This is why I love Korea!!!!

So one of the reasons I love living in Korea is that there are so many national holidays, and you get paid days off. It seems that at least once a month I am getting a day off and it has been wonderful. The weird thing is that these days off are sometimes in the middle of the week, unlike in the U.S, there are not many three day weekends. Anyway last week we got Tuesday off and I went to the lake to go wakeboarding and sunbathing. Yes I went wake boarding with my bad foot. You know I am not patient enough to lay around and let my body heal. It was so fun!!!! Tim invited me to go with Brian and his girlfriend Vicky. We were supposed to leave at 6 am so I was up at 5:15 to get ready. I leave my apartment to catch a taxi to Tim's apartment (the pick up spot) and right before I hop into the cab Tim tells me we aren't leaving till 7 am so I should stay home and take a nap. I go back to my apartment and right when I fall back asleep it is time for me to leave again. I get to Tim's apartment only to find out that we are not leaving till 8 am (So much for waking up at 5:15). Anyway the traffic wasn't bad and it was a beautiful ride. We went to a really cool dock that had a music playing and a lot of twenty something people. We drank beer and got some sun while waiting our turn. I definitely wakeboarded drunk around 12:30 and it was so fun. Tim went for his first time and did better than I did (I was so jealous). After wakeboarding we went on a banana boat and I raft called a fly fish. The fly fish was awesome because your raft flew in the air a few feet and then landed in the water and then flew up a few feet again. I can't wait to go on the fly fish again. We even met this cool guy K that spoke perfect English. I love meeting people that you are able to communicate with. We left around 5 pm and I got home about 9 or 10. I slept sooooooo good that night.

Weekend in Tongyoung: Day 1

My first weekend back in Seoul, my co-worker and I signed up for a weekend trip together with Adventure Korea to go to a coastal town called Tongyoung. Christian convinced me to go and said it would be a weekend of hanging out on the beach and swimming. Since I hurt my foot really badly in Thailand, I wanted to just relax on the beach and let my foot heal. This was no sitting and relaxing weekend. There weren't any beaches and it was a weekend of site seeing and lots and lots of walking. This was definitely bad news for my foot, but it was absolutely beautiful and I am so glad I was able to see this lovely town.

The first thing we did was go on some banana boats and these really fun inflated slides into the sea. Again this was not a beach, but a floating dock in the sea. Christian and I spent the day going on this slide over and over again. I think it was intended for little kids, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. After we finished, we watched tradional Korean sword fighting.

Next we headed back to our hotel for a less than great dinner and to get ready to go out. We stayed in a huge hotel room that fit 35 people. It was so nice. We all got ready and then headed to the small downtown area for a few drinks. There we met these young Korean guys who were only 19 years old. They were so cute and I was disappointed that they were too young for me. They called me older sister, and I drank with them for a few hours. They made me try dried anchovies (a very popular snack) and it was horrible, but atleast I did it. Then they kept asking me weird questions like who looked younger, who was cuter, who looked the smartest. I found out later that this is very common in Korea, when a group of guys meet a girl for the first time. Since Koreans are very blunt people you are supposed to answer honestly, and they are not bothered by your answers, but I am American and I felt weird saying who was the cutest and who was the youngest. After a great time with these cute guys, I went back to the hotel for a good nights sleep.

I love Thailand

I got back from Thailand today and I am completely exhausted. The plane arrived in Seoul at 7am. I got back to my apartment at 9am for just enough time to clean up a little before I had to head to work. I had to work a full day and I kept falling asleep in class. I plan on giving a day by day detail of my trip but I just wanted everyone to know I arrived home safe and sound. I fell in love with Thailand and I can't wait to go back. It is so different from Korea, and although I love Korea, Thailand has taken a bigger piece of my heart. Everyone must go to Thailand and spend atleast a full seven days there. Give me a few days to get my pictures and blogs up and running. It was one of the greatest trips I have ever taken!!!!!!!!!