tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46703325443141810742024-02-21T01:44:38.737+09:00Tricia's Adventures in KoreaYet another blog of an English teacher in South KoreaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-33647112606025496382012-09-20T19:24:00.000+09:002012-09-20T19:24:20.871+09:00My Students and Felt Filled ClassroomHoly frijoles, Batman! Can you believe I've been back in Korea for more than a month?!? The time has flown by. I have yet to get a phone or internet because I can't do that without my ARC (Alien Registration Card). I believe I really should have gotten it by now, but the school says next week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.<br />
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Anyway, I seem to settling in. My apartment is still kinda shitty, but I'll take care of that once I get a real paycheck. Work is good. They work our asses off, but I do prefer it to my old school where I wasn't allowed to do anything lesson plan wise. At GATE, I'm pretty much able to do what I want, as long as I teach the concepts I'm supposed to.<br />
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I've already fallen in love with my students. Well, most of them anyway. Right now I have 9, but I'm sure more will come soon. According to my principal, just everyone wants to get into my class haha! Oh yeah, I'm that good ;). Nah, really though, people just want IN at that school in general. Apaprently it's a pretty good school. I mean, they DID hire me!<br />
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I may have told some of you out there about my felt filled classroom. GATE believes that every inch of wall space should be covered in felt...that's right, FELT! My co-teacher, June and I put a lot of hours into decorating Garnet class (all of our classrooms are named after gems), and I think it looks pretty great...even if it does look like a rainbow puked felt all over!<br />
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This is my loft. I've always wanted a classroom with a loft:)<br />
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A felt filled wall...I Spy Vowels<br />
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Another felt filled wall and my awesome TV. I never use the white board. I have a computer and projector in my classroom and both are connected to the TV. <br />
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Teachers' Desks.<br />
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Now pics of my cute kids :)<br />
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My twins, Tony and Ricky.<br />
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Grace<br />
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Sean<br />
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Jed<br />
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Jasmin<br />
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Joshua<br />
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Chloe...she doesn't like her photo taken at all!<br />
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And here they are working very hard.<br />
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Guess that's all for now. I'll post some apartment pics soon. I wanna do before and after:)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-44821119532911026312012-09-13T19:58:00.000+09:002012-09-13T19:58:46.343+09:00Ah, Korea!Before I begin, I'd just like to say that I am very happy to be living and working in Korea again. This post and the last one are a very tiny part of what goes on here, but I felt the need to share.<br />
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So I've been adjusting to living here in Korea again, and I've learned that I have forgotten how to survive in this country. The stares, the pushing, the crowded elevators are taking some getting used to again.<br />
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<i>The Stares</i> Yes, hello! I am white. I am female. I have big boobs. I've walked past you, yet I can still feel your eyes digging into my flesh. I turn my head to see you craning your neck in order to continue your stare.<br />
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<i>The Stopping in the Middle of the Sidewalk</i> What a wonderful day for a walk. I can't wait to...oh I'm sorry for bumping into you. I didn't expect you to just stop walking to look at your phone. I guess I need to do a better job of watching where I'm going.<br />
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<i>The Pushing</i> Oh, hel. Hel. Hello. I'm sorry, was I in your way? I thought I was walking down a completely empty sidewalk yet you still pushed me half way into the street to get past me and then didn't say anything. The crowd around me must be invisible to my plain foreigner eye.<br />
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<i>The Crowded Elevator</i> Awesome, an empty elevator! *Walks in and sees about 20 Koreans running for the elevator door before it closes. Hits the "close door" button, but it doesn't work. Ends up squished at the back of the elevator for 12 floors. Wanted to go to the 4th floor.*<br />
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<i>Getting out of an Elevator</i> *Sees Korean guy get right up to the door, his face practically touching it.* Don't worry man, it's all yours. You obviously have some place extremely important to be.<br />
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<i>Pedestrians vs. Cars</i> I'm just walking down the street la la la. I'm coming up to a crosswalk. I begin to cross. HOLY SHIT A CAR IS SPEEDING DOWN THE ROAD AND ISN'T HITTING HIS BRAKES!!! Oh thank goodness Hyundai makes good brakes!<br />
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I'm crossing the crosswalk as a car is turning onto it. Oh hello car. I'm just walk...hey, why the hell aren't you stopping?!??! (The other day, this ended with me punching the hood of the car.)<br />
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I really do love it here!<br />
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And I love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Seoul, South Korea37.566535 126.977969237.365159 126.66211220000001 37.767911000000005 127.2938262tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-28347227094341800572012-09-13T19:38:00.001+09:002012-09-13T20:00:06.128+09:00Rudeness.I don't understand it. At home, if you walk past someone and make eye contact, you smile or say hello. It's just something you do. I'd like to consider myself an intermediately experienced traveler, and in my experience, most people that I have encountered at least smiled at me when we made eye contact. This is NOT the case in Korea. Koreans are too busy living their very busy lives to be bothered with something as menial as a smile. This is unless of course you are an ajumma or ajoshi and feel the need to crank your neck to get a good long look at the waygookin with the big boobs! <br />
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Most Koreans walk along with their phones permanently attached to their ears via earbuds and shut out the world. I walk around with my music blasting in my ears too, but I don't let it distract me. What stumps me more than Koreans not acknowledging others, is the fact that other foreigners don't acknowledge each other. Is it really that troublesome to give a smile or say "hello?" Are you so miserable here that ya can't recognize that someone from your corner of the world is walking past you? Are your facial muscles too tired from teaching bratty children all day? Maybe I'm asking too much, I dunno. I just hate those awkward moments when you see a Westerner approaching you and you don't know which way to look. Should I look at her? Should I look away? Down? Where?!?!? Is it too difficult to just give a fellow human being who is in your shoes a small smile? <br />
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I think many people come to Korea thinking they've found something new. They're gonna go teach English in a country where no one has gone to teach English before. Maybe going to teach in Korea is a big thing in your small town of East Bumfuck, but in the big scheme of things, you're one of thousands, Bud. In fact, you're one in about 20,000. Smoke that, you pretentious asshole! :) <br />
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They learn that they are one of thousands as soon as they get off the plane. From then on, they develop this icky persona that screams "I honestly believe I'm better than you." They will only date Korean girls, they study Korean like crazy and then feel the need to correct you in public when your Korean is wrong, they only drink in Korean bars, they wear skinny jeans and black rimmed glasses without lenses (a dead giveaway that this person will not be of any interest to you), and they talk to the Korean staff more than the foreign staff. So to those dumbasses, I say "Get off your high horse and come down to reality with the rest of us lowly foreigners." And to the rest of you, SMILE when you see someone walking by you, you just may make their day :) <br />
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Love you all! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-13844193583117173722012-08-27T07:35:00.002+09:002012-09-13T20:02:34.242+09:00Back in the R.O.K.!Well I've been here for a week now, and I'm still not used to the time difference. I'm trying to get comfortable in my new apartment, but won't feel fully comfy until I put some money into this place. It's pretty ghetto, but I think I can make it work. One awesome thing is that I'm right behind the main road of Gangnam in Seoul, which is a pretty happening area. I still haven't gotten much of a chance to roam around and explore, but I will. I landed in Incheon last Monday, the 20th, around 4pm. The flight was good, but I was stuck in a middle seat between a vegetarian who ate nothing the whole trip and a Philippino man who ate way too may shrimp flavored chips. I can't sleep on planes, so I mostly watched the few movies that were available to me. If you haven't seen the Snow White movie with Julia Roberts, I recommend that you do. Since I could hardly move, my legs and feet swelled like crazy, which is not a comfortable feeling. So I landed and made my way through the airport...immigration, luggage, converting the little money I had into won. Then I went out and found a Korean man with a creepy smile holding a big piece of paper with my name on it. This was my ride to the school. During the ride, he tried to get me to teach him English, but it didn't go very well. He also tried to test me on my knowledge of Korean foods. Listen buddy, I'm no newbie to this place, don't try to trick me with your bibimbap and japchae trivia! Anyway, I thought I was going to the school, but the guy actually dropped me off at my apartmwent. A man named Chris was there waiting for me and he showed me where I'd be sleeping for the next year. It's not horrible, but it's not great. Pictures will come soon, I promise. I do have a full size bed, so I'm definitely cool with that. I also have a cute little balcony that overlooks the Best All convenience store at the corner. The biggest disappointment is the kitchen. Those who know me know that I love to cook, especially for other people. Well, doesn't look like that's happening here. A 2 burner gas range just isn't gonna do it. <br />
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The best part about getting to my apartment is that Chris handed me a map of the area and told me this was the way to get to the school in the morning...then he left. Great, I get to find this place on my own. Even though I was extremely jet lagged and it was raining out, I thought I better find that place that night instead of waiting til morning. I set out and thought I followed the map, but I could NOT find this damn place. My friend Paul had found it a couple weeks earlier, so luckily I was able to contact him through a random coffee shop's wi-fi. He met me and helped me find it. Apparently, the map I was given SUCKED, but at least I found the place. <br />
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I went to work on Tuesday and met everyone. My first week consisted of observing classes and working with my Korean co-teacher on getting the classroom ready. I learned that getting the classroom ready at GATE means stapling an immense amount of felt onto the walls, leaving no piece of the wall visible. My co-teacher June, is great. I think we're gonna get along very well. My kids don't start until the 30th, but I do have to give a presentation to the parents on the 29th...eek! I had to make a big powerpoint presentation and everything. So far, things have gone pretty well. I am slowly adjusting to being back in the land of the morning calm, and am looking forward to having some great adventures! <br />
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Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-80160752473986682682012-08-12T10:36:00.000+09:002012-09-13T20:04:05.028+09:00The Insane Visa Process!Well next Sunday, August 19th, I will be boarding a plane to Seoul. Yes, I am going back to Korea to begin another adventure in teaching English. This time around I will be in a part of Seoul called Gangnam. I'm very excited to experience living in the city this time around, although I must admit I am quite worried about what my apartment will look like. I'm imagining something insanely small, but hoping that it will allow some natural light to come in. <br />
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Similar to the process I went through in 2008, getting my visa has NOT been easy. It seems like immigration is changing visa requirements everyday. In case you have stumbled upon my blog and have yet to go through the visa process, let me take you through the steps: <br />
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1. Get a federal criminal background check. You must obtain fingerprints (from any police department) and send them along with <a href="https://forms.fbi.gov/departmental-order-website-questionnaire">this application</a> and $18 to CJIS. You can find all the info you need <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/background-checks/submitting-an-identification-record-request-to-the-fbi">here.</a> Now keep in mind that the process can take up to 8 weeks after the FBI receives your paperwork. Also, make sure you get your background check authenticated. You will need this for the Apostille. I also recommend sending a self addressed stamped envelope and spending the money to get this express delivered to you. I did not do this, and my first record check got lost. I had to pay to have FedEx overnight it to me. <br />
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2. Get an apostille on your background check. Once you receive your background check, you must send it to the US Department of State in D.C. They say the process takes about 10 days. You can get all the info <a href="http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/">here.</a> FRIENDLY TIP: DO ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU EVEN BEGIN LOOKING FOR A JOB!!!!!!! Many schools know that this is a long process and therefore will not interview you if you do not have this part completed. <br />
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3. Get a copy of your university diploma and get and Apostille from your secretary of state. Korea no longer wants your actual diploma, which is a good thing. <br />
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4. Once you are offered a job, you'll send all that paperwork, along with some passport photos (I had to send 5), your signed contract, a copy of your passport, and a completed medical form to your recruiter or school. When your school gets your paperwork, they will send it to immigration. You will get your visa issuance number in about 10 days. <br />
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5. After you get this number, you can head to your nearest Korean consulate to get your visa. They no longer do interviews, so if you have the time, you can do this through the mail. I went to NYC consulate and they needed official transcripts from my university, so make sure you have those on hand. I also had to fill out an application and pay $45. Once you apply, you can have you visa in your hand the next day. <br />
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6. Pack your bags and go! For your sake, I hope obtaining your visa is a lot easier than it was for me! :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-54164911679244377572012-08-12T10:14:00.000+09:002012-09-13T20:05:34.327+09:00My Reverse Culture Shock: 18 Months LaterI've been back in the states for about a year and a half and I never dreamed I would miss Korea as much as I do. I'm sure some of you who have lived abroad have heard of the term "reverse culture shock," and I believe I am still experiencing this phenomena. Also referred to as <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/studyabroad/before_departure/culture_shock.php">Havershock,</a> some symptoms include nostalgia, disappointment that nothing appears to have changed, and being let down by the lack of interest of others. These are the symptoms I feel most relate to me most. <br />
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<i>Nostalgia:</i> I reminisce about Korea quite often, especially when talking to friends who I met while living there. I think about the people I met, my students, the trips I took, the food that only ajummas really know how to make (my kimchi fried rice is ok, but nothing compared to what they can do!), and just all the fun times I had there. Yes, I did have some stressful times, but the good times totally outweigh the bad. <br />
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<i>Disappointment that nothing appears to have changed:</i> I don't know what I expected when I came home, but I found that I was a completely different person while everyone and everything was pretty much the same. I found that I wanted to go out and try new things, whereas most people here were fine with doing the same ol stuff all the time. The same old bar, the same food, the same old everything. I know I sound like a stuck up bitch right now...I'm not saying doing the same things is bad. In fact, I enjoyed those things when I got home because I missed them. I just feel like people get too comfy with their everyday lives and I don't see myself being happy with that for myself. <br />
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<i>Lack of interest of others:</i> Now this one kinda makes me sad. I thought that people would be interested in my stories of traveling abroad and seeing the world. Sadly, some just thought I was bragging and thought I saw myself as better than them. This really hurt me. All I wanted to do was bring my 2 lives together. I talk about the times I had while living overseas and friends and family still mock me with things like "This one time in Korea..." and "Well, in Korea they..." Ok, I get it! I talk about Korea...A LOT! But who wouldn't talk about a place that was such a major part of their life for 2 friggin years?? Excuse me for wanting to share those experiences with people I love. <br />
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I missed being home while in Korea and now I'm home and miss being in Korea. I will be going back in about a week and I know I will miss this place like mad. I'll miss Saturday night karaoke, impromptu family get togethers, bonfires, singing Rob Zombie, hanging out on the porch with my cousin, all the damn cute kids in this family, trips with the girls, and so much more. And even though my loved ones don't understand my need to travel and live abroad, I know I have their love and support no matter where I am in this world...and I will miss all of them a ton! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWociMoaqZZUsTTV9TcmXEx6krpXertWa9GKfRqXthdslScicquyikDlTA3iYSawi0BVlP7MX4Mlapwq9W5jI0qTc3x15sCyqjifkZcPHR0Hh7v5cWTzIU7ZIDPbpNqQQmn7jSFL0uPVL/s1600/DSC03625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="150" width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWociMoaqZZUsTTV9TcmXEx6krpXertWa9GKfRqXthdslScicquyikDlTA3iYSawi0BVlP7MX4Mlapwq9W5jI0qTc3x15sCyqjifkZcPHR0Hh7v5cWTzIU7ZIDPbpNqQQmn7jSFL0uPVL/s200/DSC03625.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidinDhAOOVQWGnVDmTvnnJZfsB15ABPCAbiQxLqQl0yq9W7wj9QHklVQ3jVB2kiVVq1u7eDieinju9uXXxCMBv3oBVXBLTgvWH2ULy29br_PtDznBSiwsVDefchLyAdxZQM_oObbU_NpfG/s1600/DSC04294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="150" width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidinDhAOOVQWGnVDmTvnnJZfsB15ABPCAbiQxLqQl0yq9W7wj9QHklVQ3jVB2kiVVq1u7eDieinju9uXXxCMBv3oBVXBLTgvWH2ULy29br_PtDznBSiwsVDefchLyAdxZQM_oObbU_NpfG/s200/DSC04294.JPG" /></a></div>Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-57115167182929819902010-09-18T13:43:00.014+09:002010-09-18T15:37:32.631+09:00The Philippines!!!Thanks to the idiot who stole my wallet last summer, I didn't get to go anywhere for vacation. This year I decided to go big...and alone. I had been super stressed with work and being homesick, I needed to go somewhere where I could just relax and not worry about anyone else having a good time. My friend Emily (O.G.) went to this awesome resort in the Philippines with her mom last February and had a great time. I decided to check out the website, and it looked like the perfect place for me to go...so I booked a trip for a week at <A href="http://sangat.com.ph/">Sangat Island.</A> I flew to Manila and then had to fly to the island of Coron. Now, there are about 7,000 islands in the Philippines. When I got to immigration, the officer had no idea where I was going haha. I then got on the smallest plane ever for the 30 minute flight to the island. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnGQsnzESQ9NqzeP54Q-QFf8EoNfjr5WkON08YaKlVNCD0I7b3qfaMG6qkNeqpVPxcfAV3AjE5QBZSG1_J9YfKp42pACr_wC89BbybBd0Cgy9ZbosKc5DZ3iuGY4RU_IfUVXXjYcCDOyN/s1600/02.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518111443438428338 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnGQsnzESQ9NqzeP54Q-QFf8EoNfjr5WkON08YaKlVNCD0I7b3qfaMG6qkNeqpVPxcfAV3AjE5QBZSG1_J9YfKp42pACr_wC89BbybBd0Cgy9ZbosKc5DZ3iuGY4RU_IfUVXXjYcCDOyN/s200/02.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJNEB2WxwQlb7OxT3q6k3RS91A97E_YzkHWt5I-sy3J1rb3-I7oAL1_zNTphs3KaYeaBgbri3pFDr6ie-nDpT05LD7DWLLPQCEQe0n-pqF68JOpQoTxGjYSZkrJ0Qx35AUB2LgdRBPvMLG/s1600/01.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518111432262769938 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJNEB2WxwQlb7OxT3q6k3RS91A97E_YzkHWt5I-sy3J1rb3-I7oAL1_zNTphs3KaYeaBgbri3pFDr6ie-nDpT05LD7DWLLPQCEQe0n-pqF68JOpQoTxGjYSZkrJ0Qx35AUB2LgdRBPvMLG/s200/01.JPG"></A> I got to the airport, if you could call it that lol. It had 2 gates: <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvHKrINp5XSkL9lQvP235LxuxjDha5sW6t6rMLUFPjyXhZvtAL2DkTLbOQOPuuVK47_r5d0CnaGd6-GlAtOoJBkAmnpo9K-JAYKKQeLKlkowVIxSSvEhYfA1mSTLPQQfM8IG03mMX1otq/s1600/04.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518113032397603826 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvHKrINp5XSkL9lQvP235LxuxjDha5sW6t6rMLUFPjyXhZvtAL2DkTLbOQOPuuVK47_r5d0CnaGd6-GlAtOoJBkAmnpo9K-JAYKKQeLKlkowVIxSSvEhYfA1mSTLPQQfM8IG03mMX1otq/s200/04.JPG"></A> This little guy welcomed us all to the airport: <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AqwZpuZNYdTu-sgqvlrSGd-YP3PKgUP6CxS9cPVIydFEuDUMtPjVQRSNzHBmYxlZmu9tZNffMfnOKezF3HiY_oSYy14nQ4V6QImOTKWVa7la1E9FOc1KBb9nBB1O0vAMm2H5WAlB2aEX/s1600/05.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518113395108219602 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_AqwZpuZNYdTu-sgqvlrSGd-YP3PKgUP6CxS9cPVIydFEuDUMtPjVQRSNzHBmYxlZmu9tZNffMfnOKezF3HiY_oSYy14nQ4V6QImOTKWVa7la1E9FOc1KBb9nBB1O0vAMm2H5WAlB2aEX/s200/05.JPG"></A> When I got to the island, I met a rep from the island and had to take a 30 minute car ride to the port. It was quite an interesting ride. We had to stop a couple times because there were animals in the road. The bridges were made from plywood and 2x4's. I thought I was going to die lol. Then I had a 35 minute boat ride to take. I was put on a boat with 3 people who work on the island. I was a bit nervous at this time...what the hell is going to happen to me? What kind of situation did I get myself into? If I hadn't known someone who had been here before, I would have really been freaked out. Anyway, the water was pretty choppy and apparently there was a storm coming, so I was forced to wear this: <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitb5_OVbe_Pf9AIJEydVBJYahcOxqyQvcjTe8xnMwNH-foEfRbNc68mR-1-g0AsT0kGjFKKMDUzjCQo5oedzdRoZppHYiKhqrtXZuEMlKxDP1PmuG634OpL9YpyJznQSLC2PgsUqv7DvIY/s1600/08.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518114002192961746 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitb5_OVbe_Pf9AIJEydVBJYahcOxqyQvcjTe8xnMwNH-foEfRbNc68mR-1-g0AsT0kGjFKKMDUzjCQo5oedzdRoZppHYiKhqrtXZuEMlKxDP1PmuG634OpL9YpyJznQSLC2PgsUqv7DvIY/s200/08.JPG"></A> I finally got to the island and was brought to my room, which was AMAZING. You walked out the door and there was the beach.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHFHxWecbCLXEsAYzxHCSZzHhNqmcjMoVTcx4zG3zlCZ6Ou5dEwFSSQm3PzBB7IDATycX7DyxpenTLd5MLhoJ-ga7buPPK_AnACL25D4BPmRBwZqpXSLis8lKqymq5iDRL_5ccXCyyjVv/s1600/43.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHFHxWecbCLXEsAYzxHCSZzHhNqmcjMoVTcx4zG3zlCZ6Ou5dEwFSSQm3PzBB7IDATycX7DyxpenTLd5MLhoJ-ga7buPPK_AnACL25D4BPmRBwZqpXSLis8lKqymq5iDRL_5ccXCyyjVv/s200/43.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518137983195328306" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgor0k5wGVTvHjx1Wz9QIZInXKtb-85QLKsvJjcZBIGt7F9wX1vUe7ZPB3QIued2_ojERaMui08tzP9kRebbzM_zGvR0UUNsBkWV9mL2GFFAXfKJu9wdHwwmnhTg7J-RlAiMqMJya4TuNwa/s1600/13.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgor0k5wGVTvHjx1Wz9QIZInXKtb-85QLKsvJjcZBIGt7F9wX1vUe7ZPB3QIued2_ojERaMui08tzP9kRebbzM_zGvR0UUNsBkWV9mL2GFFAXfKJu9wdHwwmnhTg7J-RlAiMqMJya4TuNwa/s200/13.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518137974331135858" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju7kSOKSDY08qNklfEU61WN_tYh1vu86DXdzX2bdV_cwFwieZaGM3qQBG2040Z8sG4a9jKiK10GYcmQBdhfJVR-TjpXG6-XBcZST3Zu0sDdVhFeUK7kJUwy41JJOGl-ccp-9wqm-wDWK3V/s1600/12.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju7kSOKSDY08qNklfEU61WN_tYh1vu86DXdzX2bdV_cwFwieZaGM3qQBG2040Z8sG4a9jKiK10GYcmQBdhfJVR-TjpXG6-XBcZST3Zu0sDdVhFeUK7kJUwy41JJOGl-ccp-9wqm-wDWK3V/s200/12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518137965878118514" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWbGtSu9tdHvKmKIMA45IJ3JCf69QzKQTI4AZftI8O0sdw5c13RLKb-FKhulGkVDRrDgGXXuj3irFuB6MMEn82K5sALjxmjHQ4iQ2ABqWe05j5h6DwBCUEP6-D2PBmURLfdmMeeJ91hdB/s1600/09.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoWbGtSu9tdHvKmKIMA45IJ3JCf69QzKQTI4AZftI8O0sdw5c13RLKb-FKhulGkVDRrDgGXXuj3irFuB6MMEn82K5sALjxmjHQ4iQ2ABqWe05j5h6DwBCUEP6-D2PBmURLfdmMeeJ91hdB/s200/09.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518137957800529762" /></a><br />I also had a little friend who came to visit on occasion. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1q4IQw3ko5RSm0PDXHzDNPSmKBA28z8ubSjnaGCwHhtUnu-iHF2rCzGKdDD-umaOsifefu4CY0gbLnaLqKJxE2HqfyWIIh9H4eWQw2pD7iZjhQiuYDaUI1Q1TfFwJK82NF8b7z8yFbZS/s1600/11.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518116688708561810 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1q4IQw3ko5RSm0PDXHzDNPSmKBA28z8ubSjnaGCwHhtUnu-iHF2rCzGKdDD-umaOsifefu4CY0gbLnaLqKJxE2HqfyWIIh9H4eWQw2pD7iZjhQiuYDaUI1Q1TfFwJK82NF8b7z8yFbZS/s200/11.JPG"></A> The island was beautiful. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6Yp0imeZb2eVveQw9Tn302o5dNvIYV7ZjhyphenhyphenwctV-ibNjVQ9Vr-nhzPHDczeEjL0UBKZJQ9P2C-cOLj-QgrFCO5FW77Kx0l0MVnMGxFPPS5r-B5kNyJPHiszLF8K3CpcS7Pk2l-wy60kh/s1600/23.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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I joined a wonderful family on this trip. They were very kind and treated me like a family member. We stopped at 5 different islands to go snorkeling. I've heard people describe crystal clear ocean water, but seeing it for yourself is indescribable. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-7Wky6n7aSYTwBXSHS1XqHmLnJ2oV1NQjSepALAKrejzahsXef-fxUZp49Q-Ay7LimQZA8iYiMj9a3gZRW0alXrFP5ZtdzQ4517LIf-NQ0MjVdXSPn4grkKx-kV-6co1iY3UZky2GMw8/s1600/28.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518119662588255618 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-7Wky6n7aSYTwBXSHS1XqHmLnJ2oV1NQjSepALAKrejzahsXef-fxUZp49Q-Ay7LimQZA8iYiMj9a3gZRW0alXrFP5ZtdzQ4517LIf-NQ0MjVdXSPn4grkKx-kV-6co1iY3UZky2GMw8/s200/28.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIXnKzt1UUXWcVl4lBAf2KX2rvi0Fs7Bwjzz_d5vps1AKexNkyc4qKX29NqknNBZ81_uhsRXaze9HlYv5d_3_92mBTp1bWq5pRzsg-IzxQiPUSxca4LJ3BMgnOkzwmncBs5LR6BMCW48W/s1600/35.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518119651061760978 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIXnKzt1UUXWcVl4lBAf2KX2rvi0Fs7Bwjzz_d5vps1AKexNkyc4qKX29NqknNBZ81_uhsRXaze9HlYv5d_3_92mBTp1bWq5pRzsg-IzxQiPUSxca4LJ3BMgnOkzwmncBs5LR6BMCW48W/s200/35.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhcrdCCM_F98hULwzH5DJ4bGMvX69E6QDYqJlBT5zNCARq5zXgcaPai-dOWMpBrcii5hiUP9MZtSohKG-wIJQthhhyB-OI9_zcs8bC87Uw0xKdKClYcKdSDJZZygag99OGmJhGF5ee3Or/s1600/32.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518119645896191730 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhcrdCCM_F98hULwzH5DJ4bGMvX69E6QDYqJlBT5zNCARq5zXgcaPai-dOWMpBrcii5hiUP9MZtSohKG-wIJQthhhyB-OI9_zcs8bC87Uw0xKdKClYcKdSDJZZygag99OGmJhGF5ee3Or/s200/32.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91_WLdQv91xc4qfsIQjEpDxdwl774xsnPNeqf8kZwQ6Lo_7eY1KI4y3nEdOrsE9EdtCZKLccMRBJhx-YlO_u5YcrdxNUMpWvmerbLfXYDtlY5ZxfAOi6qqpz99LIJy9Pvy5RVqMgDRsxb/s1600/34.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518119631570267442 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91_WLdQv91xc4qfsIQjEpDxdwl774xsnPNeqf8kZwQ6Lo_7eY1KI4y3nEdOrsE9EdtCZKLccMRBJhx-YlO_u5YcrdxNUMpWvmerbLfXYDtlY5ZxfAOi6qqpz99LIJy9Pvy5RVqMgDRsxb/s200/34.JPG"></A> I also did some sea kayaking. It's quite enjoyable! <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoFW0sCgjfGUuU8eJtOybuRISsD1EILB0LjYe1ev7YBQ2WXjpoSDDUXi6hnIUcW5R8HgeVeWBbyp66xOKcsMiblX20DFBUngAffxSFxRpodHCpnTknzkINxLXM2bNc_pITX4BD0AiXZVH/s1600/56.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518120635342325410 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqoFW0sCgjfGUuU8eJtOybuRISsD1EILB0LjYe1ev7YBQ2WXjpoSDDUXi6hnIUcW5R8HgeVeWBbyp66xOKcsMiblX20DFBUngAffxSFxRpodHCpnTknzkINxLXM2bNc_pITX4BD0AiXZVH/s200/56.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvPOVyqZstGgtaktepXGDs5Z3XCgVPJ6WUOKjGchZbYocQV4lG-J8mQVTUzJLGcYUZ8bgXW6FEYiWGXojo89xvuCFKPSquXsmqrvx1i5dZBkHZqhHfrHXuU5xQa8WQI7V7rOaz0BrglJa/s1600/49.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518120629332163362 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvPOVyqZstGgtaktepXGDs5Z3XCgVPJ6WUOKjGchZbYocQV4lG-J8mQVTUzJLGcYUZ8bgXW6FEYiWGXojo89xvuCFKPSquXsmqrvx1i5dZBkHZqhHfrHXuU5xQa8WQI7V7rOaz0BrglJa/s200/49.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJSo5epfHNXwEvS8Rzau5w-z2yprqsEw1LNahG71s2KACci8Nd9w7OPXm2La_Du_YovxdXvLX5vWew0xtHT6IOSOuUkV0xrgWMZwq_lPN2KjfISOA9uhe4BmJgUfW1D9faolGBmsuaM_g/s1600/45.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518120624221568690 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxJSo5epfHNXwEvS8Rzau5w-z2yprqsEw1LNahG71s2KACci8Nd9w7OPXm2La_Du_YovxdXvLX5vWew0xtHT6IOSOuUkV0xrgWMZwq_lPN2KjfISOA9uhe4BmJgUfW1D9faolGBmsuaM_g/s200/45.JPG"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N2sEaFEKFFJFtVy_7ABqcDlquZcqiiEe5cBBLbAPJDGpDoGXBgSnBMpTSNk_Vvr0ru1Qthb0kehvqmm-JJbktLGgKJDWTunAlSsJUUkQtEDJkZOr6iImk9mOv5xI-DtB8S4OLEtJu4xE/s1600/47.JPG"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518120607384078962 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-N2sEaFEKFFJFtVy_7ABqcDlquZcqiiEe5cBBLbAPJDGpDoGXBgSnBMpTSNk_Vvr0ru1Qthb0kehvqmm-JJbktLGgKJDWTunAlSsJUUkQtEDJkZOr6iImk9mOv5xI-DtB8S4OLEtJu4xE/s200/47.JPG"></A> Sadly, all good things must come to an end, including this fantastic vacation. I had an amazing time and felt refreshed and ready to get back to work...yeah right! <br /><br />OH! I almost forgot my favorite photos!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3l1HH3a58SNBsLSC7kxm3QV6viOPt5WXL2TnpK5sj0lBsNso6YgQ904RYBMne3M-Gfd_F3NLtmxLjFDL99O1mYtZeaBhUbJrZhue9YlAiLMKlt_dShIXaOpLnSCSYtxTLOm7FzikJgtt9/s1600/41.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3l1HH3a58SNBsLSC7kxm3QV6viOPt5WXL2TnpK5sj0lBsNso6YgQ904RYBMne3M-Gfd_F3NLtmxLjFDL99O1mYtZeaBhUbJrZhue9YlAiLMKlt_dShIXaOpLnSCSYtxTLOm7FzikJgtt9/s200/41.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518138662243719634" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYvtnPQ9H_6WANl4JKi89L5agrLI9Hm02KFhWQsZG1lzZvBGNqRuJK2NCMK766hTK5G9myRLErJKRlbvyCkn7KzH7a3vOMsRtbGnfmV_DokwuGXqNbjOeANG0ZV9lkjLsfKGi2jvfzaVg/s1600/40.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggYvtnPQ9H_6WANl4JKi89L5agrLI9Hm02KFhWQsZG1lzZvBGNqRuJK2NCMK766hTK5G9myRLErJKRlbvyCkn7KzH7a3vOMsRtbGnfmV_DokwuGXqNbjOeANG0ZV9lkjLsfKGi2jvfzaVg/s200/40.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518138653634156146" /></a><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-83360826136994973672010-09-18T13:22:00.005+09:002010-09-18T13:43:24.629+09:00My Second SummerSummer was extremely hot. It's now September and still disgustingly hot and humid. It's also been way too rainy. Apparently, one of the rainiest summers Korea has had in decades. Thanks global warming! <br /><br />I've come up with a bit of a bucket list for stuff I want to do in Korea before I leave. One of the things on my list was to go to the COEX Aquarium. I practically had to drag Em and Laura in with me, but then they had a great time. See, you should ALWAYS listen to The Dish.<br />The aquarium was quite interesting...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWIB6nXmsAdD_SexIZTkZD_PCF0zur7Y6qkx03r3VuwEfMfQ0IatB2CnkGhvP7aotL4C1_I-rkhrJUQhdutvpOmIOJPwTqzpiIkahhrBXd5rI_7H_5AVMS6JLaBoidLceomc-kgcoEXxC/s1600/04.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWIB6nXmsAdD_SexIZTkZD_PCF0zur7Y6qkx03r3VuwEfMfQ0IatB2CnkGhvP7aotL4C1_I-rkhrJUQhdutvpOmIOJPwTqzpiIkahhrBXd5rI_7H_5AVMS6JLaBoidLceomc-kgcoEXxC/s200/04.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518107322631364162" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4X7oBYRVjpD2o0ZnQkGGiZkSYHDOTx4QQxh-b7uk9CScJcx7PSJRMGi3CAs7uzgV-ToYGm52_MYz0ZhAHwGbwSP4zwUHyhNtMGiALTpbeZvlkdGhLhGag32FXiF6jGVaylFrkoLWB-A5/s1600/05.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH4X7oBYRVjpD2o0ZnQkGGiZkSYHDOTx4QQxh-b7uk9CScJcx7PSJRMGi3CAs7uzgV-ToYGm52_MYz0ZhAHwGbwSP4zwUHyhNtMGiALTpbeZvlkdGhLhGag32FXiF6jGVaylFrkoLWB-A5/s200/05.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518107317344063682" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9BSisfjIE4tFRgooj1oVr1j6-nbUDwwBzq-H399znrt9Hvsn7mPW8RpjWTuq-hQdDUFzwU17D6DViJD0cLGiE68ai0lFR8BtykFVZEdDQFrGk2aeMVS348H74hNSsv7s23N8BoyevPHE/s1600/12.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn9BSisfjIE4tFRgooj1oVr1j6-nbUDwwBzq-H399znrt9Hvsn7mPW8RpjWTuq-hQdDUFzwU17D6DViJD0cLGiE68ai0lFR8BtykFVZEdDQFrGk2aeMVS348H74hNSsv7s23N8BoyevPHE/s200/12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518107309116781842" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQvkKWUC-Zn3OyUV280EuWsC2IwvwRuf3lSzZQ0RrPqik1J0r-G45WDHrBkjPmo956Dvu8lbWEh4hyWfYp1rTv8w_QgV7NSk_DnyNeIdDrvsMXp7NJXwyW6p9Pms-_5blLpIi3Zv8fKSVw/s1600/11.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQvkKWUC-Zn3OyUV280EuWsC2IwvwRuf3lSzZQ0RrPqik1J0r-G45WDHrBkjPmo956Dvu8lbWEh4hyWfYp1rTv8w_QgV7NSk_DnyNeIdDrvsMXp7NJXwyW6p9Pms-_5blLpIi3Zv8fKSVw/s200/11.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518107300986141442" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tL_808lJ8dU/TJRBWPaLWkI/AAAAAAAAA7M/3nz9TDhVD0Y/s1600/13.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tL_808lJ8dU/TJRBWPaLWkI/AAAAAAAAA7M/3nz9TDhVD0Y/s200/13.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518107293784955458" /></a><br /><br />For the 4th of July, I decided to put a little picnic together in the park. We had a great time with great people. It was almost like home, minus the fireworks!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbf-749COc8hgv12B3zqVGatwJixxwAUprX1zJJfuNgCK6xRAVDYJo_of5hi3nmvQEg2RLlKa1XC5tQ0H1ldI2DP-CA9s1HecPrS-T2iOMUM_-oySQ8QW3vyRet_yWa0BbJCcoeVhXJjy/s1600/34.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHbf-749COc8hgv12B3zqVGatwJixxwAUprX1zJJfuNgCK6xRAVDYJo_of5hi3nmvQEg2RLlKa1XC5tQ0H1ldI2DP-CA9s1HecPrS-T2iOMUM_-oySQ8QW3vyRet_yWa0BbJCcoeVhXJjy/s200/34.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518108502096294418" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh8TFyi0bF_IdNsK-K1ccrII6hEPY67d0WfRCGtZNIqUUsi1L8Tw65M3XAIzC8IsRCArzqGaSmDI-Ngf2a8MJCB0FONSO_3p2kNllzO5QVCCfBHClaVwbu0NR8kbK5yjlmiosdZaCQppT/s1600/37.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh8TFyi0bF_IdNsK-K1ccrII6hEPY67d0WfRCGtZNIqUUsi1L8Tw65M3XAIzC8IsRCArzqGaSmDI-Ngf2a8MJCB0FONSO_3p2kNllzO5QVCCfBHClaVwbu0NR8kbK5yjlmiosdZaCQppT/s200/37.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518108491552654418" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCvmej0m6pw6loTAlXvr6y5YCTxDDUPt0K8oYbtnatIm8Xorf-R2oxjC4JjejRP6XXh8vwLhCUNYHyMqmeWrDjvvcGqhw4DMvjhjU0_6cWbh0rflIRu-CHqJP842ZCR6v-zOMPFMA7ZII/s1600/38.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCvmej0m6pw6loTAlXvr6y5YCTxDDUPt0K8oYbtnatIm8Xorf-R2oxjC4JjejRP6XXh8vwLhCUNYHyMqmeWrDjvvcGqhw4DMvjhjU0_6cWbh0rflIRu-CHqJP842ZCR6v-zOMPFMA7ZII/s200/38.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518108478027290754" /></a><br /><br />Now more pics of my kids :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58FLni24IEeW7zqkf6-46TqY0Ufcl3AFVzzPE05Di7qURSNJgmORYOI6Lg6XkambNJv4Rlrf0xyV-A7gSOQv-hoHntHP9Za9XPRZFTY-PEBVhyTOCjoDFT2YU_F8trTC2lkfJGBn9sSW-/s1600/39.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58FLni24IEeW7zqkf6-46TqY0Ufcl3AFVzzPE05Di7qURSNJgmORYOI6Lg6XkambNJv4Rlrf0xyV-A7gSOQv-hoHntHP9Za9XPRZFTY-PEBVhyTOCjoDFT2YU_F8trTC2lkfJGBn9sSW-/s200/39.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518109159541690050" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtOyNRu_-GWFwxFFY8SGA7qULBToMjkiipeWzpC7PBneoCMYukIIpDclfZrxF2km9Jz66fpYXdNKcYd-AQMu9beFGUyYu8HpCokqW_m1-pLbRdnWhJr5sapcXPtcjM81Ps0O1xgHfOO-q/s1600/68.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqtOyNRu_-GWFwxFFY8SGA7qULBToMjkiipeWzpC7PBneoCMYukIIpDclfZrxF2km9Jz66fpYXdNKcYd-AQMu9beFGUyYu8HpCokqW_m1-pLbRdnWhJr5sapcXPtcjM81Ps0O1xgHfOO-q/s200/68.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518109152988667666" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EdAUO3de_uBvJpvrxq3zHYrXLiOVj8_-aEv2AIcDAbogW_FertTWv1__Ylk6cstoH-EGl4sWnlvvWnJv9yY3IwGea35xey_6msJ6yaHiv1FMyRFwWjLiR6CbISbflDGb1Ba_WVYVGypJ/s1600/63.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8EdAUO3de_uBvJpvrxq3zHYrXLiOVj8_-aEv2AIcDAbogW_FertTWv1__Ylk6cstoH-EGl4sWnlvvWnJv9yY3IwGea35xey_6msJ6yaHiv1FMyRFwWjLiR6CbISbflDGb1Ba_WVYVGypJ/s200/63.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518109141493297298" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYKGtQgriW8CPL2GoYByVWUVV__dBKJfxJIu0G0cxyVDkzyFhZ_K485_0a0YsjPudNPV-j1VGr6ZE0bhJzh1LOEK05FXBmsVKZVjFuSXoxDCzWjPZO5vsVkZkfKKvUUyuYffdVqBQM3PQ/s1600/60.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYKGtQgriW8CPL2GoYByVWUVV__dBKJfxJIu0G0cxyVDkzyFhZ_K485_0a0YsjPudNPV-j1VGr6ZE0bhJzh1LOEK05FXBmsVKZVjFuSXoxDCzWjPZO5vsVkZkfKKvUUyuYffdVqBQM3PQ/s200/60.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518109128290601426" /></a><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-87413389670506111312010-09-18T12:53:00.005+09:002010-09-18T13:21:32.243+09:00My 30th BirthdayAnother birthday in Korea. Who would have thunk it? To top it all off, it was my 30th. Holy shit...I'm 30 years old. Really??? Anyway, back to this. My 30th had to be great. I didn't have my friends and family from home with me, but I celebrated with some awesome people. We began with dinner at the Novatel, which is this really great hotel in Gangnam.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91xYwFYUAI0dHPs4hXII3zHHsnt9gji0itbS0ZplMhfaLbCfD0P70u3RNGHt187CUchRJv_smaE3e4WhiDpPzyFdcu9RDEx0UIViaD0_lHxjP_4DjcEXoo7rWgbI8tWY5bHtG18vgPYDL/s1600/10.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91xYwFYUAI0dHPs4hXII3zHHsnt9gji0itbS0ZplMhfaLbCfD0P70u3RNGHt187CUchRJv_smaE3e4WhiDpPzyFdcu9RDEx0UIViaD0_lHxjP_4DjcEXoo7rWgbI8tWY5bHtG18vgPYDL/s200/10.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518098801633388338" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqqTj9t-Ybhyphenhyphenfrmsiv111omixfnpJHKWqp1f-3I7qWxFoqiYdnsAKQlOW_i_E37OkgvxQd-HtKU25_zZgd5saJ1CAd5ggKXM4p9jOs0HhIIqxWfevmwNgqOF6kCoql-qONzIW7Y4xXptg/s1600/07.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqqTj9t-Ybhyphenhyphenfrmsiv111omixfnpJHKWqp1f-3I7qWxFoqiYdnsAKQlOW_i_E37OkgvxQd-HtKU25_zZgd5saJ1CAd5ggKXM4p9jOs0HhIIqxWfevmwNgqOF6kCoql-qONzIW7Y4xXptg/s200/07.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518098791022050834" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXSPsIVGFqzF3QxEWKqgT-LC31cGL4LpdRLyhC2yxPE_Kw2veFHlNLC6Z220wK4HKzJ7fZ4A3YD_kHGfGannbzpIYyXLyonbS6mex67FIduOUcXzcIxrYC_XBi1Xpy9gm7vKyuKFMxp_H/s1600/06.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXSPsIVGFqzF3QxEWKqgT-LC31cGL4LpdRLyhC2yxPE_Kw2veFHlNLC6Z220wK4HKzJ7fZ4A3YD_kHGfGannbzpIYyXLyonbS6mex67FIduOUcXzcIxrYC_XBi1Xpy9gm7vKyuKFMxp_H/s200/06.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518098782324069730" /></a><br />We stayed at the Novatel a bit longer to enjoy the great cover band!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXXG4qgxlK8huaNQBRTkRQzJR9LIzy1R6uiIpSn9-n0p0K_bW3XDxfT3J3YmzZEFtp4ttjaUsJuZd4OAv2iFU2GZPi8JOLxKn5iVua_QNkOmY-jNoq2cqbqs4xr8QJh7e68f6pM6jUWm4/s1600/22.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFXXG4qgxlK8huaNQBRTkRQzJR9LIzy1R6uiIpSn9-n0p0K_bW3XDxfT3J3YmzZEFtp4ttjaUsJuZd4OAv2iFU2GZPi8JOLxKn5iVua_QNkOmY-jNoq2cqbqs4xr8QJh7e68f6pM6jUWm4/s200/22.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518100178916162834" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXOXjBBydn4K8jP9TzHyQNeY_4VdzXXgiq256-p_S79T5eyQpuGsgOI5vdYdtiYni5PGiEKHAkF_31dU1QpjBbhidc01jza6voIMFmHElTpVfKeafKT33X99AROhQJz2OiQeedrdE76Qq/s1600/12.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKXOXjBBydn4K8jP9TzHyQNeY_4VdzXXgiq256-p_S79T5eyQpuGsgOI5vdYdtiYni5PGiEKHAkF_31dU1QpjBbhidc01jza6voIMFmHElTpVfKeafKT33X99AROhQJz2OiQeedrdE76Qq/s200/12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518100170837680546" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqf0RTOMNWytM0ZHWE8wZ3DiSSDwNredcqZlum4ISXxJwhngEH5YO5LLL0xNKEzPdC6Yqr6FNaeLvWewZvOnV5mJyR94TY11J-0H8UYbqRGJckRbdQZRAElx1s4Tra1wr1-P-6WLshgkS-/s1600/19.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqf0RTOMNWytM0ZHWE8wZ3DiSSDwNredcqZlum4ISXxJwhngEH5YO5LLL0xNKEzPdC6Yqr6FNaeLvWewZvOnV5mJyR94TY11J-0H8UYbqRGJckRbdQZRAElx1s4Tra1wr1-P-6WLshgkS-/s200/19.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518100167288745714" /></a><br />Then is was off to Rainbow for some hookah and Woodstock's for some partying.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4ylQ7aKxIkO3XMpIgclXQSRCXaazJqU2wPCBcY1soxDZ8CNlgu6ZLe3VfqL8ykaRxp7C-0bVHm9oyWfmwwBErFSiQe45I1dS_GNBX5YV4S8E8tcXlEJaYp-gibmTd7B8DPjJWjdifTqC/s1600/29.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4ylQ7aKxIkO3XMpIgclXQSRCXaazJqU2wPCBcY1soxDZ8CNlgu6ZLe3VfqL8ykaRxp7C-0bVHm9oyWfmwwBErFSiQe45I1dS_GNBX5YV4S8E8tcXlEJaYp-gibmTd7B8DPjJWjdifTqC/s200/29.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518103259494917650" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDDDpKtHmgUTfz4lEstwCQ1NY5lnLBqGEfbLL87D2gk67qOxceO-pWB4f3JKj61_Oo7UKA1yMsMjMwbdRdJtOxVX5XpdzUGjGw44rb9H4-JqXTsbYnlOKzwHbeUYCfIdUJzRlqCh-IoNi/s1600/35.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbDDDpKtHmgUTfz4lEstwCQ1NY5lnLBqGEfbLL87D2gk67qOxceO-pWB4f3JKj61_Oo7UKA1yMsMjMwbdRdJtOxVX5XpdzUGjGw44rb9H4-JqXTsbYnlOKzwHbeUYCfIdUJzRlqCh-IoNi/s200/35.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518103250195529698" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMaUeZtBQq51TgZn2KpCAebPq-vopdtwfbStOiq-s6d8_WhhG_A2HM2zUbGfIsrgmyqIhuBg_TqLflRvbgA1RBeTj-GJZX8LleI1SHKKA6jZhFyEkV7gCYO6euDTh7RyYICpbOM6zIAj-/s1600/26.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPMaUeZtBQq51TgZn2KpCAebPq-vopdtwfbStOiq-s6d8_WhhG_A2HM2zUbGfIsrgmyqIhuBg_TqLflRvbgA1RBeTj-GJZX8LleI1SHKKA6jZhFyEkV7gCYO6euDTh7RyYICpbOM6zIAj-/s200/26.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518103239295694098" /></a><br />So yeah, it was a great way to celebrate my induction into the dirty thirties! Next year, Vegas??????<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-5660071304114111262010-09-18T12:45:00.003+09:002010-09-18T12:53:31.583+09:00May 2010May was a very hard month for me here. I was extremely homesick and pretty much spent every weekend sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. It was sad, but I feel it was something I had to do to keep me moving along here. I could have easily hopped on a plane back home, but I didn't. That would have been insanely foolish of me. <br /><br />So not many photos of fun things happening in May. However, I will post some photos of my super adorable students on a field trip we had.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_qyU7pZfcGnwQIgsjEIAgdqEAtK_fjZblkk2fzobM8L-eJbSBPLD4Ro4lhvh4DC5R20yUe3hLa42rufBkdQWiy_A5qeSQAdoBmSNVkJApXIv3BOMD8nfqfpMdZgN4hMxCvyOUwsHkxaV/s1600/13.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_qyU7pZfcGnwQIgsjEIAgdqEAtK_fjZblkk2fzobM8L-eJbSBPLD4Ro4lhvh4DC5R20yUe3hLa42rufBkdQWiy_A5qeSQAdoBmSNVkJApXIv3BOMD8nfqfpMdZgN4hMxCvyOUwsHkxaV/s200/13.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518096257479536210" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-NJiAsMWXQQl6FN6D4Q8f5-S4nFJs5jedz9aYMYXy8rtJvE4jRSD4QaDpw9oBYmUySIOSpXv44GfTl5I4cGrHjCwM96mdU6aeIOYsOxcVpOrEFlv0mlrrwun-0aJ97tacJ_Oz2F066-SI/s1600/11.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-NJiAsMWXQQl6FN6D4Q8f5-S4nFJs5jedz9aYMYXy8rtJvE4jRSD4QaDpw9oBYmUySIOSpXv44GfTl5I4cGrHjCwM96mdU6aeIOYsOxcVpOrEFlv0mlrrwun-0aJ97tacJ_Oz2F066-SI/s200/11.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518096249200115074" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBUUFukvDpiNyAcesASNlhYLYZ9AspS0Mzoc8IcHNgcVpaQVbyvMPFWGrPp014OGU0xoFVdo-WlFIcfG2wF7ONsv9dmLFhlFcJtdLS1_O2iMnD3V0METUbgLTiWB4DqopvOVfRhcUUsMG/s1600/12.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBUUFukvDpiNyAcesASNlhYLYZ9AspS0Mzoc8IcHNgcVpaQVbyvMPFWGrPp014OGU0xoFVdo-WlFIcfG2wF7ONsv9dmLFhlFcJtdLS1_O2iMnD3V0METUbgLTiWB4DqopvOVfRhcUUsMG/s200/12.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518096240350212658" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwYewSwthlC_rHhwFHpX2INHJzIDQErmhO-gCLI2Kqb5XETQfi5C1AguC39EiAawL4ROIFx7iqscErfm_-zD7qD-wwuBhaB8WbC-9TcPVbLi19YIVUZVVBhpCPNK5zFPPNMswC74UJ7f-/s1600/25.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwYewSwthlC_rHhwFHpX2INHJzIDQErmhO-gCLI2Kqb5XETQfi5C1AguC39EiAawL4ROIFx7iqscErfm_-zD7qD-wwuBhaB8WbC-9TcPVbLi19YIVUZVVBhpCPNK5zFPPNMswC74UJ7f-/s200/25.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518096233488620242" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaONBOkswAU9YUa5jgZncAKWwlcuagWNqyt9hRjaoCvLt6isTfMYJcDgWeW7pLZQQzm9mbRcTqv6z8394vh7zDDAxyLtNAD-kVuyqkKDDGfBiV3cFBpEBMsmS8IR2ppDU2uNvhSe6FSBJO/s1600/14.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaONBOkswAU9YUa5jgZncAKWwlcuagWNqyt9hRjaoCvLt6isTfMYJcDgWeW7pLZQQzm9mbRcTqv6z8394vh7zDDAxyLtNAD-kVuyqkKDDGfBiV3cFBpEBMsmS8IR2ppDU2uNvhSe6FSBJO/s200/14.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518096224603552370" /></a><br /><br />Yay, for cute children!!!<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-28183819094253578412010-09-18T12:14:00.010+09:002010-09-18T12:45:03.801+09:00Spring in Korea!!!!Ok...MAJOR apologies for not updating in, oh, about 6 months. EEK! So, so sorry. We've got new teachers here who looked at my blog before coming, and so I am embarrassed for not keeping up with it. Please forgive me :)<br /><br />So I stopped updating at the end of March. April was a great month! Spring came to Korea very, very late this year. So late, in fact, we thought it might never come. It was snowing here in April. This has been known to happen at home, but not here. Everyone was quite shocked.<br /><br />Well, spring did decide to finally arrive...and spring in Korea means one thing: Cherry Blossoms! When they bloom, all is beautiful. A normal walk to work becomes great when you walk down the street surrounded by those beautiful white blossoms. The whole country smells wonderful! This spring, I decided to take a little trip down south to see the blosssoms. Stacy, Steve, and I joined a large group of people and went about 4 hours south to Gwangju. They say Gwangju is where the Lee family began in Korea. Lee is a very popular last name here...like Smith in America popular.<br /><br />While in Gwangju, we rented bicycles and rode around the town. It was great, but by the end of the day, my ass hurt like hell! Here are some photos:<br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtBHfmOlpEaNFxNBkSRO5lCjPzu9pQBiJLo5pmWc8ln6VjSNy0GTuMh9fQQZ8fOgl60TTektuVTQf98II5JhwnvWZVSgOmCoPce5VyC1VFwRQ4ZE_TQnTeUlcptIDiCcZsyI0Hbu4YGnY/s1600/01.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518089700576757682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtBHfmOlpEaNFxNBkSRO5lCjPzu9pQBiJLo5pmWc8ln6VjSNy0GTuMh9fQQZ8fOgl60TTektuVTQf98II5JhwnvWZVSgOmCoPce5VyC1VFwRQ4ZE_TQnTeUlcptIDiCcZsyI0Hbu4YGnY/s200/01.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjva_q67S9sRszNpxUqwRSfSvBhmne_0a6bFuWIVrzg2oBY0gWCDNEhFRC320Vs0OFvpTCRqfqQSSuFuFd5SOGcnop8fp3tICe0ET02mAItuPWOLENuAL2vsHWVmuFo2hMgvMi_ytt7JOkw/s1600/02.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518089683415133538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjva_q67S9sRszNpxUqwRSfSvBhmne_0a6bFuWIVrzg2oBY0gWCDNEhFRC320Vs0OFvpTCRqfqQSSuFuFd5SOGcnop8fp3tICe0ET02mAItuPWOLENuAL2vsHWVmuFo2hMgvMi_ytt7JOkw/s200/02.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMnAyDFIb_V0Trafh8FglNvXj53CHQ_n-MyoAB0u5OUqsMHJ6eI4EYpPX7qkgJsJkyNYNc56ZhcTkODovHh1bs5wuUvRFkRgSus8ccz_fMP5Xgpd4d2DzadvsgwUrAQs_JEIMC9r0PRK-/s1600/05.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518089675863118418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMnAyDFIb_V0Trafh8FglNvXj53CHQ_n-MyoAB0u5OUqsMHJ6eI4EYpPX7qkgJsJkyNYNc56ZhcTkODovHh1bs5wuUvRFkRgSus8ccz_fMP5Xgpd4d2DzadvsgwUrAQs_JEIMC9r0PRK-/s200/05.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijALOxsKaRbWIWnD79I6aBvvoy3H-VTMPUWnmp_14rU5drXUie6-aVYnPLNFRnSstObR3TwrMCPhm0hNflxQPLDntOfjFXZkoykhPqkNcjaich6zvuoC7BsGnp3hi0xoVZojyLxVxoXTNy/s1600/07.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518089661090323970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijALOxsKaRbWIWnD79I6aBvvoy3H-VTMPUWnmp_14rU5drXUie6-aVYnPLNFRnSstObR3TwrMCPhm0hNflxQPLDntOfjFXZkoykhPqkNcjaich6zvuoC7BsGnp3hi0xoVZojyLxVxoXTNy/s200/07.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-uh-HFq8mO1cUFXLD_ir-k7wivXQ4NumXFOLcS35_gScTpQpmsVgHZTLWUyQHHSygshUmyE6F4JwBLiRDcqo7ke5MTXlt6oYHIYiKMtC8v-vi04716ZNNmpil2XnnmLa7tYqgK8xALnG/s1600/10.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518089646275362914" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-uh-HFq8mO1cUFXLD_ir-k7wivXQ4NumXFOLcS35_gScTpQpmsVgHZTLWUyQHHSygshUmyE6F4JwBLiRDcqo7ke5MTXlt6oYHIYiKMtC8v-vi04716ZNNmpil2XnnmLa7tYqgK8xALnG/s200/10.JPG" /></a><br /><br />I also went to Everland again in April. What better way to spend a beautiful spring day than riding roller coasters with awesome people?!?! Em, Joel, and I met our Korean friend, Claire for this fabulous day! I think my favorite part was when Claire was holding our place in line and talked us into cutting about 200 Koreans in line to get on a roller coaster. This is obviously a huge DON'T in America. I can recall many a time when my mother bitched people out for trying to cut us in amusement park ride lines. In Korea, however, no one says a damn word! It was insane. We felt incredibly guilty for doing it, but they all let us do it like it was no big deal. It was kind of surreal in a way.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLxk2fqChuSFxksiTlaVI2iTS_Swd-wyWVnOtH5tpXDZkJPUlSvxr46J5fGnVsNoEr7b8RdskwQ8NPVmC16THnAFg4_xl2uu5-zAQyFbQ_UirLzXP9GDDMfNbOwIEI0ia_0fRSYLRvn4n/s1600/39.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518091781055962194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLxk2fqChuSFxksiTlaVI2iTS_Swd-wyWVnOtH5tpXDZkJPUlSvxr46J5fGnVsNoEr7b8RdskwQ8NPVmC16THnAFg4_xl2uu5-zAQyFbQ_UirLzXP9GDDMfNbOwIEI0ia_0fRSYLRvn4n/s200/39.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPII37fOGI-CTUK-dcyarNWEmzRZDlDl9_ejIdgjT5SIBst_4L8hnWBln_YRN6gE1ubOZsml3nQ6p2Fbn-HMUT_xoETmAhNMNfVM9GJwACNbqGqUhnf9H0s_VOfd6abdpUn9equc6fIxM/s1600/26.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518091769262963938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPII37fOGI-CTUK-dcyarNWEmzRZDlDl9_ejIdgjT5SIBst_4L8hnWBln_YRN6gE1ubOZsml3nQ6p2Fbn-HMUT_xoETmAhNMNfVM9GJwACNbqGqUhnf9H0s_VOfd6abdpUn9equc6fIxM/s200/26.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UFRV6NmohsBKZgV8BfdPhs0uvI06zCbCiQWtHp2DOXrc_sPe9u0Z90KRn-7biQX3U6RMT-9sfJHQ4gvndopRs6N_sYvrQsPTDLJ8zyhgsM4lgYVb57MLQii-WWifdLv_5JbLSiLVOAgG/s1600/24.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518091761526631346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UFRV6NmohsBKZgV8BfdPhs0uvI06zCbCiQWtHp2DOXrc_sPe9u0Z90KRn-7biQX3U6RMT-9sfJHQ4gvndopRs6N_sYvrQsPTDLJ8zyhgsM4lgYVb57MLQii-WWifdLv_5JbLSiLVOAgG/s200/24.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JQ_rc1qaOXyO8NK_eB9Ez90txBXAAm9YozfdyUFJda5qeR-L7_7UgbWJiMUBcfLFr-brmQyCs715-UGuwUJH2GhprupL_y0JD-O_vtOwplbHMIB_oOcmJsE9RAIv1Uz8FeaXaYZ_vBAZ/s1600/20.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518091757614465522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5JQ_rc1qaOXyO8NK_eB9Ez90txBXAAm9YozfdyUFJda5qeR-L7_7UgbWJiMUBcfLFr-brmQyCs715-UGuwUJH2GhprupL_y0JD-O_vtOwplbHMIB_oOcmJsE9RAIv1Uz8FeaXaYZ_vBAZ/s200/20.JPG" /></a><br />We also went into a bird sanctuary to feed some birds. At first, Em was a bit worried, but was soon having a blast.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hsordJ-YsGgHnW-mGITGvPlQiJFFRO1lrzHPk2ACe2w__d9fB6afsVLIr9h85sDheJFef3TdSKOhodRnkVyluqmvSFr1YEpbt9hlWklT0wf1ZcRcuH1KYoRGu2HTMJgVbVVdSYpS5Pv0/s1600/60.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518092358777802130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hsordJ-YsGgHnW-mGITGvPlQiJFFRO1lrzHPk2ACe2w__d9fB6afsVLIr9h85sDheJFef3TdSKOhodRnkVyluqmvSFr1YEpbt9hlWklT0wf1ZcRcuH1KYoRGu2HTMJgVbVVdSYpS5Pv0/s200/60.JPG" /></a><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhepDVL-YJmbK8AnJXkk579ugc4ghQTZ-U-cyFN6z6KX8hoWAtjThDC5Pd5us_for3cBLa89ySTOjHVpA5c5VKkrlHKmOJZ1pf7YOiJ65-lHCkdzsqEu8WLyNRsMf8HPYQscBX7TEFUHt/s1600/58.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518092348664330514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjhepDVL-YJmbK8AnJXkk579ugc4ghQTZ-U-cyFN6z6KX8hoWAtjThDC5Pd5us_for3cBLa89ySTOjHVpA5c5VKkrlHKmOJZ1pf7YOiJ65-lHCkdzsqEu8WLyNRsMf8HPYQscBX7TEFUHt/s200/58.JPG" /></a></p><br /><br />April also brought to the Korean War Memorial Museum. Not as good as I thought it was gonna be, but still interesting.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB963ZUI1ce9Hh_J7_7952xpfTvB1XQZJoNZnvUimup5snQZ3CjqT2MI-W85fZm3O3ex4lr6msMnOPjhUlG_X3MIIC911hYay9VzvpnzUHkIU9J55_t0BY56OUg3U0_YCH-C3zcA3DsuTu/s1600/74.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB963ZUI1ce9Hh_J7_7952xpfTvB1XQZJoNZnvUimup5snQZ3CjqT2MI-W85fZm3O3ex4lr6msMnOPjhUlG_X3MIIC911hYay9VzvpnzUHkIU9J55_t0BY56OUg3U0_YCH-C3zcA3DsuTu/s200/74.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093468292672034" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhGBXkK6txhb1CHBmkxmXRP7osmHOmebCD6ShK-PNxMKTPVn-cgdrUyLrxsU7t9CBs6hSFFfvoyZ3hfS2d_euWLP2QYXwlKPFYj1zKScj0I7jb68gemZVkBQ9NA2ETcyCg02j3vopyPVF/s1600/76.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhhGBXkK6txhb1CHBmkxmXRP7osmHOmebCD6ShK-PNxMKTPVn-cgdrUyLrxsU7t9CBs6hSFFfvoyZ3hfS2d_euWLP2QYXwlKPFYj1zKScj0I7jb68gemZVkBQ9NA2ETcyCg02j3vopyPVF/s200/76.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093458813252482" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSZXXv-9PMCVVba-R_lgRyXoeAURm5uM95EskLyWxwnHqX9GyQYxuUvVQUdn7DAX_VaagDsW9DVtDaENX11KwwQxTZAjR_dIQIdVvOn2Qu68ilj62izCNrgzNIFP3ZJR0VRyQMxBVNg1o/s1600/77.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSZXXv-9PMCVVba-R_lgRyXoeAURm5uM95EskLyWxwnHqX9GyQYxuUvVQUdn7DAX_VaagDsW9DVtDaENX11KwwQxTZAjR_dIQIdVvOn2Qu68ilj62izCNrgzNIFP3ZJR0VRyQMxBVNg1o/s200/77.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093450426589330" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GUWSM7WRqAvXuNxt0Ee5hRyTiFnhoHiU7rqMrpY0-jc6W7VwHLRO4lp90K4NOftYtehCoaYA3vZOe82jeNMW87UeIaq9GNs-wJ6ZSjA7TFHu56OchDRvEfanubwHVypVSUpkDRrcuoSP/s1600/79.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GUWSM7WRqAvXuNxt0Ee5hRyTiFnhoHiU7rqMrpY0-jc6W7VwHLRO4lp90K4NOftYtehCoaYA3vZOe82jeNMW87UeIaq9GNs-wJ6ZSjA7TFHu56OchDRvEfanubwHVypVSUpkDRrcuoSP/s200/79.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093441962426290" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvBNASo1iZ33-Fvhuie4fYjwmGzaYTiwDzk0-ev7uUAJ5eZTOWJ1-ViKzUMaAOKTdB9vH2W7mxwWnnvOgfDvAnadZ8AuvVs05qEan-WQdltnVziBGXXhQhkz1SBWyZ4C8rgS6ZbCDcdhO/s1600/80.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvBNASo1iZ33-Fvhuie4fYjwmGzaYTiwDzk0-ev7uUAJ5eZTOWJ1-ViKzUMaAOKTdB9vH2W7mxwWnnvOgfDvAnadZ8AuvVs05qEan-WQdltnVziBGXXhQhkz1SBWyZ4C8rgS6ZbCDcdhO/s200/80.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093434457713922" /></a><br /><br />Finally, I received my plaque for drinking all 55 Gecko's shooters. It only took me 3 months. It is an accomplishment I am quite proud of! haha<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-2NZOsjzKEL-CUconiCsGNhT10uV7-wFhTZyBd2mZ95rHhcZ1xBJAyk8zhZ-1KBV6cQZbFWwnzHoLoCRBosy8vp5lIyp7ryNQyp2oR9dt_qTJLJBzx1Aa80BgMTgW4Tn_UF75Cn5Bx7c/s1600/86.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-2NZOsjzKEL-CUconiCsGNhT10uV7-wFhTZyBd2mZ95rHhcZ1xBJAyk8zhZ-1KBV6cQZbFWwnzHoLoCRBosy8vp5lIyp7ryNQyp2oR9dt_qTJLJBzx1Aa80BgMTgW4Tn_UF75Cn5Bx7c/s200/86.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518093964877352546" /></a><br /><br />I also saw this really insane fire in Seoul.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9c79Aj6pIQWSyw80zFU43tNGjZogC4-zHEmeS9KVF9CV1mfq9LNom9LuV3bctCR6KGvgYtnbBdncCqCOPmIvDyTXd6mRNRdNKNxuSeRwc5Kbx-TnZqjcjtkxMQuOaeE5WRVGp793e41gq/s1600/89.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9c79Aj6pIQWSyw80zFU43tNGjZogC4-zHEmeS9KVF9CV1mfq9LNom9LuV3bctCR6KGvgYtnbBdncCqCOPmIvDyTXd6mRNRdNKNxuSeRwc5Kbx-TnZqjcjtkxMQuOaeE5WRVGp793e41gq/s200/89.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518094282769824754" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblwm66Ept032BA9OY4iN-lYJkKjCNTUa4RdYXjrUEV5iZ7GhVBOf7Eei21isOKQvHqi4PaPDrXqrNXf-uw2dGsW-WZ-nP1AzMq_qZt_-bqO0bn4-Rw5LFMykJQLoZuJR0VXyPH3STNQBR/s1600/88.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhblwm66Ept032BA9OY4iN-lYJkKjCNTUa4RdYXjrUEV5iZ7GhVBOf7Eei21isOKQvHqi4PaPDrXqrNXf-uw2dGsW-WZ-nP1AzMq_qZt_-bqO0bn4-Rw5LFMykJQLoZuJR0VXyPH3STNQBR/s200/88.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518094274485187234" /></a><br /><br />There ya have it...my second April in Korea.<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-65354697739998912412010-03-28T16:31:00.003+09:002010-03-28T16:39:56.924+09:00My new class.So as most of you know, I now have a new kindergarten class. I went from teaching one of the lowest kindergarten classes (6-1) to now teaching the 2nd highest (7-3). I was a little nervous about it because there is a lot expected of these kids. Luckily, I only have 5 students. They are amazing and I love them already. They crack me up everyday. I have Sellina (who was in my class last year), Jaimie, Alex, Robert, and Zeki...yes, Zeki. Here are some photos of them on our last field trip.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0YmmkgMBvGYWt3s-hEYLK1uCejC7NRg3VBapu0aVJgW9i-cPQz7oX6NFqUBgvrZT5hwwKgDeMUG2z4WZylhzaTI01sIn2Q31ZtBd9GAzHfpVPdeShjaMGp6qBvSIsgJ9vVVgPUOS_ZuwJ/s1600/134.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0YmmkgMBvGYWt3s-hEYLK1uCejC7NRg3VBapu0aVJgW9i-cPQz7oX6NFqUBgvrZT5hwwKgDeMUG2z4WZylhzaTI01sIn2Q31ZtBd9GAzHfpVPdeShjaMGp6qBvSIsgJ9vVVgPUOS_ZuwJ/s200/134.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453585929269286850" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtV4c6NG1c3k7LOHbhen0HXhPSCoQZuVSzsD7o4PaWvqPHZUo3OxvyGMqTVbotwqdXNL4XblyuPbu49CkmVT44qoylcyzAorsKnQrfHaecSwbnpUtksU9RBZg6hhjDmsAo4Sh5Jw7exzy1/s1600/136.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtV4c6NG1c3k7LOHbhen0HXhPSCoQZuVSzsD7o4PaWvqPHZUo3OxvyGMqTVbotwqdXNL4XblyuPbu49CkmVT44qoylcyzAorsKnQrfHaecSwbnpUtksU9RBZg6hhjDmsAo4Sh5Jw7exzy1/s200/136.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453585923423635858" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl88i3wHc0A1YD-FN8Q-RmncNDpZL_cSCIv056NcZ3SV8Ht3Ijht9vPcfYwjQwLs4y9OM4MLZ05TaSly0qxDSsLC3T8qzv7R5APCzAqyQh2nRUxtHngKxcm5WOsEJ8gOFJAJHL7FSrO7zi/s1600/139.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl88i3wHc0A1YD-FN8Q-RmncNDpZL_cSCIv056NcZ3SV8Ht3Ijht9vPcfYwjQwLs4y9OM4MLZ05TaSly0qxDSsLC3T8qzv7R5APCzAqyQh2nRUxtHngKxcm5WOsEJ8gOFJAJHL7FSrO7zi/s200/139.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453585912308298882" /></a><br />I look forward to spending the next year with the little monsters!<br />My elementary classes are also pretty great. So far, no big behavior issues...not like last year! Things are good with work. I'm pretty damn happy with it right now!<br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-20666803851043120322010-03-28T16:03:00.007+09:002010-03-28T16:31:33.442+09:00Kickin' it in Gunsan one last time!Well now it was time for Dan to move on from Gunsan...allll the way to Osan haha. Which is only a couple hours from Gunsan. We had to go big for Dan's sweep. Boy, did we go big. As a tribute to Dan and St. Patrick's Day, we got special t-shirts made and made lovely black and green tutus. Many of us completed the look with tights, socks, and other things. Here I am ready to party!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB22AQDMZk5fEHdyFVk_fkLqTTNtQ6LiX6jUHpPm-_6KHCLP8Xwd9t0KancymxW2bu77TEU1Gh1kxQQ32TQlht7Xqpj4uVN0FvcVm0P4KrUdqLKHKR6P_UbHFe6FtpE-T1P_mm9-45kVVd/s1600/101.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB22AQDMZk5fEHdyFVk_fkLqTTNtQ6LiX6jUHpPm-_6KHCLP8Xwd9t0KancymxW2bu77TEU1Gh1kxQQ32TQlht7Xqpj4uVN0FvcVm0P4KrUdqLKHKR6P_UbHFe6FtpE-T1P_mm9-45kVVd/s200/101.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453578280926289474" /></a><br />The gig was the same as last time: party at Delta, hop on a bus to America Town, eat, party, then back to Delta for more partying, 2am breakfast, and bed!<br />First was Delta.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzEvzAbqhMvR6as9zOe7wUypKBwTxBKQJ9XzWCnVdUKmhsWv1DT-HBqixMePVdr9yKPEtuy2K0JINHH2F57t5Ltou1sPDEWujZsC9Do_0-j2nxBxKY0iSF7XA0WIhUCXafthzWF_RGXV0/s1600/83.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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It was an awesome night...push it up!!<br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-38060776638571481832010-03-28T15:57:00.002+09:002010-03-28T16:02:05.438+09:00More snow in Jukjeon!Will the snow ever go away?!?!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhvqqPplteKHdkxOKgLSLIYZUOJTZ8aIfkn3jBH-c3Rmsdru5v83zOPqQshL0pRGTaavrSelitUaF8jKFX8TkW936bV4OiK7VBr10eUhXz8JVpz1R09WCBQ7LsFoPxAso0RjPYZOqInrR/s1600/47.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirhvqqPplteKHdkxOKgLSLIYZUOJTZ8aIfkn3jBH-c3Rmsdru5v83zOPqQshL0pRGTaavrSelitUaF8jKFX8TkW936bV4OiK7VBr10eUhXz8JVpz1R09WCBQ7LsFoPxAso0RjPYZOqInrR/s200/47.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453575957714501682" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLnyf8-6_6faUKWI3GzOqFnKkRqrdk3nfvf8pQSmLhi9Wh0E_S82K7du3OI3zHDw0r7wyVyVry5wvDP8kEZ1hAMnrrd4KkL6hD6cxnCUz9s2AlYGysGrktrRsUNtwh3BuZfT9j3Lwh1g9/s1600/49.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLnyf8-6_6faUKWI3GzOqFnKkRqrdk3nfvf8pQSmLhi9Wh0E_S82K7du3OI3zHDw0r7wyVyVry5wvDP8kEZ1hAMnrrd4KkL6hD6cxnCUz9s2AlYGysGrktrRsUNtwh3BuZfT9j3Lwh1g9/s200/49.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453575947405871090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTz0n8dFIH_jHjbOf3vv2EXX40GH6kNw2eiPfM539_9JsXYsHN9v_et-WQO0dBtuchSUjl2T8R8EaSS1B_vXDuCFKOqW94HBj7jmjNPDsncZdsUT3vToeh0mNoT2M5IpQ8Vp4-g7IzGy3f/s1600/50.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTz0n8dFIH_jHjbOf3vv2EXX40GH6kNw2eiPfM539_9JsXYsHN9v_et-WQO0dBtuchSUjl2T8R8EaSS1B_vXDuCFKOqW94HBj7jmjNPDsncZdsUT3vToeh0mNoT2M5IpQ8Vp4-g7IzGy3f/s200/50.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453575945851634178" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk65u1dtHUhzN8Cx0L3GgYwI1feUNb4unL7OX29MflJFZQR7BBBNp-ZC6v_mw7Pn7jaIyR0rkvoYWIdRAhSzxtq6q8i4xm69VxxK8l3Q488sIHDhpbn1ybsz3s-ngGvNmX74bx8EKRDnxL/s1600/52.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk65u1dtHUhzN8Cx0L3GgYwI1feUNb4unL7OX29MflJFZQR7BBBNp-ZC6v_mw7Pn7jaIyR0rkvoYWIdRAhSzxtq6q8i4xm69VxxK8l3Q488sIHDhpbn1ybsz3s-ngGvNmX74bx8EKRDnxL/s200/52.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453575934321669250" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_9_xGerWWWFcbO997tX5J0lw-k4nROmd7ws-nGzNNvxipLV9tKn-_Jq9sE-3Lu21B4TDBALasrdSg2xdxIHdsomvvel6LT584panTUCuSsLMUBUAfUPGDCIkvkbEosqLGmd50UD_7-Ca/s1600/54.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_9_xGerWWWFcbO997tX5J0lw-k4nROmd7ws-nGzNNvxipLV9tKn-_Jq9sE-3Lu21B4TDBALasrdSg2xdxIHdsomvvel6LT584panTUCuSsLMUBUAfUPGDCIkvkbEosqLGmd50UD_7-Ca/s200/54.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453575921747984098" /></a><br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-32210816852931872162010-03-28T15:39:00.005+09:002010-03-28T15:57:29.036+09:00One Crraazzzyyyy Night!It started off as a quiet evening with friends and turned into ankle injuries, people peeing their pants, street surfing, and noraebang with Korean strangers. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVnzhQtY3ttqk8nD7PTZPvgxSOLm58JyTwegLBcdrR2UiNjWK-9Feu8pVaowg3i68RNg7Ncyq9LiR1AP0YmJDDAM0IHgHQO4cv3BIFHDSFTmnfa-y2qEsU2GDHr6Zjn11RfNPf-Fa0eD2l/s200/13.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453574820581213122" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCd9hmpzNw_gPCSFsRBBmjmUDG6QHb23lEdup8QIXfvC6SlXGfpg1gUt5AqbtLutavqzy0y4XscuQKjQ56bOAuQ8Vql-h0aPCRi59SGhC0QNlbSs43oMm0EP7aLSZE_-BeGCTipxAc6-A9/s1600/15.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCd9hmpzNw_gPCSFsRBBmjmUDG6QHb23lEdup8QIXfvC6SlXGfpg1gUt5AqbtLutavqzy0y4XscuQKjQ56bOAuQ8Vql-h0aPCRi59SGhC0QNlbSs43oMm0EP7aLSZE_-BeGCTipxAc6-A9/s200/15.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453574813209713234" /></a><br />As you can see, it was one crazy night!<br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-54391348779189592712010-03-28T15:35:00.002+09:002010-03-28T15:39:40.539+09:00It's so hard to say goodbye.Well the time I had been dreading finally came. I had to say goodbye to my precious kinders. They're staying at LCI, but will no longer be my students. It was a very sad day for me, as I have grown so attached to them. Each of them is extremely awesome and I love them all dearly. Here are class shots on our last day.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDwyg2TMAUlEbPW0JKoKaqkNu2M3GHqtZ_4UjWFoNbB8GI5qpGA908BjC3_hlhOxZSr7KCnirqMNyqVpT-BujUlnIHiRHu141nCxFfHFIzaGZDLFlYpuLNuH-dhpx_4mp6P4MQiu_9qXY/s1600/84.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDwyg2TMAUlEbPW0JKoKaqkNu2M3GHqtZ_4UjWFoNbB8GI5qpGA908BjC3_hlhOxZSr7KCnirqMNyqVpT-BujUlnIHiRHu141nCxFfHFIzaGZDLFlYpuLNuH-dhpx_4mp6P4MQiu_9qXY/s200/84.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453570408066467202" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2kyvSru-_n10iIWyvvFo8x-f98kEtBQSLPHPcfMllmy3tdoBS9dxk6_WPL-DTUAUUPpqPqqeXsQB2gpasiK9W_5nTd6BU5dIiswQazNslJpdpQgN_qfD7DgEnImNlgVkKfFXjYvNslIw/s1600/85.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2kyvSru-_n10iIWyvvFo8x-f98kEtBQSLPHPcfMllmy3tdoBS9dxk6_WPL-DTUAUUPpqPqqeXsQB2gpasiK9W_5nTd6BU5dIiswQazNslJpdpQgN_qfD7DgEnImNlgVkKfFXjYvNslIw/s200/85.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453570404172073202" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTu30-gyf1TzE7vRw8AbZo0knkqXZCVjKmiiKWgNz9wNqdYN2jMp5VR7TnPHYmJOFKRVUF0pJRhqedhZYHe1y_Y6aA0XAcl01qgEAuB8U46m7NfM_6wDdTuhga34OV_Rf2QdHCV-4z8ll3/s1600/86.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTu30-gyf1TzE7vRw8AbZo0knkqXZCVjKmiiKWgNz9wNqdYN2jMp5VR7TnPHYmJOFKRVUF0pJRhqedhZYHe1y_Y6aA0XAcl01qgEAuB8U46m7NfM_6wDdTuhga34OV_Rf2QdHCV-4z8ll3/s200/86.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453570395355678722" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYR-1fQgqnTfDQYr3_YpXUOld9wLbrBQb4TokbKwdO2m8-b_uXyzqjBajU926lLZim6B1lwolCJL_enRophGG1ao53YT9tdiKV9AzAjHPtqw-VPWl4YWX_Kit3WcHpMM5nrdp2qKfIdaW9/s1600/87.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYR-1fQgqnTfDQYr3_YpXUOld9wLbrBQb4TokbKwdO2m8-b_uXyzqjBajU926lLZim6B1lwolCJL_enRophGG1ao53YT9tdiKV9AzAjHPtqw-VPWl4YWX_Kit3WcHpMM5nrdp2qKfIdaW9/s200/87.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453570386269345346" /></a><br /><br />Fortunately, I still get to see them everyday. They also always have a hug for me, which makes me happy!<br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-82535403930311572752010-03-28T15:21:00.002+09:002010-03-28T15:34:58.317+09:00LCI's Festival!Every year, LCI puts on a huge festival. This year was to be no different. In December, all the teachers had to write speeches for each of their kindergarten students and pick a song for them to perform. This is all put on so the parents can see how much their children have learned in the past year. The lucky kids in my class got to sing Good Ship Lollipop and recite speeches about holidays. We then had to pick out the most ridiculously flashy, sparkly costumes we could find for our kids to wear. Unfortunately, my camera battery died halfway through so I only have some photos, but you can imagine the rest. <br />Here are my kids before the festivities began:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfxu-orMf8LxhRW-k6YI0WlTVw9wZDeAuT2fjHG8s-SpdWLNsimAUDym3ZIRifieYrGBsrWgVqbIpVkoSs9WriS26QJTdaGYZiojGbEDAGMlSyWoL9Az24QD1rJa7UbHkvvtCCg2god8B/s1600/78.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfxu-orMf8LxhRW-k6YI0WlTVw9wZDeAuT2fjHG8s-SpdWLNsimAUDym3ZIRifieYrGBsrWgVqbIpVkoSs9WriS26QJTdaGYZiojGbEDAGMlSyWoL9Az24QD1rJa7UbHkvvtCCg2god8B/s200/78.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453567293501598594" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WZvm8kCvIdOF0y9xTqOQg02_vy21nVAWS5NxlNVP1xwOFZzVf1tmcPyz3ux4OPvG1F0af9KOJ3WhKc_4k1549HcQt21EeCSKmXpwBEeqKObasMeIjxkY1E2J1p_xFnW8G0mT8IC053BI/s1600/77.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WZvm8kCvIdOF0y9xTqOQg02_vy21nVAWS5NxlNVP1xwOFZzVf1tmcPyz3ux4OPvG1F0af9KOJ3WhKc_4k1549HcQt21EeCSKmXpwBEeqKObasMeIjxkY1E2J1p_xFnW8G0mT8IC053BI/s200/77.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453567287792855634" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFZ_XpPavaiX8oH4uWTpZrsXR30EfKhHxZCB7QXYVNuPzlLYVCd23jP1RiYLpU4xb6FlA3wr-Yf9dXgYPlVrtbo-erjDtaMgS-nrqEKg3jbvjuZnRRdKBjrsAWcvE2d0CK0Tg090SLpzZ/s1600/74.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFZ_XpPavaiX8oH4uWTpZrsXR30EfKhHxZCB7QXYVNuPzlLYVCd23jP1RiYLpU4xb6FlA3wr-Yf9dXgYPlVrtbo-erjDtaMgS-nrqEKg3jbvjuZnRRdKBjrsAWcvE2d0CK0Tg090SLpzZ/s200/74.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453567277981850946" /></a><br />Here they are in outfit #1. This is for a song they did with LCI's music teacher.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAlBl3VRSGPu_f75RmucXz8gemIUVZKadve6nnKxm06V8MLOt-VYfWaBg06-84Ky7Sd25FjggxnPEEZStuC0dHAgdMkbMh-7D0IoH81OAUg4Yg9eq3SQxB1bSpcHVZGzEd8SOaifp-WeA/s1600/79.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAlBl3VRSGPu_f75RmucXz8gemIUVZKadve6nnKxm06V8MLOt-VYfWaBg06-84Ky7Sd25FjggxnPEEZStuC0dHAgdMkbMh-7D0IoH81OAUg4Yg9eq3SQxB1bSpcHVZGzEd8SOaifp-WeA/s200/79.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453567660775578930" /></a><br />This is outfit #2. This is what they wore for Good Ship Lollipop.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPv4FVuD-wkJS4_tdLZWtSn7Jw2qSOwHmFTPS2qhrU0-a6B7dYegRXGKykX6-Nuvi414jAiEtvmVkUYvOq3NEhNm3-x4OQl1MUZp_Nr_tcHKxVPjJ5ZBi11WRZN0uTWE87PbpIQnKS0ha/s1600/82.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPv4FVuD-wkJS4_tdLZWtSn7Jw2qSOwHmFTPS2qhrU0-a6B7dYegRXGKykX6-Nuvi414jAiEtvmVkUYvOq3NEhNm3-x4OQl1MUZp_Nr_tcHKxVPjJ5ZBi11WRZN0uTWE87PbpIQnKS0ha/s200/82.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453568034828249090" /></a><br />Unfortunately, this is about the time my camera died so I don't have their speech costumes. Let's just say I picked out the most ridiculous outfits for the following holidays:<br />New Year (baby new year)<br />Valentine's Day (cupid)<br />St. Patrick's Day (leperchaun)<br />Easter (rabbit)<br />Children's Day ( a pink sparkly mess haha)<br />4th of July ( a sparkly red, white, and blue number with stars all over it)<br />Chuseok (hanbok)<br />Halloween (vampire)<br />Thanksgiving (indian)<br />Christmas (santa)<br />I'm hoping you can get the image in your head! haha<br />Anyway, after 2 months of insane practicing, my babies did an AWESOME job! I was very proud of them!<br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-85525072416789945462010-03-02T21:46:00.007+09:002010-03-02T21:58:23.923+09:00Korean Hockey!A parent of one of OG's students sponsers a Korean hockey team. I know what you're saying. Hockey? In Korea? Yup, apparently there's an entire Asian Hockey League with a whopping 7 teams! Anyway, this parent offered OG free tickets to a game, so you know we were there. Emily's old friend from high school is now teaching in the ROK. Her name is Colleen and she Canadian and totally into hockey, so she came along as well. We also enjoyed the company of some German guys that Emily had met the night before. One of them had broken his tooth and didn't remember how. They were quite interesting. <br />We hopped on a bus and headed to Anyang to see the Anyang Halla in action! Colleen had been to a couple games already and told us that the team was pretty good. Unfortunately, this wasn't their night. They got their butts kicked, but we still had a great time. Here they are in action.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4K_k6Rnk2CqQjhZZlEcyCqDdd6CzIGHDppqCQdblHMakQvFuxC_MLi42EIYF9HC72QOBB4srHq2R7KENEgFJrQUvF_mVQvjrjNg3YUZByOLskfZdFEjs-3Mb0wF-PNK-VLN2ugDuduarP/s1600-h/P2070006.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4K_k6Rnk2CqQjhZZlEcyCqDdd6CzIGHDppqCQdblHMakQvFuxC_MLi42EIYF9HC72QOBB4srHq2R7KENEgFJrQUvF_mVQvjrjNg3YUZByOLskfZdFEjs-3Mb0wF-PNK-VLN2ugDuduarP/s200/P2070006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444018808379809090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr1tCvCS_tiUGuMky6JmriP1Y0_V1PLoAD1M7n5hnF14b8_nG5tNqOSIMVPOUbk9AmeUEsB8KG0ETnocephnaxaQsfKxBSjJPVlf_ZIKynjTL780cPlgf-Uax2AdSPaiuPIEKq122VxNyx/s1600-h/P2070004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr1tCvCS_tiUGuMky6JmriP1Y0_V1PLoAD1M7n5hnF14b8_nG5tNqOSIMVPOUbk9AmeUEsB8KG0ETnocephnaxaQsfKxBSjJPVlf_ZIKynjTL780cPlgf-Uax2AdSPaiuPIEKq122VxNyx/s200/P2070004.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444018802831043858" /></a><br />And because we're in Korea, the players bow to the spectators at the end of the game.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGg-i5oDLXtUqeyBMB_3EGfTqH5iNeI2-62ORzAW3lKLgw6PVTnWS80Uc2QOICew70YRlSgw2scef-jgIOiEfgXPzKXnVxPlgtD7yhE_5Mh9j3K2_vZN_OdsFE-DmDh8yPZ9HRXnuEBb9/s1600-h/P2070012.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGg-i5oDLXtUqeyBMB_3EGfTqH5iNeI2-62ORzAW3lKLgw6PVTnWS80Uc2QOICew70YRlSgw2scef-jgIOiEfgXPzKXnVxPlgtD7yhE_5Mh9j3K2_vZN_OdsFE-DmDh8yPZ9HRXnuEBb9/s200/P2070012.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444019191622564786" /></a><br />Then we got to go down on the ice and meet the players. I believe I met the tallest Korean guy ever!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2kNIkGRM8H7ok4JV5Xg8PYIw6Fb8DQxng-9Ht_-WmvzsvhKSx8oSmruSBWa0IqKEb4Iuwt8IqmIdWNfqc4dYIGV55VMtpZwlW-XNSLl6pEKews_qeW3N0f1dsiKhHS8MuQvUy2BZS1BuO/s1600-h/P2070013.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2kNIkGRM8H7ok4JV5Xg8PYIw6Fb8DQxng-9Ht_-WmvzsvhKSx8oSmruSBWa0IqKEb4Iuwt8IqmIdWNfqc4dYIGV55VMtpZwlW-XNSLl6pEKews_qeW3N0f1dsiKhHS8MuQvUy2BZS1BuO/s200/P2070013.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444019904751719378" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiod6yoYo1pBiZK-ptc0sLI7CGawM7y1rWa6yPXJgMrD5NTUiN008Bb3ORZ2kgVfM-CnHWBdzdSEjN_XxpLvH_mnbs4C1W9wB_zEE8nwyZq4YV7t0pkGDBcs14_biwRWSsMzcQZe0cZphHJ/s1600-h/P2070015.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiod6yoYo1pBiZK-ptc0sLI7CGawM7y1rWa6yPXJgMrD5NTUiN008Bb3ORZ2kgVfM-CnHWBdzdSEjN_XxpLvH_mnbs4C1W9wB_zEE8nwyZq4YV7t0pkGDBcs14_biwRWSsMzcQZe0cZphHJ/s200/P2070015.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444019894154205122" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rxgy9-STiFr7DeLYdMIAMkGx-fv08TLsXHGjayXAodq7APAE7hZb5BplvnzFkMz0raAtk4YREN4rWWTyPj7hZNVwDaooexXu2r5mxXKNuIF9OgueVS150xb_clq7GtYoduzLAzAqhF7w/s1600-h/P2070016.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rxgy9-STiFr7DeLYdMIAMkGx-fv08TLsXHGjayXAodq7APAE7hZb5BplvnzFkMz0raAtk4YREN4rWWTyPj7hZNVwDaooexXu2r5mxXKNuIF9OgueVS150xb_clq7GtYoduzLAzAqhF7w/s200/P2070016.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444019887539755250" /></a><br /><br />Love ya all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-87599013704540197182010-03-02T21:42:00.001+09:002010-03-02T21:45:10.605+09:00My new tattoo!Here it is! The Gemini symbol I have been for years now. Yes, it's a tramp stamp and I swore I would never get one, but really now, where else was I gonna put it?!?!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJk5EImc-bnENjlwGh4IwlXYC-2NkOkphpswZQI0jcyTIkseKkdIzwRoBVmODD0C95FZkCwQpema4PzwafXNICrOqVeeDHfmjdPNTfAHgRT8qu41qH4y6-Av8HIiqlp71RiL6c1K5Lp-QT/s1600-h/P1310002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJk5EImc-bnENjlwGh4IwlXYC-2NkOkphpswZQI0jcyTIkseKkdIzwRoBVmODD0C95FZkCwQpema4PzwafXNICrOqVeeDHfmjdPNTfAHgRT8qu41qH4y6-Av8HIiqlp71RiL6c1K5Lp-QT/s200/P1310002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444016531521361234" /></a><br /><br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-22994187916610132082010-02-21T12:11:00.008+09:002010-03-02T21:41:43.678+09:00Winter fun with the K-fam!So instead of writing a ton of blogs with a couple photos, I thought it would be much easier for all involved to just write one blog entry about everything we've been doing the last few weeks. This is will also pretty much bring me up to date on my blogs, so ya'll can stop bugging me about until June...which will most likely be when I update again haha.<br />My last blog was about the snowstorm of the century. January was pretty much full of smaller snow storms and birthdays. I think the majority of English teachers in Korea were born in January. At least, that's how it seems. The first of many birthdays that month was OG's. Her birthday is on the 4th, which was the day after the infamous storm, so she got her birthday off. She and some of the ladies went out to lunch, but unfortunately, I was passed out with jetlag and didn't go. That night we all met at Gecko's. Of course, Emily got her birthday shot. The "shot guy" at Gecko's laid out some glasses of beer and then laid a filled shot glass on top of them. OG had to push the first shot glass with her tongue and this is what happened.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIL8ohxjESXhAdTlVdLUma5fLbvc1XGT4W7s4241PAu9p0qNpIiGSA5UJEnP0E0GLwJcO65WBB72_IyYqg8-Ri2hG3ynCULeV7TMdLUSTUGW658IomztdaCZJln8PXCdMqFa4G35KXU6qT/s1600-h/15.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440533240527977298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIL8ohxjESXhAdTlVdLUma5fLbvc1XGT4W7s4241PAu9p0qNpIiGSA5UJEnP0E0GLwJcO65WBB72_IyYqg8-Ri2hG3ynCULeV7TMdLUSTUGW658IomztdaCZJln8PXCdMqFa4G35KXU6qT/s200/15.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfucoEqda1t33Us5j8Pe2FnaBcJSTV6dCsbhnKmMQgGHAeAjA6TSE5keUX-eehtAwRGiAvn3i14xzaLLmUOAXq92ZbmOE-kk4mwPLeMr5V3D9eYhgWexsVu6VU_Qis5mycnkILyvMqR68u/s1600-h/16.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440533233518518978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfucoEqda1t33Us5j8Pe2FnaBcJSTV6dCsbhnKmMQgGHAeAjA6TSE5keUX-eehtAwRGiAvn3i14xzaLLmUOAXq92ZbmOE-kk4mwPLeMr5V3D9eYhgWexsVu6VU_Qis5mycnkILyvMqR68u/s200/16.JPG" /></a><br />Her bday celebration was great!<br />The following weekend, we went bowling. Ben, Emily2, OG, and I hopped on a bus to Dongbaek to try some Korean bowling. The game is the same, but the venue is very different. What's funny is that you can usually drink anywhere you want in Korea. You can walk down the street carrying an open bottle of Cass and no one will look twice...but ya can't drink at a bowling alley. No drinking and no snack bar...what is this?!?! We were all a bit confused. Ben managed to smuggle some makoli in, but they made him throw it out when they saw it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYIRF2ikzUhfiP6zpAx0GetgD0r2mHqWBTDIkdLchYfhUl8393sjcS_WRULZ16YTbt1KQIJCXf7Rx0WfMx6YHMycwQc6VWjCEC-Dg-XdFPRsXu6B3k1Qd1eF4PdmDXoYGEspcIT9n7wmS/s1600-h/60.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440535776866041970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYIRF2ikzUhfiP6zpAx0GetgD0r2mHqWBTDIkdLchYfhUl8393sjcS_WRULZ16YTbt1KQIJCXf7Rx0WfMx6YHMycwQc6VWjCEC-Dg-XdFPRsXu6B3k1Qd1eF4PdmDXoYGEspcIT9n7wmS/s200/60.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__tmSX74bXsfpq9jjA0rRUvVrX1vuwITosoZp_ZO_JC_CIsdFQNKl6wDSmjp0SqWoPaMRNkdE8UU_TDpnZN2IV8-wW1jUb0AXswtkl7dqYV1sM_u357BNe7jp-gRz7wz7jvZlQ5xQKfx5/s1600-h/59.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440535767075226962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__tmSX74bXsfpq9jjA0rRUvVrX1vuwITosoZp_ZO_JC_CIsdFQNKl6wDSmjp0SqWoPaMRNkdE8UU_TDpnZN2IV8-wW1jUb0AXswtkl7dqYV1sM_u357BNe7jp-gRz7wz7jvZlQ5xQKfx5/s200/59.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZlLC2QCDKZHoF5E34yRFk2mg0HOd9T17GWb_dn-a0LhTHaOwQD3NWFQiNtKXq1U-Qk-ssV3xfbvfw7acmAmq4bZn80-EB4gZwBLeJmBs11hyPThwzVTEiccy17ob8S5ZuZMd19F1sjV7/s1600-h/58.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440535759699241234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZlLC2QCDKZHoF5E34yRFk2mg0HOd9T17GWb_dn-a0LhTHaOwQD3NWFQiNtKXq1U-Qk-ssV3xfbvfw7acmAmq4bZn80-EB4gZwBLeJmBs11hyPThwzVTEiccy17ob8S5ZuZMd19F1sjV7/s200/58.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSwFgCc5pMTvITy1Zd70pcwPk9mrODWKxBkbECP3bx8BobbpoebiKT5Ln0cJ6wxR4fdiX7ZonHo8IbzzaS6IwsFqX2tz8DRCsG0qPBduFDgFJaifAGheFFRItQ2OdIpeZlvpZ43Bn-V1p/s1600-h/57.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440535749211996530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSwFgCc5pMTvITy1Zd70pcwPk9mrODWKxBkbECP3bx8BobbpoebiKT5Ln0cJ6wxR4fdiX7ZonHo8IbzzaS6IwsFqX2tz8DRCsG0qPBduFDgFJaifAGheFFRItQ2OdIpeZlvpZ43Bn-V1p/s200/57.JPG" /></a><br />Next was Stacy's birthday. I used to work with Stacy at LCI, but she left and came back to another hagwon. She celebrated her birthday at Gecko's as well. It is THE place to be in Jukjeon now haha.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASuM4PrsDYJQnKa-1uW4N2N7wGQM7O-m03pt5PjG-efKLRBHUdQ-8l85zFBf4piAwfBtEd95qPQkRPprcpVtiK9xYRfrjuOrsjZ-nJ3mn7zbYvpz6VL-tBA7klG6mzltDp2QU-buH5SIp/s1600-h/72.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440537614906857458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASuM4PrsDYJQnKa-1uW4N2N7wGQM7O-m03pt5PjG-efKLRBHUdQ-8l85zFBf4piAwfBtEd95qPQkRPprcpVtiK9xYRfrjuOrsjZ-nJ3mn7zbYvpz6VL-tBA7klG6mzltDp2QU-buH5SIp/s200/72.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGnNuNRWD81TNZdPvwEjKIKt17tUisdmp5K4eWfI04LyE5pjw76ZD1TzD4Qcv0-rbctEoPL3ChIR2HhUtmRN-RUgaPc4vEmhis8ux9TBXPCvHfYmRdjep65DJj1PjCDQXfdjbhrWS6sgM/s1600-h/73.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440537605182486386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGnNuNRWD81TNZdPvwEjKIKt17tUisdmp5K4eWfI04LyE5pjw76ZD1TzD4Qcv0-rbctEoPL3ChIR2HhUtmRN-RUgaPc4vEmhis8ux9TBXPCvHfYmRdjep65DJj1PjCDQXfdjbhrWS6sgM/s200/73.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUxOrvr4l7WV98USFJ_wa6rIhinhGg4CazXHt4iaqCsKXRJ1c_pzdhWTsV3oCzCt93P2X_x6W62WDKwYiQ8VOJDHnREXtjelY-kJn0yrdaqhwAAvYpnFskFFN8tLK89x9VFEhb350p4aH/s1600-h/74.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440537597239599298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUxOrvr4l7WV98USFJ_wa6rIhinhGg4CazXHt4iaqCsKXRJ1c_pzdhWTsV3oCzCt93P2X_x6W62WDKwYiQ8VOJDHnREXtjelY-kJn0yrdaqhwAAvYpnFskFFN8tLK89x9VFEhb350p4aH/s200/74.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMpXmi5kTJ0ZH_X44rxW2ZQIfwizJ5WQVDUcfforLFSJEK7DMZ6tQhdtcGwdqC2kQ_Tug3zsWwb9agNVeziO3rONZ_l0rD7yNn91vCBx0kDl45RxL-MGfLBe6xCgYiXmHnTYseQVKyv28/s1600-h/75.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440537589440170242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMpXmi5kTJ0ZH_X44rxW2ZQIfwizJ5WQVDUcfforLFSJEK7DMZ6tQhdtcGwdqC2kQ_Tug3zsWwb9agNVeziO3rONZ_l0rD7yNn91vCBx0kDl45RxL-MGfLBe6xCgYiXmHnTYseQVKyv28/s200/75.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5m3EHqe7ulehj8Tw7oYwU3jSMc0yVCdBix0rPXnvkYOvJ4lvcHhfZnufBrzQIoRyCDwnAHOEBZeTti5abygxT6tqUs80Xvh1TJA6c7gJ_CqzhFoz27Q5iEg36PNJHcKKXIA4-CSzf0ebd/s1600-h/77.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440537581817580946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5m3EHqe7ulehj8Tw7oYwU3jSMc0yVCdBix0rPXnvkYOvJ4lvcHhfZnufBrzQIoRyCDwnAHOEBZeTti5abygxT6tqUs80Xvh1TJA6c7gJ_CqzhFoz27Q5iEg36PNJHcKKXIA4-CSzf0ebd/s200/77.JPG" /></a><br />Then it was Emily2's birthday. We started at Havana for some "Cuban" food. Then Cafe Asome for dessert. Then of course, we headed to Gecko's. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbnLwGtv8GJlSB4A6_XLYyXvFjr-dAcmUGz1uhv2jBV-erhbxeNksIzk-eplJigIM-_o_JGoFdHIhNmpEv_IPHc94RIcXUauBqvxADnUYYFPpWS1PuysJ-pKIn44qGGs2Tg9T9XjfRPzi/s1600-h/92.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbnLwGtv8GJlSB4A6_XLYyXvFjr-dAcmUGz1uhv2jBV-erhbxeNksIzk-eplJigIM-_o_JGoFdHIhNmpEv_IPHc94RIcXUauBqvxADnUYYFPpWS1PuysJ-pKIn44qGGs2Tg9T9XjfRPzi/s200/92.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444012553163756066" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZ5Jr3ePioitfQlt-NkxPRbFdsrQ5GSmz621R-c6pxENgokvBAEXc2snCzRHrHM2xexGrh0zCvv5qtOVoNlHXU6f0dWUmmgWghJhjTvmxuDOgy0BcY_GBncFNbxbFRR0ilXoiwXRlUV5V/s1600-h/96.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZ5Jr3ePioitfQlt-NkxPRbFdsrQ5GSmz621R-c6pxENgokvBAEXc2snCzRHrHM2xexGrh0zCvv5qtOVoNlHXU6f0dWUmmgWghJhjTvmxuDOgy0BcY_GBncFNbxbFRR0ilXoiwXRlUV5V/s200/96.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444012541704437394" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdRsrj9dTNC7BrTv2MdCXK2eQNdX-0_M_i-5IK5fHCeDRGzYNVgWcUeh0YSYeBAEapsfYYbgzMETyojAO9ig3GIbSyc9OqhB4Rq42Xmx7tx4YH6gLc7eK8WSd18htQWfnBTfW7IudBT8q/s1600-h/104.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdRsrj9dTNC7BrTv2MdCXK2eQNdX-0_M_i-5IK5fHCeDRGzYNVgWcUeh0YSYeBAEapsfYYbgzMETyojAO9ig3GIbSyc9OqhB4Rq42Xmx7tx4YH6gLc7eK8WSd18htQWfnBTfW7IudBT8q/s200/104.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444012535146886370" /></a><br />Then it was time for another Panton party down in Gunsan. This time it was a Sweep. This is when the squadron says hello to the new pilots and goodbye to those that are leaving. We started out in Gunsan and then headed to a little place called America Town for good food and awesome dancing. It was at this time that yours truly was complimented on her "ghettoness." Apparently you can take the girl outta Willimantic, but you can't take Willimantic outta the girl! Anyway, we had a great time and I finally passed out around 5am after watching Napoleon Dynamite with my girl Stacy in a pilots room. Good times indeed!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRl4Ew_KJ5UlIbfADz-4Kgk-zXgsqGrVI3OG0nS6MJNDFJ3Dj8PVNy_bSN_Wqx7Hs5bkVzl-osQNYnDFoyfxU58WOnjV_vs1atSo-VWCQmc5eGBze9y55afakTfQpfoJWxhRm5eK1vyr0L/s1600-h/109.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRl4Ew_KJ5UlIbfADz-4Kgk-zXgsqGrVI3OG0nS6MJNDFJ3Dj8PVNy_bSN_Wqx7Hs5bkVzl-osQNYnDFoyfxU58WOnjV_vs1atSo-VWCQmc5eGBze9y55afakTfQpfoJWxhRm5eK1vyr0L/s200/109.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444015190285103954" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqfrMBCZ5K8L5NScyDWvxvrIm6kNUTsJaqEvLtO1Yl4oxTmGq64luP09lzjly975MzImd8m-p3nVlcRc5M_8dpL_GDUS9z1pqMo7CnCvojiXaT8GlcHeanSfMqWW_rl8J4uNA5wEq6aUJ/s1600-h/19537_462181780006_520560006_10656823_1365492_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqfrMBCZ5K8L5NScyDWvxvrIm6kNUTsJaqEvLtO1Yl4oxTmGq64luP09lzjly975MzImd8m-p3nVlcRc5M_8dpL_GDUS9z1pqMo7CnCvojiXaT8GlcHeanSfMqWW_rl8J4uNA5wEq6aUJ/s200/19537_462181780006_520560006_10656823_1365492_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444015179521269618" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzSrzSJM3ZBD4G79i8NMFUuJONdQeGxj_Z6E7OWROm-ARI4L2RTC8j3sFa8gVgZ9p5fGSA7LYXe12FWEjN-fIRdmu7pNTa2b4ghP5H58sJAumgM8t8o6oOcCQRLNnLg9-Y84P4pxg-e4u/s1600-h/21056_261268469425_505279425_3282701_5769825_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzSrzSJM3ZBD4G79i8NMFUuJONdQeGxj_Z6E7OWROm-ARI4L2RTC8j3sFa8gVgZ9p5fGSA7LYXe12FWEjN-fIRdmu7pNTa2b4ghP5H58sJAumgM8t8o6oOcCQRLNnLg9-Y84P4pxg-e4u/s200/21056_261268469425_505279425_3282701_5769825_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444015177730347346" /></a><br />Well, I guess that's all. It was a great winter with good times and good friends!<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-46647655277121478802010-02-14T19:55:00.005+09:002010-02-14T20:14:36.630+09:00Snow in Jukjeon??So I've been told that it does snow in Korea, but it never accumulates to anything decent. This was also my experience during the beginning of the winter here. It was a very good thing that I came back from home when I did. I got back to Korea on Saturday night and made it through Sunday dreading going to work on Monday. Well...I work up on Monday to Emily knocking on my door to tell me we had a snow delay. I'm sorry, what??? Yes, we were having a delay because of snow. Sweet, now I get to sleep longer. Fast forward about an hour or so and Emily knocks on my door again to tell me we have the whole day off. This is insane, we don't get snow here! I look out the window and see that there's abour 6 inches of snow. By the end of it all, we got about 10 inches. Now those of you at home in Connecticut know that 10 inches is NOTHING. Yeah, we'll get a day off, but all the snow will be off the roads in a couple hours. Well, that's not so easy in Korea. Korea has no clue what to do with snow after a snowstorm. I never saw a plow truck nor did anyone I know see a plow truck. I don't think they exist in this country. Instead, they used cranes to put the snow in dump trucks which they dumped in the empty lot by our school. People would shovel themselves out and then put the snow in piles in the middle of the street. A week later, there were still huge piles of frozen snow in front of my apartment building. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQd8kptHy7B-_kcUEItyTRzZsWSaD1LC3fuw50JpyiLQlYrxyMvz1MGc__HuQ-H49LIBQ0boKRmNoMb8XWNi_nlYrg1nBrir7lNQfDQ-d2V3mum8fnyZnpNdhi6S0QDZpjjdQzn9aFmyy/s1600-h/09.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQd8kptHy7B-_kcUEItyTRzZsWSaD1LC3fuw50JpyiLQlYrxyMvz1MGc__HuQ-H49LIBQ0boKRmNoMb8XWNi_nlYrg1nBrir7lNQfDQ-d2V3mum8fnyZnpNdhi6S0QDZpjjdQzn9aFmyy/s200/09.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438055056550511810" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA0zVjOsZHx7PxwEWcv3HTZ4ZLBbByOhA16RhjyXQfUlsGAlv0Mmorzs6QTzRxnbcVLPk8T6r-q_GzEcWlk1Sszogc3CHQcnw0-GthHN8exjNYqBKQstZaJGDWkKugRR9aheF2pC_ieQz/s1600-h/03.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKA0zVjOsZHx7PxwEWcv3HTZ4ZLBbByOhA16RhjyXQfUlsGAlv0Mmorzs6QTzRxnbcVLPk8T6r-q_GzEcWlk1Sszogc3CHQcnw0-GthHN8exjNYqBKQstZaJGDWkKugRR9aheF2pC_ieQz/s200/03.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438055051796129218" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRbTDZNoQ4lZI_9ZCw_ZKLMehvHUO8GKlQQL0UtbRpdEz9WgnLJ1LTDmFlejQOfTLtgHt0UiP_dun2whXFqW8fhQaHAL4cstEevzUGFpsNENNIS0SMXvO4LkJ7xZ9pDJHKHXRxeb5FnEb/s1600-h/02.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRbTDZNoQ4lZI_9ZCw_ZKLMehvHUO8GKlQQL0UtbRpdEz9WgnLJ1LTDmFlejQOfTLtgHt0UiP_dun2whXFqW8fhQaHAL4cstEevzUGFpsNENNIS0SMXvO4LkJ7xZ9pDJHKHXRxeb5FnEb/s200/02.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438055043418933698" /></a><br />And this was a week later...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7oa56XqgDykzV9S35R75NydmcHFqUSOaYqqL7uS67C63rIHdEomU-VbKA6_lDdqMDD-nD9OJG2XIgNzxEzgxcZK5MVQSzFBrpWY0fmA6YeBxcKlzhEesAzMjktYUPCzdN7i-XgBZgoKF/s1600-h/35.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7oa56XqgDykzV9S35R75NydmcHFqUSOaYqqL7uS67C63rIHdEomU-VbKA6_lDdqMDD-nD9OJG2XIgNzxEzgxcZK5MVQSzFBrpWY0fmA6YeBxcKlzhEesAzMjktYUPCzdN7i-XgBZgoKF/s200/35.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438055863623713298" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOB-quwQl_FXQdu4n0Sa17zpnnZCnQccL29U9eBnfNqzKwcTy4FMzfSDACO_UIaAZ-0OzuFQdjUJI3UEK5SuvB8JPqNIh-4pj5I39CPJM1A0AnfL19Wx_gR7EyrYGw_a1_j3iMpBjdi3us/s1600-h/34.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOB-quwQl_FXQdu4n0Sa17zpnnZCnQccL29U9eBnfNqzKwcTy4FMzfSDACO_UIaAZ-0OzuFQdjUJI3UEK5SuvB8JPqNIh-4pj5I39CPJM1A0AnfL19Wx_gR7EyrYGw_a1_j3iMpBjdi3us/s200/34.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438055854007860658" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-86410300116635217662010-02-08T22:20:00.006+09:002010-02-14T19:52:35.033+09:00SURPRISE!!!!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!So as you all know I've decided to stay in Korea for another year. I decided last fall that if I did extend my contract, I would do my best to get home before my 2nd year started. Well, that's exactly what I did. Only no one knew I was coming home...and boy was it a surprise! First, the plan. I bought my ticket waaaayyyy back in October. Yup, October. I would fly from Seoul to New York on Christmas morning. I found a direct flight and it would take me 14 hours. Now all I needed was a ride home from the airport. I wanted to rent a car, but unfortunately some jackass stole my license in May. Ya can't rent a car without a license...grrrr. Someone had to pick me up, and who better than my daddy. We all know how much my dad loves Christmas...the words "Ho, ho, ho, my ass" come to mind! So I called my dad and told him that I had a huge surprise and he couldn't tell anyone. First thing he says? "You're not married, are you?" What the hell??? My dad obviously doesn't know me that well. "No, dad. I'm not married and I'm not pregnant. I'm coming home for Christmas and need a ride from the airport." <br />Flight, check. Ride, check. Keeping the secret from everyone at home for 2 months...good lord this was gonna be hard! I talked to everyone a million times during the 2 months. I almost spilled my secret a million times, but I didn't!<br />I got into JFK around 11am. After a few minutes, I found my daddy, who now looks like an old hippy. Gotta love that man...he's my number 1! We drove home and started surprising the hell outta people. First on the list? Aunt Sarah. I walked right through her door and shouted "Merry Christmas!!!" Suddenly, my cousin Joe is knocked onto the floor and my aunt is running into the kitchen screaming her head off. After she almost fainted (seriously, the woman almost fainted), she sat down to catch her breath...while I ate my 1st Christmas dinner of the day ;-). Then we decided to go surprise Robin. We all drove to Robin's and I hid in the car for a minute. I knocked on the door, walk in and hear "you've gotta be fucking kidding me!" Robin starts doing what she referred to as the "beauty pageant cry" and it was awesome. Gifts were handed out and then we decided to go to Aunt Debbie's. I was ready for Jay to be more surprised to see me than Jen, and that's exactly what I got haha! We then surprised my mom by telling her I was on Skype. My last surprise for the night was Shelley, Larysa, and Cindy. I knew Shelley would be having a party, so that's where I went. I ran up the stairs and shouted something about a party and right away, they knew it was me haha. It was awesome.<br />I spent a week at home. After 10 months of emails, Facebook, and Skype, it was so great to see everyone. I brought a bunch of friends and my parents to a Korean restaurant so they could eat what I've been eating the past year. For the most part, they enjoyed it. I surprised my mom and dad with a trip to Korea. Hopefully, they'll take me up on it this summer. I did a ton of needed shopping because I can hardly fit in anything they make in Korea. I almost had an orgasm after walking into Old Navy! I spent way too much money, but it was worth it. <br />It all ended New Year's Day. I had to wake up at 5am and Jen and Aunt Debbie drove me to the train in New Haven. I took a 90min train to Grand Central and then hopped on a bus for the airport. I headed back to Korea to experience yet another year of teaching. I can only hope this second year will be as great as the first. To all my loves at home, I love and miss you all so much! I was so happy to see everyone. See ya in 2011!!!!<br />Here are some pics from my week home:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Sjsr02OmroDEyNSuoYmlOcyvCVoGrDIm3Q4a-8gf5FJwaG9ANBicQNmf6pR4Z4SbbOEVbvk2Og0w0MsVJq-_ailDUWlDn9Gbm2v-8Gf6EXkv602ekdHs6RGZoQbwjYw0zg1KxSWiIZd4/s1600-h/197.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Sjsr02OmroDEyNSuoYmlOcyvCVoGrDIm3Q4a-8gf5FJwaG9ANBicQNmf6pR4Z4SbbOEVbvk2Og0w0MsVJq-_ailDUWlDn9Gbm2v-8Gf6EXkv602ekdHs6RGZoQbwjYw0zg1KxSWiIZd4/s200/197.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438050069036425442" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0puf3BpCaG9ZyEwwPE3sEidNGQyXhWzsPeWs1z7O3VE291axTt60dScUDEaVKEyG7XsKOf1_bwcV58f0ed8ozUJ6ryzlF-cg_QKXIyoWtVtOr3U0sHQoJaTI3BdrXbIo9dO64nItIBVy/s1600-h/181.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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The Santa Claus' and Christmas trees came out right after Halloween. I didn't realize it would be such a big holiday here, but it is...especially at LCI. Each class had to choose a Christmas song to sing. I wanted to do the 12 Days of Christmas, but was told it was too hard for my kids. These people obviously don't know my kids. They're all performers...each and every one of them. Anyway, we got stuck with Deck the Halls and made the most of it. They practiced their "fa la la la la's" everyday like good little Korean children, and we even had some kickin' dance moves haha. Diego came to school one day and said "Tricia Teacher, I think no more fa la la la la. I think fa ra ra ra ra!" and the class (and I) starting cracking up. I immediately thought of the end of A Christmas Story when they're eating at the Chinese restaurant and the waiters try to sing to them. It was hilarious! Diego kept it up every now and then to get a laugh, but I told him not to give into stereotypes! :-P Before all the LCI festivities, we had a staff Christmas party. We had a Secret Santa and had dinner at a restaurant in our building called Racoon. No, I didn't spell it wrong...that's how the restaurant spells it. Here are some pics from that night. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLXo8Bq9OyS5cniZkNIEXjZ4DvuPTGDvw3NaL0hG3qv2z_Rqf_oq-qC26JAuNf8ySZ8VwtEOSVkZDTDUByFeSwv53JdRiyU_tDPv5BrW15yDmkKYpFr_mHaOpQM8hbS1XD3GfzuHZgSd2/s1600-h/0.bmp"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435847322405385602 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLXo8Bq9OyS5cniZkNIEXjZ4DvuPTGDvw3NaL0hG3qv2z_Rqf_oq-qC26JAuNf8ySZ8VwtEOSVkZDTDUByFeSwv53JdRiyU_tDPv5BrW15yDmkKYpFr_mHaOpQM8hbS1XD3GfzuHZgSd2/s200/0.bmp"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf8Mgd4veTbWAcPrD-986lwGmmgtxE8dFCCZWuHaPDzAHmjKNEC8CTjSZtFaIYwfjHNacVEQwFbjbY16FH6UEMyqgWYsOwcxvL9OLdXP08TjqNRGMnEDunjwooWB7ESCUwpvBLZ62nHfJ/s1600-h/h.bmp"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435847311105150258 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf8Mgd4veTbWAcPrD-986lwGmmgtxE8dFCCZWuHaPDzAHmjKNEC8CTjSZtFaIYwfjHNacVEQwFbjbY16FH6UEMyqgWYsOwcxvL9OLdXP08TjqNRGMnEDunjwooWB7ESCUwpvBLZ62nHfJ/s200/h.bmp"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9DXSbYIgIxr1sOI0SfvWI9w2y7XBQlSY88FYPnj9coSHyFqaRH5HWYzU_1DCqgiX97ufrDe4VsxPq-DwUoWbk2PSP9CCmzI72CdAKPhsBuqwFcTtCBX0vl0S2j7PIjdHor7fifsmY3NW/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435847308388494994 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9DXSbYIgIxr1sOI0SfvWI9w2y7XBQlSY88FYPnj9coSHyFqaRH5HWYzU_1DCqgiX97ufrDe4VsxPq-DwUoWbk2PSP9CCmzI72CdAKPhsBuqwFcTtCBX0vl0S2j7PIjdHor7fifsmY3NW/s200/untitled.bmp"></A> Sally loves her soju! <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5NBkdqRIy6qo5EiIuzh8_R3K6sZHfXM4wdvc36F6jKgDzg1hmuOkJaezzkyRREkYgJk0yDTP3yqH7eZMgstdazaQVeZj4srSuCvHhg3HhsLgXj6XQTw65op9lJeuumcB85HYMOFY3x8y5/s1600-h/t.bmp"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435847572891394850 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5NBkdqRIy6qo5EiIuzh8_R3K6sZHfXM4wdvc36F6jKgDzg1hmuOkJaezzkyRREkYgJk0yDTP3yqH7eZMgstdazaQVeZj4srSuCvHhg3HhsLgXj6XQTw65op9lJeuumcB85HYMOFY3x8y5/s200/t.bmp"></A> It was a good night...but we were all ready for our winter vacation! The next day was Christmas Eve and Santa was coming to LCI...but not before a magic show! <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNp69d3N151N4kpCctlhsEZHq7qmzoy0UPMAqb2ehZ_6y_ACyt5gJn1o-7o7P5eVUjv4E825ycL54pCKaLM_oqZCCUVNem8s87Y8JzBsPh3HtdPjsRyVEXp_Nn-JJp0eKQ95niI3RzzY99/s1600-h/19376_264287923645_513198645_4388016_6384989_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435848799826814754 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNp69d3N151N4kpCctlhsEZHq7qmzoy0UPMAqb2ehZ_6y_ACyt5gJn1o-7o7P5eVUjv4E825ycL54pCKaLM_oqZCCUVNem8s87Y8JzBsPh3HtdPjsRyVEXp_Nn-JJp0eKQ95niI3RzzY99/s200/19376_264287923645_513198645_4388016_6384989_n.jpg"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmyoNLRrcOzCztHn5coFiQSFwJVwE3EPY0mT_pJ3Y9LPcibwje4LheAzNEHyqfsndl9nUkSILldoHkXmbbdiyv7xaskOrtuaec8ld5MGy6ngFiFQ-WUCThlgBsdh-0vupd3I0URkpcrQn/s1600-h/19376_264287958645_513198645_4388020_6669977_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435848794014665410 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmyoNLRrcOzCztHn5coFiQSFwJVwE3EPY0mT_pJ3Y9LPcibwje4LheAzNEHyqfsndl9nUkSILldoHkXmbbdiyv7xaskOrtuaec8ld5MGy6ngFiFQ-WUCThlgBsdh-0vupd3I0URkpcrQn/s200/19376_264287958645_513198645_4388020_6669977_n.jpg"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgGjaEacDte0PnL0PPDv9RMZpLk4L1Cv5UxM4Ehg21bLPQZHrKNOlpcKaEYYcEj_S2GVc6EAZdbvhMf8CBszyauGEV_PWh1zJr-alKVFX5hTixfaTgbnbfz4B2Sc1Vo7Yx-AYtEXoToLr/s1600-h/j.bmp"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435848790604311362 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgGjaEacDte0PnL0PPDv9RMZpLk4L1Cv5UxM4Ehg21bLPQZHrKNOlpcKaEYYcEj_S2GVc6EAZdbvhMf8CBszyauGEV_PWh1zJr-alKVFX5hTixfaTgbnbfz4B2Sc1Vo7Yx-AYtEXoToLr/s200/j.bmp"></A> Yes, that bird flew right over my head...and onto Hazel's! I wish I got a pic of that! Oh...and ya can't forget the Christmas time puppet show! I have no clue what was going on, but here ya go... <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hZecOcJ51-Tg3CQMMngs3wuG1KacCk1Iu62J38lyJXrkj9D0TAxIlMWbNUQj6vBbn1FwElfZ-D7LZzSawAbQfEQlJMyXOQps1mJcVdPc2JeyK5AvG6Par57ghliwa0kICXQu9mhpGMtF/s1600-h/19376_264287998645_513198645_4388023_5088221_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435849370086699874 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hZecOcJ51-Tg3CQMMngs3wuG1KacCk1Iu62J38lyJXrkj9D0TAxIlMWbNUQj6vBbn1FwElfZ-D7LZzSawAbQfEQlJMyXOQps1mJcVdPc2JeyK5AvG6Par57ghliwa0kICXQu9mhpGMtF/s200/19376_264287998645_513198645_4388023_5088221_n.jpg"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KOhwjDWpAnnaCgwf2s17gXYHjdiAPxY-cMhK7XWxmywrby6gjeh8sVkORsa-kSpi2q0yDmsQ91bKQ27OSGk2LXwMafrISnRyfA2FTGt8lLYQ9qeMCKiPmyjj6u6w50EaacMFhpmMxeqS/s1600-h/19376_264287988645_513198645_4388022_1679156_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435849362379426354 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KOhwjDWpAnnaCgwf2s17gXYHjdiAPxY-cMhK7XWxmywrby6gjeh8sVkORsa-kSpi2q0yDmsQ91bKQ27OSGk2LXwMafrISnRyfA2FTGt8lLYQ9qeMCKiPmyjj6u6w50EaacMFhpmMxeqS/s200/19376_264287988645_513198645_4388022_1679156_n.jpg"></A> I think the little green guy was like the Korean Grinch or something. It was quite odd, but then again, I DO live in Korea. And heeerrreeeeeee's Santa! <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_trjhAmApopTSmwYfBJ7WBjMVRdSuKOVFufZPrhPnZ_N89_GVrdlTqBZO9GzEDrDek2LNa0-KrbQ9eRMSWBAHsfDx5VtHFLeLk0soZkWOh97mFMpg_hghopBAfW8EWBSJ8wGw0zQoM00s/s1600-h/19376_264288008645_513198645_4388024_5430635_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435849720647420322 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_trjhAmApopTSmwYfBJ7WBjMVRdSuKOVFufZPrhPnZ_N89_GVrdlTqBZO9GzEDrDek2LNa0-KrbQ9eRMSWBAHsfDx5VtHFLeLk0soZkWOh97mFMpg_hghopBAfW8EWBSJ8wGw0zQoM00s/s200/19376_264288008645_513198645_4388024_5430635_n.jpg"></A> The kids all got to sit on his lap and get presents. <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SEo-nBSl0V81kpKUI5griwLNXyAG9NjMnhec8ZzhgsLdp_3J8vBNgSfMCBsLK7eFbAZ6TUnWpgB7XWzGN6499OvS_GO70v07_KdFxY8lZIV4zvBqT1idHbUi6Ptkwc2z4mjXNoJYFkdq/s1600-h/19376_264288078645_513198645_4388032_7380295_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435850251897405186 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SEo-nBSl0V81kpKUI5griwLNXyAG9NjMnhec8ZzhgsLdp_3J8vBNgSfMCBsLK7eFbAZ6TUnWpgB7XWzGN6499OvS_GO70v07_KdFxY8lZIV4zvBqT1idHbUi6Ptkwc2z4mjXNoJYFkdq/s200/19376_264288078645_513198645_4388032_7380295_n.jpg"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlXWtUytf-ikzjeOotI2jUl-DEkBH7nE9LgXtTUt4WgYkKkRx2W4J8N-l33OF4zBfm7slzuLjDOzr9H3EFIthInC2Gew1CAcbdS8L3H1Lr61GkzntgD7rEyUR1XKmnk1mmt-h-UMYCWu1/s1600-h/19376_264288088645_513198645_4388033_3980508_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435850243755455266 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlXWtUytf-ikzjeOotI2jUl-DEkBH7nE9LgXtTUt4WgYkKkRx2W4J8N-l33OF4zBfm7slzuLjDOzr9H3EFIthInC2Gew1CAcbdS8L3H1Lr61GkzntgD7rEyUR1XKmnk1mmt-h-UMYCWu1/s200/19376_264288088645_513198645_4388033_3980508_n.jpg"></A> <A href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpyFLfKEl0sI-Ujl5EbXkMMHjJF0UkcnTytZ0N-5ZIXc3hkJKoC8vk3jJRaJQ0RjlWAowhQauweL74FV2CVDV-S4iiAg4iMjRybHpYke_U1y5yAG5iMlSzIZNqLnEstlZwW4NzW6JN43_/s1600-h/19376_264288073645_513198645_4388031_6060311_n.jpg"><IMG style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435850427128017362 border=0 alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfpyFLfKEl0sI-Ujl5EbXkMMHjJF0UkcnTytZ0N-5ZIXc3hkJKoC8vk3jJRaJQ0RjlWAowhQauweL74FV2CVDV-S4iiAg4iMjRybHpYke_U1y5yAG5iMlSzIZNqLnEstlZwW4NzW6JN43_/s200/19376_264288073645_513198645_4388031_6060311_n.jpg"></A> In the afternoon, we had our Christmas song contest. This was it...their moment to shine! And boy did they!<br /><OBJECT id=BLOG_video-16b060aa708064b8 class=BLOG_video_class width=320 height=266 contentId="16b060aa708064b8"></OBJECT><br />Come on...my babies are awesome! So awesome that they won 1st place with that performance!<br /> Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-34470488584525383772010-02-08T20:51:00.006+09:002010-02-08T21:05:19.647+09:00An American Thanksgiving in KoreaI know what ya'll are saying. "Damn it, Trish! It's February. What's with writing about Thanksgiving in February?!" I know. I've been absolutely horrible in updating this lovely page dedicated to my stay in Korea. The last few months have been INSANE! So I'm gonna start where I left off...and that's Thanksgiving. So quitcha bitchin and just read :-)<br /><br />My darling Emily Lucille was here for Thanksgiving last year, so she knew what to do. We were going to the Big Rock in Gangnam. First, we had to make a reservation...for like 20! Thank goodness OG took care of all that! All I had to do was show up and that was a pain in the ass all it's own. We all went on the bus together and were supposed to meet at the Starbucks. I was at a Starbucks and so was everyone else...just not the same Starbucks. How did we arrive together and then end up at 2 different Starbucks'??? I have no effin' clue, but leave it up to me! We finally got there and were welcomed with an amazing buffet of REAL food! Turkey and all the fixins'. We were in waygookin heaven! <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZGQaPYOvH97yOtko17tMwTUuP-2E03AgMo-Z65BkQ8t0aU9JI8kriVcZSr9rZ8PvMTTw5WjSqBMhoef9SigfZfS5OyWxetAxur7WT40WYWYLKI4HNplzuoYsoAUpejtYBeh_2aLS8bN2/s1600-h/05.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZGQaPYOvH97yOtko17tMwTUuP-2E03AgMo-Z65BkQ8t0aU9JI8kriVcZSr9rZ8PvMTTw5WjSqBMhoef9SigfZfS5OyWxetAxur7WT40WYWYLKI4HNplzuoYsoAUpejtYBeh_2aLS8bN2/s200/05.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435841714560722578" /></a><br />Pretty damn good for a country that doesn't eat turkey!<br />They even had pumpkin pie! Emily loved it! As did the rest of us ;-)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTPZgaJNgkBDOsCA0jAhUxKTFvUbtKxQIvtWtCA9Uh3gAkjuKREDIjVeu69zZ1RSbSd7tFwlXUZ3YzKIFM6IejwFxP6Of0lZY37vggzdoMwGwF9QgiwrSCYfGWHS8jKggpx_SIVO3jnPM/s1600-h/01.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTPZgaJNgkBDOsCA0jAhUxKTFvUbtKxQIvtWtCA9Uh3gAkjuKREDIjVeu69zZ1RSbSd7tFwlXUZ3YzKIFM6IejwFxP6Of0lZY37vggzdoMwGwF9QgiwrSCYfGWHS8jKggpx_SIVO3jnPM/s200/01.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435842007299418210" /></a><br />They had American football playing too, but I wasn't paying too much attention to it. It was a couple hours of awesome food and awesome friends. I can't wait to do it again!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT53pE9A9lcDPMF59CuQMH41FroLqvOlkzKQOSDCJbso9FoXmBvTJewIs3VcvoyqsFZWYfoV6AqkEUIk7gvZl-RQxb_9DHK1RExjnhdw4ljI4YI_DF6XRUPI-cHyX3rhOLaPdVjQGr2a1z/s1600-h/02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT53pE9A9lcDPMF59CuQMH41FroLqvOlkzKQOSDCJbso9FoXmBvTJewIs3VcvoyqsFZWYfoV6AqkEUIk7gvZl-RQxb_9DHK1RExjnhdw4ljI4YI_DF6XRUPI-cHyX3rhOLaPdVjQGr2a1z/s200/02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435842272894710562" /></a><br />HAPPY (belated) THANKSGIVING!<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4670332544314181074.post-51107661086036725892009-11-24T21:13:00.012+09:002009-11-24T21:55:51.393+09:00Kickin it in Gunsan!I have a friend Faith here in Korea who's husband, Dan is in the Air Force here. While Faith is a 10 minute taxi ride from me, Dan is stationed in Gunsan, which is a 2 hour bus ride from Jukjeon. His squadron hosted a little event a couple weekends ago, and Faith invited myself and a bunch of other awesome ladies along. The event was called Save Your Bacon and was kind of a drinking game/scavenger hunt/complete the task type thing. Put all these things together, along with pink wigs and shades, and you've got yourself one friggin AWESOME Saturday afternoon!<br />A bunch of us hitched a ride on a bus that was supposed to take 2 hours, but ended up taking 3. We were all ready to enjoy a nice American breakfast, but alas, we were too late :-( I did get my first taste of Taco Bell in a looooooong time though. We had to eat quickly as there was MUCH to do to get ready! We all wore fabulous pink and red wigs and these great spade shaped glasses. Here are some pics of us ready to go!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWqBkbTLILuBBMAqGDT-SQN9JYVG744uuUwRlfmxEQZ00AI_o3Zo9w5OwCjBjRLNpAnevzceNNh3aZEJxNMSezOzSPVoL8ipkFOdI_3kgbjq__kQJLTOBtn26Vh7S__BIIfGcPjmd_ZMd/s1600/70.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPWqBkbTLILuBBMAqGDT-SQN9JYVG744uuUwRlfmxEQZ00AI_o3Zo9w5OwCjBjRLNpAnevzceNNh3aZEJxNMSezOzSPVoL8ipkFOdI_3kgbjq__kQJLTOBtn26Vh7S__BIIfGcPjmd_ZMd/s200/70.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407644543219695202" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKm9DHPOQtA8RZ7ZEMwNMEzduF1yXiIoiBxzjiPpUIX-wSVaZRC5N4yZw5ocnz9IknzHfF23s_6_ARHRScTaFbrUAqOpf-oS4u1pU5lHE19i9EKhMwzYhcRw5ppnWIuqGEN-pxZlzwTVu/s1600/16269_184920507406_703742406_3445769_2510435_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNKm9DHPOQtA8RZ7ZEMwNMEzduF1yXiIoiBxzjiPpUIX-wSVaZRC5N4yZw5ocnz9IknzHfF23s_6_ARHRScTaFbrUAqOpf-oS4u1pU5lHE19i9EKhMwzYhcRw5ppnWIuqGEN-pxZlzwTVu/s200/16269_184920507406_703742406_3445769_2510435_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407644535781839650" /></a><br />Our first task that we, of course, accepted was all about 80's trivia. Now, those who know me know that I am ALLLLLLLL about the 80's. Love the movies, love the music, love it all! We did a great job at this. I think we only got like 2 answers wrong. We kicked ass! Here we are with our totally rad host:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQYy7ZVI82BAMHrti3AGzKn1yZLX7eSXCWO3zwsOUS93NJh1K7o_V_LUFRCTjmEqH9g9Kfbe-x-txIUqNlG8bWHzLUZTkbkDFwLgO6BQ9qPU1elE-I6QzN1YAhPqYytSRQBV9V8QwfAA2/s1600/15558_338213495006_520560006_9561057_2972102_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQYy7ZVI82BAMHrti3AGzKn1yZLX7eSXCWO3zwsOUS93NJh1K7o_V_LUFRCTjmEqH9g9Kfbe-x-txIUqNlG8bWHzLUZTkbkDFwLgO6BQ9qPU1elE-I6QzN1YAhPqYytSRQBV9V8QwfAA2/s200/15558_338213495006_520560006_9561057_2972102_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407645095751948674" /></a><br />With our vodka cranberry's in hand, we were off to our next task. This task involved us taking shots of various liquors and then guessing what we were drinking. Unsurprisingly, we got all but 1 correct...haha! We then had to guess how much each bottle of alcohol cost on base. Here we are again, we most gracious hosts:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQP8gQUkOU0IFpG3eoAPnk8TR0PA3_OBTlwMg1j2J-7WcyrDfSFLD2rr3feFcN668WUD8cmE3GUvLAmqAsD-m5W1Q0tvP0PvP-J170-FXypk74-iv0z2AensXK-PJ-XPpe_5FZxtY3pnIm/s1600/15558_338213520006_520560006_9561060_3642858_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQP8gQUkOU0IFpG3eoAPnk8TR0PA3_OBTlwMg1j2J-7WcyrDfSFLD2rr3feFcN668WUD8cmE3GUvLAmqAsD-m5W1Q0tvP0PvP-J170-FXypk74-iv0z2AensXK-PJ-XPpe_5FZxtY3pnIm/s200/15558_338213520006_520560006_9561060_3642858_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407645976875079826" /></a><br />Our third task was very Dutch. There were 4 different kinds of beer and we had to guess what they were. I'm not a beer drinker at all so I wasn't gonna help this cause any. The second part of this task was to eat 6 bratwursts...yuck! But I ate one for my team!! Finally, we had to dance the German polka...aka The Chicken Dance! We had to do it for 3 1/2 minutes! And of course, he we are with the host of the task:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xGzX4aYllK9GrErIeG-MBA4qmGi-t4xnvjV64oW-KwjBhCkfcnuM0fBYmnhYKdUQfjI_K2RJhs_e4eyNUy1YuwMwOvhcoUciIwH5QEno38M3bCUb0-IQcMjktITsDDeHYVxF-kCJtlF4/s1600/15558_338213545006_520560006_9561063_2193190_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xGzX4aYllK9GrErIeG-MBA4qmGi-t4xnvjV64oW-KwjBhCkfcnuM0fBYmnhYKdUQfjI_K2RJhs_e4eyNUy1YuwMwOvhcoUciIwH5QEno38M3bCUb0-IQcMjktITsDDeHYVxF-kCJtlF4/s200/15558_338213545006_520560006_9561063_2193190_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407646821761980914" /></a><br />Then, it was off to golf. Let me remind you that we were drinking all kinda of junk this whole time. This little golf game is kinda hard to explain, so I'll let the pictures do the talking.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_UKtdEEWVf2_DAgWW2wE7aT8ThyphenhyphentfZ_9AjstqYCFblVDNpI87izq2zsSoEFuWApaJIE9oK2ZGqw4vRHt4eeF5wAITTaZP_rPn_d459JlCPAPAzcJiHIhi9I3dJm2Lio8DHwifhk-4bFu/s1600/15558_338213580006_520560006_9561070_3781461_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_UKtdEEWVf2_DAgWW2wE7aT8ThyphenhyphentfZ_9AjstqYCFblVDNpI87izq2zsSoEFuWApaJIE9oK2ZGqw4vRHt4eeF5wAITTaZP_rPn_d459JlCPAPAzcJiHIhi9I3dJm2Lio8DHwifhk-4bFu/s200/15558_338213580006_520560006_9561070_3781461_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407648129724260722" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0zONE5yV0G4BcKoW4n32IFyyk9MHhX2Yk289_HRzYr5FpZiiYAQfQMMC0PkHHJGg7cuZkQNKd7m6NS8zt5ACeXz6WQ-Qp8HaH2xBVnl57LqJvu954UMyQG4ZA_Ohew3Lzvw2Rk8NZ7TZ/s1600/PB140017.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg0zONE5yV0G4BcKoW4n32IFyyk9MHhX2Yk289_HRzYr5FpZiiYAQfQMMC0PkHHJGg7cuZkQNKd7m6NS8zt5ACeXz6WQ-Qp8HaH2xBVnl57LqJvu954UMyQG4ZA_Ohew3Lzvw2Rk8NZ7TZ/s200/PB140017.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407648126298176546" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicopmccm1Weo4ltOEyS_QJhPJmQkSmq1DZtDbk0HwDcBz_IZtEDrUHLKw3YDRhei7_etDo8gzEWOAZjNt8j8FsOdCpY7M5fww1yZA6xp7ER5YyjKJCx_zjj-bC_uA2f__dVAVrRDfEIio5/s1600/PB140013.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicopmccm1Weo4ltOEyS_QJhPJmQkSmq1DZtDbk0HwDcBz_IZtEDrUHLKw3YDRhei7_etDo8gzEWOAZjNt8j8FsOdCpY7M5fww1yZA6xp7ER5YyjKJCx_zjj-bC_uA2f__dVAVrRDfEIio5/s200/PB140013.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407648114872724722" /></a><br />We basically had to hit the golf balls into these hula hoops. I dunno, apparently we did pretty good, so that's cool with me! Here we are with "Shooter McGavin" and his friend:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqXMWMwGbgNTjr8bVb6HAFy84c48w_ghs8RsiXFzH6TSnb9nrMMBrDYYC2K9dN4v7PFfCaoPY9V_zxlylVoSv6XyoRSvGsYjc0YMsn0UzNTLtjZSmPaXn2RWxAZaaGWaOEtWKDLixf-NS/s1600/16269_184920567406_703742406_3445779_4095063_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqXMWMwGbgNTjr8bVb6HAFy84c48w_ghs8RsiXFzH6TSnb9nrMMBrDYYC2K9dN4v7PFfCaoPY9V_zxlylVoSv6XyoRSvGsYjc0YMsn0UzNTLtjZSmPaXn2RWxAZaaGWaOEtWKDLixf-NS/s200/16269_184920567406_703742406_3445779_4095063_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407648654531236594" /></a><br />Then we were led to some abandoned van. It looked a little strange, but these guys said they had free candy, so we went in :-) I don't really remember the rest, I wonder why. Maybe these pics will help:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzTjuZ2vDPcPUxR_IQU0UaA0HmQY3T_8djT1fDHQkauLCLLyhBeyKeuaSB4yABFnrnzWMmVfkTK-dWVOyEpjh94EVjBHlwKk22TaBlZiM6uaZVVR6dCKT5_ZJaD6XP7PbQGVwxzQVxlq1/s1600/PB140024.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzTjuZ2vDPcPUxR_IQU0UaA0HmQY3T_8djT1fDHQkauLCLLyhBeyKeuaSB4yABFnrnzWMmVfkTK-dWVOyEpjh94EVjBHlwKk22TaBlZiM6uaZVVR6dCKT5_ZJaD6XP7PbQGVwxzQVxlq1/s200/PB140024.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407650205420701410" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_3VqC_8pxnicWSjwGxw7XSdbkMkymwxF19f-HTicXU5w4KfU8rErusFS473vmw8TYpQKROzVQA3AMDaA60zbPS1f92cUYA47P8LN67XDXqfbYPZ7gmpMT6RO40gww8ffGcUtNWRFUo1pP/s1600/PB140025.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_3VqC_8pxnicWSjwGxw7XSdbkMkymwxF19f-HTicXU5w4KfU8rErusFS473vmw8TYpQKROzVQA3AMDaA60zbPS1f92cUYA47P8LN67XDXqfbYPZ7gmpMT6RO40gww8ffGcUtNWRFUo1pP/s200/PB140025.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407650193286140482" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZASMYU24DqGwG93anRyZkiTHJbJtiJWW4RHtmxYhbuzCk-oJPicLN794Jv0D9IRaRDA_kluUUK3FgwfRMeu5AZyBxqGFF1lC8KzA-N0NxMWCGOn5OQBXdnCFwl-530xsFMcysK4IRqQT/s1600/PB140019.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlZASMYU24DqGwG93anRyZkiTHJbJtiJWW4RHtmxYhbuzCk-oJPicLN794Jv0D9IRaRDA_kluUUK3FgwfRMeu5AZyBxqGFF1lC8KzA-N0NxMWCGOn5OQBXdnCFwl-530xsFMcysK4IRqQT/s200/PB140019.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407650185751068562" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vtPTSF6vEVzc4J7VDNxjvlQngJouWhl_4rvE-XqDYBAy82JLb2_T6mR7jdUJ8yrxN3edJhTGpKH72uTy6TaTTDGcxBh8ZWDbGlBsS4FIKDRjMDQJQmdG9m3iKjmBjq_ENNg6y47E6HU4/s1600/15558_338213655006_520560006_9561079_2818587_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7vtPTSF6vEVzc4J7VDNxjvlQngJouWhl_4rvE-XqDYBAy82JLb2_T6mR7jdUJ8yrxN3edJhTGpKH72uTy6TaTTDGcxBh8ZWDbGlBsS4FIKDRjMDQJQmdG9m3iKjmBjq_ENNg6y47E6HU4/s200/15558_338213655006_520560006_9561079_2818587_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407650526003549522" /></a><br />Then it was off to play some Black Jack:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjQJAFqyohmCSd8f-U89avG_eyLYvoqKXX2AwsZwRFWSYOwV34GychAK7cFe-shHrminZ3uIXRSAnZjoaC4N5DIgvw_-7XU3tykvWdaUwW9Xc6yg6A_nVUMNthmkTeSWHLuEaN7XTYshyphenhyphen/s1600/15558_338213685006_520560006_9561084_6796367_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjQJAFqyohmCSd8f-U89avG_eyLYvoqKXX2AwsZwRFWSYOwV34GychAK7cFe-shHrminZ3uIXRSAnZjoaC4N5DIgvw_-7XU3tykvWdaUwW9Xc6yg6A_nVUMNthmkTeSWHLuEaN7XTYshyphenhyphen/s200/15558_338213685006_520560006_9561084_6796367_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407651426047414146" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBtAuufL4rN7vkMZJWZjeUcJsi6l47ayb-muih_rRA-HMp64bebbRWx-OMFc0SnyoeZKWlIHVQEk_tPXOBJNgxBikFxs_0aLwxOSXOxWxBRgAcqmGpQ-ZwJEyHimgDaf5zEw_qP4eL9S85/s1600/PB140046.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBtAuufL4rN7vkMZJWZjeUcJsi6l47ayb-muih_rRA-HMp64bebbRWx-OMFc0SnyoeZKWlIHVQEk_tPXOBJNgxBikFxs_0aLwxOSXOxWxBRgAcqmGpQ-ZwJEyHimgDaf5zEw_qP4eL9S85/s200/PB140046.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407651424399949090" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi545cPl-CgD-UPXorwPREZm8M95cKKXByBcOrzoTP9nmatp0E_R5beHk5LsrmQNHhJOZB48tQvQFDid21weVcTHurWo5TAqCVhX6n78kX9Rtwqx7Osacg368U2mL43zDht3iDisggkQTYn/s1600/PB140041.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi545cPl-CgD-UPXorwPREZm8M95cKKXByBcOrzoTP9nmatp0E_R5beHk5LsrmQNHhJOZB48tQvQFDid21weVcTHurWo5TAqCVhX6n78kX9Rtwqx7Osacg368U2mL43zDht3iDisggkQTYn/s200/PB140041.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407651414476298834" /></a><br />That was the end of our little game. It was off to party where we found out we won 2nd place!!!!! Woot woot!!! Here are some final pics of us celebrating:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcG2JZ_r768gahkAxWyMnGJzA4zwFVJSwlM1uMO2jkMWOvwoajodyR-YpnDhRrDdXmucXvqeF9q1oLTcJQcwJqWVZmTzHScZcnm7k3KV4kyMM1sl2rhgl6wD23qwUFd79e26cfmw57u9wq/s1600/16269_184920717406_703742406_3445806_1917340_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcG2JZ_r768gahkAxWyMnGJzA4zwFVJSwlM1uMO2jkMWOvwoajodyR-YpnDhRrDdXmucXvqeF9q1oLTcJQcwJqWVZmTzHScZcnm7k3KV4kyMM1sl2rhgl6wD23qwUFd79e26cfmw57u9wq/s200/16269_184920717406_703742406_3445806_1917340_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407652865581160610" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ141bLRgzxvP8yk1AkXez-aHqYhFim4p6OfDSIPjlgqbBo65LRbO4QU2Jfesbkph9iQaV26S3RGwDE-XhM1QyF7cv-WXb8alY_fRjpLsvgJI1stslEizO4XXwOQ5tOw3HQC1BCoQZpizk/s1600/15558_338213715006_520560006_9561089_8373066_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ141bLRgzxvP8yk1AkXez-aHqYhFim4p6OfDSIPjlgqbBo65LRbO4QU2Jfesbkph9iQaV26S3RGwDE-XhM1QyF7cv-WXb8alY_fRjpLsvgJI1stslEizO4XXwOQ5tOw3HQC1BCoQZpizk/s200/15558_338213715006_520560006_9561089_8373066_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407652862475108642" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1TZT8vZSGzBl9-o3W_6-eGz0C4Y3oU8gWWTb1BcyVwgtMfesC-AjcO9sZxTbQHsegQET4OhF6m7NBUgTnw4Dz88c5wKrI-FKWkYXExNExMepzWdG39AoaaZYaNtmXti3tNnKB7gqeZQz/s1600/PB140077.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw1TZT8vZSGzBl9-o3W_6-eGz0C4Y3oU8gWWTb1BcyVwgtMfesC-AjcO9sZxTbQHsegQET4OhF6m7NBUgTnw4Dz88c5wKrI-FKWkYXExNExMepzWdG39AoaaZYaNtmXti3tNnKB7gqeZQz/s200/PB140077.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407652857913870306" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnjVhcr2b8LYRFGuamk4EL8CNqJd3dCbM2f_r6OnWAVKS6EMvhKjEtJwzoCjwAl-cEvyvN0EAbaQ5LNsRNsnviOhJoX8ruFM_wxW4eNaTq7vm8XvPe3lGaSozLrTVS8cWUqHetqQznBlX/s1600/PB140006.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnjVhcr2b8LYRFGuamk4EL8CNqJd3dCbM2f_r6OnWAVKS6EMvhKjEtJwzoCjwAl-cEvyvN0EAbaQ5LNsRNsnviOhJoX8ruFM_wxW4eNaTq7vm8XvPe3lGaSozLrTVS8cWUqHetqQznBlX/s200/PB140006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407652854551236706" /></a><br />It was an awesome way to spend a Saturday and I met some amazing girls! Can't wait to go to Gunsan again!<br />Love you all!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1