Stacy Rae

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Henderson, Nevada, United States
This blog is about my journey to Korea! While I am there I will be teaching conversational English and living in two different Korean homes. This is a once in a lifetime chance to go on an adventure across the world! I am SO blessed!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Caribbean Bay

We left the house at 6am to head to this amazing Water Park! Imagine Wet n Wild and then times that by 3! That is how big this place is! The park was about 2 hours away from there house so we left early to get there when the park opened. Funny, here in Korea even though there is thunder/lighting/rain...they don't shut the park down! SERIOUSLY! All day it was overcast and rainy! But it made it a million times better!

On our way there my family stopped to get breakfast. Normally its like breakfast burritos from Del Taco or Fausto's right...? Well here they have Kimbop! haha so funny! The wave pool here is SO much fun! I am positive that the park was at full capacity too! There were so many people in that wave pool that everywhere I turned there was someone in my personal bubble. Anyways here are some photos of my great time! Oh and I was able to take these photos because my Uppa got me this pouch that is water proof so I put my camera in it! AMAZING!



















Good Bye Jawoon Elementary

Friday was my last day at Jawoon Elementary! I was so happy to be done but sad at the same time. I am really going to miss the students and the teachers. Ms. Lee started to tear up when I gave her a good bye hug. It was sad. But here is a picture of my second class.


This girl Jasmine wrote me this cute little card and made a little envelope out of paper and tape and put some paper soap in it. She is so sweet! Made me so happy to know that these kids love me! Oh and as a gift the school got Sky, Judit, and I this really nice picture frame with a pencil case and Korean key chain!


Friday night my family took me to play some Korean Traditional instruments! Apparently this instructor is famous in Korea. She is the best of the best! I got to play, it was so exciting! One of the old Korean ladies goes tap it like a boys butt! referring to smacking the instrument! We were all laughing! Whats even more funny is she said it in Korean and then InJae (13 year old boy) told me in English! He was laughing so hard!


Thursday, August 12, 2010

Tae Kwon Do in Korea! =]

It doesn't get any better than learning/doing Tae Kwon Do in Korea. WITH...National Champions (which might I add were ALL younger than me!)

I had such a blast! I even got to break wood! Check out my video-
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1089398286&v=app_2392950137#!/video/video.php?v=1366746443919

Here are some pictures of our night! ps...its way harder than it looks! ^^







Tonight was such a great experience! Oh and my host mom is a publisher for a smaller newspaper here in Dobong. She is putting the first picture on this post in the paper. She is also writing something on me too! :) how cool is that!?

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

veggies-cards-tea

Tonight was a blast! Judit text-ed me to see what I was doing. She wanted to get out of the house, no one was home at her house. So I asked my host mom if she could come over. She said yes, please! Well my Umma was just starting to cook dinner. When Judit got here she goes,"NO MEAT, just veggies!" Because Judit is a vegetarian. It was hilarious because InJae hates veggies! He LOVES meat! Dinner was really good though!

Afterwards we started to play a card game. InJae taught us how to play 1 card. Guess what game it is exactly like? ...Yep, UNO! It was a lot of fun! The Queens were reverse, the Jacks were Skip, The black/white Joker was Draw 5, the colored Joker was Draw 10, the Ace was Draw 3, and the Two was Draw 2 cards. When you get down to one card you have to say 1 card or you have to draw 5 cards. After playing a few times- Judit and I taught InJae how to play BS. HE LOVED IT! FYI- I won all three games! :) While we were playing Umma made us some Chinese Tea. We were dying laughing the whole time and just having SO much fun!

After BS, Uppa (Dad in Korean) Took Judit home. Well every night InJae gets a phone call at 9:40pm. He talks to a Native English speaker for 10-15 minutes to practice his English. She called on our way out the door. Well as we are in the car he is on the phone with her telling her about his day. He begins to tell the lady that he played cards with his sister and sisters friend. They he tells her we played BS. As he is telling her he turns around and says, "Whats that mean? B...S...?" Judit and I were laughing SO hard. We were like Bull Shit. haha But don't say that word. Use the abbreviation! and he gets back on the phone and goes, you know the game, ...Burrrrr shit? and we simultaneously go- BULL...with an L. He had to have said it 5 times in a row to her. Right after explaining the games- he goes oh and we were drinking. You could hear the concern from the teacher. She started asking him questions because InJae goes, yeah they are both Women, Adults. I was thinking, oh my gosh this teacher probably thinks we are such a bad influence on him! I go- InJae, tell her what we were drinking!! InJae goes, "Oh NO! We no drink beer or soju! Just TEA!"

After dropping Judit off InJae goes, "I am hungry! Lets eat some meat!" They normally have meat with every meal here, and since Judit was over we had nothing but vegetables! So sure enough its 10pm and my Uppa stops and a Chicken and Hof place right down the street from our house.

After that we were on our way up to the apartment. I was telling them that tomorrow I am going to go to a Tae Kwon Do class. When we got up to the apartement they started showing me some moves. Well Uppa tried one on InJae. Lets just say InJae fell to the ground and laid there for a good 4 mins. He was SO pissed at his dad. And I ...I couldn't hold in the laughter- I felt so bad, but the dad started laughing too, and it made me laugh!

It was a great night!

ps...Last night apparently Korea had a small Hurricane. It did rain very hard and a lot of rain! I am so glad nothing drastic happened!

Penguins-Sea Horses-ART work- and a beautiful view of Seoul

So Sunday my host Umma asked me what I would like to do in Seoul. I heard everyone talking about how cool the 63 Building is so I said I kinda want to check out the 63 Building. Not knowing anything about it really. Just that it was the tallest building in Seould (which there are TONS of high rise buildings here) But yeah my Umma was so excited because she had never been either! When I got there she bought me, InJae, and herself tickets to go to "Sea World" a 3D Moive, and the the Top Sky View/Art Gallery. I had such a great time! Oh and InJae taught me some really fun Traditional Korean Games! I can't wait to teach you all!

This was my favorite one!


Can you believe that they had a picture of me in the art gallery?
HAHAHA!