Monthly Archives: February 2010

In case you started to forget (because I almost have), I ammmm still a teacher. The kids came back for about a week, but there were no English classes so I just played games outside with them, got bombarded by the 5th grade fan club during every break, and had the usual daily daycare. Now &hellip Continue reading »

Winter and spring are warring over the month of February, so every day is a surprise. One day it’s nice enough for a sweatshirt and outdoor dodgeball, and the next morning I’ll wake up to ice and a blizzard and spend the afternoon making snowmen. It’s confusing, and impossible to be organized and lay out &hellip Continue reading »

Andddd for the final installment of the trip— VIETNAM!!!! What a magical place. We flew into Ho Chi Minh Sunday night, found a hotel on Bui Vien (the Ho Chi Minh version of Khaosan) and then spent the next 5 days cruising around southern Vietnam. On Monday we met 2 tour guides named Day and &hellip Continue reading »

Welcome to Ko Phi Phi (ko-pee-pee), the land of beautiful beaches, endless buckets, and all night beach parties like you’ve never seen before. This was the definite VACATION portion of the trip, where we did nothing productive or cultural and spent all of our time playing, swimming, soaking up the sun, drinking more fruit shakes, &hellip Continue reading »

After 4 days in the big city, it was time to head south to the land of the beaches. Our first stop was PHUKET (pronounced poo-kett, although I know you realllly want to say it the other way). We flew in Wednesday night and stayed until Friday afternoon. It’s really famous as a tourist destination, &hellip Continue reading »

The first stop on the magical vacation of Chrissy and Beenish was BANGKOK, THAILAND. Thailand is a place I’ve wanted to go for at least the past decade (I was a weird 12 year old), so living in Korea and having it be soo cheap to get there is like dream come true. Bangkok is &hellip Continue reading »