Summer Break

I've been back Stateside for summer break! Home for a month, doing absolutely nothing and loving every minute of it. It's gone by too fast. Summer break highlights:

• Shopping spree!!! Finding clothes that are actually my size and fit my body type
• Hanging with the family - sitting in the living room together, watching TV, and vegetating
• Waking up early and then taking long naps in the afternoon... and not feeling guilty about it
• Spending time with my best buddy and companion, Cooper, our golden retriever - can't believe he's almost ten years old already!
• Being a part of one of my very best friends' wedding! Bridal shower, bachelorette party, wedding fun... congrats Jane and Josh!!!!
• Eating mom's homemade cooking
• Eating out at my favorite restaurants
• Getting a fresh hairdo to beat the summer heat
• Taking way too many pictures of my dog 
• Road trip to Alabama with my mom and visiting her side of the family, which I haven't seen in 12 years
• Hanging out with my favorite high school teacher and sharing professional development
• Celebrating grandma's 75th birthday
• Four-wheeling and learning how to shoot multiple types of guns on my uncle's 20-acre property
• Enjoying Alabama's beauty
• Enjoying Illinois' beauty
• Seeing my best friend from Mahomet (in Nashville) after 4 years!!
• Visiting 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown Birmingham and learning more about the civil rights movements during the 60s
• Watching movies and playing Pokemon Go with my brother
• Catching as many Pokemon as possible while I'm home because Pokemon Go is blocked in Korea
• Chilling out and catching up with my friends
• Visiting my physician and actually feeling comfortable about healthcare (lol sad but true)
• Eating at my favorite pizza joint with my aunt and uncle in BloNo
• Dancing at C Street with my brother and friends
• Sleeping in my queen sized bed
• Catching up on my reading
• Watching the Olympics
• Driving my car
• Everything else that I forgot to write about...

As you all know, I will be living and teaching in Seoul for my third year with the Fulbright Program. I am looking forward to another exciting year, hopefully without the "excitement" of extreme medical issues, though. Haha! Catch you all on the other side of the world :)