Much love,
For those of you who don't know what 6:01 is, my sincerest condolences to you that were not able to attend both the happiest and the greatest college in America. For those of you that do know, I am sure you will sympathize with me and the plight I faced whilst enduring my first ever "alone" 6:01. My definition of alone being that there were no other CMCer's present. The last time I spent 6:01 away from campus, also in korea, I had my dearest friend Ju-young at my side to revel in festivities with. more specifically, we went to a convenience store and drank and wore bro-tanks. It was a glorious occasion. This year, I spent the day hiking with my good friend Claire, who also happens to be a Hoosier. We got to see some of the best sites that Seogwipo has to offer and finished our 7 mile + hike at the world cup stadium outside of seogwipo (technically in "new" seogwipo). World Cup stadium was built for the 2002 World Cup held jointly between South Korea and Japan. The stadium has seen better days, but it is still a site to behold. It is a behemoth of a stadium, which means that even on the best attended games it looks kinda empty. Next to the stadium is the most "western" store on this side of the island, thus for dinner I had pizza, sushi, and beer. It was a glorious 6:01 and a rousing game- we won 6-2 I believe. Even though I missed CMC and all my five-C friends terribly this week, I can't really complain about my life here on the island. Much love,
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I had a wonderful Chusok with my host family, but this time instead of telling you about it I'm going to let you see through my eyes what the holiday was all about. Much love, Emsloth
On Sunday I had one of the longest days of my life I swear, Actually it wasn't that bad but I have become a huge wuss about sleeping. I wake up for school everyday at 6:50 (can you believe it Big Cat???) which means that I almost always go to bed before midnight. I love going to be early. My bed is calling to me, even though I'm not incredibly tired. There just isn't a whole lot to do late at night on school nights besides hang out with my host siblings so I usually do that for a while before I decide that sleeping is better than watching a Korean drama that I can only understand 50% of. Sunday started with a trip to the ocean. I was pretty nervous going into this trip because when they described where they were going they described rocks and fish and fishing. Now I didn't grow up near the ocean, I grew up on a lake and so when someone says rocks and fish and fishing I get a little scared thinking about how non-conducive that sounds to swimming. However, when we got to the ocean, it quickly became apparent that this was a snorkeling expedition! They even brought equipment for me! It was so cute. My host mom isn't a great swimmer so she mostly stayed near the rocks collecting snails to eat. Host dad snorkeled with me for a while then moved on to fishing. My host siblings snorkeled for a while too, but complained that the water was "too cold" and moved on to catching snails/crabs. I had a wonderful time swimming to my hearts content and seeing some beautiful plant and fish life. It had nothing on the snorkeling I did in Hawaii, but it was pretty awesome. After snorkeling, we went home to shower and then we were back on the road to Jeju-si in no time flat. I wasn't really sure what we were doing there but when I tried to ask, I got zilch. The trip turned out to be to a military festival? We followed that by a walk around Jeju-si and then a samgyupsal dinner. I thought it would end there, but after dinner we headed to someones house for fruit, octopus and wine. We finally got home around 12:30, and boy was the next morning struggle bus. This upcoming weekend/week is Chusok (korean thanksgiving) so I will be heading to Wimi to visit the host-family's family. Catch you on the flip side. Much love, Emsloth. Today was my first day teaching at Seogwipo Girls Middle School (from here on out I will abbreviate this to SGMS) and it went great! I have a desk in the teachers office with a computer but I also have a classroom with two computers and projector. I feel so blessed. When I contacted the past ETA at SGMS she definitely under sold how awesome this school is. They have a smartboard! and all 10 seasons of friends! and the whole Harry Potter series! It is magical. The only downside is that the school faces the mountain instead of the sea, but there is a tangerine orchard outside my classroom and a refreshing wind. Today is the first nice day since I got to Jeju though so I haven't gotten to see the ocean yet. However it was very clear around Hallasan so you win some you lose some. The office dynamic is pretty hilarious...I haven't had anyone try to tell me "rules"...I am currently typing this at my school computer and from my vantage point the vice principal is totes sleeping. I'm not positive but I think my homestay has wifi...I have connected automatically to it a couple times but no one has outright said anything to me about it. I have four (yes four!) homestay sibs and boy are they cute. The oldest is named yoon-jin and the second oldest is yun-jin. Needless to say, I am still working on getting their names right. The youngest daughter is named So-min and she is in fifth grade. The youngest, a boy, is named hyun-jin, and he is soooooo cute. Don't worry, I will upload photos soon. In other news, Chusok is coming up (yayyyy family time + days off) and my host family has already hopped on the Chusok train so this should be fun! |
Author안녕! I'm Emmy and this is my blog detailing my life in Korea with Fulbright mainly through pictures. Feel free to contact me on my about page. TTFN Archives
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