The motivation to blog has been non-existant. Things happen and I think, "oh, make sure and remember that...put that in the blog..." but to write a new blog meant I'd have to start with three weeks back. Pre-robbery. Instead I think I will just post random thoughts or events that have happened that I want to remember. FIRST: I've been meaning to mention this since the first day I stepped outside in Korea. The women's style...and men's too I guess, is ridiculous. Ridiculous in a good way I guess. This is not an overstatement: Everyday, everywhere I go I am underdressed. No matter what. If I go to work, if I go hiking, if I go wandering on a Saturday. The women/girls here are in heels, AT ALL TIMES. 4inch+ heels. I've never seen anything like ... read more

Apparently I am a few days behind in my blogging....Of course, Lacey reminded me so here I am trying to squeeze in a blog about last weekend with 54 minutes until this weekend begins. I will start with a few things that I have been forgetting to mention in previous blogs: First, I got my first haircut. It was necessary because my mullet was growing in a little too quickly. I went to a place within walking distance that everyone else in my group had already been to and they all highly recommended it. It was a pretty nice place, everyone dressed in white collared shirts with black vests over them and bow ties. There are boys that wash your hair and take you to your seat where the hair dresser cuts and styles. The wash ... read more

This past weekend was rather low key in comparison with the one before but I still have a pretty cool story worth sharing. On Saturday I woke up and planned to have some alone time with coffee and a book on top of my roof. Then, 4 friends knocked on my door and said we were going to the beach. I was slightly confused because I couldn't think of any beaches anywhere near us. They didn't have many answers besides the fact that Jin (the Korean partner teacher to one of the guys in our group) and her friend were driving from Daejon to pick us up and drive us to the beach. We grabbed some Lotteria (korean fast food burgers) and headed to Dunkin Donuts to meet up with them. All of us were pretty ... read more

I feel like I'm running out of stories! But oh well, your comments have encouraged me to keep writing. I guess I'll open with this. Today I got to work around 3. Now that I'm getting the hang of it, I feel comfortable showing up a little later. I still need the hour to prep, make copies, print, etc. Around 3 15ish another teacher came in and asked if any of us wanted to go down to the kimbap shop and get some food to bring back up and eat. I wasn't too hungry but I had been wanting to check out this shop where everything is apparently really cheap and pretty good, and not far from the school. And it was Friday so I was like, oh well, forget prepping. Ha ha So I went ... read more

On Sunday we went to the big church we went to for Easter to play volleyball. We had about 14 of us playing so we did 6 on 6 with one person rotating out. It was really fun! A few people in our group had been dying to play ever since they got here so it was nice that the church had arranged it. A real gym, court, net, and ball! This seems to be a very common trend here in south korea: things not going as planned due to strange, illogical interruptions. So the English service at the church had rented out the gym for 2 hours. As in...signed up on a sheet and reserved it. We play for about an hour and then 12 Koreans in suits show up and tell us we need ... read more