yes, you can have whatever you like.

So a few friends and I decided to spend Christmas and New Years in Thailand and Cambodia. We went to an island called Koh Chang for 5 days and Cambodia for 3 days. It was a whirlwind of a trip, with a lot of laughing, singing, swimming, scooting, loving us.

A few pictures to describe the trip....

A little blessing...

So, me and Charissa, one of the 8 over here decided to surprise the rest of the girls and give them a little Christmas present. We contacted all their families and had them send us notes and traditions they do at home for Christmas. Since, most of the girls did not go home for Christmas it was a good surprise for them all. We sat them down one Sunday after church, after feeding their bodies with bread and wine and we surprised them with our gifts and the letters from home.
Tears were shed
Laughter was spread
Love was all around.

I do love my friends, and am so so blessed.

Typical weekend.

Typical weekend:
spend the night at one of the girls' apartments friday night along with everyone else... This usually means 2 girls in a twin size bed and 5 or 6 on the floor with a few blankets. After a restless night sleep, its off to Butterfingers for a delicious breakfast. Love to just be with eachother, laughing, smiling, praying, eating, drinking, just being us.
One weekend in December a few of us decided us to go to Namsan tower, one of the most popular towers in Seoul. A few flying people made out of wire and random names and drawings are quite common in Korea. At the top of the tower there are a bunch of windows with different locations written to show the directions specific countries are in.
Below the tower is a chain fence covered in locks. These locks have been placed here by couples or families or just people that love each other and want to express how much they care. The locks are locked to the fence and the keys are thrown somewhere so no one can open the lock; therefore their love is secured. Always and forever. So we decided to take a few minutes and walk around and try to find the ones written in English. There were a few, but we had fun trying to find them. Interesting tradition in Korea, only in Korea. But I love it.

work. love it. (sometimes)

There are times (few and far inbetween) when I do enjoy working where I do; at Yeollim Language School. Yesterday my boss told me that becuase the Elementary students have a big test they are studying for, that I don't work till 7 and will finish at 10. I am only teaching 1 class- a middle school class and studying with one of the other teachers. So, only going to work 3 hours, absolutely love it. Spent the day listening to Christmas music, hanging out at a coffee shop, spending time with God and some of my favorite girls, and loving life in Korea!

mmmmmm.so good

Yesterday after church, my friends and I decided to go to a restaurant and have a little taste of home. It was called California burger. It was so good, just like In n Out. I mean probably not, but not having a burger for 3 months it tasted pretty darn good. There was American "hip-hop" playing with pictures of American related things all on the walls. Many of the pictures were of the best baseball team-the Yankees, with a few posters of the Boston Red Sox back in the corner (where they belong-right Dad? ahaha). But the burger was so good to my soul, with french fries and real ketchup. Couldn't have asked for a better meal on a freezing cold, rainy day in South Korea.

Top of the Mountain

One weekend, the weather was beautiful so we decided to go to one of the larger mountains in Korea, Bukhan mountain. It was gorgeous, and the Koreans thought so too because there were hundreds of people on the trails. Come to find out, Korean people are adamant bout their hiking. They are rather intense about it to, its quite funny. So all of us split up and thought we were all going the same direction. Leave it to me to get lost on a mountain. Me and one of my dearly beloveds, kept going all the way to the top (the others stayed behind). It was beautiful and what better way to celebate being at the top than with coffee, kimbop and machali. Charissa and I reached the top and we were the only foreigners up there- everyone was shocked. Their reactions were quite funny, so we had peope giving us stuff left and right (such as the coffee and machali-a rice wine drink) and wanting to take pictures with us.It was a victorious day-making it to the top and getting treated like royalty for no apparent reason. Loved it, love Korea.

Korean Folk Village

What else to do but to go to a local Korean Folk Village. Why not? So, thats exactly what we did. My friends, Kelly, Tayla, Mindy, Kels decided one Friday monring to go visit this cherished place. It was quite interesting. The colors were absolutely beautiful, we picked the best weekend to go. It was gettin coler so the colors were perfect-yes just perfect. We walked around, enjoyed the lovely buildings, colors, random statues, signs in English spelled wrong-absolutely loved it! We then went and saw a performance done by the Korean nationals. It was petty cool. They are rather talented little fellows. Then this older guy did his own little gig on a tightrope. We were all rather impressed! All in all, it was a good day at the village.