It was the perfect day what I'd give if I could find a way to stay

a couple of weekends ago a group of friends and i headed out of town to muuido island off the coast of incheon... and let's just say this was one of the best weekends i have had in an extremely long time. from the beginning i knew it was going to be a good weekend, i just wasn't sure how good! 

so laura, kate, janice, tom and i caught the bus from the goyang area and headed out to the airport. let me just say, being at the airport and not actually leaving the country was really hard. since being abroad, i have been craving traveling every opportunity i can get. i thailand last august, indonesia in january, possibly some place before i go to the states in august and then of course somewhere for winter break. anyways... we met everyone at the airport and headed to the ferry terminal to get our tickets to muuido. 


i would like to mention that when we woke up saturday morning it was POURING!! korea rain sort of reminds me of rain at home... not necessarily a ton, but it's constant and doesn't ever seem to stop. i had to bust out my rain boots and umbrella... 

once we go to the ferry terminal is when things started to get crazy. i ran directly off the bus to the bathroom and by the time i was finished and made my way into the terminal, a few of the people in our group were arguing with an older korean man. all i saw was a small broken window and the korean man was very angry and insisting that it was us that broke it. it's widely known that elders are respected in korea, more so than they are in the states most of the time. this means that whatever they say pretty much goes and there is no arguing with them. so after a solid 15 minutes of half our group arguing through a nice man who so kindly translated for us, it was established that we "may" have broken the window. After the man said he was going to call the police, which apparently he had, we apologized for "possibly" breaking his window and then all was right again. He shook our hands and let us leave the building to board the ferry. 

once to the island we decided to stay in pensions instead of the beach huts because of the lovely weather korea gave to us that weekend. after getting our rooms we unpacked the massive amounts of food and drinks and hunkered down in the warmth and dryness of the pension room. 

what's a pension you ask? it's basically a large open one-room room with a bathroom attached. so it serves as a sitting/living room area and then after putting blankets and such down on the floor, it serves as a sleeping area for multiple people as well. 

i mentioned there were massive amounts of food and i am serious... we had burgers, brats, the fixings for those, cheese and crackers, banana chips, all the stuff for breakfast burritos the next morning, chips, homemade salsa and guacamole (which i naturally avoided as to not die). there was also a very large supply of alcohol on hand. between the excessive amount of beer, wine, homemade kahlua, soju and spiced rum we were set for the weekend. let the excessive amount of eating and drinking begin... 

which is exactly what happened. we ate and ate and ate... or better yet we all ate and matthew ate and ate and ate. seriously he was like a human vacuum that was never ending. once the last of our group arrived from incheon we were all settled in for a night of crazyness.  and since there was drinking, this of course led to absolute crazyness. this included a game of "I Never" and another drinking game. we also bought roman candles and had a roman candle fight out on the beach in the sprinkles. basically lighting and pointing fireworks at each other... awesome! afterwards some of us walked out (because the tide was low) and saw some of the bio-luminescent plankton that was in the water. after the last drinking game we called it a night around 3am or so. 

we had two pension rooms and 11 people to fit between the two. we crammed 6 in one and 5 in the other. basically we all had to snuggle nice and close to fit in the room of 6. after getting situated and such and attempting to drown out the excessive snoring coming from john and laura, i was able to get to sleep. only to be rudely awaken after was felt like only an hour by a phone alarm. for a second i thought it was mine, but then i remembered my phone had died that night. which meant it was laura's. after everyone started getting pissed, i was able to turn it off.  

later that morning when people started getting up we made breakfast burritos, thanks to dani. they were delicious. while we were cooking, the koreans that had been staying next door to us were trying to get their van out of the sand where they had parked it the night before. well that turned into a very entertaining thing to watch. every time they revved the engine and spun the tires, they sunk lower and lower into the sand. they finally asked some of the guys from our group to come and help them. if my phone wasn't dead, i would have taken pictures. the boys were out in the sprinkles, pushing and digging out the sand. after the driver of the van was making it worse, one of the boys got in and drove it out of the sand. 

breakfast burritos were awesome. then it was time to head back to the ferry back to the mainland. overall it was an awesome weekend. 

you are a satellite, you're shooting through the sky, you leave the world behind

i'm really not good at this whole "keeping things up to date" on here... guess i should probably work on that. though i'm not making any promises cause i seem to get distracted pretty easily. 

since today is midterms day, this means i am not teaching today. which equates to desk-warming. ah... a term i, along with any other public school foreign teacher, am very familiar with. this is actually my first time desk-warming since starting at my new school. wait... i lied, i desk-warmed the first couple days cause students were getting settled into a routine before they started english class. it's weird to not be teaching and while it is nice to get somewhat of a break from teaching 4-6 different classes a day, i happen to really enjoy teaching my students this year and miss it when i don't. though since it is friday, it's nice not to have a break! 

this month marks my 13th and the beginning of my 14th month in korea... it's crazy to think that i have been living abroad for more than a year. and without seeing america either... which is something that is going to change come august... yep you read that right, 

I WILL BE STATESIDE ON AUGUST 10th UNTIL THE 25th!!! 

if you couldn't tell i'm a bit excited about this! by this time i won't have been home for 18 months, which is the longest i have ever been away from home. considering i hadn't lived anywhere outside of oregon (unless you count me living at my aunt's in vancouver, washington for 2 months before moving to korea) living outside of the states is a big deal for me. so i'm rather excited to be heading back in august for a nice little vacation away from my life in korea. i only have 14 solid days in america, so if any of you reading this want to see me, shoot me a message somehow and we can make it happen. those 14 days are going to be filled with little sleep and jamming everything and everyone i can into it! not going to lie... i have already started making a list of the things i want to do, places i want to go, and foods i want to eat! i guess i should start saving my money now.... 

since i haven't been home in almost 14 months now i knew starting my second year was also going to bring a second wave of homesickness and it kicked in few weeks ago. i woke up one saturday morning and felt like i had been kicked in the chest. i didn't want to be here, hated that i decided to stay, just wanted to be home with my family and friends, and really wanted nothing to do with anyone here or with korea in general. i spent a good portion of the day upset inside my apartment. which i know isn't good, but sometimes you just have to embrace the homesickness, deal with it and get it over with. which is what i have slowly been doing. it also didn't help that i wasn't on speaking terms with a "friend" for a solid month. which took a toll on me as well. 

speaking of the silent treatment... which is now over. sort of. i have now heard from this friend after an entire month of nothing but silence. and while we are back on speaking terms, i never did get the answers i was looking for, which just makes me feel unresolved about the whole situation. i am left feeling hurt, sort of betrayed, and still questioning things. i'm just not entirely sure how i can trust them again. and after a specific comment was said, i just feel weird and uncomfortable even messaging them. so for now, we are on speaking terms, but not really speaking. and for now this is the way things have to be, and potentially how they will stay. because i just can't do it anymore. 

on a brighter note... i am almost two months into my new job and i still love it. and my co-workers and my kids. while my after school kids stress me out sometimes because they can be crazy monsters, all my kids are great. my 5th graders, who i see the most (3 times a week) are great. even my "trouble makers" are good kids. my 6th and 3rd graders who i only see one a week are great as well. my 3rd graders, who barely speak english are just cute. and my 6th graders, while they talk a lot are overall good kids. plus i get to play the good fun teacher since they only see me once. and then there are my kindergartners... who are seriously the cutest thing ever. it doesn't matter the mood i am in... they always make it better. a perfect example would be yesterday when jungwha and i were walking down to lunch and we ran into some of my kindergartners coming out of the bathroom and they literally freaked out when they saw me. ran up to me hugging me, giggling and just overall being adorable. i was talking to a friend last night at dinner and we both said that even though we are both way busier this year with teaching and such, we are way less stressed than we were last year. and i really think a lot of that has to do with the kids and the environment i am in. i just feel better about things and my situation. 

grad school is still going well... even though i still continually procrastinate on all my homework. it's a trait about myself that i've embraced. it doesn't matter the assignment, i am going to wait till the last minute to do it. it will get done eventually. i am officially half way through my current class. which has been going pretty well. i've enjoyed it so far. i have 2 individual assigments left, a group project and my final project and then i will be done with this class. as of now i have 5 classes after this one till i am done with my program. if i stay on the schedule i am on now, i should be done by the beginning of april. though i have a feeling i will be taking another two week break come january for my winter vacation like i did this last winter. 

speaking of winter vacation... yes i have already started thinking about it. steph and i had dinner last night and started talking about what we wanted to do... we are thinking of going to visit clara in australia with maybe a stop over somewhere else beforehand. that means two countries during vacation... i could be perfectly okay with that! we will see.

so a few weeks ago i wrote a blogpost for my alma mater's alumni blog about my time abroad. i posted the link to facebook, but if you haven't checked it out, you should: 
http://pacificalumni.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-perspective-on-education.html

spring is finally here in korea... which also means my allergies are in full swing. this week they hit not only me but a lot of my friends as well. i wake up completely congested, have a continuous running nose, and sneeze constantly. i guess this is all worth it though because it is no longer freezing cold! and speaking of the doctors... i went back in to get my blood drawn to check on my anemia on wednesday... here's hoping i get good results next week. that means i won't have to deal with anymore needles or nurses who can't draw blood without bruising me. 

i guess this is a long enough update on my current life situation, plus i should probably get to lesson planning for next week. and my homework. and my to-do list. 

we have had the time of our lives, now the page is turned

i woke up this morning after a night out in seoul with all these thought running through my head and no way to sort them out individually. rather my mind just threw them all out there at once and i slowly had to sort through them and try to understand what i was thinking and how i was feeling about each thought. this seems to be something that my mind does around the same time every week. since i am so incredibly busy and always on the go during the week, i don't have idle time where my mind can process my thoughts. so rather it stores all my thoughts and concerns throughout the week and then either saturday or sunday morning when i am lying in bed debating whether or not i should get up or go back to sleep my mind explodes with all these thoughts. and i am left to clean up the mess that they leave behind. 

so i laid in bed for a while going through all these thoughts, many of them the same ones i have over and over again. after getting irritated with myself, i naturally logged onto my computer and went to facebook. while scrolling through my news feed i came across a status update by a friend i have here in korea, which was worded exactly how i was feeling. it said, "the mix of joy and sadness that i feel after parting ways with a beloved friend is always a hard pill for me to swallow. i will never have the strength to walk away without feeling that tug on my heart weighing me down. for this, i am glad, because it means i have not become cold and callous to this world yet". this is exactly what i needed to hear and it made the whole situation with said friend who i am not on speaking terms with at the moment a little bit easier. it helped me realize that no matter what happens, i am not going to be able to be the person that just drops it and doesn't care what happens. i am not that person, and wouldn't want to be. i want to be the person that cares and if that means getting hurt along the way, i would rather be hurt than not feel anything at all. along the lines of said friend, because i care, i naturally am always going to wonder why? why the instant and extended silent treatment after everything that has happened between us? what brought it on and is it ever going to end? and because i care, i also have to be aware that more than likely i won't get the answers i'm looking for and i need to somehow be okay with that. because i care i just want some sort of closure so i can stop worrying about it. but this is also something i will likely not get. 

naturally grad school is always on my mind. i feel like a lot of my free time and thoughts go into it. whether it's my discussion questions for the week or the assignment i have for the week. i know right now my classes are going to seem like they consume my life at times, but in the end it will be worth it. i will be done with school and holding a master's degree. which one would hope would help in the ever going job search. 

now that i am beginning my second year here in korea, and it's now april, the whole homesickness aspect of things i feel starting to creep up in my mind. as of now i haven't been home in 13 months, that is the longest i have lived outside of the united states ever and the longest i have been away from home. for me that is a big step. and there are times where i can feel it taking it's toll on me. i wake up missing my family, my friends and loved ones. there are days, like today, where i wake up and i feel like i am missing out on so many things at home. birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births etc. by being over here. but i have to remind myself that i am over here living my life to the fullest and pursuing a dream i had only once dreamed of. i am making memories that are going to last a lifetime. i am experiencing so many new things. i am getting to live the dream that so many people wish they could do. i am so grateful for the opportunities that i have been given over the past 13 months and i am looking forward to what the next 11 months are going to bring to me. 

the future is always another thought that lingers in my mind. i don't know how many times i have gotten the questions, "are you going to stay for another year after this?" "what are you going to do next?" "are you going back to the states?" etc etc etc. all the questions i hate getting. right now, i am living in the present, day by day and enjoying it. i have no idea where i am going to be and what i am going to be doing a year from now. i could be here in korea again, back in the states, in another country or a completely different part of the world. everything is up in the air as of now, and for the first time in a long time, i am perfectly okay with this. i can't plan my entire life right now, so there is no point in stressing about it. 

i do have a few ideas to think about though. i have thought of staying in korea for another year after this. which this is just the beginning of my 2nd year and there is plenty of time to change my mind, i can't help but thinking how much i enjoy it here. i could do plenty of research and find another job in another country. i could apply for jobs through the DODEA (department of defense education activity) and work in a school on one of the military bases around the world. (this is something i would KILL to have the opportunity to do. getting a job with the DOD would be AMAZING!) i have also thought about doing teach for america. i requested a bunch of information today. 

i just feel like i am destined for something so much bigger than moving back to oregon, finding a job there and settling for that. i don't want to settle. i want to be able to dream big and then go after my dreams full force. and while i do feel like i am missing out on what most of my other friends have, going the more traditional path of school, jobs, marriage and families, i wouldn't change what i have done or am doing for anything. while i do what to one day find love and have the love and family that i see my friends having, i want to be able to say i fulfilled my dreams as well. 


so for now, i will sleep and begin a new week with the ability to say that i still loving what i am doing.

wish i didn't have this heart, then i wouldn't know the sting of the rain

my mind is seriously all over the place right now, so this blog post is definitely going to be extremely random and have no significant order at all. we'll call it chaotic, which i feel like this is what my life has become. 

so my sleep schedule is completely screwed up right now. with as much as i was stressing about my gigantic homework assignment last week, i was up until god awful hours in the middle of the night plugging away on my computer. while i have slept a significant amount from thursday through last night, i don't think my body is fully caught up with what i lost during the stress. 

BUT.... i am officially done with class number 3 for grad school. which means i am 6 classes away from being done with my master's degree! :) which is extremely exciting. and also a little scary. i can't believe how fast time is going by. i am almost a month into my 2nd contract here in korea as well. crazy stuff. 

my itunes is being really shitty lately... it's seriously playing all the music that i could seriously do without. some of it i am not entirely sure why or even how it got into my itunes in the first place. and if my itunes or my ipod plays one more damn garth brooks song i am going to scream. it's like they are taunting me. good god. 

i actually had a social life this weekend... as opposed to not seeing anyone and spending a good portion of my saturday in the hospital like i did last weekend. yeesh! but saturday was spent sleeping in, or at least as much as my body would let me. for some god awful reason my body naturally wakes up at 7am on the weekend. it's 5:45am during the week, even though i don't have to be up till like 6:30 or so. so after i got up and got ready for the day, i did some necessary retail therapy with roooooooommate. forever21 and H&M like always. scored a cute polka dot tank, a really pretty teal cardigan, 4 pairs of earrings and a set of bangles from forever21. i found an adorable pink lace dress and a teal shirt from H&M. i wish more of the dresses that i tried on fit me, but because i have curves, a butt and boobs, this was not the case this time around. after heading back home, i grabbed dinner and drinks with laura and company. today was spent in itaewon for brunch. as usual. an excellent tradition that has been started. i could get used to it. after brunch we went to what the book and went book hunting... and i actually walked out of there with nothing. shocking i know. then was the adventure to get tony a phone... oh good lord it took so long and the place was sooooooooooo hot. laura and i were dying. 

so i didn't do any homework this weekend, or the prep stuff i brought home from work to do either. and you know what... i'm perfectly okay with that. because i had a social life and it was wonderful. i feel like lately i have become somewhat of a hermit, which is understandable considering most of the time i am swamped with homework and/or work stuff. it helps in the saving of money area of things. cause i'm not going out on the weekend for drinks and staying out all night and i haven't gone shopping all that much lately cause i just don't have the free time. 

so my trip to the hospital last weekend was initiated by my doctor who did my health check a couple months ago. he noticed that my iron levels were low, which i have always known. i'm anemic, so much so that i can't give blood. well he wanted to check to see if my levels had evened out at all. so this required me to have copious amounts of blood drawn and get multiple tests ran. i hate needles. and nurses who don't know how to use them. and hospitals. blech! well turns out i got my results back and my iron levels have gotten even lower. lovely... just lovely. so he informed me i need to start taking iron supplements (which btw are extremely hard to find in korea) and i need to start eating food that is high in iron. which means more red meet and leafy dark greens. guess that means i will have to actually start buying meat here. which is hard when you cook for one person and don't have a working freezer. stupid landlord won't fix my current problem and won't replace it either. 

i also went to the dermatologist cause this stupid korea weather is screwing with my complexion. the stress probably doesn't help either, but i wish i could get it under control. i'm almost 25 freaking years old. i shouldn't have this crap anymore dammit! on the plus side, after my scaling of my face, i get a nice facial treatment. 

my parents sent out my packages on saturday my time. so hopefully i will have them in a week or so. which means i will get my new shoes i ordered from nordstrom, my jeans from AE and my other clothes from LOFT that i ordered online what feels like ages ago. and other things i requested from my parents. i'm excited. :)

we have gone 3 weeks without speaking now. which when i think about it, still upsets me. because this is me and for some ungodly reason i care about you. but i have moved into a stage of anger about it as well. i just don't understand it. so i'm going to continue not to say anything cause i know it's the right thing to do. even though my insides are screaming at me to say something. and i know that i can write this with full knowledge that you aren't actually going to read it.

listening to "cold as stone" by lady antebellum on repeat as i turn out the lights and call it a night. 

yeah it was perfect and i hold it in my mind

as i sit in the back of my classroom at my make-shift desk (because my actual office is freezing and the computer decides it doesn't want to work half the time) the cleaning girls come into the empty classroom and take it over cleaning. first with opening all the windows, sweeping the floors, mopping the floors, wiping down tables, cleaning the whiteboards and wiping down both my desk and my co-teacher, jungwha's desk. all while this is happening i sit here and still can't believe i decided to stay a second year in korea. 

i remember during my first year about half way through... i was talking to my friend jennie. she was getting excited to go back home to america after being in korea for almost a year. she asked me if i was staying another year and i remember telling her a definite "NO". i was so sure that i was going to leave korea at the end of my first contract and go back to america and be done with my experience of living abroad. but somewhere between august and december something changed. i don't know if it was that i was scared to go back to america when it's in such an economic crisis and with the presidential election looming over the countries heads. or if i was nervous to go back to america with no place to really call my own, no car, no job or income to pay my loans, and no real plan in mind. either way i told myself that i couldn't go back to the states. i wasn't ready to go back. 

after going through the hassle of moving my life from daewha to hwajeong, preparing all my documents for my new school i have situated myself into somewhat of a routine. my new apartment is set up differently from my other place. it's probably a tiny bit smaller, i have a smaller bed, but i have a couch now, i have less closet space which is actually fine cause it's just what i need, and i have a ton of storage space, like way more than i would ever need. *if i find the time, i will maybe make another video to show my new apartment* i take the bus to and from work everyday. i'm teaching 3rd, 5th and 6th grade, with two kindergarten classes on monday and two after school classes on tuesdays as well. this means the only grade i am not involved with at this school is the 4th grade. they keep me pretty busy.

on top of teaching i still have my grad school classes going on. as of now i am on my final week of my 3rd class. this means i only have 6 classes left until i am officially done with my program. which means 6 classes till i have my master's degree. so far it's been good, i've had a good time with it. and i've actually learned a few things along the way. my current class, Child and Young Adult Literature has actually been a lot of fun, except for the fact that i became the tech guru for my class. how I became the tech person i am not entirely sure, but i guess i'm not half bad when it comes to technology. on top of grad school i also have some extra stuff i have been working on. so between all of it, i keep myself pretty busy. and since i decided that this second year, i was going to be saving money/paying off some of my student loan debt, the extra workload comes with a nice extra pay increase that is helpful. i just hope i don't spread myself too thin or run myself into the ground in the process... 

as of now i have my trip home in august for a visit to look forward to. i had two other trips to look forward to as well; a long weekend trip to DC to visit a friend, but since we aren't really speaking as of now it looks as though that's out of the question.  and then there was the trip that my sister was supposed to take in june to come and see me. but she refuses to save her money and would rather visit her so called "boyfriend" than come and visit me. so after two failed attempts and planning things, i'm refusing to plan anything else, cause the way i see it, they aren't going to work out even if i want them too. 


as of now i'm just keeping myself busy. i'm looking forward to what this year is going to bring me.

 

one year ago...

the 28th of february marked my one-year anniversary of living here in korea. it feels like time has flown by. it doesn't feel like it's been a year. some mornings i wake up and it feels like the first day, other days it feels like i have been here for ages. no matter how long i have been here, i have enjoyed my time here. sure there have been ups and downs, hard times and easy times, times where i have been homesick for friends and family and familiarity, and other times where i don't want to go home. below are some of the things this past year has brought me. these aren't in any date or specific order... 

zip-lining. for someone who hates heights i have now done this and bungee-jumping while in korea

jennie and i completed ziplining!

we spent a weekend playing in the mud at mudfest 2011!

dani and i at the north seoul tower near the wall of locks.

our first weekend as rooooooommates in korea!

st. patrick's/dani's birthday weekend out in seoul.

school hikes with my co-teachers

a long weekend trip to jeju island!

iain visited and we headed to the DMZ

at the freedom bridge in between north and south korea

got to see sara bareilles live in concert in seoul!

adventured to thailand with stephanie for summer vacation!

water balloon fights!

jennie and i went to her co-teachers family reunion. this is supposed to be the yellow sea.

i've eaten plenty of traditional korean food...

plenty of girl's nights out in seoul!

winter camp meant plenty of time to play with my kids!

spent chuseok (korean thanksgiving) in busan at the beach!

Santa-con 2011 out in Hongdae!

adventured to indonesia for winter vacation. anything to get out of the freezing cold winter that is korea.

 i'm starting year number two working at a new school, living in a new apartment in a new city, and i'm ready for new adventures. this second year is all about saving though. i didn't do so well with that the 1st year. i have added to my debt with doing grad school instead of making it go down. in the end though it will be worth it cause i will have my master's degree and be done with school. 

so this year's goals: 
- save as much as i can
- pay down my loans at least a little 
- continue with grad school 
- actually work on my speaking/reading korean

here's to another year of amazingness... 

indonesia... part two

so it's been a few days, instead of hours, since i posted my first part about indonesia. so much has happened in those few days, but that's for another blog post to come later. er... i think it's been a week at least. oops... 

so we left off with dani and i in kuta and getting the hell out of there as fast as possible! we took a bus inland to ubud, which was my favorite part of bali definitely! once we finally got off the bus and actually to ubud we walked around for 30 mins or so looking for a room that was reasonably priced for a few nights. after going off the beaten path, i finally found a place for a us to stay. 

where we stayed for a few nights :) 

 while we were in ubud we were able to relax as we didn't have to be anywhere at anytime. pretty much perfect! there were a ton of little shops all around that were selling all these wonderful batik fabrics, little trinkets and so many other things. there was a giant market where the shop owners harassed us over and over to buy something from them. and let's not forget the food.... oh the food! 

while we were there, we finally got to enjoy some LEGIT mexican food. after living in korea for a year and not having access to mexican food on a regular basis. and what we do have access to is not the greatest mexican food at all. you can barely call it mexican food. so to have mexican food was very exciting! 

rooooommate at mojo's! 

MEXICAN FOOOOOOOD!

such a good burrito!

i could eat this everyday and be perfectly content

while we were in ubud we went to the monkey forest. let me start this off by saying... these monkey's are assholes! they steal peoples things; including sunglasses, camera, shoes, backpacks, etc. so you have to be pretty careful. we met up with nick and jessica and headed to the forest... 

he refused to let me take his picture...

it was so pretty here

 also while in ubud, dani and i went and saw some traditional balinese dancing. their outfits were absolutely amazing, their make up was over the top. when they were dancing their eyes were so intense... it was crazy! 

from ubud we flew down to java and stayed in surabaya. this is the area where dani lived while she was on fulbright in indonesia. we were able to go to her old school and see the teachers and some of her students there. we were also able to see the areas where she explored while she lived there.

one of the teachers. seriously reminded me of sharone

 while we were there we went to the taman safari. it is exactly what it sounds like... a safari with a ton of animals. these animals pretty much roam free around the land. so we had random animals coming up to our car ALLLL the time. zebras, camels, antelope, monkeys, emus... there is a part where you can walk around too and see the animals as well. we had an orangutan consistently throw rocks at us while we were walking around that area. i was also able to play with a baby tiger. and dani was able to play with an owl. 

just a zebra coming to say hello

just me playing with a baby tiger

he really wanted the carrots

these birds are sooooo ugly!

he would not stop throwing rocks at us

 after a few days in surabaya i bid indonesia farewell and headed back to the freezing land that is korea. i was on the plane in shorts, a t-shirt and flip flops. needless to say i was freezing when i got to korea and it was SNOWING! but i did capture this awesome sunset. 

 

now that i'm back, i have moved and started at my new school. so far so good... we will see how things go.