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Name: Lara
Gender: Female
Interests: lots of little things!
Expertise: being AMAZING!! haha
Occupation: a stellar student
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Member Since:
6/22/2006
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| So, I officially have less than one week left.
Here's most of the members from our English Ministry at church!
We're definitely small, but a fun, loving group!! I'll definitely
miss this group of people the most when I leave Korea.
Pastor Robert and I (actually, he's a Reverand, but Pastor sounds
better! haha). Such an amazing spiritual leader.
On the subway home...the Sinchon family. We all live in Sinchon, so everyone at church calls us the 'Sinchon Family'.
This is Ellis and Brendan, again. I tutor Ellis. This was
my last day with them...sniffle. I'm so sad to leave her.
She's such an amazing and intelligent young girl.
My friend, Heather. We met when she was studying abroad at UC
Irvine. She's a Yonsei graduate and is currently working at a
really good company! haha. We had dinner tonight (Monday
night).
So, I spent the rest of my night hanging out with some friends!!
My friend, who we call Trash, is in this band, and her band's drummer
has a little pub in between Sinchon (where I live) and Hongdae (the
university next to us), so we spent the evening there. This is a
cute puppy I was able to get my hands on while there...I totally miss
Milo!! 
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| These are from the past two weeks!
They set up this "Greek" theme at Yongsan (the train station/electronics plaza that I shop at).
I spent June 5th-June 8th in Iksan with my family. These are my three little cousins: Heeli, Eugene and Yurim.
This picture is sideways, but this is my grandma picking Maesil
(apricot). It makes this really REALLY good juice! I helped
pick some too!
some green peppers in my grandma's garden
my cousin Eugene and I at the park
Yurim, Eugene and I in the car
I don't know what these are, but they grow in front of my grandma's
house. I remember eating these when I was little. They're
sour, and have a little seed in the middle.
I'm not sure if you've read in the papers but there are massive anti-US
Beef Import demonstrations going on in Korea. They have been
going on for the past month. The protests are always located near
where I intern. At the beginning of the week these huge
containers filled with sandbags were placed in Gwanghwamun to keep
protesters from marching on the Blue House (where the president
lives). These protests have changed from 'anti US beef' to 'anti
Lee Myungbak' (the president). I could go on and on about this,
but please feel free to check on cnn.com where they've been covering
this issue.
My desk at Prain
The sign on the 5th floor where I worked
I've been packing lately, and needed to do some laundry, and this is
what my room looked liked at one point...like our own personal
laundromat.
This is my hairstylist (in the middle) and her assistant. She's
done my hair everytime I've gotten it done in Korea.
This is Brendan and Ellis. I've posted pictures of them before,
but I really REALLY wanted to share this one...AREN'T THEY
CUTE?!?! I want to take them back to America with me, but I
can't...so sad. We were all eating strawberry icecream.
Usually it's just Ellis and me, but Brendan really wanted to eat his
icecream with us! Gosh...they're so cute!!!
This is my cousin Jeesu. She was wearing her uniform, and I really wanted to take a picture of her!! haha.
And here's Sangho...the youngest of my aunt's...also in his school uniform.
Today, I went to the Independence Museum, that is about Korea's
independence from Japan. It was actually really sad, and made me
really REALLY hate war and fighting. Here's a monument for the
Korean patriots that died for Korea's freedom.
A bonzai tree. There's actually a poem written on the part that I
didn't take a picture of, but Bonzai trees are thought of
as...actually, I'm not sure...but I think it has something to do with
spirit. haha
This was a little replica of the Kwangju Student Movement against the Japanese.
I thought this was cute. Sheets from Japanese colonialism.
This was replica of a execution. Can you believe that they have
something like this out in the public for little kids to see?!?!
There were other replicas that showed you how the Japanese tortured the
Koreans...pretty crazy stuff. Apparently, before they were shot,
they had nails nailed into their eyes. Pretty grusome...huh?
This is a cute little depiction of the Korean flag. The center
part symbolizes the blue, yellow and red circle that was once on the original Korean flag. And
the little doohickies symbolize one of the four marks on the four
corners of the flag.
Some tree that marks the Independence Museum.
My aunt, Sangho, Jieun (the oldest), me and Jeesu (the middle). I spent this past Friday and Saturday with them.
This is Jieun, the oldest. To be perfectly honest, I didn't like
her when we were little. And, ever since that, I aways held that
against her, even until recently. I mean, I wasn't mean to her,
but she still irked me. And, then I realized that she was too
young to even realize what was up, and probably doesn't even remember
what happened. And, that got me thinking, everytime I'd see her
ever since I got to college (since I've studied abroad in Korea twice
and that's including now) she would always be the first to hug me...and
I realized that I didn't let go of that grudge...until now! hehe.
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| I spent this past weekend visiting my mom's cousin in Ilsan, which is a suburban area outside of Seoul.
eating king crab legs with my mom's cousin
We took sticker pictures...and these are the best shots I could get. The guy is her husband.
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| On Sunday we had a church picnic at the Olympic Park. There were SO MANY PEOPLE! But, we still had a great time!!
Playing badminton...LOOK AT THAT GORGEOUS FORM!
A little tired after a crazy game of badminton...hehe
We were the two teams who popped their water balloons first...so people popped their water balloons over us...so sad. haha
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