a dios le pido

I am behind on posting this~~but I just wanted to share some photos from last weekend. Some of my foreigner and Korean friends all gathered at my apartment, and we had our Latin Fiesta part dos (the first one included gallo pinto ~~ thanks, Evelyn, for teaching me so well on it!~~ and salad (by Haley), complimented by a fantastic sangria, only to be topped off by an American classic (with a Korean twist)--s'mores). This past Saturday, I really wanted to have another Latin night and share some traditional food and dancing with my friends before heading to Daegu again to dance the night away at Babalu. Jade was awesome and came and helped me cook again...I had my first experience with de-veining shrimp (which I have now come to find out simply means cleaning out all the poop! yuck!). It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but still a lot more work than just pulling off the tails, that's for sure. Thankfully we had two people, so it didn't take too long. Before long, people were showing up, and we were having a great time eating and dancing and sharing fellowship. Below are some pictures from the night. 

To top things off, I also had my first Spanish lesson. So excited to finally be learning it and be able to converse, rather than just merely listening and responding in English. I feel that as I am learning Korean (another second language ~~ because we all know how little French I have retained...sorry, Mme L! I think if I were to live in a French-speaking country, though, it would come back to me)...I am able to better learn another language, too. I have more sounds to my vocabulary, and my mind is in "language-learning" mode. I think my mind is learning how to best store and remember the new languages (even though language learning is definitely NOT my forte...but I still try to work hard!).