lazy

i have been becoming more and more lazy with my blog. i don't really mean to but i don't feel like i have much interesting stuff going on to write about.

i ran the terry fox run back on the 16th and i'm not even gonna pretend.......i'll tell you the truth.......it was hard. i even had to walk some of it. i did finish it, though, and that was my goal. i'd like to train harder and try another 10k sometime in the future. i'm really not good at running and i always find it hard, but i would love to be good at it. i always seem to fool myself into thinking i can do it. hopefully next time it'll be easier.

this past weekend was a 5 day weekend for us working over here in korea. the korean holiday "chuseok" (pronounced chew-sock) was from monday to wednesday and we were lucky with that this year. sometimes 2 of the 3 days fall on the weekend. now that i live in a suburb of seoul i decided not to travel anywhere. with a good percentage of the 23+ million people living in the metro area trying to get to their families' home towns........i was quite happy to remain here and not stuck in traffic for most of the break. chuseok is a time for koreans to pay respects to their ancestors and to celebrate the harvest time of year. they bow at grave sites, eat a huge feast and play various traditional games. i was very lazy and didn't do much. one day of it i didn't even get out of my pyjamas all day! for the rest of it i just hung out with friends. i'll add a photo below of some of my students in their traditional korean dress---the hanbok.