Jeju Island

So this happened before my last post but I just got the pictures from my friend. I had only been here a couple weeks and we already had a 3 day weekend at the school. A group of girls had planned to go to Jeju Island, Korea's version of Hawaii, and they got me a ticket to got. Lucky me! It was so much fun not only to have a little vacation already but to be almost a celebrity. Only Korean's vacation there so they are not used to foreigners. We had about 3 people ask for pictures with us and boys hitting on us. LOL. So much fun.

The first day we spent the entire time on the beach. It was great. They had umbrella's set out for people to lay out on. They rented tubes so float on, too. They only bad thing was that there were so many people it was hard to relax without bumping into someone.

The second day we went to a couple of the beautiful waterfalls on the island. Chungeyon and Chungiyon (I think that is how you spell them) falls. The last day we went to see some volcano lava tubes caves. Awesome. The most fun part, though, was renting ATVs on another island we took a 15 minute fairy to. It took only 1 hour to drive around the whole thing. So much fun.

A great start to my time here.

Month 1

So I have been here for a month. I still don't have a camera so I am waiting for pics from friends. I have a few from my video camera. I went to Seoul Tower this weekend. It is in Namsan (South Mountain). It is a beautiful tower in the middle of the city. You can see the entire city. I am gonna try to go back in the fall when the leaves change, in the winter when it snows, and in the spring when there are flowers and take more pics. At the bottom of the tower, to my suprise, there was a mexican band playing!! So funny. Something I thought I would never see.

Nothing crazy exciting has happened but I was told about an amazing Italian restaurant. I have also been to some great Indian places. I have loved all the Korean BBQ. Love it so far.

The only bad thing so far is that I have not been able to get a cell phone. Aparently foreigners dont pay their bills so no one wants to cell to them. Great. Also, asians have such small feet that no one carries my shoe size. The only place that did wanted $80 a pair!! I don't pay $80 for shoes. I can barely get myself to pay $25. It's okay though. My mom is wonderful and is sending me some. I love her.