Exhaustion!

I titled this post Exhaustion because at times this week i've felt my body at an almost breaking point! Not only am I mentally tired but also physically lathargic and feel immobile. It might be a combination of things, lack of satisfying foods, lack of sleep from living on a loud street and also constantly being surrounded by things that are moving. Everyday I witness bikes, vans, cars, busses, motorbikes, trucks and pedestrians go by at a fast pace. It's been overwhelming so say the least. If I can't see them then I can hear them. I'm definitely not used to that. My morning commute to work is either a crammed bus ride with men in suits or joining the herd of students down the street! haha, either option I'm on display for people to stare and call out at me.

Mainly I think the heat is really tiring! So when I went hiking on Saturday with my super excited, energetic co-teacher Christine I didn't know if I'd make it up the mountain without falling over from exhaustion.
Here we are together, she's bright and cheery and I look like death! We also visited a blacksmith village. It was on the edge of Guri in a more natural area, quite pretty and even quiet!

In my second week in Korea I have gotten up to a lot of new things. Its been fun but again tiring. I forgot how exhausted I felt in Japan at first and add the horrible heat to it and living in my current apartment, I can barely function. Here are some random pictures of the events of the last week. I attended a hip hop concert with a teacher and her friend. It was quite the event. I felt like we were at a premiere for a movie or the Grammy's. They shuffled everyone in as if we were walking the red carpet, people stopped for photos and we got free food and drinks.

I'm not the biggest hip hop fan, but from what I could tell it was quality music, good beats and the crowd loved it. The opening DJ (below) was super lame though. He only played cheesy top 40 dance music from 20 years ago. I found that quite humorous!

I've been super fortunate to meet up with Melissa and Julius a few times now. We've gone for drinks and dinner and shared many stories about teaching in Korea. They've been a big help and it just is good to be around people from home who you can relate to. Melissa and I went yesterday to get my bangs chemically straightened which was fabulous! and CHEAP! for under 10 bukcs I got a straight perm, a hair wash and style, juice and he even gave juice to her! It was amazing. I especially liked the hair stylist warning signal he did just before using the hair straightener!