In 2006 I left England to be a teacher in Seoul, South Korea. In 2008 I am married, pregnant and live in Augusta Georgia USA. This is my story.

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I am 26 and from Northamptonshire ( Rose of the Shires) Attended Liverpool John Moores University which was the most amazing experience and made some fab friends. Graduated in 2002 with a drinkers degree (2:2) in Media Cultural Studies. Moved home about 10 months ago and am now preparing to leave again to do the extreme! and teach english to Korean Children.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

I have No Tact!!! Apparently!

Okay its the eve on my departure and i got a chance to update my blog. My packing is done and i am just in the stages of waiting, waiting, waiting!

Last night i had my leaving meal. Ate a tremendous amount of food and drank plenty of the red stuff!!( what a surprise!!)

Anyway mum, dad, grandad and Natalie, thanks for the most perfect evening, i had a lovely time and really enjoyed myself and i will miss you all very much. well that obviously goes without saying. xx

Anyway, due to the discraceful state me and natalie were in:

1: Drinking far too much red wine!
2: Singing the rolling stones songs with my grandad on the i-pod nano!
3: Sucking in the air from helium ballons on my very nicely decorated table! (Big River! Yes Big Hangover!!!
4: Oh and having a disco in my room at an un-godly hour! for which i did get a telling off for!! by mummy!!
5: Photos that are just wrong! me with wine stained lips!! nat with her Dodgy Tights!! actually i have a pair but yours don't spin round like mine! neill you know the tights i mean!
6: The rest is just a bit of a blur! but i had a good kip!!

Well anyway when we got home we thought it would be a good idea to take a last couple of photos to commemorate the occasion.

This morning we went through the photos and i have decided that due to the fact we look like a pair of drunks ( its true)Oh and that fact that i look like Pete Burns on a couple! i decided not to apply a photo of the apres meal!!

None of the 7 photos showed me and my best mate looking at our best ( we are in fact Gorgeous!!) so instead i have attached a photo of me and natalie from when we went to Creamfields 2005!! Yes i know the glasses we have on are rediculous but we thought we were cool!!! and they did a good deed when at lime steet at 7.30am half covering our tired faces!

Creamfields = an extremely messy night and a lot of dancing!! Natalie - 2manydjs if you ever find the album send it to me please xx

This ones for you nat!! Love you loads. Thanks for my lovely card and Present! Oh and what do you mean i have no tact! ha ha

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Bon Voyage!!

Well today is probably the last day i will get to update my blog as i have a couple of hectic days before my departure on Sunday.

So far this week i have packed my case, un-packed my case, packed my case again and last night had the biggest strop because i am over my baggage limit! I mean i only want to take the essentials!!



The fact that i have to pay £43 per kilogram is enough to put myself off my clothes so have been strict and its still not happening!

I contacted Korean Airlines and after dialing about 300 phone numbers (total exageration on my part as usual) i managed to get a free 10KG !!! yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

so now with the help of super mum i have packed!! i can also get into my bed now as my room doesn't look like Great Homer Street market late on a saturday afternoon!! (those from liverpool will get what i mean) those who are not, basically it looked like a bomb had gone off in my wardrobe!! Basically i had to settle for the spare room last night.

Tommorrow (Friday) i get my hair done (bit more blonde obviously) and its my leaving meal at the Narrow Boat in Weedon. Probably last time i will look at a menu and know what i am eating..

Saturday = luggage labels to buy! and an early night.

Sunday = departure day! and total panic attack!

So goodbye England..

Please keep in touch guys, leave me lots of comments and next time you hear from me i will be in Seoul!!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

GOT IT !!!!!!!!!

Today i received my flight ticket. On the 26th February 2006 at 20:05 I will be leaving Heathrow on a 11 hour flight to Incheon Airport Seoul South Korea. As you will probably imagine its hit me now and my head is a mass of emotions!! Anyway suppose i'd just better get on with it and start packing......
Tomorrow i am off to London to the Korean Embassy to sort out my visa this end. Should be pretty straight forward and should be sorted by middle of next week. Then i just have to get my flight!
Anyway on Friday i travelled up to my favorite place "Liverpool" for a few days of goodbyes and a slight bit of partying.. oh and quite a fair bit of drinking may i add which was fabulous...
Friday also seen my last day in my job and went out for a meal with the girls! oh and Dipak sorry.. Got some lovely presents and basically was given a lovely send off... Now i am unemployed and its so nice. better not get too used to it though.
I have included a few photos from my Saturday night out in Liverpool so ENJOY!! Oh i put them the wrong way round so they gradually get a bit better...
As you can see i am sporting a nice hepatitis B bruise on my left arm which was actually made worse whilst in Liverpool by a certain Mr Ward!!
This photo was definatly in the Rubber Soul !!!


No idea where this was!!!


Start of the night!

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Human Pin Cushion

As you may gather from the title of this posting i had my leaving presents from the doctors surgery today. Yes i had my Jabs!! and they hurt!! My arms are ruined, they were like two dead weights this afternoon in work..

I had Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Diptheria, Tetanus and my 1st Hepatitis B injection. I have another 2 of those to go! I didn't bother with the rabies injection....

Had some news from my school this morning and they informed me that i should recieve my visa confirmation number sometime next week. Hurrahhh, aparently there has been a back log at the immigration office and a Lunar New Year to contend with that has ultimatley slowed down the process... just my luck!