An update...FINALLY!! It's been awhile since our last post and a lot has happened! We hit our 6 month mark this week. I know we say this every update but time sure is flying by!
I celebrated my birthday at the end of June. Being away from home for a birthday is hard but celebrating it in Korea made it so special. Keeping the tradition alive, I celebrated for three days! Lot's of food, presents, packages from home, and our first Korean baseball game. Koreans sure do love their baseball!! Busan's baseball team is the Lotte Giants and Adam got us tickets in the "Danger Zone". This meant we were as close to the field as you can get along the first base line. It also meant we had to sign a paper waiving liabilities for any foul balls to the head... EXCITING!! We only had one close call which lead to a hole in my poncho. Instead of feasting on hotdogs, their food of choice is chicken! Delicious chicken I might add. Despite the rain, the stadium was packed with enthusiastic Koreans and a cheer/dance team pumping up the crowd in between innings. Along with the baseball game, Adam also got me a happy tree that we named... Happy. The tree is growing so much everyday.
July was the last month of the semester and as the teachers were finishing up their work we were preparing lessons for Summer Camp. Summer break is 6 weeks long and we have to hold an English camp for 3 of those weeks. The weekend before the last week of school, we went to the 14th annual Boryeong Mud Festival. This festival started as an event to spread word about the cosmetic benefits of this mud and has now turned into one of Korea's biggest festivals. The main idea was to get as muddy as possible. They had a mud prison, mud obstacle courses, mud sinks with paintbrushes, wrestling ring and then the ocean a few feet away to wash off and start all over again :). The night ended with a lovely firework show. This was a perfect way to celebrate the end the semester.
We are now finishing up our last week before our vacation. I had 3 weeks straight of camp and then this week I'm just sitting around and reading to any students who want to listen :). Adam had a week of camp, one week of sitting around, and then two more weeks of summer camp. We leave Friday for Phuket, Thailand and then to Bali, Indonesia. We have been planning this trip for so long, it's hard to believe it's already here!
Adam and I started walking at night which has allowed us to explore more of the area we live in. Something I love about Busan are the streams in the middle of the city. There are tracks along the stream with exercise equipment every mile or so. It is so peaceful that you forget you are living in a big city. Last week we were on our walk when we heard a loud crying from a bush. We searched and searched and finally we saw a black kitten but couldn't get to her because the bushes were too thick. She looked so scared that we couldn't leave her. An hour and a half and plenty of bug bites later we managed to rescue the kitty. We brought her home, washed her, fed her (tuna...not a good idea), and built her own little room in hopes that we could find someone to take her. After a few days and real kitten food she got very comfortable with us. She looks a lot healthier from when we first found her and definitely more playful. She is the most loving kitten and loves to snuggle and rub her face against ours. It is nice to have that love from an animal since we miss our pets back home. Unfortunately we are not able to keep her because of our situation so we are in the middle of trying to find her a good and loving home.
Now it's off to Thailand!! We will update the blog early september and we will try to write more these next 6 months ;). We love you all and miss you terribly.
Adam and I started walking at night which has allowed us to explore more of the area we live in. Something I love about Busan are the streams in the middle of the city. There are tracks along the stream with exercise equipment every mile or so. It is so peaceful that you forget you are living in a big city. Last week we were on our walk when we heard a loud crying from a bush. We searched and searched and finally we saw a black kitten but couldn't get to her because the bushes were too thick. She looked so scared that we couldn't leave her. An hour and a half and plenty of bug bites later we managed to rescue the kitty. We brought her home, washed her, fed her (tuna...not a good idea), and built her own little room in hopes that we could find someone to take her. After a few days and real kitten food she got very comfortable with us. She looks a lot healthier from when we first found her and definitely more playful. She is the most loving kitten and loves to snuggle and rub her face against ours. It is nice to have that love from an animal since we miss our pets back home. Unfortunately we are not able to keep her because of our situation so we are in the middle of trying to find her a good and loving home.
Now it's off to Thailand!! We will update the blog early september and we will try to write more these next 6 months ;). We love you all and miss you terribly.
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