Lisa Leaves, Ivy Takes us to the Lantern Festival and the Rest..

So not too much has happened since my last post. After hiking, I stayed in Gwangyang for the rest of my break from Chuseok and I got back into working. However a few weekends ago was a happy/sad time because another person went home, Lisa. She was part of the group who went hiking in Songnisan.

To send her off, we went out to dinner and then drinking after. The picture below shows Kate and I at the Indian restaurant in Suncheon that Lisa chose. Behind us you can see the big group of people we were with. Kate, Lizzie, Pete and I got there a little late so we had our own table.

After dinner most of the group went back to their apartments (most live in Suncheon) to get ready. We were already ready so we headed to a bar to kill some time. None of us had been here before and I forgot the name of this bar but it was really trendy and had these awesome beer towers. We enjoyed this :)
The party was supposed to be James Bond themed but I am not good at dressing up... In this picture is me, Lisa :), Kate, Shari, Sheba and Meghan. This is at San Antonio's where we went after the beer tower place and then after here we headed to a noraebong. It was late night but I think Lisa had fun!
During that next week, Ivy, the Korean teacher at our school, took us to the Jinju Lantern Festival. Jinju is about 45 minutes from Gwangyang. It was incredible! Here is a picture of Kate and me with two Korean girls who came up to us asking to get a picture with us. Under that is one of the sweet floats that was on the water. There are many more pictures on Facebook of this too. While here, we looked at all the floats in the water. They all lit up and some of them moved too. We also got paper lanterns which we wrote our hopes for the future on and then sent down the river. After this we had some pork and sting ray. Not a fan of sting ray. This was on a Thursday night and Ivy told us to make sure Jasmine didn't find out we were going because she would flip if she knew we went out drinking on a work night. We got home around 11:30 and we were all a little tired the next day but it was totally worth it!

Since this, there has only been one other weekend and a bunch of us met at a girl's high school in Suncheon for a softball game. I didn't take any pictures at it but there were at least 40 of us and most everyone played. Of course I didn't :) Haha

Also, Monday night there were some very loud, unexpected fireworks that scared the crap out of Kate and I who thought we might be getting bombed.. If you want, look at the videos of the fireworks I put on Facebook. Kate and I are talking nonsense throughout them but some of them are pretty cool.

As for this weekend, I think we are going to a rock festival in Daejeon. It is going on Saturday in a park and then Ivy wants to take us to some folk village Sunday so we'll see if that happens..

Until next time :)