Katie's Wandering Seoul

Well I finally made my way to Japan for Chuseok.  I've been in Asia for a year and a half now, and Japan has always been on my list of countries to go to (since I was just a little one, all thanks to my old man).  Chuseok is Korea's Thanksgiving basically, so we had a long weekend.  It was something we had planned all the way back in about April, and talked about since this time last year.  The hard decision was deciding between Osaka and Tokyo (life is rough over here I know!).  In the end we chose Osaka though! I booked my flight with Helen (this was our third trip together since coming to Korea).  We went up to Seoul early on Wednesday, had a delicious South African meal, a couple glasses of wine (which almost cost us our flight), and a run yes literally a run through the subway and the airport.  We arrived in Osaka about 11pm Wednesday night, which only meant 1 thing, more running to catch the very last train into the city.  Thank god we met...

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...