dos semanas

today i spent wayyy too much money.

it's weird getting ready to go home -- buying all this last minute stuff and stuff.
i'm scared, but excited. i feel like i'm going to feel culture shock or withdrawal or like a... "who am i??" type of deal. please keep me in check!

anyway, yesterday from 4-10 pm, stella, jeanne, and i went to a huuuugeeee jjimjilbang. i swear it used to be a night club because it was 2 stories (like those clubs where you hang on the rail with a cocktail glass in your hand and nod your head to the music trying to be cool and all and hope some lame guy comes up to you and says, "this is my songgg! so what's your name?") and had a stage with 20398404 colorful lights around it.

1st floor

anyway, we milked that place GOOD. we laid in 4 different 230498-degree rooms, listened to a presentation about blueberries for like... 30 minutes just to get free blueberry juice, blueberry facemasks, blueberry "pas", and blueberry honey:

 used the blueberry mask:

ate lapokki and some spicy kimchi/galchi soup, fried potatoes and misoogaru drink...

laid around in hot rooms some more, and then FINALLY decided to go inside the sauna at around 8 PM. we were all hesitant to see each other bare at first... (jeanne: "ok we'll go in separately and just blend in with the crowd, ok??") but later we were having so much fun in the 7 different-temperatured pools among 20394823 other little girls, young women, ahjoommas, and saggy grandmas. 

the best part was the 때미리 (scrubbing dead skin off). we paid 20,000 won to get it + shampoo service done. ok i would go into detail, but since i shouldn't, i will just say this: 

i went to a sauna the moment i got back to my neighborhood from cambodia (i might have written about this, i don't remember) but got out in 30 minutes because i felt like a leper among all the ahjoommas (remember my disgusting bug bites?). i tried scrubbing myself that time and nothing came off. i guess i was just so embarrassed about my bug bites that i just wanted to shower and get out of there, but MAN OH MAN!!! all the ddeh from sweating in cambodia + the almost-4 weeks worth of whatever afterwards built up and i....

ok you know how when you ddeh miruh and your dead skin looks like thin little eraser crumbs? 

mine looked like straight up ERASERS, no exaggeration. i was getting sooo embarrassed, i had to explain to the ahjoomma scrubbing me that i went to cambodia and that it was sooo hoott~~.

don't judge. 

at least now, my skin feels like a baby's bottom. i can touch my hands all day! i feel soooo clean and refreshed. 

funny: i just thought of how this relates to our relationship with God and i cracked up a little.

(if you don't get it, God's the pama-ed ddehmiri ahjoomma, we're the nakey, durrrty sauna-goers. hahhaha...haha... ok sorry)