Nicole's Adventures

  20 Apr The last few months I have spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not I will stay in Korea another year as contract renewal is upon us very soon. Or at least a verbal commitment followed by signing of the contract about a month later.   At this point I think I want to move schools. Some of my friends are leaving so I would request to take their position. They are closer to downtown, and are in a really nice neighborhood with lots of foreigners and near the University.  Anyways here is the list. If you have any guidance or ideas about what I write here, please feel free to advise! Why Korea is Great and I should stay.  Friends in Korea .  I know it’s not the same as my friends that I grew up with back at home. but my friends here who are in the same situation, similar type of adventurous people, and people who are always up for anything, are a blast to be around. They have really made my time here fly by. Bond...

  Springy Spring!        16 Apr Last weekend we had a nice adventure trying to get to Seoul! I’ve never had a problem getting a bus ticket on a Friday night but I usually go earlier then when we went  because it takes Nichole a bit to get home from school in the mountains.  I wanted to just hop on a bus from the express bus terminal and go from there. It takes us much closer to Shane’s house than the other bus terminal. Marlene had come from Gyeongju to meet us and taken the bus in Pohang to switch bus terminals! We got there and tickets were sold out until 9. So we rush back to the other bus terminal to find their tickets are sold out until 9 as well. I whip out my phone and try and figure out if there are KTX tickets available. There are. So we hop on a bus to get to the KTX station. I asked the driver several times before sitting down because we were in a rush. Each time I asked he said yes, Gyeongju KTX.. We get about 5 minutes down th...

  Weekend!         6 Apr  I feel like I haven’t stopped running since last Friday when I sat down and wrote last week.. I can’t wait until next weekend to sleep in! Last Friday afterschool I went to the bus terminal to pick up Lucy. From there we headed downtown to hang out with a few friends then got dinner at a little Italian place. I had this cheesy bacon risotto thing which was delicious! After that we met up with Michael to go Salsa dancing, I wanted to catch up since I had missed class the week before. However it was a salsa party soo they were doing some other kind of beat and really didn’t get a ton of practice but Lucy had fun trying to dance and laughing. After that we all went and got some coffee then headed back to get some sleep. As soon as we got up Sat we headed to Ulsan to meet Lucy’s friend from her Phillipines trip named Janna. She was such a sweetheart and we had a delicious lunch. Afterwards Lucy & and wandered around Ulsan...