I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Strawberry Fields Forever (Apr 14)

  • Strawberry festival in Nonsan today! I had heard about this festival since we arrived in Korea so I was really excited that we got to go. It was a beautiful day and we found the festival without any problem. There weren’t any strawberry plants at the festival site (you had to take a shuttle elsewhere to pick them) but there was lots of other yummy stuff: strawberry pancakes, strawberry ice cream, strawberry jam (you could make your own), strawberry cake (you could make that too), strawberry juice (bought a bunch to give to my teachers), strawberry rice cakes (not the same as the Quaker rice cakes in the US), strawberry 막걸리 (makkeolli – rice wine), and strawberry bean burgers! 
I didn't like it that much :/

There were a lot of crafts (mostly for kids though, much to Sai’s and my chagrin) and opportunities for pictures:



And we found lots of other TaLK scholars there! It was fun to see faces we hadn’t seen since Orientation. We did NOT get stuck at the festival site this time…woohoo! And on our walk back to the bus station, we found Joey-dancing strawberries: 

  • We still sing Fantastic Baby all the time :) Which is extra fun because it’s played EVERYWHERE. 
  • Sai came up with a fantastic way to say my name. I don’t think there’s a way to properly convey it in writing but it’s pretty much awesome. 
  • Since we left the festival so early, we had lots of time to rest before going out for the evening. Our hotel room computers were connected to the sound system soooo…I watched Boys Before Flowers for a while! It was awesome. 
  • Once we all got ready, we went in search of food. We tried TGI Friday’s and Pizza Hut, but it was too close to closing time for them to let us in. Finally, we ended up at this really nice samgyeupsal place. (picture) After that, we went to a club called Cocoon, where we ended up seeing some other TaLK people and dancing with a lot of Koreans. Before, we ended the evening, we stopped for McDonald’s. It was a good night :)

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