Thai massages (the PG kind) and plenty of Thai cuisine and temple-looking.

Ooh, I wanted to post a few pictures from last weekend when we visited Itaewon. You see, we happened upon this lovely cupcake shop called "Life is Just a Cup of Cake" which is pretty much the cutest name I've ever heard of. Of course I had to venture in to check it out. The exterior was positively darling and lured me right inside.

Like most Korean stores and shops it was tiny, but perhaps a bit bigger than I expected it to be. Two women were sitting at a very tiny table drinking tea and enjoying tasty home-baked cupcakes. To the left there was a tiny room with teapots on display and another, larger sized table, with a group of cute Korean women huddled around pleasing their tastebuds.

The owner was Korean but spoke English very well. She asked if we were visiting and was happy to hear we were Korean residents. After snapping a few shots and weighing my options, I chose a charming, "Earl Grey" flavored cupcake speckled with the perfect amount of shiny silver beads (edible, of course!). I devoured it later and am happy to inform you that it tasted very tea-like and was a scrumptious afternoon treat.

Here are a few pictures:

Kahmsamnida :)
<3, wendy