To Be Continued...

So I don't know if I will ever really blog on here anymore. I hope to have many more trips to Korea to visit friends. Perhaps I will even return to teach again some day. But for now I am continuing on with living life, finding love...but in the U.S. So I have made a new blog where I will be posting, adding pictures and generally telling the story of my life. Hopefully you all will continue to follow...http://kurichaninlife.blogspot.com/

SHAZAAAM!!!

I am officially a Graduate Student!!!

I start classes next Thursday night. Excited and terrified and anxious and EVERYTHING. Also moving into a new place with a new roommate soon hopefully. Though no one can ever be as good as my mi-chan and my firecrotch=^^=

Next stop is the financial aid office to see if I recieve any grants or if I will be putting myself farther into debt...

Study study study...

So once again I find myself in student mode. For those that don't know one of my main reasons for returning home was to get accepted into graduate school for my masters in English education. Well I had finished my application before I got back in the country and had my interview a few days after my return. The interview went great and I should know by the end of the week whether or not I got in to my first choice university. The only thing standing in my way is the MAT....

This test is less about math and more about figuring out relationships between a set of items. It is actually a bit similar to when I taught test prep which helps. Unfortunately I'm still stuck at getting between 60-65% correct. I don't think I will realistically improve drastically by tomorrow but one can always hope...

Back home...

So I am back home in Nashville, TN after a loooong 21hr flight. Unfortunately there are no straight flights to Tennessee. I went from Seoul--->Tokyo--->SLC Utah--->Nashville. All this was done with my 6mnth old puppy Bella. But surprisingly she was a gem and kept quite the whole time. I had a 4hr layover in Utah so I had time to go walk her outside. I got into BNA around 9pm and met my mom and Leon there. After that we collected all my bags and drove home. After going back out for a quick bite to eat at IHOP I came back home and went straight to bed.

I've been out and about visiting family members, mostly my grandmothers and getting things together for my next move. I had a meeting with the admissions director at Lipscomb Uni. for my graduate school application. I had my interview and turned everything in except for my last recommendation from my undergrad professor. Hopefully if all goes well I will begin my graduate work October 1.

Although I'm no longer in Korea I still have more pictures and posts to do once I can sit down longer than 5mins. I've decided to keep this blog up and who knows, I might write more on it. I'm not ruling out returning to Korea again in my lifetime. My mother and I are thinking of going back in Spring for a vacation...keep your eyes open for my return=^^=

Fun with photos...

Just some fun pictures my friend Dawn and I took today in Gangnam at the Apple Store=^^=

And so it ends...

I have been not so strangely absent again, mostly because I have begun my preparations to return home to the states. I leave this Saturday morning on a long ass flight with my dog back to my...homeland. I've been hanging out with many people, visiting what I can, taking so many pictures that my camera dies at least twice a day. And I promis there will still be more posts for me to put up once I have more time.

I'd have to say that overall I have enjoyed my time here in Kimchi-land. And depending on what happens when I return home maybe Korea will be in my future again. There are many things that I would change if it were up to me but it isn't....and that is probably for the best. I met so many great people here and had many many great experiences that I can share with family and friends back home. I am hoping to return for a week or so in the Spring for a dear friend's wedding so I will be seeing some of you when I return=^^=

Busan

So I am officially done with my contract! YAAAAAAAAY....sort of. Yes I'm a bit sad. I'll miss my students a lot and my coworkers as well. But time to move on, move up and who knows, maybe move back....yeah...

So to celebrate my impending return I have decided to visit one new place everyday so I can take pictures. Last week I went to Busan with some friends. Unfortunately while we were on the beach I forgot my camera but my friends brought theirs so I can still show you some pics courtesy of facebook.

So I started out at 6am to catch the train at Seoul Station.

...yeah way too early in the morning for me to actually try to look good in a picture....anyhoo, I caught the KTX and it was about a 3hr train ride down to Busan. It was actually a very beautiful ride but alas I fell asleep instead of taking pictures....sue me...

As soon as I stepped off the train I could smell the ocean. It smelled amazing. It was the first time I had seen the beach in so long thanks to living in a landlocked state.

Went through several tunnels to get to Songjeong beach where I was meeting my friends. After I met up with them we headed to Haeundae Beach where we got a hotel room...

On the way got stalked by a Chungdahm bus....why won't work just LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!

Our hotel room was of course a bit sketch with the 'mood lights' and free condoms, but overall it was actually pretty nice...and no the thing in the middle of the bed is not a vibrator...it's the tv/light remote...promise...

After that we swam a little, took some fun photo booth pics and grabbed lunch at TGIFridays that overlooked Haeundae beach. It was such a nice day. The weather really made me feel much more relaxed and happy. It was easy to look back at my experience here in Korea and smile at all the great people I had met...

I have about two more posts backlogged. Actually on the way home from Busan I started feeling sick and have been pretty much stuck at home since with the flu and have just now been able to really get out and about. More next time=^^=