New and Improved...

Heyyyyy!!!

Ok so I'm really excited cause I'm sure you all noticed how weirdly arranged/formatted my blog was. So tonight I had a bunch of free time and figured it all out....wooooo!!!

Here's the deal...When I make video blogs now you can just click on the videos on the right of my page. As you can see, it shows my YouTube channel so you can watch videos without having to leave my blog...cool right???

And I promise you I will organize all my pictures and videos better now :)

The videos I uploaded tonight were not recorded in Korea obviously, but they are some old videos I found on my computer and decided to upload cause I was bored...so yea, I hope you enjoy them. One of them is when I visited wonderful Danny in Florida, one is of him singing in the music school at Catholic University, and one is of my 10th grade students from last year dancing in my classroom in D.C. Wow, it looks like I'm obsessed with Dan with all these videos I'm adding but he makes me laugh and I'm sure he will make you all laugh too...

Nothing too exciting going on here...this week I decided to fuse my Social Studies teaching into my classroom so I gave an English/Geography/map lesson thingy. I thought it was gonna bomb because I prepared it Monday morning right before class but they actually liked it a lot. And they thought the "Fifty Nifty United States" song I showed them was hilarious...or I think they were just laughing at me cause I was dancing and being all spastic to entertain them during the song. Oh, and it was really funny because I had them label a map of Korea and they were LIVID to see the map said Sea of Japan (which is right) and not Sea of Korea...it was hysterical cause in their accents they were like "Noooooooo Ms. Costello it is KOREA...SEA OF KOREA!!! NO SEA JAPAN...NO SEA JAPAN".So I had to explain that they map is actually right but I understand their issue...soooo I added another map with East Sea under Sea of Japan cause both of those names are used on the world map. Although, they still had a problem with this so I said they could cross out Sea of Japan and write SEA OF KOREA in big letters. Seriously, after hearing this they were extremely relieved and I wanted to laugh so bad...Koreans sometimes get very upset about certain things associated with their country because so much as been taken from them over the years. Anyways, the point of my story is that it was really cute to see them so committed to making sure the map was "right"...

Ummmm besides that I had a really fun weekend...nothing too different, just going out for people's bdays etc. but it was a ton of fun but I'm completely drained now. Although, I did go for a run in Olympic Park yesterday which was reallllllly pretty...however, I'm sure I breathed in massive amounts of pollution cause of all the smog...mmmm delicious. But yea, I wanna work out more so I will be going a lot more...or at least thats the plan, we'll see if I actually stick to it cause Maureen and working out without being forced to at tennis practice doesn't always work at times. Hopefully I will break this pattern though??? Not playing tennis on a daily basis now is really getting to me and now I realize how much I miss hitting ever day and how it kept me in good shape...ahhhh I NEED to find someone to hit with ASAP!!!

Going to Everland (the amusment park like Six Flags) again this weekend with some friends...it's decorated like Halloween which is AMAZING cause well yea, Halloween makes me happy and makes me think about home (well, mainly fun college Halloween times...B spears anyone???)

Ok...here are a few pics...wow this was a long post, sorry if it was boring :(

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xoxoxoxo Reen
Biking through Olympic Park. It's only a ten minute walk from my house which is AMAZING to have such a great area so close by!!! it's super relaxing.
Trying to lock my door with the key tied to my shoe...
clearly it was a disaster and I fell as usual...look at my legs, I swear I have no idea how I haven't broken more bones the way my body bends so bizarrely when I fall...although I guess I'm not that lucky since I did break my back...idiot Roller blading competition in Olympic Park...highly amusing. The Koreans get extremely into their hobbies here...

Probably the funniest kid I've met in Korea

Typical hour long subway ride...at least we had seats this time since usually its too packed to sit down for the whole hour +

Mom and Grandma...that's Richie.

Some random Koreans ...
Olympic Park
There was a wedding...the bride was really pretty except that she had HUGE WHITE PLATFORMS on...ummmmm ok????