Christmas Festivities

Well, it's Christmas night, and here I sit in my apartment. I had an amazing weekend spent with some great friends! Our Friday night Secret Santa party was a success. Jinae hosted it at her place in Daegu and we all enjoyed hanging out, listening to Christmas music, exchanging presents, and of course, drinking wine! I ended up getting a great gift too! I got a new book to read, a red scarf, and some other small stuff...my secret santa did well! Here's a couple pics of most of us...there were 11 girls total:

GIFT EXCHANGE

OUR CHEFS FOR THE NIGHT...SHANNON & SOPHIA

Saturday took me, Kristin, Maggie, and Sophia back to Gumi for a Christmas dinner at one of the restaurants here. Before the dinner they wanted to see some shops downtown, so we wandered around a bit in an attempt to shop. We also go to see some dance performances in front of the train station. It was sooo cold yesterday, and it even snowed! But, we were in Daegu that morning so we missed the actual snow. We just saw the remainder on the ground when we got here. I'm sure I will be seeing enough snow soon enough!!

ON THE TRAIN TO GUMI

 WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS

THAN WITH K-POP DANCING?!

DINNER @ WAEGOOK COOK RESTAURANT :)

 SOPHIA & KRISTIN

 ME & MAGGIE

 THESE LADIES WERE HAVING 

A GREAT TIME ! LOL

After eating dinner, we had the bright idea of taking the train back to Daegu to go out and celebrate Christmas. To be honest there's not many places to go in Gumi, and we knew the rest of our friends would be out in Daegu. The result of that was us having a pretty great time, and 3 of us taking a train back to Gumi around 6am! Then when we woke up today Sophia (who has been playing chef all weekend) made us cream cheese stuffed french toast! I've never had it before and it was sooo good! I'm not sure if I can eat normal french toast anymore, lol. 

 AT THE TRAIN STATION, HUDDLING LIKE 

PENGUINS TO STAY WARM!!

 HEADING BACK TO DAEGU, LOL

That brings me to where I am now. Realizing how fast this time has gone since I've been here! It's my first time to be away from my family during the holidays, but I managed pretty well! Thanks to my friends! And I can't believe I only have two months left in Korea. I can remember when I had two months left in Texas before I moved here. At that time I could hardly grasp the concept of what my life would be like in Korea. I must say it has surpassed everything I pictured it to be! I mean yes, Korea's culture is definitely peculiar, but overall I didn't expect to make so many close friends! I knew I'd make friends of course, but I never imagined we'd become so close. Pretty much like a second family! A few of us were together this weekend when we skyped with our loved ones back home. It was fun to see my friends' family and friends, as well as for my mother to see mine this morning when I skyped with her :)


I have a feeling these next two months will fly by way too fast! And what sucks is that all of my friends have different vacation schedules for their jobs so I won't see alot of them for awhile. Gotta make the time we have left count! Alright, I'm gonna switch to a new post to talk about my plans for the rest of my time here! For now it's bed time! Hopefully I can continue my writings tomorrow at work. Until then...I hope all of my family & friends had a great Christmas weekend & didn't miss me too much! Can't wait to see everyone soon!! LOVE YOU ALL!!


XOXO,
Amanda