I've got Seouliosis

Yesterday, Johan took me to see "Jump"- a nonverbal Martial Arts play! Wooo! It was a special White Day surprise! We went with Carl & Mirabelle, who are our usual romantic holiday companions. "Jump" involved many cool Tae Kwon Do moves, and some a lot of wacky slapstick comedy. It was super fun, and I even got to touch the grandpa's butt! Score!
Otherwise, I started my new job- I'm officially a high school English teacher. I got the loudest cheers at the welcoming ceremony, simply because I'm a whitey! & the kids usually cheer when I come into class, and tell me I'm beautiful and that they love me. A girl could let this go to her head, if it wasn't for the fact that I know that any non-Korean would get the same treatment. Well, whatever, I still feel super cool and popular.
I've also been getting a strange rash of compliments since I started work. "Oh, I am so envious! Your face is so small!" I assure you my face is a completely normal size, but I've gotten the small face complement (it is definitely a complement, I've asked a lot of people about it) 4 times now, from students and other teachers. Super weird. Apparently it's my "big eyes and high nose" that make my face seem small... It's the same size as Korean women's faces, so I don't know what they're on about. But what the heck, a compliment is a compliment, and I'll take what I can get!
Korean teenagers are impressed with California (I get a lot of "ooooooooooooohs" when I say that's where I'm from. I kinda doubt it would be the same reaction to, say, Oklahoma), although many of them don't seem to know what or where, exactly, it is (multiple people have said it's in Mexico, and they don't usually get that it's a state). They have zero understanding for a woman not wanting to get married. When one class heard I'd been with Johan for almost 4 years, they sang the wedding song, and asked when I was getting married. I said I wasn't, and they were aghast. It's hard to convey that I think marriage is an outdated religious and social construct that gives false hopes of ever-lasting love and is a hetero-normative strategy by THE MAN to keep us down to a group of basic English learners. So I just said I wasn't ready to get married yet. "When will you be ready?? WHEN?! WHY aren't you ready??"