finally better!

I had to take Monday and Tuesday off this week due to this stupid illness. (Today was a holiday- Children's Day- so no school). It didn't develop into strep, I don't think... but I am feeling better. My uvula is no longer the size of my thumb, and I can swallow without feeling like knives are being swallowed. I even left my apartment today! Where did I go, you ask? Why, downtown to rent a car for an upcoming 3 day weekend, of course!

I got an international driver's license before coming here, just in case. The same rules apply here- you have to be 25 to rent a car. A small group of us has been trying (unsuccessfully) to book a trip in a few weeks. All flights/ ferries/ etc have been booked solid because it's a pretty big holiday in Korea, Buddha's birthday. So apparently everyone leaves? I don't know. But after trying a million ways to book something, we got the idea to rent a van and just drive it to wherever we want. All we want to do is camp on a beach. Is that too much to ask!?

So 3 of us met our Korean friend Jumbo downtown this afternoon. If he wasn't with us A) we would have never found the place, and B) the rental would not have happened! It took about 45 minutes to figure everything out, but we left with a 12 passenger van booked for the weekend! (There's only 6 of us going, but the extra space will be nice). Now all that's left to do is to figure out where we're going to go!

I can't wait! Something to look forward to :)

I've been sleeping about 18 hours a day since being sick. I don't know how I'm going to finally go back to school tomorrow! But luckily it's Thursday so I'll only have 2 days til the weekend.