Legal at Last!

My beautiful baby brother turns 21 today!! Big up for Frank! I wish I could be home to celebrate with him and to make sure he gets a 'strafdop' or two. I hope he paints the town red tonight. If you bump in to him, be sure to give him a high five!

Love you Frank x

TGIF!!!!

Hi guys! Thank goodness it's Friday right!?

What have you got planned for this coming weekend? Here in Korea we have a massive party at Club Womb tonight, chilled Saturday and a wedding on Sunday. Should be fun!

An interesting read to start your day off: Top 10 countries destroying the planet. Not predictable at all - SPOILER ALERT - but USA is not number one. WTF? I thought they would be for sure! Anyways check out the link and see for your self!!

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/top-10-countries-ruining-the-planet.html

Have a fab weekend! x

Bugs, butterflies and beetles

Our school's president said that he will 'treat' the students if they select him as president. He treated the whole school by organising an insect exhibition. I'm not really interested in insects, but it was pretty impressive. I never knew such beautiful, big and scary stuff existed..





Creobroter-gemmatus or the Jeweled Flower Mantis
Goliathus Goliatus - Among the largest insects on Earth. Found in many of Africa's tropical forests.




I tried to do some research on some of the above insects, and came across a very interesting yet disturbing website. Did you know that you can actually buy insects. Some of them go up to $80. Ridiculous! I don't know if you buy them alive or dead though.. Either way there are so many beautiful creatures that roam this planet, don't buy and destroy them!

Same goes to everything else out there with breath and a heart beat.

Dinner with Jackey and Olivia

Since Marnix introduced me to Mr. Kim and Miss Jin, I've had so many nice dinners. Last night I went out with Jackey and Olivia. Both of them work with Mr. Kim and invited me to have dinner with them and two other colleagues. They took me to a popular Korean restaurant in Seomyeon. I'm not sure what kind of restaurant it was, but it was delicious. When I got there, they already ordered a kind of sour pork salad, sounds dodgy but was machita! (delicious in korean) We also had some pig leg - which I only found out about later. They ate the pig feet - EEU! It was so funny because the one girl was teasing Jackey that he looks like a dog eating one of the pig bones. That opened a whole can of 'name-calling'.

After dinner two of the colleagues left and Jackey and Olivia took me to a mini theme park in Gwangali. Frankie and I always see the park because we jog past it, but it always looks closed and abandoned. Apparently not. At first it was a little weird, especially in the middle of the week after dinner, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! At first we watched all the rides (ok there was only 3 - but 3 scary ones) so that we could decide on which to go. We picked the big ship - it's called The Viking. Ratanga also has one of those, but I can't remember the name. After the ship we played some baseball in the batting cages, shot some hoops and some targets.


It's awesome to constantly go out with new people and to dig out new stuff to do.

[Stay tuned for the next post - bugs, butterflies and beetles.] - I like to pretend I'm on TV :)

Songjong beach

This past weekend was pretty chilled as I'm trying to save some money. However, I found some jummy food at the Paris Baguette just around the corner.

Chicken and cranberry wraps

cinnabun!!

Sunday we discovered Song Jong beach with Marie and a few other South Africans and had some burgers on the beach for lunch. After lunch we took a little nap on the beach.


I love it that summer is coming closer. No more socks, no more jerseys and scarfs!!! I am smiling!!!! :)

Magical May

Another week has just flown by! My remaining time in Korea is seriously flying and I'm starting to panic!! SO.MUCH.LEFT.TO.DO!!

This weekend was another stunner all round! Thursday we went out for some cup cakes to celebrate Marie's birthday. We discovered the cutest little cup cake shop just around the corner. All About Cupcake. The cakes were delicious! Take a look at the pictures and judge for yourself.







Friday after school, Salome and I went for a manicure and once again I got caught up with Asia and got some nail art done. So nice to relax on a Friday after school...

Friday night we had a girls dinner - Marie, Salome and Moi at Thursday Party and then we headed off to Club Womb. I know dodgy name, but as it turns out - the place is amazing! It was the club's reopening in Gwangali and they had great drink specials. Unfortunately we were a little eager and arrived to early, but atleast we got to see what the place looked like and what to expect. The club even had lockers were you can lock up your personals while busting it out on the dance floor. Brilliant idea, don't you think?





Saturday morning I had to get up early to meet with the Kim family. I met with Jason (Mr. Kim's son) at ten at Starbucks. So early for a Saturday morning... It was great fun though. The meeting went well and we spent most of the morning chatting and then we went to the CGV building for a sticker photo shoot. Welcome to Korea. :) In the CGV you can go into photo booths were you can dress up and take crazy photo's. At the end they print them out for you after you've edited and decorated it. It was soooo funny!





At twelve mister Kim picked us up just out side Pukyeong University and we were chauffeured (in the grand merc) to one of the Lotte Hotels, were we had an amazing lunch with the rest of the family. It was great seeing all of them again. After lunch we went to Shinsegae for some Smoothy King goodness!

At 5 I ran home to pour some Amarula in my Starbucks flask and met up with Frankie and Dave at an Organic/peace market slash mini festival. It was great, cause we got to sit outside in the afternoon sun on the GRASS (yes my first experience with grass in this country). We spent the afternoon enjoying Amarula and listening to some really cool bands. After the 'festival' we went to Pasta Factory for dinner to end of the wonderful day.



Sunday morning was an early start as well. (pff I need another weekend) We had to get up really early to catch the subway to Centum City to meet up with Charles. Charles is an awesome, sweet Korean guy who always organises trips for foreigners. Waygooks. On May 2, the Gwangan Bridge was closed for traffic and opened for walking. Approximately 12 000 people gathered and got ready for the 10 km walk over the bridge. It was really cool! The weather was amazing and the atmosphere was great. As you got to the middle of the bridge there was an orchestra playing and some Korean folks singing opera. The view from the Diamond Bridge was magnificent! After the great walk everyone gathered at Pukyeong university for the lucky draw. Each participant got a number for the walk and you could win some really cool prizes if you stuck around afterwards. Some of the prizes includes: 5 flight tickets, a vacuum cleaner, tea, etc. Unfortunately luck wasn't on our side. To celebrate us walking over the bridge we went to Thursday Party for some yummy burgers and something cold to drink.







The rest of the beautiful day I spent at home, writing this and just chilling. Nap time after all the excitement and food!