The Final Post of 2012

This has been one rather exciting year, with so many stories and adventures. I would have never guessed a year ago, while I was waiting for my final semester of college to start, that I would be living in South Korea by the end of the year. It's crazy how fast (and drastically) thing change sometimes. You know what they say "Go big or go home."

This is us eating lunch with the ravens.

Now it has been awhile since I have updated my blog with the happenings of my life in Korea. Things this past month have been pretty low key. On Saturdays, my adventure day, I have mostly just stayed in my city doing nothing too exciting. But this weekend was different. I was invited to go hiking through the wonderful woodlands of Jeju. It was the most glorious day of nice weather, snow, ice, and friends. While we were out on the trails we had to eat lunch, so of course we sit on some benches along the path. Apparently the ravens were real hungry as well. Before we knew it we were being watched by 5+ ravens from the trees above. They just kept creepin' closer and closer. They looked like very greedy little ravens but, not to fear, we didn't get attacked.

On the icy, snowy trails of the enchanted woods of Jeju.

As tradition has it, every Sunday after church we go out for lunch and then lunch is always followed by some other activity.  The activity that took place yesterday was something that I never new existed as a business. Thank you Korea for never ceasing to amaze. We ended up at a Multi-bong (Multi-room), so basically this is where you rent a room and you can play the Wii, watch movies or sing Karaoke with your friends. You just rent by the hour, so for 2 hours seven of us played Mario Kart, and Super Mario Brothers. Talk about a good time. Most of us haven't played many video games before, thus making it more entertaining.

This was a while ago but, this is part of our Sunday funday group.

This week is the beginning of not having any classes until February. So basically I just sit at my desk counting the 40 hours for the week. I do have New Years Day off, but other than that not much to do. Next week I teach winter camp in the mornings. Then starting the 12th of January I am going on a two week tour of main land Korea. I will be traveling mostly by myself and will be able to visit some Korean friends for a few days. I am very excited to see the main land. I hear Jeju Island is quite different. I haven't even really begun to plan that trip, that is something that I need to figure out this week.

Overall, this year has been fairly unpredictable and who knows where I will be at this time next year. As far as I know, I will be back living in MN. We shall see. Well I hope you have have had a great 2012 and are looking forward to 2013!

The wonderful sunrises of Seogwipo.

- Jenna