What the??? 2 weeks left in Korea?

I officially have 2 weeks left in Yeong-Tong, South Korea, teaching!
I am so amazed at how fast this year has flown by! It only feels like yesterday I was on the plane from Sydney to Korea wondering how on earth I was going to convince these Korean people that I could teach when in fact I had no idea! A year later I still feel like an impostor in the classroom, though trial and error and a few helpful tips from kind fellow teachers along the way have enabled me to master the art of getting 12 or so Kindy kids to stop jumping on their desks and erasing my whiteboard when my back is turned for 3 seconds!

I've definitely had so much fun along the way and met some great people! I'll be sad to leave, but also excited to see what new things await and also to catch up again with my wonderful friends and family in oz for a while!

I've been getting some snowboarding in of late which is awesome, is so much fun! (yet painful at times!!) I've also had a chance to do some more cool stuff around Korea, though I find that -10˚C temperatures a little challenging!

So anyhow random 10 highlights of late!
1) Amy and I getting farted on Lunar New Years Day by a stranger.... so wrong (not sure why this made a highlight - it was kinda funny tho!)
2) Ordering my first home delivered meal!
3) First triple diamond snow plow effort
4) Oliver (student): Ellen teacher! your nose.. it looks like Pinocchio! hmmm thanks Oliver!
5) Reaching 30 paper origami cranes of my intended 1000! Cool only 970 to go!
6) Finding potato twists...deep fried, spiral potato on a stick coated in flavored salt stuff! so so good!
7) discovering that a bizarre sequence of steps can produce everlasting hot showers as opposed to my morning wrecking, 1 minute scalding then suddenly freezing showers I was getting used to! These steps involve a time commitment of around 15 mins, but afford a success rate of well over 80%. What are the steps you ask??? the special sequence??? Let's just say Amy and I call it....Tap dancing...
8) fun nights out at The Now...cards, pineapple soju, twister, Word Dojo, beating Jeff's word Dojo scores and Norrebangs - Obladi Oblada, life goes on......
9)Butterfingers weekly Sunday brunches with the gals.....hmmmmm yummy!
10)Last week my friend Amy and I went to some Hot Springs nearby and bathed outdoors, at night in these -10˚C temperatures! Strangely really warm and relaxing! Only thing is we had to do the Korean nude up thing! hahah

Anyhow some pics of various stuff can be found here (no not the nudie spa bathing!) Countdown Pics
and some more here! Coundown pics 2!

I'm looking forward to meeting Andrew in Japan for a week after I finish work on the 29th Feb. We are visiting Osaka and Kyoto area primarily, we both would have loved to get some boarding (well Andrew some skiing, def not as cool hehehe) in over there but we aren't venturing that far north unfortunately this time!

After that I head to Thailand for some time of defrostation then back to Sunny (or rainy so I hear??) Oz!

Anyhow hope you are all well and enjoying life! Look forward to catching up with many of you soon!

Ellen xxx