Playing catch up...

26 May 2012

I have been meaning to update my blog but things have been crazy. Last weekend was quite busy which led to me being very sick for 3 days last week, missing 2 days of school. I felt awful not going, but definitely could not go. The school was more than understanding and both Annie and my other teaching friend Lisa kept checking in on me wanting me to go to the hospital. All is good, was just a flu or something like it.

Now for the good stuff... last weekend was chock FULL of going places. Saturday Lisa met me in front of the school. She doesn't have a car so we walked to the bus stop and made our way to what is called Soyosan (Soyo Mountain). On our way to the mountain we took 3 different buses and the subway/ train. For the first time I heard English being spoken by native English speakers. I also met another ESL teacher from South Africa on the bus. We went to a town called Dongducheon (DDC according to Lisa) where there is an American Military base. The hike to the up the mountain was very interesting. Along the way we passed many people who had planted themselves along the side of the road with their homegrown veggies for sale. Kind of like our version of a farmer's market. There were also various food stands, one of the more interesting food items being sold were hot larvae. Mmmm yum! That's exactly like I want my larvae... HOT! haha

After our hike on the mountain we went back to DDC, this is the town that Lisa is from and her mother still lives there. First we went to a spaghetti restaurant. I was never so happy to have pasta! It was VERY good too! I had chicken, bacon alfredo. We also had garlic bread, the VERY strange thing they do to garlic bread here is put sugar on it. Soooo wasn't expecting that! In fact the sugar over powers the garlic which was disappointing.  It was nice though to have a meal that I need not question what I was eating! :) After that we went to her mom's apartment where I was given even more food. Apparently they are quite worried by the fact that I do not eat much at school and pretty much eat only pb&j or grilled cheese sandwiches at home. One thing is for sure, I have MANY people looking out for me here!

Tomorrow I will post about the rest of the weekend and some pictures too!