Beyonce

So yes, its true I have been neglecting you and I am sorry. So let me catch you up on my life in Korea lol. We went to see Beyonce and it was GREAT! We had great seats and had an even better time. Now, normally when 12 women get together one may question whats going to happen. Well we had a BLAST! All I can say is Beyonce is a BAD chick, her show was just like her videos, with no breaks in between. Here are some pics of the concert.

Mass Freeze in Coex Mall South Korea

Teacher You Nike Airs are a FAKE!

So, I decided to dress down one day last week and I wore a pair of sneakers to school. I normally dress rather casually but I never wear sneakers to school. I guess I was being a rebel this day lol. It was not until my second period class when a student keeps looking at my sneakers.

I did not really pay that much attention to the student until he started making funny faces. He then proceeds to raise his hand, I call on him and this was our convo.

Me: Yes, do you have a question?
Student: Yes, teacher your Nike air's are a FAKE! You get in Korea?
Me: Ummmm no they aren't, I got them from America, from footlocker.
Student: No, teacher let me see ( with his hand extended)
Me: OK, here ( as I give him my shoe)
Student: OK, teacher these are good, they are AHSA (awesome in Korean)!

So, I guess I was a bit flabbergasted more a fe reasons, 1 being IF i really did have some fake shoes on, did my student just try and blow up my spot???? and 2 how and WHY, does this little dude know how to tell if Nike's are real or fake??? I guess the world may never know lol
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RENT !!

SO I know it has been a while since I have blogged and I am VERY sorry about that. Things have just been so busy. However that is no excuse I WILL do better! Since my last post we went to see the Broadway musical RENT! To answer your question YES it was in English! It was GREAT, I have seen rent before and I have seen the movie, seeing it again it was even better. The show was PACKED, it did bring some questions to mind though.

The Koreans really seemed to enjoy the show, but it made me think about if they really understood how REAL RENT is for many people. Drug use is not an issue in Korea and AIDS is not an epidemic here, so it just seemed like pure entertainment to them. OK enough sad talk. The singing and acting and the people I went with really made for a GREAT Sunday afternoon.

Taray's 25th

So one of my good friends here in Korea was celebrating her 25th birthday. She had mention to us before that she never had a party in her adult life and she really wanted one. In Korea there is a local party planning team and I asked them if they could help us for Taray's birthday. Well they ended up throwing an all white party for her big day. Taray had a blast! It was so much fun check the pictures

White water rafting and Bungee Jumping

So, I must say I am SERIOUSLY in need of an adrenaline rush, just something to get my heart pumping you know. There was a trip coming up, and I really wanted to go, I asked the ladies if they would be willing to go on the trip and what do you know everyone said yes. White water rafting and bungee jumping here we come. Now, everyone did not agree to bungee jump, but every one agreed to go rafting, what can I say you win some you lose some lol.

We had to be in the city to make the bus at 7:30am this meant we had to get up and catch the 5:50am bus (way too early). We got the rafting place and were placed in groups of ten. We rafted for about 2 hours and my arms are STILL sore! Rafting was a lot of run, we got to do a bit of swimming, and water sliding which was a nice unexpected twist. After we rafted for a while we then went to the bungee jumping location. Dun, Dun, DUNNNNNNNNNNN!

So we pull up to this huge bridge where we had 2 options as far as bungee jumping goes, we had the option to jump by our ankles OR by the waste. I remember thinking "Hey, I may never do this again so I should just go big, and go with the ankle jump" so that's what Carm, and I picked, and Marquita decided to jump by the waist. Once we made that decision we then had to sign a form (that was written ALL in Korean) I am pretty sure it said something to the effect if you die its your fault, then we got weighed. If you weighed a certain amount you could not jump. Then we walked up this HUGE stairwell to the stop of the bridge. We finally made it to the top and then we got strapped in to our harnesses. My harness was really really tight around my ankles, it kinda hurt but I just thought that it was supposed to be tight, I mean hey I didn't want to fall out or anything.

The most scary part was the fact that we were waiting for an hour plus waiting for our turn to jump. It was rather nerve racking standing up there, heart pounding a million times a minute just waiting for your turn to jump off of a bridge. So the time had finally come, we were on the platform and it was our turn to jump one by one. We asked the guide who spoke English if he had any suggestions, and he said "Don't look down, and jump far out". I personally was not too sure how far I was going to jump, or if I was going to look down or not, but I did know I didn't want to be standing on the ledge for long. I told my self when he says "1, 2, 3,Jump!" I would do exactly that, JUMP!

So here I am, on the ledge and he says "1, 2, 3, JUMP" and I took a Superman dive off the ledge, when doing so I heard the guy say "Whoa!". That was NOT a pleasant feeling, I was thinking WHOA?!?!? WHOA, what? Whoa, we didn't strap her in right? Whoa, she jumped too early, Whoa, she is gonna do a Trevor on the Fresh Prince of Bel air?? WHOA what sir! My next thoughts while flying through the air were more like what the heck was I thinking, why did I jump of a flipping bridge? Well, adrenaline rush is what I asked for and that is what I got, that's for sure! After I stopped swinging and I was hanging upside down waiting for the guy in the boat to unhook me from my harness. I was sitting in the boat as we were rowing to the land and I remember thinking, my leg really hurts. And no wonder it was hurting, I looked down and there was a huge patch of skin ripped off my shin, like a burn. When I say ripped I am not exaggerating, the white meat was showing, it sucked really bad. So over all bungee jumping and white water rafting were TONS of fun. I think sky diving is next! Until next time :)
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Mud pie anyone???

Mudfest was a BLAST! Although the weather got a bit nasty we really had a good time. Mudfest I can honestly say is an "only in Korea" moment. I mean come on let us think about this, if someone said to me "Hey Tasha, let's go play in the mud, it will be fun" I would have given the serious side eye if we were in the states LOL!

We get to our room (I will not go as far as to call it a hotel) changed our clothes and went out to hit the mud! So we saw a huge kiddie pool like thing and thought what better way to shed us of our mud virginity? So hop in the pool and next thing you know, we were getting body slammed, pile drived and any other WWE moves one can think of. I was in shock! TIME OUT, TIME OUT I was not ready! We were getting mud slapped in our faces, and when we understood what was going on we joined in on the fun. We also went down a HUGE mudslide, which was a lot of fun.

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