Food, booze and more booze.

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Leaf printing with the kids on the trip

So my lovelies, it has been 2 weeks of ups and downs with no blog posts to enlighten you with. I have a lot to write about so, here goes.... Apologies for the abundance of pictures, I will try and be concise with my words whilst updating you on the life and times of Miss Von Dee.

So where to begin, work is work. I dread Mondays, my positivity has started to tarnish a little, mainly because I am asked a lot of at work, I feel my teaching is never at a good enough standard no matter how hard I try. I need to do this and that more, I need to type up multiple things and all that need to be done before I am holiday on the 28th July.

Stunning Lake View :)

I went to a school trip on Friday to a lake and forest, which I fucking loved, everyone was saying how hot it was, it was hot but nothing I couldn't handle, even with leggings and a long sleeved top on I was absolutely fine. I had a great Friday, it must have been the most enjoyable easiest day at work ever, I toured this forest and lake, came back to work was bought Kim Bab by the school, I sat and ate with the Kindergartens who brought their own home made Kim Bab and fruit and snacks etc. I genuinely hardly touched my lunch bought by the school because all the cute little munchkins kept toddling over with their chopsticks and feeding me their lunches, I was easily stuffed on their lunches and fruit. I think what happened was it started as a kind gesture but turned into lets feed Colleen teacher so we can get rewarded with kisses, cuddles and tickling. How can you not kiss and squeeze the heck out of their cute little selves!!! So adorable!!! I'm majorly broody just writing about it ^_^ 

The view of the mountains from the Boss's house

When I finished the remainder of my teaching for the day, me and the rest of the teachers left Gwangju and spent Friday evening eating a korean BBQ feast and drinking beer, chatting and being crazy females, that we are. It was a nice bonding experience and the teachers were so nice in paying me compliments and including me. Also the bosses, house is huge!!!!! She lives in the mountains and has the most epic view I have ever seen. It was an amazing experience and I was home by 11pm, which was awesome! I was also gifted two traditional Korean hand fans which i have no decorated my room with :) I'll update with pics later.

Sometimes I cook for two people :) Mine and Jest's dinner.

Taking advantage of the beauty bulbs in the bathroom with Mimi ;)

We have a new teacher at the school, which brightens my days, we have made multiple plans for travelling Korea together, so I'm so excited about our trips. I've been spending more time with the Jestmeister, went out for meals, drinks and clubbing, he is a delight to spend time with and I cherish our time together, it's always a good time with the Jestmeister, playing scrabble at a foreigner hotspot restaurant in downtown has to be my highlight of the past 2 weeks, followed by him teaching me the ways of playing pools like a pro, followed by beer and shit loads of tequila, best night ever! Which leads me on to my birthday, I turn the ripe old age of 24 in precisely 14 days and my plan is a meal with my friends, then followed by bars and clubs, the predicament and rather annoying thing is my birthday falls on a Sunday and I have to go back to work just for 1 day before I am off work for summer, Silly, right??!!, so it has to be done on Saturday night, it's still so bizarre to me, but I plan to get totally wrecked for it.

My passed few Gaturdays, have been partying and shopping. I've spent a shit ton on shopping for my mother and a couple of friends to send them stuff. When I've met up with Mimi we've been doing our usual, eating out and shopping and we actually hit some photo booths in town and got pics together. Asians are crazy about taking photos especially selfies and editing them!!! Now when I say photobooths, I don't mean your bog standard passport photo booth or even the ones you can do with friends, these ones here are from Japan and we all know how advance their tech is for everything!!!! This includes their photobooths! They have special lighting inside, green screen, effects, the shots can be full body shots and when you are done you can edit the fuck out of them from makeup, hair colour, to adding frames, stamps and writing in a huge selection of templates and styles. It cost a mere £2 which gives you two sets of photos of 6 (one for you and one for your friend/loved one).

Photo booth pics lol

The weather has been mad crazy here, it's hot and humid, regardless of rain and storms, I even believe it's even more humid before and after rain. Next weekend the plan is to hit the mud festival on the beach in Boryeong with Scarlett (the new teacher at my school), but we haven't put anything into action so I have no idea, but I really wanna go as this is my only chance,  I heard it's choca block with foreigners!

So that's all I have to say on the events of the past 2 weeks, Its been a blast but at the same time major stress on myself. Phew!


Closing thought:

How do you guys cope with stress? Any good techniques for de-stressing?