Katie's Wandering Seoul

Cherry Blossoms Spring has finally arrived in Korea, and I'm loving it!  Everyday is in the 60's-70's and it has been so sunny out.  The cherry blossoms bloomed along the river, which made for a beautiful walk to work, dinner, and even motivated me to run a little more! Although I had a little moment last week where I thought 'I really just need to go home!' I think I have gotten past that!  Last week one of my co-teachers pulled me aside and said that some other teachers don't like the way I dress.  That day I had a cotton dress on, and was told it was too tight.  I was pretty upset about it, not at Lucy who had to tell me, because she felt terrible for even having to say anything.  She even said she thought it was OK, but still had to tell me.  The next day one of my co-teachers had a pencil skirt on, why is that ok?!?!  I have just come to realize that I am not going to make everyone happy, which is ok I guess.  I just wish that Korea would realize t

Things are really starting to come together here in Korea and I am starting to feel a lot more comfortable here.  I think I might actually survive it here!  Although I still do not speak the language...which makes things very difficult, I do know that I will not starve here.  All in the past week Beth and I have had some huge success stories!  We have managed to get a train to Daegu, go shopping in Daegu, order our food in Deagu, and catch the train back to Sangju....all without any help from a Korean speaking person!  We have found a new bibimbap place this week, and it's super cute and delicious!  We even managed to order our food (no English menu or pictures!!!) and we had to write what we wanted and got it right!  We have even found a new mountain this week to start hiking.  It's been a pretty successful couple of days for us and it makes me very excited!   We are trying to decide if we want to train for a half marathon in September, or it's more of if we will have tim