Traveling Again!

Hello all!

Well, it's been a little while. Biomed classes really got me down this past semester! But, for this summer, I decided to go visit my boyfriend in Korea :) And guess what?? I'm in Korea now!! I got here on May 30th, and I'm happy to say that Ilhwa is doing great, I am extremely happy, and we are both so excited to see each other again. I am staying in this cute little apartment for the time being, and for the first week here, I was pretty jet-lagged... but I'm doing much better now :)

Ilhwa is in the reserve army, and my first week, he had some army trainings to go to. Apparently they have these every couple of months or so, just to make sure the reserve troops aren't getting too rusty. One night after his training, we went out for pizza, and I just thought he looked so cute in his army uniform!



He was so embarrassed to wear his uniform around the town, but because I liked it, he did it anyways :)

The following weekend, Ilhwa had a holiday from work (pretty rare), so we went away to a spa resort again for the weekend. It seems to me that places like this are pretty common here in Korea, but I'm not complaining!!! I love them! We even got to go into this area that had 4 private jacuzzis away from all the rest of the people, which was very romantic :)


I really enjoyed just relaxing there, as you can tell :) On the way home, we stopped by a buddhist temple. Aparently, Ilhwa's aunt is a monk there, so we went to go visit her. The temple area itself was gorgeous!



In my opinion, of all the temples I've seen throughout Korea and Japan, I think Korean temples are the most colorful and vibrant. Just look at that artwork! (PS- if you click on the pictures, you can see a bigger image). While we visited Ilhwa's aunt, of course they treated us with the typical Korean courtesies and kindness and fed us a TON of food :) It was all vegetarian (monks don't eat meat), but everything was absolutely amazing!!

Also, when we were there, the monks showed us some beautiful flowers they had picked. They were real wild roses, totally untouched by human hands until they were picked, and just look at how beautiful they are!!

It was all in all a great weekend :) And when we got back, Ilhwa and I went on a date to the movies. We had a while before the movie started, so we caught some dinner, and then found a Putt-Putt place on the top of the building!! Ilhwa had never played before, so I knew we just had to play, and he caught on pretty fast!

Maybe a little too well...

Since then, I've just been studying and relaxing, and meeting up with my old friends in Korea. I'm really enjoying this time here... But I have another surprise! Ilhwa is getting transferred to Hong Kong at the end of the month (for his job)! And... I am going to go with him :) It should be so much fun! I've never been there, and I have friends there as well (from my study abroad), so even if Ilhwa is busy at work I won't be lonely :)

That's all for now, but I'll be sure to post again soon!

~Whitney