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It's been a busy month. I've been running around trying to fit in a lot before I leave. I am currently sitting on the train back to Daegu from Busan which is where we visited the water temple and also the biggest department store in Asia. We didn't do any shopping but we dis use the super nice jjimjilbang! I got scrubbed down by the adjummas and my skin is now sooo soooffffttttt. I'm going to miss that when I'm back in the states! I'LL NEVER BE CLEAN AGAIN. Last weekend was the long holiday weekend for Chinese New Year and I spent most of it cafe hopping with Anna but we did also go sledding at the theme park (there was nly one hill with manufactured snow) which was fun but did make me all nostalgic for Michigan winters and sledding in the woods which is GONE. We also went to a ragdoll cattery and OMG I am obsessed. I want a ragdoll cat. I was looking up rescues in Michigan WHILE we were at the cattery. They're just so chill and beautiful and floppy!!!! I also met up with a friend that was one of the first people I met in Korea. She is Korean-American and taught me how to make jjimdak which is one of my favorite Korean foods so I will have to try it out once I get home. In between all those shenanigans I have been packing and trying to get ready to leave. ONLY ONE MORE WEEK. Thailand here I come!!

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Some of the more fun statues and informational boards at the water temple. The big bellied Buddha was a "touch for a son" Buddha and my friend whose family has always had girls touched it while she was here and when she went home her sister found out she was pregnant with a boy! So I guess it worked. They also had statues of the twelve characters in the Chinese zodiac. I took a pictures of the ones that match my family. Me and my mom are both horses, my brother is a monkey, my dad is a boar, and my stepmom is a dragon.

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It's been a busy month. I've been running around trying to fit in a lot before I leave. I am currently sitting on the train back to Daegu from Busan which is where we visited the water temple and also the biggest department store in Asia. We didn't do any shopping but we dis use the super nice jjimjilbang! I got scrubbed down by the adjummas and my skin is now sooo soooffffttttt. I'm going to miss that when I'm back in the states! I'LL NEVER BE CLEAN AGAIN. Last weekend was the long holiday weekend for Chinese New Year and I spent most of it cafe hopping with Anna but we did also go sledding at the theme park (there was nly one hill with manufactured snow) which was fun but did make me all nostalgic for Michigan winters and sledding in the woods which is GONE. We also went to a ragdoll cattery and OMG I am obsessed. I want a ragdoll cat. I was looking up rescues in Michigan WHILE we were at the cattery. They're just so chill and beautiful and floppy!!!! I also met up with a friend that was one of the first people I met in Korea. She is Korean-American and taught me how to make jjimdak which is one of my favorite Korean foods so I will have to try it out once I get home. In between all those shenanigans I have been packing and trying to get ready to leave. ONLY ONE MORE WEEK. Thailand here I come!!

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Some of the more fun statues and informational boards at the water temple. The big bellied Buddha was a "touch for a son" Buddha and my friend whose family has always had girls touched it while she was here and when she went home her sister found out she was pregnant with a boy! So I guess it worked. They also had statues of the twelve characters in the Chinese zodiac. I took a pictures of the ones that match my family. Me and my mom are both horses, my brother is a monkey, my dad is a boar, and my stepmom is a dragon.

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It's been a busy month. I've been running around trying to fit in a lot before I leave. I am currently sitting on the train back to Daegu from Busan which is where we visited the water temple and also the biggest department store in Asia. We didn't do any shopping but we dis use the super nice jjimjilbang! I got scrubbed down by the adjummas and my skin is now sooo soooffffttttt. I'm going to miss that when I'm back in the states! I'LL NEVER BE CLEAN AGAIN. Last weekend was the long holiday weekend for Chinese New Year and I spent most of it cafe hopping with Anna but we did also go sledding at the theme park (there was nly one hill with manufactured snow) which was fun but did make me all nostalgic for Michigan winters and sledding in the woods which is GONE. We also went to a ragdoll cattery and OMG I am obsessed. I want a ragdoll cat. I was looking up rescues in Michigan WHILE we were at the cattery. They're just so chill and beautiful and floppy!!!! I also met up with a friend that was one of the first people I met in Korea. She is Korean-American and taught me how to make jjimdak which is one of my favorite Korean foods so I will have to try it out once I get home. In between all those shenanigans I have been packing and trying to get ready to leave. ONLY ONE MORE WEEK. Thailand here I come!!

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Some of the more fun statues and informational boards at the water temple. The big bellied Buddha was a "touch for a son" Buddha and my friend whose family has always had girls touched it while she was here and when she went home her sister found out she was pregnant with a boy! So I guess it worked. They also had statues of the twelve characters in the Chinese zodiac. I took a pictures of the ones that match my family. Me and my mom are both horses, my brother is a monkey, my dad is a boar, and my stepmom is a dragon.

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Today we went to haedong yonggungsa water temple. It was situated with the sea at its front and a mountain at its backs which its founders believed made it the most mystical place. It was so beautiful! I really love Buddhist temples, the smell of the incense and sound of monks chanting and the way they are always so wound up with the nature around them. They're just lovely places to be.

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These pics are from last weekend when Anna and I went to a rabbit cafe AND a "darakbang". "Bang" just means room but I don't know what "darak" means but I'm guessing it's something like "everything" because that cafe had it- private treehouse-like rooms, full body massage chairs, a snack and drink bar, video games, comic books, a dart board, a nail room, air hockey, ping pong, and fooseball, they even had a bridge and room full of pillows. It was super awesome. Upstairs was a rabbit (and cereal) cafe and ugh the rabbits were so cute and so soft and it made me want one!!

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This was probably my last weekend in Seoul before I leave Korea. It was mostly just eating and shopping but overall a good weekend. Mostly because I got to see the lovely Kelsey. Also if you wanted an example of how South Korea thinks about the Trump/North Korea situation, check out that "photo zone."

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Some around Daegu pics. We went to Seomun market and had delicious candy-covered strawberries, saw a door pretending to be a vending machine, celebrated Christmas, and watched the Olympic torch run through Daegu.

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Anna and I went to Seoul for New Years! We ate a lot of food, and went to a sex museum, and spent a lot of time on the subway. We also went to a Christmas Market and had high tea! It was fancy and fun.

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They’re advertising soju...which is alcohol. THAT SOJU BOTTLE ON THE LEFT IS GOING SO HARD. 

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Short video about some Korean traditional medicine ALSO CHRISTMAS SWEATER.

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I made a stupidly long video talking about why I forgot it may be considered weird to people in the U.S. that I kissed my students on their cheeks and the culture of skinship in Korea. 

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Adventures adventures. 

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TLDR: I do not ACTUALLY harvest oil from the skin of babies. 

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Talkin about my first trip to the opera as an adult. SOME OF IT IS AMUSING.