Ok ok so I will admit it…I have let the blog slide. For the past couple months the weather was starting to get nice and to be honest I was enjoying some time outside. I’ve also had a few visitors, which was amazing. It is a really cool feeling to show people from home our life here. Regardless I am not feeling like writing much these days so I will try to keep it short but put more pictures in. I am also getting a lot of questions about how much longer we are here. We have 4 months left of teaching in Ansan and then on October 3rd we are flying to Southeast Asia for a 40 day backpacking adventure. We will be home around the second or third week in November! Just in time for a lonnnnggg Canadian winter. Yes we are crazy. So here is what we have been up to. We live a couple of stops away from Seoul Racecourse Park. It was our first time at the races, so we were hoping for beginners luck. Eric and I are big gamblers….NOT. We bet the equivalent of $1 on each race and won our money back, ultimately coming out even. The way we see it, it was a fun day that cost us no money. It isn’t the happiest atmosphere to hang out in, watching all of these Korean men obsess over stats, chain-smoking and frantically pushing people out-of-the-way to get their bets in. Although it is worth it to feel and see how excited everyone is once the race is going, and the horses come around the corner to the finish line and thousands of people are screaming at them. As exciting and fun as it is, I will never bet big money, that’s just way to dangerous and I’m not willing to feel the anxiety over betting more than $1-2.00.

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