10 K

Yesterday I ran a 10K in Seoul with 4 other of my friends. It was so COLD!! It was well below freezing and super windy. I couldn't believe that our race was the day a big cold front came through. I was really nervous it would make it hard to breathe, but I managed and did pretty well for me. My goal was not to walk any and try for under and hour. I achieved both with 4 minutes to spare so I was pretty proud. I wore my metal all last night while I was out with friends. Another cool thing was that not only did we get medals, but they also gave us running suits (the one I'm wearing) and a head band to keep your ears warm. I've run in quite a few different races and usually get just a t-shirt or if I'm lucky a dri-fit running shirt and sometimes a medal. The race was only about $35 and I got all that stuff. We talked about that we might make a little running club and sign up for these runs more often.

Random Pictures

This is just a series of random pictures that I thought were worth putting up.
This picture is from that hiking trip to the South I blogged about before. Some of my friends ate some of the raw sea creatures they have in that region. It was some of the weirdest things. Anyways, I watched as they ate the crazy things, and one of my friends caught me grimacing as I looked on. I thought it was kinda funny.


This is a cake Rebekah J and I got for my friend Mallory's birthday. We called him bear face. It was delicious. I would have baked one, but I don't have an oven :(


This is a picture of my friends Mallory, Leah, and I out to dinner.


A group shot of about 3/4ths of the Ultimate Frisbee league.


Last weekend I went and saw Jens Lekman play in Seoul. I didn't know much about him before going, but I was really impressed and have been listening to his music for the past week.
I went to a couple other shows just last night. One of them was a group called the EV Boyz. They are these 3 guys who are American but live and work here in Korea. They make songs about living here and it's really funny. I put the link to their original and most popular song. I first saw this video during orientation and I didn't understand a lot of it, but after being here for 3.5 months now, it all makes so much more sense. It is really funny and it's all so true. Check it out, hopefully you can understand some of the jokes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjBfy_HVoSM

Island hopping

A couple of weekends ago, my friends Rebekah and Candice and I decided to go to an island off Incheon called Jawol-do. We didn't have many expectations, but just thought it would be fun to see something different. We got there to find that it seemed more or less deserted. We started walking down the road when an old man in a truck stopped to try to talk to us. He couldn't understand us and we couldn't understand him, but he motioned for us to get into the back of his truck and he would take us to the "town". So we jumped in and went for a fun ride to the other side of the island (it's not a big island!). When we stopped we realized he worked for a motel and he thought we wanted somewhere to stay. We managed to tell him we weren't interested and walked back up a hill to the main part of the island. We wandered about most of the day and really wanted to ride bikes. We found another motel run by some young people and even though we told them we weren't interested in staying the night, they let us use their bikes. We rode around the island until it started raining on us and we got wet and cold. We went back to the motel with a couple of hours to spare before the ferry left to go back to Incheon, and the people let us use one of the rooms. We had a little picnic with all the snacks we had brought and took a little nap on the floor. The people drove us back to the ferry terminal and we headed home. The day was full of randomness, but really fun beacuse we had no plan and just got into a lot of funny situations. I enjoyed the little adventure.

The first picture is me in the back on the truck. Then riding bikes and playing on the exercise machines with Rebekah. One interesting thing about Korea is that in every park or public area they have these exercise machines. I use them as a playground; They're all over the place. Then there's a picture of Candice and I and Rebekah and I while wondering around he island.

This is a picture of me during that English festival I told you about where I was the host of the Quiz Show. This week we have the school English festivals. One for 3rd grade, one for 4th grade, one for 5th grade, and one fro 6th grade. I will be doing this 4 more times this week! Though on a smaller scale since it is just for my school, there will still be a tons of people and I will be doing not on the Quiz show, but also hosting and doing a speech contest for all 4 of them! yikes!