Hello!!!!!! Spring has arrived...and thank goodness!!! winter was starting to make me go insane...butttt it's over yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!! can you tell im excited??? ahhh i have so much to write about so bear with me...but, if you don't have much time, look over to my YouTube toolbar on the side and click on the second video down and it's a video blog i made with pictures, me explaining, videos ive taken etc. sooooo if you are too lazy to read this but still want a little update then go there :)
Ok, so first things first! The main reason I have not updated in like the longest time ever is totally cause of my new work schedule. Korea's school year is the opposite of America so the school year starts March 1. Andddd with the school year I am now teaching 28 classes a week with an average class size of 43! so yea, i see about 250 students + a day.....controlling and teaching that many 13-15 year olds has definitely taken its toll. But, I love my students (they are the ones that get me through rough days lost in translation with my co-workers) so its not that bad, just veryyyy busy and tiring!!! butttt enough about work...
Johnny came to visit me the second weekend in March and we had SUCH A GOOD TIME!! it was so nice to have a person come to korea and see my life!! He came in between visiting my dad in India so we only had three days but we did a week worth of stuff so i felt like he was here for much longer! and actually i feel bad for him cause he had an insane travelling schedule. something like: baltimore to london to mumbai to pune back to mumbai to bangkok to hong kong to seoul back to hong kong to mumbai to america!!!! ahhh plus layovers and missed flights i think he should win like some award or something...craziness!!! butttt while he was in seoul we went to the DMZ (definitely a very historic time to go since North Korea launched stuff three weeks later), an FC Seoul soccer game, a long city tour, and he came to work with me...anddd we played tennis in class haha soooo fun!!! so thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come johnny.....you are awesome mi amigo!
hmmm what was next??? ohhh, i went to seoul fashion week...and somehow got second row seats...amazing!!! more pictures of that are on the post below....so yea, we went to four shows and it was so elegant and fun and an awesome way to spend the weekend for sure!!! oh and i also went to an Oasis concert last week...sooo fun but a little wild...
oh, im still obsessed with yoga....i try to go every day but at least go every other day...its completely fantastic!!!
ohhhh, so the cherry blossoms are out :) they are called "but ghot" in korean. i always felt like i never saw enoguh of them while i was in DC so i def have made up for lost photo ops in olympic park. soooo beautiful. they are originally a japanese tree and DC has them because japan gave them as a gift and korea is flooded with them cause the Japanese brought them over when they occupied korea....so yea, they are EVERYWHERE in the city...every corner, every street, every alley, just everywhere and its sooo cool!!! oh and grandma, last year you asked me to smell them in DC to see if they did smell and they didn't in DC. so i had to check for you in korea and these also smell like a tree...butttt hey are pretty just like you :)
so thats about it. except, i am very lucky and get to meet up with my dad in Singapore May 2-5 cause i have off work for children's day...and my dad is so nice to come meet me halfway...such a great time!!!! :)
ok i miss you all very much...mom, im calling you right now...i have no idea why i just told you that cause by the time you read this i will be talking to you haha sorry, im very tired and need to go to bed
miss you all and love you love you love you!!! as always, thanks so much for the support, it means more than you could imagine....please keep me updated about your lives!!! xoxoxox
xoxo
reen
South Korean soldier guarding the South Korean side of the DMZ...that concrete line in between the two buildings is the actual border between north and south korea....its seems so arbitrary but stand for so much...eerie!
the grey building in the back is north korea....
seoul fashion week runway show
johnny teaching :)
my students kept calling him dr. johnny...so cute
katie and johnny
johnny's first korean BBQ
FC SEOULLLLLLLLLLl
standing by the ROK guard...we are actually in North Korea in this picture...crazyyyyy
thats north korea behind me...i couldnt make this face at the joint security area otherwise who know what would happen so i did it here...sorry mom and dad, i know you hate when i stick out my tonuge...ooopss
signing the form before entering the DMZ - sooo, it really says you are agreeing to go into the most dangerous place at the world at your own risk and accepting the possibility that something could and may happen...weird yet cooooool
ahhhh it wont let me delete this double...annoying
miss you all and loveeeeeeeeeeeeee you...kisses
this is my after-school class...there are only 25 students.....compared to 43 it literally feels like i only have like ten kids in the room and i always wonder where the other students are ahah
Oasisssssssssssss live in Seoul!!!
ash and i hanging out at olympic park
ohhhhhhhh so, my co-worker gave me fresh honey from her dad's beehive cause that's his hobby...look how big that thing is...SOOO much honey but the freshiest, most delicious honey i have ever had wooooooooooooooooooooo
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