Well I assume most people are getting as bored of reading this as I am getting sick of writing this. I looked at my calendar from the date of which I wrote last and I can't even remember what I did! Pathetic... But as hopefully there a few people still interested and for my own recordkeeping, here goes another blog!
June finished off with nothing special... It was my co-worker Alex's birthday on June 21st so we went out the following weekend for his birthday. The weekend after that we thought it might be our last nice weekend for a while so we went out to Hongdae which is my favorite place in Seoul and stayed out way too late... like 7 in the morning late. Needless to say it wasn't a productive Sunday! Anways... on to July!
First off, I was nervous for July because of the dreaded "rainy season". I actually read today that Korea has been having the worst drought in 104 years! I know the midwest was/is experiencing a similar heatwave but luckily our temperatures never spiked, just the lack of rain was concerning for all the crops and what not, all that stuff affected by rain I suppose! Anyways, July was supposed to be the month it all went downhill. Last year I guess the rainy season lasted 8 weeks which is really unnatural, but still, I was mentally preparing to be holed up inside my apartment for 4 weeks straight reading movies and eating candy. So far though, it's been a pleasant surprise and it's only REALLY rained once, last Friday. It was a thunderstorm and it started Thursday night and went into Friday morning. After only one day, the little river I usually run by was already flowing over onto the running paths which was kind of fun to see. The river runs below the main roads so the roads were fine (it's kind of hard to explain). Anyway, that's been about it and that was last Thursday. It sprinkled another day but nothing concerning. This past weekend (July 7th-8th) was actually the nicest we've had in a really long time and the sky almost looked normal blue! woo hoo! It is supposed to start raining again tomorrow, Wednesday, and go through the rest of the week but we'll see how right the weather people are this time!
On a plus side of the rainy season, every year they have a mud festival in one of the cities on the West coast called Boryeong. If anyone feels the need to read about that further...
http://www.mudfestival.or.kr/english/festival/festival1.php
They actually make the mud or import it or something... so it really has nothing to do with the rainy season but still, it's a plus!
My other plans during the rainy season have been less successful.
What I have done so far in July...
1. Finalize plans for Thailand with Molly! The most important of all
2. Read The Lord of the Rings book 1 and almost finished book 2. (I figured it was time to discover what the hype was all about... it is really good)
3. Watched the movie, The Fellowship of the Ring (book 1) which was not nearly as good as the book but oh well
4. Christine, Rachel, and I finished all the Sex and the City seasons which we started 2 months or so ago! It's only the 3rd time I've seen the show all the way through but it never gets old.. We're watching the movie tomorrow night.
5. Cleaned my apartment and packed up a lot of stuff I'll never need again while I'm here.
I'd say this is successful...
What I haven't done that is on my list..
1. Look for a job.
2. Look for a job.
3. Look for a job.
You get the idea...
Otherwise, the last 2 months are going extremely fast already. A lot of my parents have already written my notes about how they don't want me to leave and one even asked twice already if I will come back to Korea... It makes me feel almost guilty for leaving but not enough to stay! I'm trying to take it all in the best I can before I leave and get closer to my kids, especially my kindergarten. I will upload the video but for Molly's birthday I had them sing happy birthday so I could send it to her. I explained to my kids that it was my sister's birthday and some of them gave me pictures to give to her "this is Meghan Teacher sister present"... of course they were scribbles on pieces of paper but they are so kind and generous already at age 6! I will be so sad to leave them.
Oh and I almost forgot, this past weekend, I went to a dog cafe!! It's a place where 20 dogs live at the cafe but people can also bring in their own dogs. It was very strange and I know this could never happen in America because you'd have to show the medical records of your dogs and all that and people would get bitten and freak out probably. None of that happened here and I got to see some normal size dogs again! They have workers there just walking around keeping it under control and cleaning up after the dogs. There were a couple labs there but they were SO fat! You can buy treats to give to the dogs and they definitely had too many! At least they're happy...
Off to bed!
See you in 49 days Minnesota!
Love, Meghan
