Wow, it's been a long time!

Hey, to anyone that reads my blog.... it's been a loooong time since I have updated or made any post.
Nothing much on this end. Korea still feels like home (I've been here 3 years).
I have been getting healthy and exercising a lot more. Never thought I could pull it off. I started to run about 3 years ago, off and on, but never liked. In fact, I hated running. Then, when we moved from Konkuk Uni area (Gwangjin-gu) to 10 mins walk down from Itaewon Station (Yongsan-gu), I was closer to everything. Including an English speaking gym, at Noksapyeong Station, with personal trainers and group fitness. AW-SOME by the way.

I started fully exercising in May 2011. I started with Zumba on a Tuesday (unfortunately, my zumba instructor went back to Hawaii with her husband recently and I no longer have zumba.) and the went to the foreigner's gym on a Wednesday.  (I remember this because Zumba was on Tue/Thurs and Condition/GX was on Mon and Wednesdays. Both were awesome and I started to lose some fat and see a lot of changes in my body.

Come around August 2011, I started to watch what I eat and try to cut out junk food. I did very good until Halloween came around.

This is a test

This is a test to see if I can send blog posts from my iPod touch.
Next time I am on blogger, I will delete this message... Maybe.

Love Katie

P.s also adding a picture

p.p.s I found out that I can also edit from my Ipod touchs browser... But only on HTML mode, I think because I couldn't get the keyboard to come up on compose mode...

Today, I slept until 12:30pm

Today, I slept until 12:30pm, played on my computer all day, ate pizza
from mr.pizza, played on computer again and now I'm bored. I want to
study but my brain feels fried and I don't have the enthusiasm to
study at home, I'd rather go to a cafe. Maybe I'll do that but ...
It's 7:30pm.

Omg what should I do...

Now it's 12am soon. I am on my iPod right now, because I have nothing
else to do as I cannot sleep. Gah. What should I write about?
I hope I win that draw for that magazines and crochet hooks. I really
can't find my only one.

Sent from my iPod

P.S = I didn't win :( Maybe next time

오늘은 좋아~

Hello world,
Today is a good day! All the teachers helped out but eveN thought it's
ok at Id a little and once in a while, I'm still going to quit because
it's really tiring. I really hate all the yuchiwon that gloria gave me
at nowon station. I think this station is bad luck :(
So bad!! 너무 나빠요 !! ㅋㅋㅋ

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이쪽으로 보세요

As I am waiting to cross the street at ssangmun station there is a
taxi blocking the side street and a cop across the first cross walk.
(this is a four lane, one way street - two for cars, two for bus)
Since it's a green light, no one can cross, not even the traffic
police, he whistles to him and yells "아저씨!" a couple times. The taxi
driver is clearly ignoring him, soI think in my head, 'should I help
the police guy ?'
I think the odds, by the time the police gets to cross the street, he
won't be able to give him a ticket because, he'll drive off. So it's
ok to help.

I knock on the passenger door and point to the other side, as at first
I forgot what to say, and he didn't know what I was doing pointing.
Then I saw, "이쪽으로 보세요" and he looks to where my finger points
and sees the police and then drives off.
The police kinda laughs and nods his head in thanks. ㅋㅋㅋ

Although then, it sounds so right and it was the first thing that came
to my head. Now that I think about it and read it, I should have said 저
쪽으로
ㅡㅡ
I think.

Funny thing I saw in the subway:
지하철 의자는 추구골대가 아닙니다
And the guys legs were wide open as a goal post in the picture, with a
ball going towards him.

오프사이드 반칙은 싫어요
And a picture of a guy running really fast out the train with a ball

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Shoes

My pink shoes don't match my yellow shirt and they are getting really
ugly.

There is a weird curly hair foreigner in the seat across from me and
he looks exactly like one of those stupid ones that are here because
they can't do anything in their own country. But he kept looking at
me, even still as I walk passed the outside of the train.

ughhhh so gross.

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July 1st - New hair cut + 3 things

3 things:

1) Completely forgot about Canada day.

2) Completely forgot about Independence day

3) Got a new hair cut and some new clothes!

Today is an okay day.

Today is an okay day. My classes at oz were really good but I am
totally glad that colours are over!! That was the most boring and most
annoying theme. I never want to to it again ( with korean
kindergarteners, at least) but I know I will have to do it again next
year.
I must think of some better games because my ice cream pieces are
broken. But I will be much easier when I have a real job in Canada for
preschool because then I cab actually teach writing and to fun crafts
<3<3

My train ride is always long to oz but it's always worth it. I think I
should try to get the owner to hire me personally so I can get rid of
Gloria, somehow, slowly.

I also have to talk to HoJun's dad, if he wants to keep me a little
longer but without her. It would save him a lot of money. I should
really learn the proper words in Korean for getting a tutoring job by
myself. Or something else while I try to start studying for my ece
course that I will do one day. <3 I should start the paper work.

One thing that I wish the iPod touch had was a replacable battery
because I use it so much, the battery dies so quickly :(

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Level 3

I guess i shall be going to level three at the kongbubang. Wish me
luck because I heard it's not fun like sanghyun's awesome class. It's
mostly in just korean, so that will be a Wonderful challenge. But it
will also help me talk more with my lovely oppa.
I believe i can do it! And also. Antti is in the class. He's like the
only buddy in Korea. I like finish people, they are fun and nice -almost like
us canadians, just so laid back and chill. Maybe I could visit Finland
one day if he end up going back there, with Jang ik of course.

Today, work fucking sucked. These expiraments are really impossible
for these kids. Maybe I should find a kindy job teaching art or
cooking. Cooking would be super fun!

The man beside me smells like rotten vinegar or just really old sushi
rice. XP it's so gross. And he is kinda sleeping on me!!!!! >___< I'm
going to die here on this subway. Someone save me! Yeah he is smelly
because he spilled somethig nasty on his shirt. It looks really gross.

And the other guy beside me was tryingto get something out of his bag
and kept hitting in the boob with his elbow. I really dislike sitting
beside full grown weirdo ahjossi, I gets squished and they smell
funny. -_-;

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June 27 - 대한민국 파이팅!

Yesterday, Jang ik and I went to Ttukseom Resort because there were having a viewing of the FIFA 2010 world cup S. Korea against Uruguay. We lost! :(

But it was fun and everyone was Cheering a lot!!

Jang Ik's best friend from Elementary School (meaning they knew each other since Elementary School) came with us.

We ate doughnuts, kimbab and chips and pop! yay!

There were several acts, including the group f(x). Although Amber (the taiwanese-american girl that can't actually speak much Korean, but she is my favourite) was missing because apparently she hurt her leg before. But I believe it was true because the next day, they performed on TV and Amber was still missing. :( hope she gets better.

Here are my favorite photos, the rest are HERE.

Am I 21?

Today, I randomly thought 'Am I really 21 years old??'

I wonder how I have come to be this age. Where did time go and why
does it go so fast?

오늘
Today, I have to work for 40minutes because I was really late on
monday because I left a little too late.
Now I know that I have to either be too early or too late. It is very
odd. I rather choose too early but it's rather boring. I do have my
cranes that I can fold because I need to finish 1000 of them. ^-^

Well let's
Hope classes go well. I need to remember to get a portable felt board,
or a felt book like one of the other Korean-English teachers have. I
think that it's really cool <3
I can fit all of my months themes in each sleeve.

Now, I think I will go to the bread shop and study for a bit, they
have tables - I really don't want to go back on the subway right now.
It sucks.

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1999? Grade 7

I always think of completely random things from my past, like for
example; in grade 7 or 8 at an after school dance at another school, i
got punched in the nose by a jamacian- Canadian girl.
What happened was she started by making fun of the fact that I had no
friends and I turned and said to her "well, at least my friends don't
go to jail all the time"
It must have hit her deep because of the friends she had and the area
she lived in because Then she took an upper cut with her palm to my
face and hit me square in the nose. It hurt, of course, but I didn't
cry. I don't think i ever told my mom this. This would technically be
my first and only fight. And the first time I stuck up for myself when
being bullied.

Anyways, about this dance - I went there with a male kid friend who
live off of ferndale, my street, but beside the elementary school, in
a house that looked like a castle.
We had also once went to see lord of the rings together once. It was
the first one. This happened in the same year, so whatever year lord
of the rings came out is the year that I got punched in the nose. Haha

We hung out for a little while and one day, we never hung out again...

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June 14th

Tteokbokki night!

I Love making tteokbokki. Its really awesome when I make it.

June 9th - Fun at Oz kindergarten

On Wednesday I go to Byeongjeom station and we have monthly themes in with to teach and this month was colours and shapes. So I found a fun and creative game and the kids really liked it. Although 5 year olds have a rather hard time to know what to do.. :( really sad. But the 6's and 7's know exactly what to do and do it well!

Here are some of my 5 favorite pictures, if you want to see more CLICK HERE.

After work

I came across these lovely 오징어 (squid). They are really fascinating because they can turn invisible (because of photosynthesis - I believe). Although its really sad to kill and eat them, they are really yummy!! These guys are being kept in a tank right outside the restaurant. So you can always get fresh fish anytime you go to a korean restaurant.

June 7th - English Camp at Koun Kindergarten.

Instead of a normal class, we have a small airport-like English Camp at one of the Kindergartens that I work at on Mondays. I kinda like them because for 2 hours all I had to do was ask simple questions like: "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from?" Just like that.

Here are some pics of my cuties from Koun Kindergarten.

The little cutie holding the teacher's hand is one of my most favourite kid!

OMG! These little 5 year old are SUPER cute!!!

(in american age they are only 3 or 4)

um.. i don't know why the quality is bad... but if you click the picture, it will give you the full size with great quality..

June 5th - Packing up to move.

We were packing all weekend and found a new place today to move in on Wednesday!

Jang ik will probably do the moving while I am at work.

Good-bye lovely small place!

We moved because everywhere I work was too far from our house. :(

Maybe i'll upload a map of where I used to live to where I live.

June 2nd - Cooking with English 2

This time, the other science Kindergarten made me do cooking with English. It was also fun.

This Kindergarten is really close to Nowon Station.

"Oh my gat! Its soooo yummy but a little bit too salty! But I must lick my fingers. MM"

Watcha doing? filling your little face with cheese, tomato and oil, S & P??

...Too much salt, I think.

"Say, KimChiiiiii!"

"선생님, 맛있어? 짜요?"

"네, 저금 짜요!"

June 1st - Cooking with English.

Instead of teacher science through English, today we did cooking with english. It was rather fun and I got some pictures.

He decided to eat pepper.

The oil is very oily.

Mmmm, nom nom nomnom

Tried to get a picture of one of the classes, it was rather difficult because I don't have a tripod, and these little dude always move!

Mmm! Let's Eat!

먹자!

May 21, 2010

We made traditional Korean rice wine, jeon and got to eat ddeokbokki.

My post is rather small.

I did bring my Camera to the kitchen, but... I didn't charge my battery. So I didn't get any pictures at all. It makes me for upset.

but, I got to meet a few people and they posted their experience on their blogs, which is basically the same experience I had.

Jo-anna: The View from Over Here - Making Makkoli at Nana's Kitchen

And

Tuttle (I guess thats his name or user name) - The Seoul Patch - Makin' Makgeokki

They have my picture on there too. I'm the one in the Red Dae han min guk shirt.