As I was finishing my hair so I could finally get out of the house for the day and go do something, a torrential downpour began. This happens a lot these days in Korea. I think it rains more here than in Seattle. So here I am, blogging. :) Jeju Island. Korea's romantic honeymoon destination. It was great and beautiful! But not what I have in mind for my honeymoon. Ha ha. From what we had heard, it sounded like it'd be like Hawaii filled with restaurants and shopping. Let's just say it seemed more Korean than the city we live in. We actually had a pretty difficult time finding things in English and ordering food but I think this is because of the area where we stayed. Near our hotel, we couldn't find a single ... read more

Nearly a MONTH has flown by since my last post. Things have been very busy around here with summer intensives. We are teaching classes in the morning and all afternoon/evening. I work every MWF in the morning and Jake works every TR in the morning. We are at the school from 9am-1pm and then we have to be back at 3pm until 10pm. It makes for a long day....and long weeks! Also, we've traveled somewhere every weekend so we're nearing the point of exhaustion! But it's been so fun and I'm sad that summer is nearly gone. But that won't stop me from making the best out of the rest of it. Since I've written, we went to Boryeong, which is a beach town a couple hours away on the coast of the Yellow Sea. They ... read more

I am happy to report that I had perfect cooperation during my 10 minute surgery on Saturday. Lasik was a huge success and I feel great! All I want to say is: EVERYONE should do this!! Saturday, Jake and I took a bus to Seoul and grabbed Dunkin with just enough time to arrive at my appointment at 2pm. The Dream Eye Center is in Myeongdong, which has got to be the busiest area of Seoul. It's packed with Koreans and foreigners shopping and eating. The place is great but it gets frustrating really easily, considering you can't move without running into someone. (which unfortunately, is something koreans don't mind doing). Anyway, the second I walked in the nurses were ready to get going. I was shocked at how quickly everything went because although I was ... read more

I heard about a weekend trip to Inje from a friend I met during training. It included paint balling, white water rafting, atv riding and optional bungy jumping. After checking to be sure that both the Korea vs. Greece game, and the US vs. England game WOULD be showing where we were staying, I got Jake and two other friends to sign up. We left from Cheongju Saturday and made the bus trip to Seoul JUST in time to meet another bus full of foreigners that were going on our trip. Then we had another 2 hour bus drive to Inje. Let me start with the bus drive. I lost count at some point, but we went through at least 12 tunnels. Each of these tunnels was built into beautiful, green, luscious mountains! It was gorgeous! ... read more

Good news!! So I woke up this morning and despite not feeling too great, I knew I had to check out the rest of the hiking trail so I finally got myself together and went. I kept walking...for what seemed like forever but maybe it was an hour or less. This trail, this mountain, goes on forever! And the start of it is right by my house and I never would have known. It was BRIGHT green everywhere and so beautiful. There isn't an ugly part on the entire trail. My curiosity to see where the trail led kept me going but I was starting to get worried about making it to work on time. I had no idea what time it was and no water...ha ha but I kept going. I finally reached a gazebo, ... read more