Long time, no blog

For those of you that read my blog and use it as a way to check in on me, I'm very sorry. Things got busy, I left for Busan, and so blogging just got pushed down on the, "I'll do it later," list.

I lost my bank card. Yes, that's right, I lost it. I was grabing money out the atm before going to Dos Tacos, a Mexican restaurant, with Katie, and it wasn't in my wallet. I had to have Vincent write a note in Korean to explain that I lost my card and I needed a new one.

The first missed weekend is that of the 13th. Friday night I went to Pastor's. I had dinner with them and then Jason came over and we played cards. He ended up staying the night too. He also decided to push back rehersals. I got up the next morning and called my dad and wished him a happy birthday. I went and got a massage with Jason and we had lunch. Then we went to the church for the play. Pastor and I walked over to Starbucks and had a drink and a scone together. It was a nice walk and talk with him. Pastor Turner is really growing on me. I'm having to add him to my list of favorite Pastors. We did a run though for the play and then it was show time. It turned out very good. It was a really good play and Jason did a really great. So did the actors. We went out to dinner afterwards. Then Sunday I went over to SIBC for church. After church I went over to Hard Rock for lunch. That pretty much was my weekend.

That last week of work was kinda rough. I had to make tests for my afternoon class. This is something I absolutely hate doing, because I know there are assissment guides that have tests already made and we don't use them. I also had to do report cards. Tuesday, Kelly sat down with Katie and I and told us she doesn't like the way we teach 4th peroid, we shouldn't let the kids play and that we aren't strict enough on the kids. Kelly told us things needed to change or that there would be solutions. She was upset that we hadn't given her an outline yet. I told her I was working on it and had to stop to get the test and report cards done. She didn't like that answer. We told her if she didn't like what we were doing then she needed to give us a plan.

Thursday, I didn't feel well. I felt worn out and over run. So my body played sick and I went to and explained that I couldn't work and I needed to go home and rest. The only way that could happen was if I went to the hospital and saw the doctor there. He wasn't quite sure what to do with me. I wasn't really sick. I told him, I just need the day off. After that ordeal, I went home and slept. I felt better. The next day, we had our Christmas stuff with the kids. It was kinda like halloween, we each picked something to do with the kids and they rotated around to us. With the afternoon we were left to do whatever. Katie and I went to see Twilight. It was a good movie.
Then I went to Pastor's. The Singles' Christmas party was that weekend. Amber and I helped Gayle cook food again. Amber made pie. I made a corn dish. It was very good. We played a white elephant type game. Amanda got an aligator hat, and Jackie got the mouse mittens, I bought. It was a lot of fun. We just kinda hung out the rest of the night. Sunday, I went to church and then in the evening I went to help Suzanne. She was going home and I said I would help her to the airport. The way I looked at it was as practice for the things I'm thinking of doing later on.

Monday I said good-bye to Amanda and helped Suzanne to the airport. Tuesday, I went over to Amber's part of the city. We walked through a park and saw that they had set up an outdoor skating rink. Amber and I went skating. It was a lot fun. I've never been ice skating before. I had a good time and I only fell once. I hit kinda hard. My elbow ended up bothering me for about a day and a half. I went over to hang out with Amber because her school was putting on a Christmas concert. We hung out at her apartment until it was time to go. I had to take a taxi over to the place where they were singing. They did a very good job and it was nice.
Christmas eve, I watched Twilight agian and then went over to work to see if the package from my parents had come and it did. I opened it up. They got me a digital picture frame and loaded pictures on it. I thought that was sweet. They also sent nutty bars. There weren't any christmas pajamas though. It was a little upsetting not to get christmas pajamas, but I am 26 and I suppose I can't expect to get christmas pajamas for the rest of my life. I pack my overnight bag for 5 nights and headed up to Pastor.'s. My church wasn't having a Christmas eve service. I had dinner with Jason. On our way over to the church, I saw a huge pile of Christmas cakes. So I thought I would point out every time I saw a Christmas cake from then on in hopes that Jason would want to share a Christmas Cake with me. I must have said "Christmas cake" about twenty times before he caved in and went shopping for a Christmas cake. We got one from Baskin Robins. The lady asked us if it was here or to go and we said to go and then I looked a Jason and said "For here, we aren't pigs." Then we made our way over to the church. Pastor had a very nice service planned. One of his readers didn't show up, so he asked me if I would read and I did. After the service, Jason and I hid in the corner of the kitchen and ate our cake. We didn't eat it all, but we did eat a pretty good chunk of it. I went home with Gayle and Pastor.

The next morning, I got up and called my parents and talked with my family. Jason and I went to Seoul Sation and got a train ticket to Busan. We went first class. We got into Busan at almost 3:00. We found a place to stay and found some dinner. We had an hour wait for dinner, so we went and walked on the beach for half of that. It was very beautiful.

Friday, we went to the Vesta Spa. We had to go on different floors to soak and sauna. Then we went and got a massage and then soaked again. Afterwards we went back to the beach. Jason wanted to sit in the Starbucks and read, so I went over to the aquirmaum. It was a nice one and it's underground too, which is really neat. Then I went and put my feet in the water. It was cold, but I loved putting my feet into the water. I'm in love with beach towns, they are awesome!
Saturday, Jason and I walked along the beach and then to this park. It was a nice little walk and I had to do a little climbing. As we walked along the path, we came upon the APEC house. It's this big confernce room building. It was very pretty. After that, I went off on my own again. I found this hike that had two waterfalls and two shrines, so I walked that. Afterwards, I walked around looking for a market, but I found the subway instead, so I took the subway back to where I was staying. I walked around there. Then I went over to PC room and checked my online stuff and then started the blog. We had dinner and then bought fireworks at "Buy the Way" (think cicle k) and set fireworks off on the beach. We made sure we far from the "no lighting fireworks on the beach" sign and other people.

Sunday, we had breakfast, we caught a taxi back to Busan station and then caught a train back to Seoul. We had lunch together and then parted ways. I dropped my stuff off at home and then went out to Yongsan. I bought myself and ipod touch for Christmas. Then I walked around Myeong-Dong and looked at stuff. I bought another hat, scarf and mittens. I went back home, to realize that many of the songs I have on my ipod aren't on my computer, so I need to figure out how to transfer songs from my ipod to the computer, I found some free trail programs, but they only let you do 5 songs, and I have a good chunk to transfer, so if you have any suggestion please let me know.