Picture Post!

 

Picture Post!   Posted by Nicole in December 5, 2011

I have deprived you all of pictures for quite some time.. Unless you are up to date with my facebook uploads. Been having some trouble with my internet at home.  It’s been too slow, or this website has been freaking out. Hopefully I can get you some visuals of my life lately!

L.: The girls in some cool picnic ish thingy in a park in Lucy’s town of Yeongyang. Up in the mountains in my province.

R: Part of our Gyeongju Bicycle Tour at Bunghwasa Temple.

  

L: Enjoying the fall leaves at Anjapi Pond, also on our Gyeongju Bike Tour.   R:  Probably still my favorite weekend in Korea so far at the Soju & Rice Cake festival in Gyeongju. Cheers!

.

L:  Before heading out the night before the Soju & Rice Cake Fest with my wonderful hosts in Gyeongju.        R:  With my korean friends at the Busan International Fireworks Festival and the cake that they got for me!

  

L:  The surprise birthday party my co workers threw for me! Cake, pizza, coke, presents! All while skyping with my mom! From left to right, 5th Grade Korean English Teacher, School Admin/Secretary/PTA/I’m not sure.. some teachers wife and the girl in the picture’s mom, Eunjeong (my main co teacher), the art teacher, and the man who played the Korean birthday song to me is a 5th grade teacher they call flying squirrel because of his volleyball skills.                        R:  Michael & I at Thanksgiving Dinner at Tilt.

   

L:  The crew bowling in Daegu after our 3rd paycheck party! From left is Barrington & Stephanhie (from Indiana, Steph went to Fort Lewis, in Durango) Marlene (South African), Lucy (England) Heather (Canadian) me, and David ( Ohio/Tennesse)

R:  Marlene and I soo happy for Costco/western style pizza, deliciousness and I’m very excited to show her COSTCO!!

I hope you feel a little more updated and can put pictures to the stories you’ve read now! I had a great chilled, money saving weekend! On Friday night, a few friends from pohang came to Heunghae for our little Heunghae party. It was like pulling teeth to get people to come out here but the 4 of us who live here really wanted to have people come and see what it’s like up here and how lucky they are to live in the city.. and feel our pain on the bus a bit. It was raining cats and dogs but that didn’t get our spirits down! We first hung out at Andrews apartment across the street from me. Then we headed to a chicken resturaurant where we hung out, chatted, had some laughs and drank. Then we headed to the Makoli bar (rice wine) where the place was absolutely full then a group of 10 foreigners came and people ran! Literally, we emptied out the entire restaurant except for one table. One of the guys at that table said he would pay for our entire bill! We then had a great time with the restaurant owners. The woman kept pouring us more and more makoli. Then she kept saying how beautiful Liandi and I were. Then she wanted to keep hugging and kissing my cheek, it was pretty funny. Michael has pictures of the night so I will have to get them from him but either way was a great night and was so happy to not need to take a taxi home!

Saturday slept in, made some breakfast, eggs, bacon, toast, went to the gym, watched Friends with Benefits which I found pretty funny, then ordered some pizza for dinner. IT was really really good! Sunday I went skating finally ! It was about 5 bucks to taxi there, then 4.50 to skate. Unfortunately it was pretty crowded and more then half the ice rink is coned off for the speed skating lessons. The ice was super choppy. So it was dodging people, everyone staring, and trying to find space to do anything. Oh yeah, then everyone wanting to talk to me.  So not only had I not really skated skated, tried to do anything for 4 months, everyone and their mom in that ice rink was staring. People kept saying i’m the American Kim Yuna. It was really pretty funny, so I realized that even if I did mess up or I felt like my spin looked terrible they were still in oooh and ahh over it. lol  I’ll definitely go again but maybe first thing when they open so the ice is  better and maybe not so crowded on a sunday since people will be at church and stuff. After that went to Bukbu beach to plan out the Taekwondo Class with PIC (pohang international community) We needed to plan a date, a price, and time to start learning taekwondo! That will start next Monday evening one hour once a week, then more practicing at home!

I’ve been spending a lot of time doing research about whether or not I need a visa to leave the airport in Guangzhou on my stopover on my way to Australia. I’ve gotten mixed signals and am a little confused, so will have to figure out someone with good knowledge to ask ! I’m really hoping I don’t. A visa to visit China is about 200 bucks!! But if I do get the visa i’ll make sure to make another trip their, for a long weekend or something like that. Flights are about 2 hours from Busan, which is only 1.5 hours away instead of Seoul which is 5 hours away.

I tried going to the gym today, but my stomach was soo hungry from not bringing enough food for lunch I could barely do anything. Came home, made some soup, chopped up some fruit and am now a happy camper! I may go back later tonight after I digest or just relax and let my lost skating muscles a break for the evening!

hope you enjoy the pictures, i’ll try to bet better about updating them when I write, but life gets in the way sometimes!

<3 xoxo

Nicole