good riddance puppies!

well we got rid of our dogs yesterday. yeah they're cute, but i'm kind of glad they're gone. now we can walk aroudn our house without wondering if we're about to step in a pee puddle, or a pile of poop. we went to the beach.. the real beach with the sand and everything. it's beautiful. miami's got nothin on this place! and there were stands with people selling seashell creations. they can make some pretty intricate stuff with just a few seashells. so we walked around the beach trying to get someone to buy our dogs. we got rid of one there. but no one seemed to want my kimchi! so we went to the night market and set up a place there to yell at people to come buy a puppy. then this chinese guy came up to us, and he spoke almost perfect english! it was so nice to hear. no one speaks anything more than "hellloooooo" here usually. and he said he didn't think it was safe for us to be there so he bought the puppy. such a relief. then i came home a cleaned ferociously. it's so nice to be able to walk around without shoes on!!!! but downtown yesterday there was a crowd of people and we thought maybe there was a fight so we went to check it out. but there were monkeys! i've never really seen monkeys except for in the zoo. there were three of them, and there was a trainer making them do tricks. they were jumping, and slapping the trainer and some other weird stuff. they made us pay to watch! but it was worth it, it was so cool! just like a movie. i took some pictures. OH! and speaking of pictures! i'm posting all my pictures on facebook. just click on my profile picture and then all the thumbnails should come up. if for some reason it's not working just let me know. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=604780995
so the other day i was feeling confident in my chinese speaking ability so i decided to hop a taxi by myself. haha... WELLLL.. turns out i said the right word, but i put the accent on the wrong part of the word so i ended up somewhere WAY outside of the city. i got to see some nice sights though so it wasn't ALL bad. but it was definately the wrong day to be breaking in my new heels. blisters to THE MAX. and there are SOO many stray cats here!! it's so annoying. i'm almost hoping they catch them all and put them in chicken balls. well.... i have some teaching to get ready for. see ya lata!