Tell It Once: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

SNOW!!

Sorry I haven't been posting. I was just so exhausted after Japan and resting two days did not seem enough plus I got sick. I'm also trying to buy Big Bang concert tickets, not to mention my computer is crap (Ace might be arriving with a new laptop for me...I'm super excited) and of course planning lessons =P. I'm slowly uploading my camp and Japan pictures so I'll hopefully have a post up about those soon.

So in school students have two more weeks before they have their vacation to start the next school year (it doesn't really make sense but that's how it works here), so we don't have to teach morning classes.

While I was doing my lesson, my co-teacher pointed out that it was snowing outside, I was shocked at the big flakes but thought "no biggie..I'm from Canada." Like minutes later I looked up again...

Updates: Japan

Sorry I haven`t been able to post anything lately. I am currently in Osaka. We just got off a 8 hour bus ride from Tokyo to Osaka and I am SUPER tired. We are not able to check into our hotels until 3pm so we just left our luggage with the front desk, grabbed some morning Egg McMuffin combo and are now in a internet cafe. I think people sleep here over night too..you can get a open room like we are in now OR you can get private rooms or pair rooms (Korea PC Bang anybody?) LOL..I`m not sure but there are showers in here too..crazy! Anyway..just wanted to give a quick update since we have internet for now.

I hope everybody had an awesome Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year!! Year of the DRAGON!! =)

xoxo

Friday, January 13, 2012

Latest Obsessions

So friends from home know that I kind of have this obsession with finding skincare products to make my face softer and smoother and finding hair products to do the same thing. I've been hearing forever that Korea has awesome skincare products so when I arrived, I got super excited and tried a lot of different things. Korean skincare brands such as Skinfoods, Innisfree, The Face Shop, Nature Republic, Missha, Etude House.....etc. etc. could be found EVERYWHERE. They have shops inside stations, on the streets of Myeondong and Hongdae....seriously...everywhere.

My blog posts aren't usually specific to products but I've been obsessed lately and really want to share. Sorry to any guys reading this..you probably won't be interested. My bad!

Juno Hair

I am pretty particular about my hair so I was terrified to get a haircut in Korea. I heard horror stories where people go into a salon in Korea and tell the stylist how they want their hair cut, but due to miscommunication and stylists disregarding their clients' demands, they end up with a hairstyle that they hate.

I haven't done anything to my hair since I arrived in Korea and frankly, it was turning into a hot mess. I had split ends, it got tangled all the time and it just wasn't soft anymore.......sexy right?..I know! =P

My friend Claudia had the same problem so we sucked it up and headed over to Juno Hair.

Daejeon

After the first week of winter camp, my co-teachers all wanted to go on a overnight trip so we can "hang out." They chose the location and all I had to do was bring a towel. The teachers all show up with their little purse and here I am with my duffle...fml lol.

Anyway, we ended up going to Daejeon by car which is about 1 hour drive from Seoul. Some of my co-teachers go to Daejeon with their families because teachers get discounts and it's right by a beach.

Happy New Year!

It's finally 2012, hope all of you had an amazing year in 2011. I figured it would be a good time to do a quick recap of all the happy moments in 2011 =). Looking back at all the pictures, I notice that nothing too exciting happened until I arrived in Korea =P.

Here are some of the things I've done the the past year in no particular order:

1. Before Korea...