A Caffeine Fix With A Prize

There are 21 students in my school and I swear all of them were sick this week. Their parents send them to school through bad coughs, colds, fevers and the flu. And it's my job to get right next to them and teach them stuff. Even when they're sick. This week I was coughed on more times than I can count, sneezed on, breathed on by kids with fevers so high their foreheads were sweating in the 65 degree classroom, and high-fived by 21 germie sick kid hands.

So now I'm sick. L.O.V.E. it.

I have stuff to do - grown-ups don't get sick days - so after only four hours of restless hard-to-breathe sleep last night, I got myself up this morning for my second Korean class.

I took a taxi because I didn't feel good (and it was totally in my budget - yay me!) and arrived downtown with plenty of time to get some coffee. Last week I had a Cafe Americano, which is just black coffee (Koreans seem to think Americans dig plain black coffee - it's growing on me), and a girl in class had coffee from Dunkin Donuts. After seeing and smelling it, I've wanted one all week. So as a treat for having to walk down and up four flights of stairs (getting dropped off in the taxi on the wrong side of the street causes one to have to take stairs under the street and back up the other side in order to 'cross' the street), I walked my sick barely-breathing self around the corner to Dunkin Donuts for a vanilla cappuccino.

It was everything I thought it would be. And more! Apparently there is a Halloween Festival going on in Korean Dunkin Donuts. When I paid for my coffee, I was given a scratch off card for a chance to win a prize. I scratched the card, and it revealed a number 5 with some Korean writing. I was in no condition to speak what it said, so I showed the cashier and she presented me with this:

Isn't it cute?
kee-YUP-da is Korean for cute

My Prize

I won a cute Halloween cup and a pouch of hand drip coffee. How cool is that?