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(Hello!)
Sorry for my delay in updates, I'm not very good at this!! Life here continues to amaze me. I love my students, they are amazing. They are doing so well. One on my students Ihan, probably the smartest of all of them is heading to Canada tomorrow... I hate to admit that I'm slightly jealous of him! I told him, you're going to be REALLY close to Lindsey Teacher's home!! If only I could tag along for a quick visit!
On Easter Sunday, Jackie and I went to the largest cathedral in Korea in this area called Myeongdong. It was beautiful! The priest was Scottish, we think. It was a very traditional mass, and the inside of the church was so nice to enjoy! After, we treated ourselves to a Burger King lunch, I guess they don't do breakfast here. That was always half of the enjoyment of getting up to go to early mass... the hearty breakfast that would follow! :) After that, we spent some of our hard earned money shopping at H&M which is a bit overpriced, but understandable since it's the only one in Korea! After that, we headed to the N. Seoul Tower which overlooks the entire city. It is just amazing how the city keeps going and going. It reminds me a lot of Mexico City. But here there are apartment buildings galore. It was a beautiful day so we enjoyed it a lot!
The weeks are very redundant... we really look forward to Fridays! But, I guess that is the same with any old full time job, so I look forward to the things that really make this all worth it! I only have 3 months and 19 days left until I head to Thailand. If you're wondering, that is July 31st :) Jackie and I are still in the process of planning a trip to China, it should be amazing. We have been celebrating birthday's here... we have quite a few in a row coming up here. And then Jackie and my birthdays are not until December 30 and January 7... so we'll be gone on vacation somewhere for Jackie's, and then we'll celebrate in Seoul on my birthday weekend! We're thinking either the Philippines or Malaysia for that vacation, we're in the research process now!!
Speaking of birthdays, it was Hayley's, one of our co-workers this past weekend. They went to a LG Twins game, and I'm sad to say I missed it because I was a little under the weather, but the following day, we went.. BUNGEE JUMPING! It was so crazy. I really don't know if I'll ever do that again. It was 45 meters, so about 150 feet. The falling was very intense, and my stomach was in knots... but I'm glad I've experienced it at least! I couldn't sleep last night because I kept reliving that jump.. it was very terrifying! But I finally got to sleep after thinking about everything else in the book!
This week we have a field trip. We're going to an art museum. The 6 year olds are doing clay art I believe... at least that's what we think. I'll update after I go to confirm whether we were right or not!
We're going to try to go to Yongsan Park which is full of cherry blossoms. I hope they start to blossom this week- things are getting there. I guess it's very late this year, but they had a very harsh winter. Hopefully some wonderful pictures will be coming!
That is pretty much all I have for now- I will really try to get better at making updates!!
With love from around the world,
Lindsey
