Blast from the Korean Past:

I just realized this blog written towards the beginning of my time in Korea was never officially posted:

I’ve been meaning to update all of my salseros and bachateros for a while but now seems like a more perfect time than ever!! There is plenty of salsa/bachata/merengue (and even reggaeton) here in Korea and it’s pretty much all I’ve been doing on the weekends! I’ve been having so much fun with it and I’ve met so many wonderful people!! This weekend, though, there was a bachata festival which put my excitement through the roof (I’m sure you all remember how much I freaked out about the last one)!! I took workshops with Troy & Brittney, Jorge Elizondo and Ryu & Kaori and it was much cheaper and more intimate than the bachata festival in San Francisco that I went to last year. I even got to dance with Troy! It was SO much fun!! I had a lot of friends there and got to meet even more people. Life couldn’t be better.

Also, Bridget (that I met on the airplane on the way here) came to stay with me and we had a blast. It was fun getting to know her and we rarely stopped laughing. She learned how to bachata (and she was good!!) and, together, we learned how to ride a tandem bike. She also got to see parts of Seoul before she left the country and I got to see new parts as well because we got lost every time I tried to take her somewhere new. It was fun seeing how well each other were doing after our initial trip here together when we had no idea what to expect.

The weekend is over which is good because I’m exhausted and need to rest up for dancing this coming weekend! I’ve got 100 adorable little elementary school kids to keep me rolling on the floor with laughter until then (today one of my kids with bad handwriting – his “f” and “t” look the same – wrote the wrong word in the blank on an activity and when I went to check his work, I read: “The peacock’s tits are amazing.”) so I’ll be here in Seoul, enjoying every minute of my life, if anyone needs me.