I feel as though so far this blog is giving off the wrong impression. I like to rant when I'm upset so I've written some negative blogs, and I'm glad I did because the ranting really helped me get the steam off my chest. Koreans are different from North Americans and this is both frustrating and wonderful all at the same time.
That being said, I realized that the blog wasn't reflecting how in love I really am with Korea and my life here. So because of that this blog will list my 10 favourite things about Korea in no particular order.
1. Being on the Yang Dong Elementary School volleyball team. "Yong Dang, Yong Dang OOOEEE!!" My teammates are all men with exception of another female teacher, and they are all super encouraging and fun to play with. We practice every Wednesday during work hours =) and play a game against another school every other week. Not to mention my V-ball skills are improving.
2. My coteacher has become much more than just a coworker. She is such an amazing person. She is giving, light hearted and best of all a slaker like me!!! hahah we're a match made in heaven. We watch "Nopo De Anja" (Korean mini series) during work hours (shhh don't tell my principal lol) and oogle over the F4 boys hahah. If I ask her about something once, she makes it her life mission to make sure I get the answer or I get my problem solved, no matter how big or small that problem may be. She has told me I'm her little sister and having her here is really like having family.
3. Meeting all my international friends. Not only have I made awesome Korean friends, but I have a great group of friends from the states and different parts of Canada that have insantly become like family as well.
4. On a similar note, I love having a sense of community and belonging to a specific group where I really feel I belong. I never really had that in Canada. In high school I was the one brown girl who wasn't a part of the Youth of South Asia club and nor did I ever reject my Indian culture. So I've always felt somewhat inbetween. But here there is a huge group of people who are just like me. They are black, white, yellow or brown and are interested in taking in and experiencing many different cultures. I think that's why we have made lasting friendships so easily and quickly.
5. Fried MANDU!!!! Need I say more?
6. Random moments. This is something Flav and I achieved the summer of '06. However, it was short lived. Here in Korea, I'm crazy. I try everything once and sometimes twice. I make random friends, and I literally go where the wind takes me. It's the me I always wanted to be.
7. I am always on the go, whether its out to dinner or off to another city to explore, my schedule is packed of fun goodness.
8. Let's face it, this is a year long vacation. I don't really do any work. =)
9. GOD I LOOOOVE THE CLOTHES!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE SHOES!!!!!
10. The BEAUTIFUL scenery I see EVERYDAY. From cherry blossoms to the beach to the lights of Gwangan Bridge, my eyes are spoiled rotten, there is beauty all around me!!!
BONUS: Everyone here thinks I'm beautiful, mainly because I have a small face and big eyes. It is beyond flattering to be stopped in the streets and told you are beautiful on a daily basis. hahah Foreigners are celebrities here.....it's going to suck to go back to North America and get used to being a nobody again lol.
Well I love my life....and boy do I feel blessed =)
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you forgot #0... Wally
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