Make new friends but keep the other, One is silver and the others Gold.

Anyway, the new teachers got a taste of what I was like and within the first few days I heard “the party has arrived” come out of one of their mouths as I entered the room. Looks like their first impression was accurate! Side note, I am glad people who read this blog realize I am sarcastic because otherwise people would think I am a real full of herself jerk! At any rate, the new people are cool and I am excited to make new friends. What I am more excited about is the fact that my good friends from home Sonja and Jay are now in Korea teaching as well! They are in Noeun-dong which is about 15 minutes from me so seeing them is easy peasy! Since they have been here we have spent every weekend together. It’s been nice having people from home here with me and seeing as Sonja and I are basically the same person we get along great. We tell Jay that we are sorry he has to be the third wheel J but how could he not LOVE hanging out with us!

Our first day off together was a Thursday which was Koreas independence day. I was actually a veteran to them and got to show them around to some neat places! We started in Dunsan-dong and went out to eat at a Korean Bbq place a friend suggested. It was amazing! I love the food here so much because there’s always a lot of it, it is cheap and it is healthy. We got two types of meat I believe it was pork belly and ddak galbi, with rice, kimchi chigae (soup), salad, an egg dish, garlic to roast, sprouts, and lettuce to wrap whatever we pleased in and scarf them down for only 8,000 won a piece which would be maybe 6 dollars American money. Super cheap and great quality, a food addicts dream come true! I then took them to the underground shopping area and to puppy alley because Sonja is an animal lover like me and they are such cute little puppies! After exploring we got hungry again and saw that street food carts were out so we took a gander. We had Ttak Boki, meat on a stick with amazing sauce and a hot dog in this wonderful potato breading with sugar and ketchup on top. Jay, Sonja and I shared this delicious feast cart side as we talked about how much we love it here. We have been enjoying the food and atmosphere together quite a bit going out to eat often. It is really cheap not to do so, so it does not hurt the pocket book. That is one of the many things I love about Korea!