Architecture Student turned Foreign-English Teacher: Christmas Eve

Well a few days ago Amanda and I celebrated the birth of Christ on Christmas Eve by spending the day enjoying a little holiday cheer. We baked some homemade chocolate chip cookies to give to our friends along with a bottle of wine. I was quite impressed with our ability to actually produce a homemade cookie given all the ingredients were in Korean, prepared the dough in a frying pan, and baked them in a toaster oven. But somehow, we came out with a cookie. They weren't as sweet as we expected, which was explained by our discovery the following day: we used 1/2 the sugar we were suppose to. After we surprised our director and our friend Kang with our gifts, we stopped home for an evening nap before heading to dinner with Glen and Luke. We devoured some delicious "won-kal-be" (that's what it sounds like) at a nearby restaurant. After we returned home our friend Kang stopped by and brought us a Christmas cake and card. The cake was splendid and even came with some Christmas decorations. We enjoyed the cake while playing a game of Sequence in the kitchen, with the only lighting being our Christmas tree. At about 11:00 we decided to open the gifts we had wrapped for each other earlier in the day. Amanda of course found some extremely adorable wrapping paper at a store, but I did not. I resorted to wrapping her gifts in reused shopping bags with plastic bags as tissue paper, and some black t-shirts of mine and also my blanket. A little elbow grease and some packaging tape later all the gifts were all set. So, we took turns opening the gifts. Neither of us knew what the other had gotten, except for the gift that Santa brought each of us (which we think he bought at Home Plus last weekend while we were shopping). So after all the fun opening, Amanda received a nice stainless steel thermos, some American face-wash, a large wood cutting board, a nightstand, and an external hard drive (from Santa). I received a very handsome Mickey Mouse pencil case that had directions inside to art stores near the hotel we'll being stay at in Seoul next weekend so that I can pick out some nice sketching utensils. I also received a gift card to our favorite local coffee shop: Cafe Bene, and some brown Hush Puppy shoes (from Santa). It was a wonderful evening spent together, with cake, games, Christmas music, and surprises :)