Rakhi: So, we’ve come to the end of our Korean adventure. Joel and I will leave this country with so many fond memories- it really has been an unforgettable experience I can’t even begin to sum it up. The past three days have been quite emotional for me; I didn’t realize I would feel so sad about leaving. On Friday, I had the last of my classes with grade 6 and at the end of each of the classes some students cried and they all begged me not to go. After the first class, a group of girls grabbed me and began sobbing which made me cry and in turn my co-teacher! I got hundreds of letters from the students and at lunch time I was hounded for my autograph! The queue was so long the students were falling out the door. Later that afternoon, I had a teacher’s class. I entered the classroom and some of the teachers had chipped in some money to have a surprise party for me. Joel and I have been really lucky that we’ve met so many kind, warm and generous people. I’m going to miss some of my student’s a lot; children really are amazing when they’re young.

Saturday was our last big blow out Korean stylee. To prepare, I had a trim and Joel had all his hair hacked off. Suitably coiffed and in good company with Sam and Shane in tow, we headed down to the river for a wine cruise. The cruise was the perfect finale to our trip, the sun was shining and lots of tasty wine and cheese was flowing freely. I’m glad to say we were perfectly civilized and it was another bunch of lads, one of whom stripped and jumped into the river, who took the prize for being most disorderly. We topped of a brilliant day with one last drink up the 63 building and getting unfairly chucked out of a norebang for drinking a beer.

Yesterday was operation pack up day. After a fair amount of hard work and with Laura and Martin (the new native teacher at Joel’s school and her mate) taking most of our belongings, our apartment is finally stripped to the bare bones. This whole time feels very strange and ever since this morning I’ve had butterflies in my stomach. I’m positive that we’re doing the right though and as one door closes another is opening. The adventure continues...

Goodbye Korea- Hello Thailand!