Olympiana Seoul

... so we hoed in and a few mouthfuls later...well let's just say none of us could feel our lips or tongues or mouths really!! lol! the name of the place as Crazy Pepper! the idea of the strawberry milkshake things was to stop your tongue form burning and worked pretty well but even the mildest one was unbearable and we had to cave like the pathetic westerners we are :(
then we made our way back ...

... on my paper. We both pained scenes from Halla-san. I love Justin's because he put me in it, so I have it up by my mirror to see every day.
Saturday morning we played some basketball on the courts near my house and went for a run. Its been amazing having Justin here to run with. I forgot how great it is to have someone to run with!! I loved it because I thought he was trying to push me, so I'd speed up, but it was really pushing ...

... him go but again it's the nature of the beast. I told my grade one students that I would not be their teacher next year and little Emily wondered why?

"Well I'm going to go traveling and then go back to Canada."

"But when will you come back?" she queried.

As a student of mine for two years now those words kinda broke my heart. It's going to be rough for me to leave but I need to go. Not out of escape or unhappiness but out ...

... as He encountered the lame, the sick, the widow and the orphan." If I am a follower of Yeshua, can my heart not be broken to love the people that He had compassion for? So, for me, this is not just a humanitarian issue, a social problem...no, it is also an eternal issue, one connected with the core of what I believe - that God shows love to all and desires them to be free of the travails of this life to know and love Him.

... seemed to be muttering something at me, but I couldn't understand it.

My stop to transfer came. So, I got off. So did the second drunk. Yelling at me as I was getting off and then following me. There was a look of "I'm going to kick your ass" in his eyes. I really didn't know what was going on!

And I wasn't going to let him follow me and find out! So, I quickly jumped back on the ...

I'm sitting in the airport here in South Korea and I still have about an hour until I have to get on my plane, so I figured I better start blogging! I mean what else is there to do on a five hour layover so early in the morning the shops are all closed?

I left LAX at 11:30 last night after my mom dropped me off a little later than we'd planned (my fault of course.) Everything went pretty quickly though. The ...

... with the thought of summer if it's already this hot in April! It's a welcome change, though -- this winter felt like the longest of my life, stalking me across the country and over the sea. Fortunately the weather eventually calmed itself into a more springlike state. Good Friday is extra good this year as it is my first payday! Time to go ...

... of baechu kimchi: 1. 5 heads of Chinese cabbage 2. 2-3 heads of garlic 3. 3 cups of salt 4. 2 cups of red pepper powder [see below] 5. 1-2 knobs of ginger 6. optional: chopped scallions or watercress, cubed daikon radish Red pepper powder (kochukaru in Korean), a coarse powder of chili pepper flakes, can be found in any store selling Korean foodstuffs. It is made from a pepper of medium heat. If using a hotter pepper, use less (but kimchi is ...

... pools, a pool bar, hot spring waterfalls, sauna areas, and a very large hot tub pool with various full body jets. Oh, have you seen on TV the little fish that eat at your feet? They have them at Tiger World! They're called Doctor fish, and they feed on dead skin from your feet. They were originally used when people had skin problems on their feet, and the fish would eat away the bad ...

... still fuming by the time I reached the hotel (let's face it, fits of rage take a while to wear off), so I made a detour via a convenience store where I picked up three different cans of Korean beer and some water. As expected, beer restored my peace of mind and my sense of humour quite nicely. It's a while back now, but I think I liked the OB the best. Although it is slightly quirky drinking something called OB because OB is also the name of the only brand of ...