I was teaching Taekwondo for the first 4 days, the problem with this is that i hate being the instructor - i want to be the kids, i don't want to tell them to be quite and calm down, Instead i want to run around the room mucking about - apparently i'm not ready to grow up, but anyway i did my best to try and get them doing what they were supposed to be doing. and these sessions were sometimes 4-5 hours followed by cutting out christmas decorations for the big day. and thats not me complaining because i actually really enjoyed doing all those things and being with great people, but id be lying if i said it wasn't energy sapping - reminded me of the English camp in August.
Then on christmas day we had the concert where they performed their stuff, actually i was roped into holding boards for them because someone was missing, and being much taller than the kids, in a white suit(theirs were red), being a foreigner and not really sure what i was doing or when to shout i probably looked a fool, but it was good fun anyway and the kids did great.
Then me and some of the guys from the church watched a movie - went to the services and in the evening we went out to 시청 City hall, where it was ridiculously crowded, so that was fun day.
Then I went away for 4 days on a skiing trip, though obviously i was snowboarding.
It was great fun actually, much cheaper here, we took a free bus, 4 of stayed in a really nice condo - though more people visited.
The first day unfortunately it rained so we didnt go skiing, we just went bowling and went out for a western meal - it was great to have lasagna but no one else seemed to appreciate the meal or the price, but for me that just made everything about it english haha.
Every evening we played Poker, i wouldnt consider myself a great player, but as it turned out i cleaned out their pockets haha. but it was all good fun, for those who know our game we got through many packs of Oreo's with the contra-biscuit rule.
The next day we went snowboarding all afternoon and night, the course was nothing compared to the increadible slopes in the swiss aples but snowboarding is snowboarding and i loved it. didnt crash much, and the fake snow was.. intersting like snowboarding on salt or granulated ice more like. the runs were pretty short too. but at night it was awesome, really misty and the course was lit up with fog lights and like everywhere in Korea a cinema screen had been erected just so you can lose concentration and crash into someone (but it was empty so no problems) and there was a open air gig too of some famous figures, but it was pretty freezing.
I was pretty gutted actually - i didnt take my camera the first day snowboarding in fear that i might crash often and break my camera, but as it turned out that evening Roy broke his toe stumping it hard on the sofa. and so he went of to hospital - but then thats not saying much here because if you get a cold you go to the hospital. but he came back with a cast, and we decided to not go snowboarding on the other two days, so we just bowled some more, went on arcades, played loads of poker, billards, and cooked - actually i did a stir-fry korean style which went down alright.
This is Yankee
And Ji-ho
And the day i got back was new year - but i completely forgot and then was way too tired to go to any party - we had stayed up all night playing poker - so actually at the stroke of midnight i was in my room trying to sleep (got a lovely phonecall from mum and dad at 1:30 which was nice but I was ridiculously tired so i cant really remember any of the conversation sorry guys. and im pretty sure i recieved a text every hour after that from various people celebrating in various places.
So generally been tired, and i've been feeling quite down most probably to do with the tiredness. Just trying to figure why i am here what im looking for, trying to filter through the many things that i could, should, shouldn't, want, or not want to do.
Every day is draining because every little thing is suddenly a big thing, every thing you say or read needs to be thought about and interpreted, and even buying a drink can be really difficult at times, so every day i get exhausted from the little big challenges. Challenges are great and what i want and what i love, but then it affects everything, even writing this blog or emails, or trying to be creative - I want to write songs and make Videos, but my songs are all half hearted and half finished, and my Videos have a priority list before i can have fun. Dan your wedding video is coming...
But today i met with Hoon which was great i felt like he brought a lot of Love and encouragement from home, and he knows what it's like. (sorry for those who just dont know what im on about this Blog assumes a lot of knowledge about me and the happenings in proximity) And yesterday i met up with Song kyong and went shopping and then this evening i met with Ko and we talked about my Hasook jib (apartment) and He reckons that im getting a bad deal paying too much and the 'landlord' couple aren't that friendly. So we looked at some other places and found a great place where someone is just leaving their room this month: the room is bigger - with cooking available, internet included, my own bathroom, a very lovely Ajuma, and all for a cheaper price! So actually i've got a good feeling about the place and so has Ko, so im moving in 2 weeks haha. Ko arranged everything - he really is incredible, making the deals, looking after me, making sure everything is ok. Really blessed to have him as a friend.
Actually it was great speaking to him at dinner because even with our limited communication ( his english is great, but talking about deep stuff is difficult enough to explain and communicate when your fluent in a language) we managed to talk about things beyond just surface level, basics, greetings descriptions, so it was great to feel close to a real conversation, i really miss deep talking with friends and family.
Cool well gotta do my homework, i'm back at school now and the homework is a bit mental at times. Over the holidays i had 80 pages of homework! can you believe it.
Hope everyone had a great christmas and New year.
lots of love
