Venture to Korea with Amanda & Abi

To all our friends, families, and vistors - thank you for visiting. We will be updating this blog as our adventure develops.

Exciting new experiences

Well I really wasn't posting too much but now that I've called home, I'm hearing that some people are actually reading this so I'll make a bit more effort. But first and foremost, I want to give super huge thanks to my future sister in law, Ms. Monaca, for printing these and bringing them around to the family!  You're one in a million lady! Ok so on to South Korea. As I said before I was having some back pain and while the pain meds have been helping, my boss insisted that I go for some Asian medicine...acupuncture. Now I'm really a science girl and don't much believe in stuff that research doesn't support but after a week of being bothered I gave in. Luckily enough one of our students' dads is an acupuncturist so yesterday I went. After walking in and discovering that the table was a good 6 inches too short for me and heated, I was relaxed right away...then he stuck the needles in. Now I'm not afraid of needles by any means but it was a bit disturbing just having them sticking out all over. I kept imagining them getting ripped out somehow. He then hooked up some sort of electronic device to them (mini jumper cables maybe) and I could feel some voltage. Not too bad...then I smelled smoke...looked back and I was on fire essentially. They turned on a fan. After the pins they did "cupping" where they suck your skin up into little cups. Which was moderately painful and left some pretty creative looking bruises on my back. After the cupping more cups were attached...these were also attached to a power source and I was given some sort of electric massage. Very weird but soothing enough that I fell asleep. When I woke up it was time to pay...get this $5.00! Next time it's only going to be $3. Hoo ha! I'm sure I was given the foreign teacher discount but still. It definitely inspired me to do some research into what else acupuncture can cure...at that price I can come back perfect! Today is a day off for what my kids called "Korea is country day". I think Korea was declared a country on this day...they also mentioned something about a dog but I'm not entirely sure what they were getting at. We have to work tomorrow but my kids are having a snack and game party which they're all quite excited about. Then Thu and Fri are off as well. I think we're going shopping today as we got paid yesterday. Thursday I have a second date....and Saturday Evan and Jake, our Korean friends, are taking us to a temple on the beach. I've had a friend from Minnesota living with me for the past few days as she is in the process of switching jobs so that's been fun. Kind of like a slumber party. The other night on the beach we were sitting talking and a guy walked up to me and started calling me beautiful and trying to hold my hand. He then put his MP3 player on my ears and cued up "my heart will go on" by Celine Dion....how romantic! He then fell asleep.....strange strange things.... miss you all and love you more!

abi

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