Second Time's the Charm!

Getting Geared up for the race!

As I (Courtney) said before….I was GOING to see Bolt run! And I did! Of course, it wasn’t as easy as I had first though, but it still happened.

The first step was recruiting someone to join me. The people I went with last time were busy, and everyone from Pohang wasn’t interested. Luckily, I remembered my friend Ashli had mention she was heading to Daegu for the weekend. I called her up and asked her to go. She had to think for a while, but she was in! She asked if she could bring a friend. Of course I said yes, and the plan was settled!

Can't Get Enough of Daegu!

Well, I’m back in Korea after spending an awesome 3 weeks in America! Thank you very much! To start off my first weekend of many back in Korea, I went to Daegu….3 times.

It's time for the Seraksan Climbing Trip.....

Last weekend was a weekend I had been looking forward to for a very long time. It was supposed to be the weekend that I went to Thailand with my school. Of course, that trip was canceled due to problems we won’t discuss. But I didn’t let it bother me for too long, because soon it became the weekend of Mudfest, a festival on the west coast of Korea all about playing in the mud! I paid my money, got a seat on the bus, and then I found out about a climbing trip up to Seoraksan! Sweet! I changed my plans, and was all set to go climbing on one of the most famous mountains in Korea….for a whole weekend!

Just a random Weekend....

Top of the Hike

It seems we’ve been slacking on journal posing. SORRRRYYY!! Here’s a weekend from last month. I was waiting to post it until I got some pictures, but they never came out. So I'll post it anyway.

Friday was a normal Friday. I went rock climbing, I ate some dinner with friends, we hung out a bit….you know…normal stuff. But, since I had to wake up early the next morning I went home at a decent hour.

Saturday I met up with some people from the climbing gym. One of the girls I climb with wanted to show me around Gyungyu a bit, so she invited some others and we went exploring! The first stop, we hiked up a mountain to a stone statue thing. Then we sat there for about 30-45 minutes just talking and eating the snacks everyone had brought along.

What will we do this week? Let's just go to Japan!!!

  So.....here's the story about how we went to Japan.

Insubong Climbing Trip

A few weekends ago I had a weekend climbing adventure! Saturday morning I went with Tony and MinJung to climb at a place near Pohang. He had read on Koreaontherocks.com some other foreigners were going to be climbing there. Apparently a woman is writing a book about climbing spots around Korea, so she goes to the spots with her photographer and documents the location! It was pretty neat watching him get set up to take the pictures. While I was there, everyone starting talking about Insubong, the climbing place I was going to the next day. It’s a place right outside of Seoul that’s pretty popular for climbers. But apparently it’s pretty crowded on the weekends. Tons of climbers from all around are all climbing these multi-pitch routes….and things get busy quick. Though they kind of scared me a bit, I wasn’t about to back down. I was just going to make sure I was extra careful!

Weekends in between trips!

So we LOVE to post about our fantastic trips that we always go on. But sometimes there are weekends that trips out of Pohang are not had, and we decide to stay home and enjoy that beautiful city we live in.

A few weeks ago, right after Malaysia, a few friends and I decided to go check out the great 12 waterfalls right on the outskirts of Pohang. It was a really great day. I met with Therese and the twins Pips and Jax in the morning and we took the pleasant hour long bus ride right to where we had to go. The weather could seriously not have been better. It was sunny but definitely not too hot.