Oh Blog, How Long it's Been

I keep meaning to post on here, but each time I think about it, I realize how much I haven't posted and it seems an insurmountable amount of work to chronicle my experiences from the last 7.5 months.  So I've made a decision.  Here is my summary:

It is awesome.  I love Korea.

So here we are in April.  We're coming out of a long cold winter and I'm excited to get out and explore more of Korea.  I went up to Seoul last weekend and met up with Gregg, which was fun, and saw The Vagina Monologues, which was really interesting since there were both English and Korean presenters.  It was a much less cheerful show then the version I went to in University.

Alright, some things you should know about my current relationship with Korea:

I'm studying Korean.  Not as much as I should, but I just signed up for another class (20 1.5 hour classes for 5k won, yes please) in an effort to make myself make time to study.  This comes as a large disappointment to my friends that I usually meet on Tues. night, as the class is Tues/Thurs.  Sorry guys, I promise to skip once in a while!

I'm in a Yoga class where I am not only the only guy, but the only white foreigner.  There are some Chinese girls in the class though, but their Korean is much better than mine.  That said, the class is awesomely fun because of the language barriers.  The teacher and some classmates are helping me pick up yoga terms and I am teaching them the English versions.  It works out well.

I haven't been climbing since Oct. or Nov., but the weather is getting nice so hopefully I'll get to start again soon.

Korean dramas have grabbed me like a rottweiler going for the kill.  There will shortly be a post about that.  No really, I'm going to do a whole media post as soon as I finish this one.

I miss having a dog.

The food here is mostly amazing.  Too much fish, but as a trade off most of the rest is fantastic.  You can find dog here, but I have yet to see somewhere you could get it in Daejeon if you wanted to, so it isn't nearly as common as the stereotype would have you believe.

I went to Thailand over winter break, there are already pictures up and linked in a post below.

My new students are overall pretty good.  Some of my 3rd grade boys classes are a pain in the ass, but they are balanced out by the girls and the entire 1st grade.  The 1st graders show me why people would like teaching Elementary school.


That's all I can think of at the moment, quite possibly because I can't think about much besides the drama I just finished, so I'm going to go work on that media post.