Lots of Good Stuff from June!

HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE!

HEY HEY HEY! I hope that everyone has enjoyed all the B-B-Qs and Canada Day parties! Canada Day just isn't the same in Korea ;) !

I'm doing really good (minus the cold I have). I feel like a broken record when I say this but it amazes me how fast time is going over here. I guess because I really haven't ever planned to do something for one complete year. It feels a bit like a count down. In saying that I'm making the most of my daily life and having a great time doing it :) Oh yeah an today is my 7th month anniversary!!!! Wowee!

I've been up to lots of great things in the past month. My friends and I decided we wanted to find a beach of our own. So we set out on one of the long weekends at the begning of the month to see what we could find. We did really really well!! We found this empty beach with only a few fishermen on it. It was amazing as the tides on this beach go out and come in really fast! I would have to estimate that it goes out at least a kilometer in an hour. Because of the quickness of the tides the marine life that appears at low tide is unbelievable. You could walk for hours and see everything from hermit crabs, anemanies, jelly fish and STARFISH! Beautiful Starfish! My friend Maria is from Florida and knows a lot about all those cool sea creatures so I learnt some really fun stuff. As well she taught us how to race hermit crabs!!! SO FUN!!! All in all we had a great time exploring, playing games, reading, doing yoga and just relaxing!

Also, in the past month my school had our open house for the parents. So on a Saturday all the kids and mostly their Mom's came in to take a look at what we've been learning. We had 4 classrooms set up and each had a theme. My classroom was the English classroom (obvioulsy ;) ). I had decided the best way to show off what the kids were learning was to play a game (surprise surprise coming from the Phys.Ed major). I designed this game that had everything from your standard A-B-C's to the kids and their Mom's having to sing one of the more famous Korean songs 'Tell me, Tell me...'. My game was a hit- everyone loved it!
Last weekend my friend Chris and I headed to Seoul to meet up with our group of friends from there for the 'Next Floor' music festival. The festival was based on an area of Seoul called Hongdae which is a big bar/club area. So all the bars were there set up selling drinks and showcasing their music and specialties. On top of all that they had one huge stage (same as the DJ festival I went to) and a smaller one. It was pretty sweet as they had a range of music from funky jazz to hardcore rock. On the Saturday afternoon my favourite Korean band played 'Nirvana Flower'. They have a great reggae vibe about them.

On another note I started a yoga class a couple weeks ago. I was reminded of the communication barrier once again when I came out of a move to find out I was doing the pregnant version of the move. :) :) I was watching the girl beside me (as I don't understand a word the instructor says) and it turns out that she was pregnant and does all these modified versions! Only in Korea!

I've got a few things coming up in the next month. I'm heading to this 'Mud Festival' in a couple weekends and then at the end of July to Japan. I'm really pumped for Japan because I'm going to the Fuji Rocks Festival. Michael Franti and a couple other great bands are playing plus I'm just excited to go to a big festival :)

Last off I want to wish one of my greatest friends and amazing Birthday- HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAHALIA!! I LOVE YOU! MUAHH!

Hey Everybody,

What's shaking peops? How's everyone doing? I feel like I haven't heard from a lot of you in awhile so don't forget to send me messages :) otherwise when I get back on Canadian soil they'll be some bum whipping!!

On a wild note the first of June was my 6 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY!!!! Yup, six months team, as I give myself a big pat on the back! I've said this before but I have to say it again- TIME IS FLYING!

I had a great time last weekend. On Friday night a group of my friends and I headed to our now favourite Gwangju Bar, The Guitar Bar. This bar is fantastic! I've talked about it before but just as a re-cap the bar has a band made up of 4 guys who play many of Korea's favourite songs. The best part about the band (in my opinion) is that one of the guys (who I have a mad crush on) sings and speaks a bit of English. Check out the pic! Also, the atmosphere in the bar is great and all the people there are always having a good time.

Saturday a group of us headed up camping to Mudungsan mountain. It was perfect as it only takes 30 minutes on a city bus to get there. We found this amazing little clearing in the woods and managed to set up our tents just as the night set in. Not to far away from our tents was this amazing stream running down the side of the mountain. A few of my guy friends set up a fire pit pretty much in the boulders of the stream. So as we watched the fire we could hear the gushing sounds of the stream. It was a great night filled with lots of stargazing and good times :) The frog picture was taken with a flash at about 12 at night. Isn't he cute! The other picture with all the bottles is our fridge in the rocks.

In other news I've officially booked my plane ticket for Japan. I've been deciding on my vacation for about 4 months! I really wanted to go meet Meaghan and Jay in India but it just isn't going to work out. So as a consolation prize I'm going to Japan (I know not toooo shabby of a consolation prize). My friend Jenny from England and I are going to go together. We found this festival called Fuji Rocks. It looks amazing! So were going to try and get there for at least one night. Michael Franti and Spearhead are playing!

Alrighty friends this week is a short week! WOOHOOO! I have Friday off so I'm heading to the beach!!! Going to go camping for a couple days on the west coast of Korea.

Hope that you are all having a wonderful day. Miss you all so very much! My good friend Mark just put it to me in a really good way 'you have less days ahead than behind you'.