After 10 days in Sunny Southern California and a few days back in Washington, I flew to the East Coast yesterday! I've been pretty excited about this trip because I get to see many great friends that I haven't seen for SO long and probably won't see again for quite some time! Monday morning I left home at 3:30AM for SEA-TAC. My mom was the only willing volunteer for that airport shift. ha ha. I had a flight to Denver and then on to Boston. Both flights were full and I had middle seats so they were long and tiring. Getting 3 hours of sleep the night before was a big part of the problem. I feel like flying to Korea is faster than the East Coast! I think I just expected that because it's America ... read more

Somehow it's almost March, 2011. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one. Over here in Korea we've been hoping and waiting for things to slow down. I'm realizing now that they're not going to and I need to get my stuff together! I officially have 4 weeks left on my contract. I'm still trying to process that as well. January intensives finished and we thought things would slow down but for the last 3 weeks we've been saying bye to people heading back home and preparing to welcome new teachers. This is definitely some kind of record: Jake and I haven't left Cheongju since Lacey was here visiting at Christmas!! YIKES!!! It's been nice for our wallets and we've gotten plenty of rest but as the weather gets nicer, I'm itching to get ... read more

Lucky for me, because I'm tired, but unfortunately for you, because it's boring, day 4 was largely uneventful. It was Saturday and we needed to fly from Bangkok to Krabi. Krabi and Phuket are the two cities you can fly into to visit the southern islands. They are about 12-14 hours by bus and clearly we did not have extra time on our hands this trip. So we flew :) We took a taxi from Khaosan to the Bangkok airport early Saturday morning. We passed the large place where the King lives. Our taxi driver pointed it out and added how much he, and all the people of Thailand, love and respect their King. We heard that a lot while we were there. At the airport there was a huge shrine to him. The flight to ... read more

After traveling from Cheongju to Incheon, Incheon to Beijing, and then Beijing to Bangkok we arrived at our hotel near the airport around midnight. The hotel picked us up from the airport so transportation was very convenient! We instantly noticed the number of scooters on the road. It's awesome and hilarious. We saw more scooters on the freeway than we did cars. Of course most of them are without helmets and have 2-4 people all riding on one scooter. We were able to sleep through a number of planes landing because we were pretty exhausted. When I woke up to birds chirping and really warm air I couldn't sleep anymore! It was amazing to wake up to that after being in below freezing weather in Korea and China. I was so excited to finally be in ... read more

This is me blogging. I can do it. I can do it because I promised myself that if I wrote a blog then I could watch an episode of The Office. So here I go. I've had a number of different things in my head that I wanted to blog about: The first was the worst. We got robbed again. I'm not sure which was worse, the first time or the second time. In my mind, they were both pretty terrible. The first time was the cash, sunglasses, and 2 cameras. This time, it was Vicki. Vicki the scooter. The scooter that I rode to hot yoga in the mornings, work in the afternoons, home from work in the evenings, to home plus EVERY time I needed something from the store, to downtown when I wanted ... read more