Well hello and welcome to my awesome adventure! I have been in Korea for two weeks and there is just too much to remember. If you really want to know all the details, call my mom. But from now on, I will keep you in the know. It's somewhat hard to believe that people would actually want to read about what's going on here with me. Korea seems so odd and far away; but once you're here, it's not that strange anymore. Well...there is way too much rice and the toilets are a bit uncomfortable (basically tiny, mini, toilets on the ground. You have to squat to use them) and loads of sharing and gifts. If you don't mind trying new things, then the food is amazing. Hence me gaining 10 pounds already. The women are way to gorgeous! But then again...so are the men. They're like little, pretty model boys. Image means alot to them. Someone told me that if they had $100, $90 of it would go towards their appearance. Soooo...I'm pretty much out of style then. And their kindness is out of this world. They will drop everything to help you. My faculty will be running around busy and I'll say "where do I go for paper?" and they'll drop what they're doing and actually go with me. And just simply paper is not good enough; they offer you thick paper, thin paper, blue paper, silk paper, whatever you want, they'll get it. It has to be exactly if not exceed what you wanted. And they share everything. If you go in public with a bag of peanuts, expect to share it. Otherwise you're being rude and selfish. So now when I buy things, I have to think about when I'll be consuming it. Will I be around people? If so, then I need to buy triple the amount. But at the same time, they will give, give, give and then never let you buy them even a cup of coffee. So I'm still a bit confused on the giving rules.

So, I basically live in a mountain village. There's 20,000 people and no movie theater, bowling alley, or even a proper market. But it is absolutely beautiful. I will be posting pictures soon so there will be no way that you can argue with me. I live right by a river, which is hardly running now, but in the spring people come here to go white water rafting. You better believe I'll be doing that! And there's a running/walking/biking path right along the river so it makes your run/walk/ride so relaxing (even though you're sweating like mad). I'm also 40 minutes away from the beach, on the Sea of Japan. The other side has the Yellow sea, which is about 3.5 hours away from me. I'm close to the ocean! How crazy?! Although, living on Lake Superior for 4 years kinda got me used to the idea of living by the ocean. Ok, well I think 'verambled on enough for now. Like I said, I'll go more into the personal details later. But for now, I hope you enjoyed my 1/2 novel of how crazy nice the country and it's people are.