jeju do etc etc

For Chuseok (korean thanksgiving) we headed off to Jeju-Do, a small island 5 hours ferry ride off the coast of Korea. When we arrived in Jeju do (which is supposed to be a tropical paradise) it was gray and rainy and nothing at all like what we expected. Everyone told us that jeju is unlike any place in korea blahblahlbhahb but i swear to you, every town that i have been in, in korea, looks exactly the same. Little coloured apartments from the late 70's lining the road with 3 convenient stores, 6 restaurants and something else mixed in. well, i'm exaggerating a bit, but seriously, the towns in jeju looked just like the towns i had been in that morning before catching the ferry, so it was bit of a surprise. So off we went anyway on our adventure around the island. We took a bus through the north coast and stayed at a little village on the north east side where there was a volcanic crater that you could hike up and see. it was pretty interesting and beautiful, but there were also loud speakers everywhere!! And they were pumping out bad bad bad music (like chim chimmy chim chim from mary poppins!). We hitched a ride with a nice family in a large car and got them to take us down the east coast and to a traditional korean village. In July, a few of us went to a very well known korean traditional

Village near Andong in the center of Korea, there we stayed with a little grandmother who owned a minbak (a small room for rent). That traditional village was really touristy and even though there were koreans living and working and doing their thing in the village, it still felt like it was ok to be there as a tourist. THIS village on jeju do was pretty much the opposite. Even though we saw a tour group being led around, we felt sooooo intrusive like we were invasive and didn't feel like we should be there at all. So off we go again hitchhiking to another area where there were lava tubes under the ground (oh did i mention that this used to be a volcanic island). These tubes where giant hollowed out caves that the lave created (i'm guessing here i really don't have much of an idea) so we were able to go inside them and walk around. Of course they were spectacular, so huge cold and wet and very interesting looking but of course of course there were the speakers!!! blaring music (this time bossanova maybe for those that didn't appreciate the earlier mary poppins music) and coloured neon lights everywhere! bahhhhhhhhhhhh. Why does this happen here? It feels like things are dressed up in the most ridiculous way. Anyway  from there we hitch hike some more, because this was a week ago i can't even remember now what people picked us up. But someone did and they brought us to a little town on the south coast where we rented bikes and started biking around the south side

of the island. I just have to insert something here that is driving me nuts... BLOGGER I HATE YOU! these templates suck and i wish i remember how to do html so i didn't need to use them because i can't get the pictures to go where i want them to go EVEN THOUGH there is this drag function! bahhhhhhhh.... sorry.... ok... island, hitch hiking biking and we find ourselves on a beautiful beach where we camped for the night and swam in the morning. I felt soooo lucky at this point! Being on a beach at the end of September, swimming in the salty ocean getting new freckles, being with the boy that i'm in love with etc etc, but as soon as we started biking the next day that high wore off, but really onlyyyy when biking uphill! biking down hill was like having renewed faith in myself and mankind and not thinking about how much i hate biking or how out of shape i must be. my uphill biking thoughts along with, ohhh where are the shards of glass on the road, i'm going to pop my tired and then i don't have to do this.

another interjection that this template sucks and i can't move the picture below to the right friggen side of the screen! aughhhh...

Anyway..... that's it for jeju do/our last vacation from school.  11 more weeks kids and im done. 

 i really don't feel like i'm ready to leave korea, but ohhhh my god am i ready to leave my freaking job. 

Also I have finally made some gym friends. After three months at the gym someone finally talked to me  My gym is not frequented by foreigners so it was a tuff one to make friends at.  Anyway, one new friend is my hot yoga instructor (who i totally think is a lesbo but she tells me she loves men....hrm...) and the other one is a girl from the yoga class. We three hung out this week and even though there is a language barrier, we ended up talking for hours.

 All right, it's Saturday and i'm off to the gyno!

god speed.