School's Out for Summer

... at least for a week.

After working hard for the past seven months, my first (and only) vacation is finally here. I'm packed and ready for bed, but all of the excitement is keeping me up. Tomorrow we're catching the subway at 7 a.m. and then taking the KTX from Daejeon to Busan. Our first flight is from Busan to Beijing, we have a five hour layover in Beijing, and then we'll finally arrive in Bangkok late Saturday night. The plan is to stay in Bangkok for three days and then go to the islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Samui. I'll be internet-less and going through total Twitter and Facebook withdrawal over the next week, but I'll catch up with everyone when I'm back. Peace.

H2O Fail

I forgot to mention another thing I saw at MudFest. When we were swimming in the sea (under the sea, dodododooo), I noticed a Korean man floating next to me wearing a bright yellow poncho. I mean, is that really going to keep you dry in the water?! I don't think so.

Cup of Noodles

Today in one of my upper level classes we started talking about the upcoming break. A boy (actually the only student in that class ha) asked me what I was doing for my vacation. I told him I was going to Thailand and I was really looking forward to it. He has been to Thailand before and had some good suggestions for me.

The best one, happened to be about Thai food. I crave 'Sy Thai' on a daily basis (best chicken pad thai ever!) and I'm assuming authentic chicken pad thai is even better. However, he told me that Thailand had the worst food. He was so worried about me not liking the food there, so he told me to pack some ramen and just add hot water to it. I'm not planning on following his advice, so hopefully I won't regret it once I'm there.

Into the Wild

Today I asked Eddy how his bug was doing. He literally looked like he was about to cry when I mentioned it and he said that he let it go outside. How thoughtful. I hope he finds another one soon and I have confidence that he will.

"All I want is a pink dolphin!"

So last weekend was a huge tourist trap that I obviously got sucked into. There were all of these carnival games set up and the most important part of the games are clearly the prizes. There was this one game where you had to throw a baseball at four wooden blocks and if you knocked them all down in one shot, you won the.best.prize.ever.

*A life sized, crushed velvet, baby pink dolphin!*

It had my name written all over it, so I attempted, not once, not twice, but well, I forget how many times I tried, but I lost every time. I tried to bribe people on the street to throw the ball for me and I even offered the man money just for the dolphin, but no luck. I just wanted a pink dolphin, but instead I ended up with a small blue one. Oh well, maybe next time, actually I'm still not over it.

MudFestivities Pt. 2

Day 2: Right after being painted.

Classic jumping pose.

Right after, Gretchen and I went down the slide.

Best hats ever. They were actually really heavy. I stole them off of some guys who were passing out flyers.

Boryeong beach had the best places for photo ops. Love it.

MudFestivities Pt. 1

Please take note of the photo bomber in the background.

Oh ya know, just a man covered in blue mud.

Sarah and some of her muddy co-workers.

M-U-D

So muddy.