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Jip, we have survived our first month, believe it or not! Even I can hardly believe it!!

I would say our first month was successful. We managed to travel a bit, do some shopping and meet amazing new people! Since arriving in Korea we have been to Incheon, Jeongju, Busan and our most recent; Cheongju. We spent Chuseok in Cheongju with Leanne and Jonathan (two uni friends of mine). Chuseok is the Korean version of Thanksgiving. These few days are normally spent with family and a lot of sompyon - rice cakes. I don't like them very much because they look ... well just look at the picture below and judge for yourself.

Cheongju is a smaller city about 3 and a half hours by bus north of Busan. It was quite a trip, we had to take the subway for 45 minutes, changing lines, and then the bus. Luckily the bus felt like a first class ride - the seats were nice and big and we had lots of leg room! I felt like royalty! I slept most of the time so it went by very quickly.

Our weekend in Cheongju was very relaxing and was awesome to get out of busy Busan for a few days. We spent our mini holiday playing baseball in the batting cages, shopping, enjoying korean food, guitar hero and darts - o and did I mention a few beers..?

The weekend before Chuseok Leanne and Jonathan came to visit us in Busan and we had a real South African Braai in my flat. (well it was on a gas stove - so technically not the same) nevertheless we had biltong, boerewors and potato salad! It was amazing!

Everything else in general is still awesome. School not so much, but whatever it's just something to do during the day right..

For October we've got a lot of plans. We are planning a trip to Seoul to visit Luca, Salome's cousin and we'll be going to Cheongju again to watch Jonathan's band play! Well I can't think of anything else to post now, but check out all the photo's and video's on facebook. Happy belated Chuseok everyone!! x