Around the World!

FLIGHTS BOOKED!

Wicked!!!

May was super busy, Michelle, family, Jessica (Claudia's sister) all came to visit.  To top it off, I got really sick the past week and missed two days of school.  Sorry I wasn't able to post as much as I wanted to....BUUUUT last night was amazing.  Now that my cough is finally going away, I have more time and energy to DO stuff =).

Last night, we went to watch Wicked in Korea.  How random is that?! It was pretty freaking darn amazing though! I can't stop listening to the songs..I can see the show in my head right now.  I want to see it again!

Teacher's Day =)

So in May, Korea has Children's Day (5th), Parents' Day (8th - they don't have each parents' day separated like us), Teacher's Day (15th) and I think there's a Black Day or something too for single people.  Needless to say, a crap load of celebrations.  On Teacher's Day, students bring letters, flowers, gifts and even cake for their teachers.  I was very sad when I didn't receive any cake, being the fatty that I am, but no teachers at my school did either.  I wasn't sure why this was, until my co-teacher informed me today, that our VP announced in a meeting, for homeroom teachers to not allow (more like discourage) students to bring gifts for teachers.  Apparently only letters were allowed.

Dobongsan

Koreans LOVE to hike.  My co-teacher pretty much goes hiking every weekend.  All the ahjummas and ahjusshis are always decked out in their hiking gear on the subways, streets, restaurants, you name it.  Since living in Korea, I've always wanted to try hiking, but I was always a little nervous.  Also, I didn't always have time and the weather wasn't really on our side until recently.  Since Michelle is here visiting with Sabrina, we thought what better time to go hiking.  I could show them a little bit of Korean culture and check an item of the list.

Food..food...more food =)

So, as I mentioned in a previous post, all of us are starting to freak out a little bit since we've already been in Seoul for almost 8 months now and it feels like there's so much we still haven't done.  Especially with the weather warming up a little bit, we decided to kickstart this weekend by eating at the restaurants we've been craving but haven't had time to check out.

Rain..rain..please stay away...

For as long as I've been in Korea, there hasn't been too many rainy days, but I still can't stand them.  All you people who love rain.....you're crazy LOL. The weird thing about Korea is that no matter how light the rain is, you will see everybody on the streets holding umbrellas.  You have no idea how many times I left the house without one and people look at me like I'm crazy because I'm only wearing a hood in the rain.  Needless to say, I've learned my lesson: never leave the house without an umbrella, even when it's barely drizzling. 

Freakin' Geocaching..

You may or may not know that pretty much every Sunday, Claudia and I go lesson plan at our local Zoo Coffee.  Obviously we spend a lot more time chatting, web-surfing and the occasional facebook stalking.  This past Sunday, Claudia read about our fellow Canadian Epiker, Holley and her boyfriend's Geocaching adventures.  Claudia worked her little magic and suddenly now we have a brand new adventure to look forward to.  Seriously..this has probably been the single most exciting thing I've done yet!