My Name is JIN YEONG.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

the "sleeping room"

A couple weeks ago, one of my coteachers came to my office after lunch and asked if I wanted to go to the "warm place." I was like..okay.. She said there's a rest room for women on the second floor. I had heard of this room before and stopped by to see it even. There were just a couple of uncomfortable looking leather chairs and a tv in there. So when we went down, that's what I expected to see.

BUT, once inside the room, there's another door! There's a small room with heated floors and a cabinet with sleeping mats and pillows. My friends have told me about these rooms before, but my old school was too old and small for a room like this to exist. We spent the afternoon napping on the warm floor. I don't even know why more people aren't in there every day.

I heard that I am going to have to move offices next month to share an office with every other subject teacher. I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time in the rest room to get away from the office chatter.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

year in review

well since 2013 was an epic blog fail, here's my year in review. it turned out to be a pretty great year for travel (maybe the best one yet).

january- I finally went to the dmz. it was very, very cold.
february- I went to the Philippines and loved every minute of it. I would go back there in a heartbeat.
march- nothing notable..back to school.
april- still stuck in korea, but managed a day trip to the countryside of jecheon to see the cherry blossoms (kinda fail).
may- took a weekend trip with friends to gyeongju and also a long weekend back in japan (this time to nagoya)!
june- went to busan for the first time in almost 2.5 years with the same friend I went with the first time!
july- so hot outside. tried to stay inside and/or go to the pool. also, took a day trip to oido to eat fresh seafood.
august- my last trip with my first korea friend..went to cambodia for lots of temple trekking and swimming. had to say goodbye to my first korea friend one week later (sadface). this is also the month I moved to a new school in sinchon!
september- took a day trip to jangbongdo and spent a lot of time exploring my new neighborhood and surroundings. went back to ulsan with sungho for my second traditional chuseok.
october- Singapore! my first trip with an old friend. what can I say, i loved the city!
november- stayed home but had lots of birthday celebrations and fall foliage outings.
december- america for the holidays! what a great way to round out the year.

all of my time not spent traveling included a lot of teaching, sleeping, eating (lamb and other delicious things), beer, norebang, and shopping.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Singapore weekend!

went away for a long weekend in singapore last week! everyone says you only need a couple days there, but I would definitely go back for all the things we missed!