October

I’ve been slacking on the posts lately, sorry Dad. My life here has settled down quite a bit since Hadley left the first of October, I’m not longer going to Seoul every weekend anymore. I also had a pretty bad week here with a ton of drama going on at my school. The new teacher that came to Korea, let’s just say didn’t fit in well. She was an older lady from Canada. Anyways, after receiving her first month’s pay, she vanished. She literally ran away. When she wasn’t showing up for work on Tuesday morning my director went up to her room and found a note saying that by the time you read this I will be out of the country. Pretty classy move if you ask me…. Anyways, there was panic at school, if you can imagine, and we all had to take on more work. On top of that, I was going to the hospital because I was really sick. It was a rough week. (Don’t worry I’m better now) Good news is we have a new teacher coming hopefully next week sometime? I’m not really sure when he gets here exactly but we’re all hoping it’s soon. 

These are how they package their medicine in Korea. They don't have bottle of pills, pre wrapped pills for each day... I kinda like it. 

My soccer team has been awesome lately. We’ve played a lot these past two weeks. We had a tournament the weekend I was really sick and Oksun (my favorite teammate) was trying to help me get better during the week. She brought me to dinner several times (one time she didn’t even eat, she just picked me up asked me what I wanted to eat and sat with me while I ate) and went to get medicine for me. She’s always so concerned about me. Oksun bought me this rice soup or Korean porridge two weeks ago, which was delicious. The soup kind of reminds me of wild rice soup so it’s comforting. I told her on Wednesday that I loved it and what did she have waiting for me at yesterday’s game? Yep, three cups of rice soup… AMAZING!  She also noticed I didn’t have gloves on at Wednesday’s practice and bought me a pair of kids gloves that match hers. They’re so awesome. 

The "rice soup" as Oksun calls it... so delicious.

My new jacket, it's made of duck feathers. It's super warm. 

My kids gloves that Oksun gave to me! 

Last weekend, I went to visit Kalie in Daegu. We had a great time as usual. We were going to go to Busan (the second largest city in Korea at the southern tip) to watch a fireworks festival but it was raining so we decided we’d go a different weekend. Instead we broke into her coworker’s apartment, stole his computer and watched movies all day long. Some of you may think I’m joking but I’m not. We watched a total of 5 movies I believe. Kalie said she could just hear my mom looking at us and saying, “you two slugs are so pathetic.” It was a great day. Sunday we got up and headed downtown to shop a little, sit at Starbucks and people watch, and get some good western food at a bar called Travelers while watching the final rugby world cup game: New Zealand vs. France. For those of you who are wondering, New Zealand won! 

So Korean's wear a ton of clothes that have English writing on it that makes absolutely no sense. Now this sweatshirt isn't that bad but there some that I find myself looking at for 5 minutes to try to figure out. I need to start taking pictures of them. 

This photo was sent to my e-mail from an outside machine. There are these machines everywhere in Korea where you can take a picture of yourself and send it to anyone's e-mail. It's pretty cool. 

A close up of the picture. It's Kalie and I in downtown Daegu.

This is a place that Clayton and I passed by one day in Incheon and had to take a second look to make sure it wasn't a restaurant. As you may know already, Korea is known for eating dog (which I found out isn't that common, thank goodness!). 

This weekend I’m planning to meet up with some of the few friends I still have in Seoul. It’s Halloween weekend so it should be fun!