Everland

This week was crappy, but today was a blast! Since I lost pretty much everything I own, I couldn't wear make up to work and felt gross all week, and I wasted another night of my life going back up to Seoul to hunt down my backpack. I talked to a few bartenders but no luck. I offered 50,000 won and a round of shots if they found it, but still no luck! Then I got sick, probably from a lack of sleep and spending hours in the pouring rain, which made work really hard! I love my students and all, but oh my god I can’t stand them when I am sick. When you teach kindergarten you have to be on all of the time. Its so much energy to get the kids excited about learning, or to calm them down when all they want to do is run around like maniacs. I kept trying to tell my kids that teacher is sick so they need to be really good and quiet, but it didn't register so I was forced to yell a few times. I absolutely hate yelling at my students. The last thing I want is for them to think I am mean or scary, but this week I just reached the end of my patience. I don't know if something was in their juice, or if I was just on edge because I was so sick, but the kids got so bad that I asked my Korean co-teacher to talk to them for me. Mimi and Amy both cried cause they thought I didn't like them. I felt really bad! But at least I got them to shut up! Haha. Wow, I sound really mean right now, but if you have ever had kids or had to babysit 8 to 13 kids for eight hours a day when you were mentally and physically exhausted, you would go nuts too! All I kept talking about this week was how I NEVER EVER ever want to have kids!

The only great thing about having such hectic workdays is how fast the weeks fly! Its like I blink and it’s already Friday! Cant say hi hate it, but its already our three month mark this week and I cant believe it! Its like every week goes by faster than the last one! This Friday we had a potluck with all of the foreign teachers. Our new boy, Josh, made invitations and we all picked out what were going to make for the party. It was sorta cute for all of us to have the doors open and walk up and down the hallway helping each other chop veggies and cook food. The soju was probably a bad idea though, cause all of were having too much fun, got distracted and burnt Katie and Josh’s kabobs to hell. It was a disaster! Katie doesn't ever cook and we all spent so much money on the ingredients, so she was really upset, almost in tears over the kabobs. Funny stuff. The night was a success and it was really nice to bond with the other teacher outside of work. We all get along really well, but Katie, Tia, Amy and I don't spend a lot of time with Josh, Rhonda and Sarah outside of work much. I had a lot of fun, especially eating! Yum! ;-)

We spent all day yesterday relaxing, catching up on emails, having girl time painting our nails and talking about the night before. It was so nice to just relax for the day to save all of our energy up for our day at Everland today!!! Everland is the Korean Disneyland and SO MUCH FUN!!!! Amy is 26 and it was her very first amusement park! Can you believe that??
The weather was beautiful and the rides were awesome. My favorite was the giant wooden roller coaster the T- Express. It went straight down and up-side down and super fast! I was stoked for it when we were in line but once the coaster started creeping uphill I began to get really freaked out saying I didn't want to do it anymore. Then after the two minutes of an intense adrenaline rush, I was liberated and ready to go again! I have been on some crazy roller coasters in my lifetime, and this one definitely exceeded my expectations! It was awesome! I wish I could stay at the park without anyone around and keep going back on it over and over again! The wait was about an hour, but we felt it was worth it, so we went back for round two. Tia and I sat in the very front and I ended up buying the picture it took of us because it was so hilarious. The Koreans sitting behind us looked terrified, I just had to have it!

The rollercoaster was pretty much the highlight of the day, other than the corn dogs- yumm!- and the area of the park that resembled a little Europe. Seeing the tiny shops that looked as if they were straight from Amsterdam and Germany, other than the fact that they were swarmed by Koreans, made me miss Europe so much! I can’t wait to go back! We took some nice group shots, ate lots of ice cream and had fun day in the sun! I cant wait to get back to class and tell all of my students about my day at Everland. They are going to be so jealous!!