for my mommy back in miguk

...an update!  Some pictures of the last few weeks of my life:

I spent the first week of October in the historic city of Gyeongju with fellow etas for a conference

The second weekend of October, I went to Seoul to sing at a 60th Anniversary dinner with some of my friends.  Then I turned old, so my host family bought me a cake!

The third week of October, I had some days off from school.  So my friend Debs and I hit up Busan (and the beach!) for the international film festival.

The fourth weekend of October, I FINALLY got to visit Sandangsanseong, a famous fortress in my city!

The last weekend of October is Halloween!
I've prepped some exciting Halloween lessons for this week and bought candy for my 700 girls.  Should be a good time...

Up next: November!

Love you, mom <3

Rhythm and Seoul

So I finally went to Seoul for the first time in two years this past weekend, and it was amazing.  I went with a super fun group of people from my program, and we basically did a lot of the awesome Seoul things that I remember and love.  We ate street vendor food, club hopped, danced, drank soju in the streets because we could, ate tolsot bibimbap (one of my favorites), had kwaeelsu (fruit with ice cream and shaved ice--a very popular dessert), went shopping in Myeongdong, visited the Cheonggyecheon stream, navigated the subway system and indulged in cheap taxis on various occasions, had jahjangmyan (a chinese black bean noodle dish that's awesome), stayed up til the sun came up, slept at a hostel, and had a blast.  It was everything I wanted out of my weekend, really.  But now I'm back taking classes and going to workshops again, and I'm tired.  It's started to grow slightly stale, this schedule of ours.  I'm looking forward to what's next...