Cindy

Cindy

Our great Cindy will be leaving Korea and myself this week to go back to the motherland of the good ol' USA.  So to send her off properly, we decided to go noreabanging (karoake-Korean style) and go clubbin in Seoul.

Well at least Cindy looks FAB!

Yeah, we're friends

Cindy don't leave me!

Hair!

Went to go get my hair trimmed yesterday since it had grown out into a mess on my head.  I went to my usual hair salon in Songuri with my Korean buddy, JinMyeong.  However, the man that owns the shop decided he wanted to cut the foriegners hair that day and not my usual stylist.  Okay fine, my Korean friend explained I wanted it just trimmed and the same style I had before.

When he finished it came out pretty short with the front flipped out like so.  I was not very happy when I left the salon to be honest because all I could think of was, I look like this....

However, this was the finished product after a night of playing with it and showing a few of my buddies, I think I like!

Typhoon Kompasu

Well, this is not the first typhoon I have experianced while in Asia however more people seemed more worried about it than the others.  So far all the typhoon has done where I live is rain a whole lot and be extremely windy.  My little apartment house was shaking this morning.

The 7th typhoon of the year, Kompasu is advancing from Japan is likely to affect Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration said Monday. Strong winds and waves are expected in southern Jeju on Wednesday.

Kompasu, Japanese for compass, is expected to advance northward along the west coast and in the worst case pass through the heavily populated Seoul metropolitan area. The KMA said Kompasu formed south of Okinawa on Sunday evening and will arrive 440 kilometer southwest of Seogwipo, Jeju, on Wednesday evening.

(from: http://www.usposttoday.com/typhoon-kompasu-from-japan-to-affect-korea/)

Teachers

Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make
This clip is hillarious and true!
He makes an excellent point and I am so PROUD to be a teacher.
Plus, I get to teach in Korea, how awesome is that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuBmSbiVXo0&feature=player_embedded

My favorite part of this? 
"Why won't I let you go to the bathroom?  Because you're bored and don't really have to go to bathroom...DO YOU?"

Seoul Zoo

It was epic, it was legendary, it was THE ZOO! Why have this sindig at the zoo? Our friends Ben and Cindy were leaving Korea. Is there any other way to have an epic farewell party? I think not.

Yeah, there was a dolphin show. Oh yes, we made eye contact with one of the dolphin men!

This is everyone and my lunch--meat on a stick and a pineapple smoothie! Yum!

Do they have rabies in Korea?. . .

I had to do it. . .plus the fact that when we walked by the corn, half of the group, "Amber do you feel like you're at home?" Oh yes, I love my friends.

Jeju Vaction Highlights

My friend Erin and I decided to head to Jeju for 4 days.

These are the dudes that we met at the beach! This black sand beach was gorgeous!!

We also went to Loveland. This was the tamest part of the park. . .

The last day we went to the falls, which we went to last year, still gorgeous!

Our awesome front desk man at The Little France Hotel. He helped us out on alot of trips out and about in Jeju. We heart him!

This beach was one of my favs! It's about an hour from Jeju airport and the last one that we went to. With the sun shining on it, it was so clear and beautiful!

Our new boyfriends we met at the airport. I offered them some of my American gum and pictures and convo insued. Oh Korea!

Trick Art Museum!

Jeju Island is known for these statues.
A new friend we made at the bus stop, Minsok. She showed us where to go and then had dinner with us too! She was great and SO sweet. Also, she did not speak a word of Korean...it made for an interesting trip!

2 Months

Only 2 more months in the land of Korea...

Then back to good ol' Nebraska for some quality bonding time and traveling the states, I hope! I'm excited to go back to visit but I'm not exactly sure what I'll be doing when I get there. Procrastination is not my friend...