Jeju Day 1

Today was an adventure. It started with a tour through Hallim Park. It was so beautiful we went through 3 lava caves and saw a bunch of really cool plants and an albino peacock. Next we went on a pony ride that lasted all of 5 minutes but it was still fun. Jusangjeolli Rocks were our next stop They are these huge rocks pillars formed by lava. It was so windy I thought I was going to blow away. At Yakcheonsa Temple there were some HUGE Buddha's, really cool art, and an amazing view of the ocean. The last stop on the tour was Cheonjeyeon Waterfalls. After the tour I went with some of the girls on the tour to the Teddy Bear Museum and to dinner. It was a great day! (check out the new pictures on the JEJU page.

Straw Sticks. :)

Jeju Night 1

Today I flew into Jeju. The Gimpo international airport security was minimal. I was so confused when I got there because I was expecting hoards of people to be going through security. But there was really no line at all. I was impressed, I didn't even have to take my shoes off or take my liquids out of my bag. The flight was short an hour and ten minutes maybe. When we landed we got off the plane onto a bus that took us to the terminal where I then got onto another bus. This bus was supposed to tell me before it stopped where it was going to stop. Well at my stop it malfunctioned and said 'Hana Hotel' after they had left the stop so I just got off at the next stop the Hayatt and walked the creepy dark windy road back up to my hotel. Don't worry I wasn't afraid. After checking into my hotel I went to find something to eat for dinner, I found a 7 Eleven so I just stopped there. I got some rice that you heat up in the microwave, some jerky, and some raman noodles. When I got back to my hotel I realized that I didn't have a microwave. I did have a coffee pot so I heated up some water for my noodles. After they were cooked I realized that I had nothing to eat them with, then I noticed two coffee stirring straw things so I fashioned them into chop sticks and tried to eat my soup. The water was pretty hot though so it made the straws flimsy. It was pretty ridiculous. So far Jeju has been and adventure and its only been a couple hours.

Last Day Teaching

Today I had my last classes. (except for the one I have next Tuesday night) but my last actual day of work. It was bitter sweet, I'm so sad to leave these kids they are all so cute! And at the same time I am so ready to go home to my own little tiny people (Jake, Anna, Carly, Tate, Olivia, Ella, and Max). and my the rest of you of course :) sorry its been about a month since my last post but I just figured reading "Today I woke up, worked, came home, ate dinner, went to bed." and my last few Saturdays "Today I woke up, had breakfast, went shopping, went to a movie (I've seen Rango, and Black Swan), came home and went to bed." exciting eh?! Tonight Esther, Daniel and Stella's mom, made dinner for me. Smoked duck, coogoie, and shrimp. It was all amazing but i have never had shrimp quite like what she made. They still had their heads and shells. I didn't even know shrimp had a shell! but once you took off their face and feet and shell they were fantastic!
Last week there was a Marc Chagall thing at one of the museums that I went and saw with Jenny. It was really cool, he has some awesome stuff!
Tomorrow I fly to Jeju island for 4 days, well really its only 2 days because I leave tomorrow night and get back Sunday morning.  Friday and Saturday I will be going on English guided tours through the island so I'm sure that I will have some exciting new pictures and things to post. I can't wait to see everyone! See you in a week!!

Finally

Finally an adventure worth posting. Today I went to Namsan Tower with 'the fam' its really cool. its on a mountain in the center of Seoul, its kinda like the Empire State Building. You go up in an elevator and look out over all of Seoul. It was really cool, too bad the windows needed a serious cleaning! it was bad! but the view was still amazing! After we went to Meyong dong for dinner and I showed H & M to Jae Eun. She kept telling me how I 'should better' not go shopping there because its too expensive, but she found herself taking back that statement tonight as she shopped and shopped and shopped at H & M. Sadly we ran out of time and everything closed before we could see much else but it was still pretty fun. And I got a free hug!

Cold

I'm sick, I have a cold. The last week or so really nothing exciting has happened that is why there has been a serious lack of posts but I figured you'd get sick of reading that I woke up taught came home and went to bed. Yesterday, Monday, I was in bed all day sick with a cold. All I wanted was some chicken noodle soup, maybe some junior mints. Yeah, go ahead and try to find that here! I settled for some spicy raman type stuff and water. Anyway, hopefully I feel better tomorrow, and I guess I've picked up a new student. Which is a good thing.

School Days

Back to school, back to school. Well the holiday is over and school has kinda started. The school schedule here is so strange. Right now they are having early days kinda, so some of the kids get done around 2 some earlier. so I'm teaching from 1-930 Mon., Wed., Fri. and 930-1030 then 2-5 Tues Thurs. and in March i get to work Saturday! wooo! Its okay thought I do get to sleep in now. Today I am going to play BINGO and teach the little girls (Minseo, Sunny, and Jeheo) a song, and maybe get some ice cream for them. Not for me, no more ice cream for me! Weight Watchers style eating for me only! Well I added some more pictures of things that I have already talked about, not too much going on this week maybe Saturday will be an adventure?