Wednesday September 23rd

Hey everyone! Saturday, ana and me went to Nampodong! (of course!) We love going there!! :) She got her lip ring! I thought it looked really cute! Afterwards, we had dinner at our favorite fast food place. LOITTERA!! It's so much better than McDonald's. Then we went back to Hyuandi Beach. It was gorgeous out. I could have stayed there all night ;) Then, I spent some quality time with my family. Sunday was the best day of the week! In the morning, Ana and me headed over to the church. They were having a celebration. They told us to bring some of our friends. It was so much fun to watch :) (The video is up top of only one of the performances. Then we relaxed at home for a little bit. Afterwards, was the best part of the day. We were going to hang out with our Rotary friends. (Jarret, Lea, Ayaka, Daphne, and Kathy. Hannah couldn't make it) Jarrett put pressure on me to be the navigator. OH BOY!! But luckly i found the steak place alright. We thought it was going to be really cheap. The food was great and the atomsphere was really comfortable to hang out in. When the bill came, my eyes almost popped out of my head!! It was for 184,000!!! So being the leader for that night. I went to talk to the manager. Turns out they charged us for nine people instead of 7!! They were trying to rip off the foreigners!! Turns out, they're scared of angry americans! lol. Then we headed over to the karokee place. I thought it would be like a bar with a whole bunch of people, but instead it's only a room with a tv and disco lights to hang out with your friends. I liked that idea of karokee a lot more. We had a lot of fun! The person who shocked me the most was Jarret!! I'll post the video up above. Then we headed home. I was so tired by the end. Monday was such a rollocoaster day!! You see Saturday Ana moved into my house, because her family was going to Seoul for a few weeks for a wedding. So the chairman wanted me to help her move instead of going to school on Saturday. I called my teacher and he said I should come to school. I said No, I got permission from my Rotary. They said not to come. WEll turns out i offended him. So MOnday, he was mad so I was trying to tell my side but he wouldn't listen. So being offended I started getting pist! Then he said I was a bad student for breaking the rules, even though I got permission to get out of school. That made me cry. He lost all my respect! Anyways, afterwards was fine because he felt really bad. So he lent me his computer to use the internet during class :) And every Monday he lets me teach English during the last period. That was a lot of fun. After school, Ana and me had the most painful workout!! My whole body was screaming!! lol. Tuesday was a very good day! In the morning, I had english with Alex (from Texas). He showed clips on Youtube of the Simpsons. It just reminded me of the US. That was really fun. The next class is Chinese. I'm getting really into that. Lao-shi Hao!! I would say I'm pretty good at it for the teacher being Korean. Afterwards, was Filming class. That was kind of boring. I just slept. Everybody was just on the computers. I had the same class agian, so I just went on the computer. Then Ana and me headed towards the tutor. It turns out that instead of class, we were going to the beach! :o Awesome! I thought it was a sand beach, but instead it was rocks! So i was wearing the wrong shoes (sandals!) Very painful!! It was fun, though. Jarrett reminds me a lot of Alex back home. lol Only better. We all feel like family. When I got home I fell asleep right away. That beach wore me out! That night I played games on Skype with Jarrett. He always beat me, but finally we played Battleship and I whooped his butt!! Holla! Today was pretty boring. Math in the first hour and then acting all day :( Now I go to the gym. So i'll post something new soon!! BYE!

Saturday September 19th

Wednesday was a pretty boring day. I went to school. I accidently slept in Math class :( Then for acting class I was an abusive mother who slapped her baby. That was interesting. After school, I went home and slept for a few hours. Afterwards, we headed towards the gym. The next day, the school said they were taking a test kind of like the SATs. They said we weren't going to take it, so I asked if we could stay home then. The teacher said no we had to read or just sit there. So the next day, we come to school. The teacher wanted ana and me to talk to alex. (our english teacher from Texas) So we got to know him better. We talked for about an hour with him. I like him, he seems really cool. About an hour later, my teacher comes in and says ana and me can go home! :) We had no reason to be there he says. So instead of going home, we went shopping at our favorite place (Nampodong!) We were going to buy jewlery at our favorite little shop, but it was closed till 2. So we went to the new Ashton Kutcher movie. It was good, but it was the dirtiest movie I've ever seen. I guess if you're a foreigner they don't check your age for anything. After it was about 230. We headed towards the shop again, but still it was closed! So we just went home. Then to the gym again. Friday, we only went to school for about a half a day. Then we went to our laungage class. It was fun being there, I love Tuesdays and Fridays now. Afterwads, we went to get a bite to eat at this little pizza shop with only ana, Jarret, Lea, and me. It was hard picking out the pizza cause Jarret can't eat pork. (religion) But finally we got the rib pizza. It was so good. The pizza place didn't have tables to eat at so we had to run across the road and eat on benches. :) CITY LIFE! Then ana and me headed home. We had a meeting with the chairman of the Korea Rotary. He was talking about ana moving in with my family today. We really didn't want it, because we wanted to be away from each other sometimes. And have our own families. But he insisted. So today, ana and me are planning to move her in, shopping, and then to the beach again. :) Tomorrow maybe karokee bar and dinner with the inbound students :) I can't wait! I'll blog later about it. The pics were after our language lesson. Jarret is so tall!!

Tuesday September 15th

These last two days have been amazing :) The only problem was that Sunday night I couldn't sleep. I was, for some reason, really nervous about the korean party Monday night. So I got up early to go to the gym. It was fine, but this random lady was teaching me how to use the machine and then she pinched my fat :( I wanted to say to her that she was rude and to get away from me, but of course they don't understand me yet. School was pretty good that day too. I got out of class to talk to my teacher for an hour and a half then after lunch I talked to the English teacher for another hour. Then we saw a presentation in the gym, so hardly any classes that day. We left school early about 330. I headed over to my apartment to get myself beautiful. I didn't know it would take so long! lol. We headed towards the reception about 6pm. The traffic was horrible!! It felt like we weren't moving at all!! We were kind of late because of it. I thought it was going to be kind of boring. There were lots of speeches at first, but after the speeches were over and we got to eat, it was fun. All the rotary people sat together and chatted. I met an old friend who was an inbound student in America last year. It was good to see her again. We're planning on running sometime together by the Hyundai Beach :) It was a great night. After we were all done eating, we headed upstairs. There was a garden in the building! I didn't notice till it started raining that we were on the roof. It just looked like the ceiling. :o But many said I looked beautiful that night. By the time I got back home, I was exhausted. I didn't even remember going to bed. The next day, it was pretty normal school day. We had film class. I was in the movie. (Upcoming actress!) After lunch, my ama picked ana and me at school. I had to head towards the bank to get my money out. When we got there it frustrated me! First, we went to the normal front desk, but they told us we needed to go upstairs towards the foreign transactions. Then they said we couldn't transport my money in another account for some reason. So they sent us down to the ATM's machine. It took us like 10 min. to figure out I had a different max. limit each day then Korea's. I only can take out 300 instead of 1000. So each day i have to carry around $300 in my wallet cause the people couldn't transfer my money, unless that's what my ama said. :( So now I know im going to lose track of my money. Then I'll be pissed at my ama cause she didn't understand what I was saying about my card. Anyways, afterwards the language class was a blast. Of course, we learned a lot and goofed off also. The tutor made spicy ramen and jarret told me his whole life family history in 20 min. lol. Jarret then played the harmonica and him and me squared dance! :) That was fun. We took great pics afterwards. I can't wait to see what's next for me!!

Sunday September 13th

Hey everyone! It is 9 pm on Sunday night. On Friday it was pretty simple day. I went to school for the day. I got to leave school early :) That's always good. I headed over to my korean lessons for the day. Maria and I weren't late this time. We didn't get lost! lol. We learned a lot and got to practice speaking and writing. (A lot of home work though....) Afterwards, I was too tired to go to the gym. I went to bed at 8 pm that night. :) That Saturday we had great plans to see a movie with the rotary friends and get something to eat. Then go to Hyundai Beach. In the morning I went to the gym with Maria. Her favorite trainer was there. We have our personal favorites. Hers is a meat head. Mine is natural looking and skinner. Afterwards, we headed towards Lotte for the movie. We never really decided on where to go. We said the movie theater, but people were someplace else :(, so Maria and I went to eat. We never found them. Turns out, everyone found eachother but us. Maria and I had fun, though. We went to see My Sister's Keeper. It was really good. I cried, of course. (blush) Afterwards, it was too late to go to the beach so instead we went shopping in Nampodong. Ana got another earring. I'm planning something special in the next couple weeks :) Sunday, I was a little late to church. Then we had smoothies in there. They have a cafe in the church! Afterwards, we headed towards the beach! It was really fun, but I couldn't find my top bathing suit :( I wonder if I forgot it in America. We stayed there most of the day. Maria met creepers! They had to be at least 35. YUCK!! Anyways, I can't wait for tomorrow! We have our korean party! And like I promised I will take lots of pics! Good night or 안 녕 히 주 무 서 요. :) (The first two pics were from sun. and the last 2 were from sat at the nation's largest Department store)

Thursday September 10th

Hello everyone! Let's start this off. Wednesday i thought was going to be pretty boring, but I had acting class again. I was a husband yelling at my wife in English. And at the end, of course, they had me scream, "Shut up!" That's their favortie English phrase :) On one of the class breaks about six of my friends did this dance to a huge song here in Korea. I wish I got a video of it, but I didn't have my camera with me. I'll try to later. After school, I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep! I'm kind of getting frustrated with Tae Kwon Do. We have it every single day! I mean I'm trying to like it and appreciate it, but it's making me cranky all the time and sleepy. :( I would rather take something like Korean cooking class or piano lessons would be cool. The say its a rule, but I'm going to talk to my counselor. I don't want to hate my stay here, because I have to Tae Kwon Do. Anyways, my mother woke me up and asked if Anna and me would like to go out to eat. Of course I said yes. First, we went to Loiters. It's a lot better version of Mcdonalds. Then we drove a ways to Wondongso. (probably spelled that wrong!) There's a gorgeous beach and beautiful bridge there. Then they decided we could have spagheti!! I missed it so much! They also bought us really good home-made ice cream. Anna and I were really grateful! Oh i forgot! On the ride over, I had my fingers out the window. Then my father closed the windows on my fingers!! I kept yelling, "WINDOWS DOWN!" I yelled that five times. Finally, my father put the window down. lol. Now under the skin there's a huge bump that hurts. I'm kind of worried about it. So word of advice....Don't get your fingers stuck in a korean car window! Anyways, today was uneventful. I arrived to school a little bit late. It was the bus, I swear! :) My teacher gave me a couple books to read. I'm on my fourth book for the past three weeks! I need more! I got a piggy back ride in Tumbling Class today. That was fun! Now I'm going to the gym in about an hour! :) Got to lose those kilograms! Tomorrow laungage class and Sat. planning on hanging with friends. Should be a good weekend. :) TTYL everyone. (The pics are only some from Wednesday night.)

Tuesday September 8th

Not a lot has happened these past five days, but I'll try to be descriptive. Friday was a pretty good day. I couldn't get up for the gym in the morning. I was way too exhausted! From then on, I decided that I would go to the gym in the morning only every other day. It's been working so far. :) I watched my first korean film that day too. It was about a teenager falling in love with a middle-aged man who has some disease....CREEPY!! Then for musical class we watched Beauty and the Beast! Aw, I was soo excited! I was shocked no one heard of the movie or the musical before. I thought almost all the countries knew about the Disney movies, but everyone loved it. After school, I didn't have to go to Tae Kwon Do (more sleep!), but Saturday I still had school. The first two classes I had were Gym class. :( I thought I was done with that!! Then I found out that they were doing testing that day too! Even worse!! Then had two boring classes of Korean reading then I went home. Later that day I went to my favorite steak place in Busan. We were celebrating "my aunts" birthday. I met almost all of my mother's side. She has two older brothers and one younger sister. I met my "cousins." The girl is about 11 years old. The food was great! After I went to the beach with my aunt and my cousins. It was beautiful outside. I love that beach! The next day, I thought I was going to church, but instead Maria's new family invited me to go up Gudeok Mountain and of course I went! I took some amazing pictures!! It was really hard to climb at times, but totally worth it. At the top of the mountain was this Buddist temple! It was trully an amazing sight to see!! If my family visits that's one place I will take them. I took pics, I put all of them on Facebook. Afterwards, I went to see a movie. It wasn't korean or english. It was Indian. :o It's called Black. It's based on the Helen Keller story. It was weird though, because they would talk Indian then switch over to English. I could understand it, though. I was so moved by it! My ama cried. I could tell it reminded of how much she misses Jae. After the movie, Maria and I went to Nampo-dong on the Main Street. I bought sunglasses. Maria bought shorts and got her ear pierced again. It was cool, because they had break dancers dancing in the middle of the street. Again, I took pics. Monday was a pretty relaxing day. Lots of lectures at school, but the last class my homeroom teacher let me teach the class English. Now every Monday I get to have that time to try and teach them. Wish me luck! Today I only had to school up until lunch. :) I had laungage class at 3 so my school allowed me to leave early. Our counselor didn't give very good directions. We were about an hour late, but we weren't the only ones. Everyone was late. Kathy came in crying. I felt bad, but I guess I didn't understand. When maria and I were late we were just laughing about it cause it was the first day. Anyways, when we arrived we got our 한 보! (korean dresses!) This upcoming Monday we get to wear them at our welcoming party!! We get to miss school. I promise I'll take lots of pictures. The dresses are so gorgeous!! I can't wait! I'm excited, because it was only the first lesson and I already have learned a lot. :) I will post a new blog soon! Good night or Good morning.

Thursday September 3rd

The last time i posted was saturday night. Sunday morning I headed out to church about 9 am. Maria and I met right at the church. This time church was only the children service then some kind of test. I didn't know what was going on. My friend (bass player in band) couldn't really explain what was going on either. (I won't even try to spell his name!!) Afterwards we went to the cyber place for about an hour then headed back home. Then I did something I thought I never would do. I went shopping with Maria and Ama for ballet stuff. We bought the shoes and pants for my class. There was so many options to choose from!! I didn't even know where to begin! On Monday school was pretty tiring and boring. There was just lectures all day, but afterwards we went to the gym to register. We were too late, though. DARN! Tuesday was ballet day! :( But it wasn't nearly as bad as last weeks! I just didn't take myself seriously and laughed. That got people to like me. That night we finally registered for the gym! It's only $33 per month. I thought that was pretty good. We also met our trainer. We get him for free just for registering! Boo ya! Wednesday was the best day of the week!! First, we had math. I couldn't help but almost fall asleep! It's so hard to stay awake in Math in Minnesota and now I'm listening to a Korean teacher speak about algerbra! Then for six classes i had acting! The first class I slept through. The teacher wasn't even there. The second class was the best. We did a game as an exercise. The loser who was left standing had to dance in front of the class. I had to dance four times! Just ask my sister how badly I suck at dancing! But they are all really nice! Then we did an acting scene. Since I can't speak much of Korean, i was the bus driver and a classmate. I got to swear in English and talk college English level to a bunch of Beginners. :) The day was great. Then Maria and I went to the gym! I really like our trainer. I swear he wants us ripped. He wants us to do 2 hrs worth of stuff to do then also do ab workout class :) we asked about dance class but he said no. That night was the first night I got frustrated with my new family. Maria and I wanted to go to the gym in the morning about 6 am. We thought it would really wake us up and energize us, but my parents had to call the chairman just to see if its ok. I'm their daughter! so they said no. then i ask about the next day's afternoon and going to tae kwon do then the gym. They wanted me to come all the way back home and eat dinner and then walk all the way back to the gym. :o Then the chairman called saying it was alright then my ama doesn't tell me until 5 min i was suppossed to be their that morning! She thought i was already to go in my pjs! So we worked out for about a half an hour this morning! It felt amazing! Then we headed towards school. As the day was going on i got sooooo sore! (especially in my back) Then we had physical training class. It was fun. I got paired up with the cutest guy in the class, but he had to crack my back. (Huge no, no on my end!) Then he had to mesage my neck!! (EVEN BIGGER NO NO!! ) But that class was fun. The rest of the day seemed endless. A lot of lectures here and there. Then afterschool we headed towards tae kwon do for the first time! The little kids were so cute!! The trainer reminded me sort of my sister's ex Andrew. (kinda look like him too) It was fun but it really whoops your butt the first time! I got my outfit and my white belt. I'll take pics! Then we got a bite to eat at this amazing little pizza joint down main street. Then off to the gym! A lot of ab stuff tonight. I'm still not used to people just being so comfortable being naked! I mean I do it too, but there just for the world to see! Even the boys change in the classroom (Awkward, at first!) So Maria and I are making a schedule on the gym in the morning, tae kwon do, then gym at night. Wish us luck!!