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.

Happy Suwon

So despite not being too fond of where I live, becuase it is quite far from my oh so lovely other 7 beings, I live in a quite beautiful little place.

I live in Suwon, on the outskirts. Its on the border of Suwon and Ui Wang. Yep, try pronouncing them. ahhaha.

My scooter is also named "Happy Suwon" to be reminded that I am happy to live in Suwon. Enjoy.

Halloween

So, a little behind, but better late than never right? As they say!

So, the 8 of us girls (the typical group) decided to go and visit our friends in Taebek for Halloween. Taebek is about 2 hours away Southeast of us. We rented a van and had our fellow friend, Rueben be in charge and started out trek. It was an uneventfu trek, praise God, but my was it beautiful. The colors were out of control beautiful. We got to the little town of Taebak, and low and behold it was just like a Grass Valley, but a little Korean style. Our friends had rented a condo on top of hte mountain that overlooked the town and it was absolutely beautiful. It was quite cold, but so worth it! So, we celebrated Halloween in that small town with a few good amigos, some good music, good food and drinks. It was a good Halloween. The next morning we woke up, had amazing apple dumplings made by our very own Simon. We went for a small hike, bout 3 miles, so worth it, quite cold but we survived. (it ended up snowing later that day). But it was such a good weekend, to enjoy with the best people here and away from the city. Loved it.