Chrissy Renae

Three whole days without a post?? AHHHHH.

The truth is I’m at that weird point in a trip… the point where suddenly it’s not really a trip anymore. Everything starts to feel more normal, and I begin to feel all settled in, and the WOW moments start to happen a little less frequently. And I still laugh and smile and am happy just as much, but that new feeling starts to fade, and I feel more like I’m at home than away.

Every time I move somewhere new I go through this same pattern, but I forget everytime until it starts to happen again. So I am still in love with Korea, but the AHA I SHOULD BLOG ABOUT THAT thoughts are not coming as naturally, so I’m going to have to work a little harder to keep you entertained.

This weekend was great, although mostly chill. Friday night we went out with a big group of us for dinner and then KARAOKE all night, and that was really really fun. The only problem is it reignited my cold and so I put myself on bed rest for the majority of the remaining weekend. So I don’t really have much excitement to report from Saturday or Sunday. I deep cleaned my house, finished Three Cups of Tea (I think I’ll pay homage to that book with its own separate blog post later), experimented a little in the kitchen, and gave myself a facial. Pretty exciting, I told you.

Monday was my first FULL DAY of teaching. Although I was technically a teacher already last week, most of my classes were cancelled due to random interferences, so it didn’t really feel like a real week. But this week, we’re back on track and I just finished Day 2 of classes allllllll day. I love all of my students. Even the annoying ones and loud ones and shy ones. They are so patient with my inability to speak Korean, and they laugh at my awesome dance moves and quirky sign language. Sometimes it is realllly frustrating when Mrs Kim is not there and I can’t communicate with them and my hand motions aren’t doing the trick. Language and being able to talk to each other are things we really take for granted… so to have that just taken away when I’m working with these students and all my co-workers makes me so mad sometimes! Especially when I want to tell them how awesome they are or express my appreciation for them. Hopefully they can just feel it.

There are only 3 weeks left of classes, and then it will be winter vacation for the following six weeks. Rough, I know. I’ll have english camp for a few weeks of that, but the rest I am free to do pretty much whatever I want. So I will hopefully take some vacation time in there and get to go on a trip. WHERE SHOULD I GO?

my friends here are awesome

beenish the canadian

this is our attempt at karaoke