Holiday Planning, Packages from home, 'hiking' and Ryans Birthday......Week 12

On Tuesday we finished school early to have some 'cultural time' - this happens once a month - last month we went to a temple which was cool.
However it was cold this week..... so we went to a coffee shop and had milkshakes....

Matt had an issue with ordering and ended up with a kids drink (fruit loops included)

I was happy to leave school early......buttttt my FedEx parcel was on it's way and I was desperatly hoping it would get there before I left school.....but I was being unrealistic.

In all fairness it left England on Friday and arrived at my school late Tuesday afternoon - pretty good work Parcels2go!

So my parcel arrived whilst I was out....so I knew it would be there waiting for me the next morning.

Wednesday I pretty much ran to school - and was not disappointed with my parcel!! Thanks mum and dadddd <3 <3 <3 <3

Wednesday night - Grace, Alicia and Nina came round and our plan was to talk about what we were going to do over our school vacation - buttt not everyone had their dates confirmed so we basically just spent our time drinking and stalking our friends on facebook....... productive.

However we have decided on a location........ The Philippines......
I will chat more about this when I have my dates confirmed and my flights booked as I don't want to jinx anything!!

On Thursday - on of the coteachers at my school was doing a lesson on different ways to say hello and I ended up helping how to speak 'pirate' - helping with the correct prounciation of - Arrgghhh - Ahoy Matey. Yes, this is my real job...haha.

Friday was a strange day.
We had to go and watch an open class to rate and review another epik teachers lesson (she will be doing the same to us next Monday) - and well things were not as expected.
1) We got the time wrong - we thought the lesson was at 11 something - it was at 9. (so we watched a video of the lesson instead)
2) We nearly hit a man on a moterbike getting there.
3) After the lesson (if you are my principal - look away now - nothing to see here) - we decided that we didn't want to go back to class (me, matt and three of my coteachers had come along to the open class) - so we went for a drive and then had a walk down where the trees were all pretty and took some photos.

 

I arrived early to a lesson and I generally play some English songs when this happens - they asked for Boney M - Sunny - and started doing a dance haha....cuties.

Morning glory Christmas socks. Good one Korea.

We had decided to do something productive with our Satuday and go for a hike.

So we all met at DongDaegu bus terminal - then realised we had to go to a bus stop just around the corner - setting off a bit later than expected - we arrived at Mt Palgongsan.

We all decided that we wanted to see the giant buddah and were all ready for a big hike.
It turned out to be a short stroll.

We were given some 'delicious' free food

 We then had a picnic.

 We saw the Buddah.

We maybe pushed some kids off the swings.

Realised it was getting late and we should go back if we wanted to get ready for Ryans Birthday party.
Next time our hiking will be more successful.....I'm sure.

I went straight to Cats - as standardly I had packed a dress in my hiking bag (always prepared) and planned on leaving my stuff at hers, sleeping there, and taking my stuff home in the morning. Jagermeister had other ideas.

We went to 'From B!' for Ryans Birthday - again Jager was only £15 (30,000won) a bottle - I decided to make the most of this........

Cue me taking a taxi back to Chilgok a couple of hours later - managing to delete 50% of my contacts on my phone so had no idea who anyone was - drunkenly eating grapes in bed - which I then dropped on the floor and stood on when I had to make a quick exit to the bathroom in the morning.

Vom. Vom. Vom.

Sunday was not a good day.

Def worst Korean hangover so far. It really made me wish that I was back in Newcastle and able to share my hangover with other people - where there was no need to have to talk to the other person (talking would have killed me) - but just knowing someone else is there dying with you too....and both fighting for the bathroom - and being able to order food online.

I knew eating would make me feel soooo much better. But I had the issue that I couldn't get out of bed. I tried to make toast twice.....but burnt it on both occasions as well my body wanted to vom again. Thanks.

Around 6pm I finally started to feel like I could stand up...... April helped saved my life by coming with me to the Indian restaurant...... we ate......a lot. The fresh air and food made me feel sooooo much better. So we then went for milkshakes and cake.

We saw an interesting Restaurant name ....Cock into the garden.

Haha I failed at doing Jillian Michaels on Sunday - I had been so good the rest of the week - and I ate sooo much food and cake -  but my stomach was pretty empty after spending all day being **ill*** so hey - it's allowed.

I bought my teachers a Pepero set, as the 11/11 is not only Rememberance day..... but Pepero day.... imagine a 'Mars Bar day' or a 'Galaxy Caramel Day' - rumour has it if you eat Pepero on this day - you might turn out tall and skinny.

Getting skinny by eating chocolate - sounds legit.