Friday October 30th

Hey everyone!! It's the day before Halloween!! It kind of sucks though, because Korea really doesn't do anything for Halloween. :( Anyways, let's start the blog off with Tuesday. So I went to the tutor as usual. And learned a lot that day suprisingly. :) Then, we headed home. Ama was the only one in the house, because apa had meetings all night. Jae called our house from Japan (host brother) It was so nice to talk to him again. I miss him a whole lot! T.T Then ama tried helping ana and I study Korean. It was kind of funny, cause I accidentally said f*** you to her in korean when I was trying to say i'm 16. :D She just laughed. Then Ama called Ana and I fat because we wanted to eat at 11 at night, but we didn't eat dinner. You should have seen Ana's face lol. She wasn't hungry after that. To top it all off, Ama then asked Ana if she made love to one of her friends. Awkward!! but hilarious! Wednesday, we went to school as normal. I didn't have class all day, though, because I forgot my clothes for acting class. I just stayed with our english teacher Alex (He's from El Paso, Texas). After school, Ana and I went to Nampodong. We ate at McD's then went shopping. I found a Wisconsin College sweatshirt. Of course i bought it! Then we got bored so we went home! Thursday, was a lot of fun! I had my regular classes, but after school we went to Nampodong again! :D We ate at pizza hut! They're pizza is a little bit different than ours. Then, we saw the movie Inglorious Bastards. (movies that come out in America take time to come to Korea) It was so good! I recommend it to everyone.... well every adult! It has a lot of violence. Then we had to literally run home cause ana and I were late for curfew. We didn't think the movie would take that long, but ama and apa understood. Today, we're going to the Korean lesson, but instead of studying we're going to get ice cream and meet little kids who are studying english :) I can't wait! Today, also Hanna is leaving for the USA. She is going to be there for about a week. She found out that Monday her boyfriend's brother commited suicide. She thinks of him like a brother too. She feels like she needs to be with her close friends and family right now. I agree with her. I hate my counselor and the Rotary here. I was talking to Hanna and she said she just called the counselor about leaving. She said the counselor freaked out and said she was a bad exchange student for leaving. Hanna said to her, "Someone died!" I am chewing the counselor out about the rules and how they treat us at the next Rotary meeting coming up next week. They need to hear my opinons!! Anyways, Hanna will be back (hopefully!) next saturday. please pray for Hanna and anyone who has to deal with Brady's death. Love you all!! TTYL.

Monday October 26th

Hey American people!! :) This weekend was great for me! I'll start it with Wednesday night. So I called Hanna up to see where we were meeting and what time. Thank god too. I wouldn't had any clue what I was doing. It turns out, though, that they thought I wasn't going because I live too far away. I was like, it's a wednesday night with me not doing anything. Of course, I can manage an hour long subway ride. I don't mind. :) So when I get there I saw that Jarrett was there also (of course!) It's like the counselor is in love with him! Over the weekend she paid for him to go to Seoul for an ENGLISH convention! I was like for what!! LOL, but he's nice. The family we met seemed really nice. The boy got sick, though, so we couldn't really talk to him much :( but the 12 year old girl was hilarious! She was sarcastic and weird! Hanna said she really didn't like her, but I did! Jarrett said that she reminded him of a little Brittany (hahaha!) It was a great night with great food! Thursday, I don't know what to tell you. Um, I think the Rotary club here is stupid. They have the common rules that everyone in the world follows, but they make up some of there own. Like no cellphone! :o Ana said in Mexico it's mandatory for the kids to have cellphones! I'm just frustrated and confused on why it's a rule and everytime we ask they're like your bad exchange students just for wondering!! WHAT?!?! And I can go only on the computer for twice a week only for an hour! My hours almost up now :/ If they were like Brazil and Usa's rules I would love it even more here!! Anyways, on to Friday. It was a good day. Daphne came to my school that day. She wanted to see how my school runs differently from her school. People noticed her right away, because of her red hair :D It was relaxing that day not having to worry about my classes with her around. After school, we went to tutor like always. It was kind of quiet since Jarrett wasn't there. It was easier to learn Korean. Saturday, was amazing once again. :) We got up early for a Saturday and saw a movie with a couple of our friends from school. It only costs $4 for movies in the morning :D Then we shopped for like 4 hours!! I was so exhausted! but I bought a couple cute things. Afterwards, we went to the supermarket to buy some food for the night. We bought $130 worth of food!! Only for that night!! :o And do you know what?? We ate most of it!! hahaha. I had such a great time that night!! We didn't go to bed till like 1:00 am!! Sunday, I didn't wake up till 2:30 pm! It felt so good to sleep in! Hanna came with us that day to go shopping (again!) But after shopping, we went to a hip hop dance performance!! It was so cool! I wish I could dance like that!! :) It was even more cool cause Grace (our friend) knows everyone who danced on stage, so we got to meet a lot of them!! :D Today, wasn't really exciting school then home. Anyways, tell me how im doing <3>

Ps the guy in the first pick was a judge for the dance show. And the 2nd picture is ana and me and one of our friends in front of the Busan tower :D

Wednesday October 22nd

Hey Guys. Sorry about my last post. When I wrote that I was in the middle of fighting with my host parents, but after I wrote it we had talk. I really needed that and wanted it. Now I think were getting along just fine. I even think better than before. :D Saturday, we went to this amazing firework festival!! Our parents spent a lot of money so we could get a hotel room that night looking towards the bridge. :) It was nice so we didn't have to be in the crowd. Last year my ama said there was over a million people who saw the fireworks :o That's insane!! That night I also slept on the floor for the first time being here. I don't like it! My back was killing me the next day!! Sunday, was so much fun. First, we went to the hotel's breakfast buffet. They had french fries there!! It was so good. I really stuffed my face with food! :) lol. Then, ana and I went to the hotel's sauna/spa. It was really relaxing! The other Rotary kids said they were nervous at first for the nakedness, but Ana and I didn't care. It was so amazing. Afterwards, we went to a movie. It was called District 9. I really liked it :) It's about aliens coming to Earth and we fenced them in and tried to live with them. I freaking loved it!! Afterwards, we went to eat. Then Ana, Kathy, Lea, Jarrett, and Unyoung went to Nampodong. :D We went shopping for a little bit then played pool. It was a great day! Monday was pretty boring. School is getting me nervous, though! About five kids in my class have swine flu and three other kids have just the regular flu. One other one has anmonia (I can't spell sorry!) The school isn't doing anything about either :/ The other Rotary kid's school have been closing down for a week or two to get it squared away but my school, I guess is stuborn. After school, Ana went shopping. Apa and Ama took me to this amazing korean restaurant!! (drool) That was basically it for the day :) Tuesday was a pretty good day. I slept for the first 4 classes, because we were in our classes doing nothing because of the swine flu. Then, Ana and I went to our tutors. I finally bought this cow pillow I wanted. You put it on your arm and rest your head on it while sleeping in class. I love it!! Then after tutor most of the kids went to QUIZNOS. I don't really like it. I miss subway! They don't have any of those here. :( Today is pretty simple. School is school. Tonight I should be going to dinner with Hana, Counselor, and the Chairman to meet up with Dennis Kim's friends who are visiting here in Busan. I just don't know the time or where to go :/ OH GEEZ!! But I'll manage. :) Nice chatting with you! anneyong ha seyo!! :D

Friday Ocotober 16th

Hey everyone!! :D These past week has been crazy fun!! Last Thursday was the only day I had to go to school, because of Midterms! :D It was a pretty boring day, to be honest. It took me so long to pack for our mini field trip for the Rotary that weekend! but you should have seen Ana's suitcase!! It was huge!! It barely fit in the van!! LOL. Friday morning we had to get up a little bit earlier to get start traveling. I love car rides. :) I slept most of the day to travel to Jungju. When we got to the hotel, I was impressed. It felt really homey. Then we went out for dinner. They put live octupus in the frying pan in front of us! :o It was scquirming around! Oh gosh, I lost my appetite really fast! After dinner, we went to karokee!! :D I love Karokee here in korea! The place was really fancy, they sent us two platters full of fresh fruit and snacks. :) Afterwards, we just hung out in Ana and my room. It was really relaxing and fun to get to know the kids even more. I have to admit we went to bed kind of late, but we didn't pull an all nighter. (Thank god!) I would have been dead the next day :) The next day we did so much site seeing. We visited a lot of temples and visited a cool town. They had condom ice cream!! :) (Inside joke with Hana) It was so gorgeous! Then we went to a Korean museum. It was really interesting!! Then we went to a place called the Romeo and Juliet place. They have a pretty similar version. Then we ate at an amazing Italian restaurant! They had a lot of foreign foods also. Mashed potatoes, tortillas, pizza, pasta, etc!! It was a great day!! :) That night we traveled to a different hotel. It wasn't as good as the first night. It looked like a hotel room, but the good thing was that we had great left overs to eat! Again we hung out with the kids that night :) In the morning we traveled to a temple where they said a girl drowned a king with her rings. :o it was really interesting!! I met a ranger guy from America.. he was an intense military man!! Afterwards, we went to our chairman's grandfathers grave. I felt really privilaged to see it. He's been apart of Rotary for 30 years and this was the first time he did that. It was so beautiful where we went! After that we went to a dinasour museum!! It reminded me of the Mulwakee museum. It had robotic fighting dinasours! Outside is a little zoo. They had rabbits in them!! I was like only in Korea they have rabbits in a zoo!! lol. Afterwards, we ate at Loitera!! then drove home :D GREAT WEEKEND!! Monday was great too! Busan is known for the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and we got to go!! Monday was the first day! We saw an italian love story. It was really good! Just so you know they had english subtitles :) Tuesday, we went to our tutor. Jarrett invited ana, kathy, and me to hyaundi for PIFF too. Of course we went!! but the tickets got sold out!! we couldnt go with jarrett and unyoung! :( (his host brother) but it was still fun to get to know Kathy better. I like her now! i found out we have a lot in common. i was just so stubborn to start off with. We saw the movie Midnight Cowboy. Anyone ever heard of it? It's a 1969 film with the guy who plays the father in Meet the Fockers. I thought it was pretty good but also the weirdest movie I've ever saw. You'll understand if you saw it. Wednesday my school went on a field trip to PIFF/APEC/Hyandui Beach. It was so relaxing and fun!! I took a bunch of beautiful pics!! We found a mexican restaurant that day! Ana was so happy! lol. Then we saw a Romanian movie. WORST movie ever!! I wanted to fall asleep throughout the whole entire movie!! :D Fun time. Thursday, ana, grace (friend from school), and I went to Nampodong!! She told us to go on this 3D rollocoaster ride. It was so cool!! It kind of hurt me though. LOL. Then, of course, we ate at McDonalds :) We went eye shopping too. It's so hard to just look at the clothes!! I want to buy! Then we saw a really great film!! It's called Mother. It's a korean film. It was so intense! Too bad they wouldn't let grace in the movie cause she was too young :( they never asked ana and me's age though. Today, was pretty normal. We went to tutor, but instead of class we went out to a korean restaurant and then Baskin Robins :D yummy! Then we went home! Ok tomorrow is a firework celebration. I promised Unyoung like a week ago that I would go with him and Jarrett cause they were going alone. Ama told me last night that they were going and I mentioned about Unyoung. They got so pist. I was like WTF. I just mentioned it and you told me two days before!! I already had plans. Then Unyoung called and said that his mom could go then. I told ama and apa thinking that they would be happy now but they were just like why did you lie? I was like WTF why would i lie!! I want to go! I don't care if its with you or friends, just be happy I'm going. Anyways, can't wait till tomorrow I'll take awesome pics I promise!! :) TTYL.

Wednesday October 7th

Hey everyone sorry i havent been on... i've been super busy. I will just talk about the major things that happened over the past couple of weeks :) Saturday we had another orientation with our rotary. BORING!! Every single meeting all they do is go over the rules again and again and again!! They want us perfect angels. Sunday, I hanged out with Jarrett, Hana, Ana, and Unyoung. That was so fun! We saw the Ugly Truth. I love that movie, so hilarious! Afterwards, we went to karokee! My host parents took us out on Tuesday night. We went to a great steak place then shopped in Nampodong. Then we went to the Jalgachi market!! Love it, but it smelled so bad!! lol. I hate the smell of fish :( The one thing I wish Korea had was homecomings! They don't have anything like dances here. I miss getting dressed in gorgeous dresses and high heels :O! Wednesday, Ana and I went with our English teacher to an opera type show! It was really interesting. The stage was really small, but thats what made it work. It was fun to get to know Alex. Friday we had no school. The weekend was their Thanksgiving holiday. Friday our family took us to our grandparents house. They are so cute! I practically met all of my dad's family side. They were cooking all day! The food smelled so good!! :0 Saturday was amazing! Ana and I wore our gorgeous hanboks! They have this ceremony where they bow to their ancestors and lay out food for them. I loved seeing this. Then we ate a LOT of korean food. Afterwards, we of course went to karokee. I loved seeing my family goof off for once and not be so uptight. Sunday was also fun. I hung out with Jarrett, Hana, Ana, Unyoung, and his friends. We went to see GAMER. AMAZING movie!! I definetly recommend it. Then we went shopping in Nampodong and ate there for dinner. Then, again, we went to karokee (love!). I was impressed. AFter, we went to play pool. Unyoung is very good. I love hanging with them. I am very relaxed around them! Monday-Wednesday Ana and me had no school. They were taking exams at the school. We watched americans movies all day and did mani pedis :) Tuesday we just went to the korean tutor and ate with the kids afterwards. Today was a lazy day. We watched tv. THey put a lock on the computer, so that's all we did. :( When our dad got home we got our haircuts. We look cute! Tomorrow, we go to school. Friday we have no school, because we're going on a field trip with the rotary kids :) I will blog about my experience. I will also put pics up. TTYL.