Katie's Wandering Seoul

It is now the week of Thanksgiving even though I am away from home and it may not completely feel like Thanksgiving to me, I'm still going to do my best to celebrate. It has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster this week, not being home for Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, and I love that my family always does whatever they can to have all of us together.  It will be my first big holiday away from home, and it isn't going to be easy.  I hope to skype with my family while they are all together for the holidays.  While I know it will make it a little rough for me and I'm sure I will get emotional, I still want to feel like I'm there celebrating with them.  I want to be able to see all my little cousins and try to talk to them for a few minutes.  Now if they could just send me some of the amazing thanksgiving food that would make things a little bit better. Now if you asked me last week, I never would have said this...i...

It's funny how things can change so quickly here in Korea...or I guess just life in general.  In the past month I have gone from being at the top of the world, crashing hard very quickly and then coming back out on top. With Lucy in Class Mr. Kang introducing them to the school The end of September was a time that I had been waiting and literally counting down the days for for months before it finally arrived.  My family finally got to come to this crazy place I call home and see how we live our lives here in Korea.  I was so excited to actually have them here.  I get to talk to my mom often, and I see her face through Skype on a weekly basis but its just not the same as having them here in person.  They arrived on a Friday, my school let me out early to go and pick them up from the airport.  I was so excited when my mom walked through those doors.  We immediately ran to each other and a few tears made an appearance.  They were...