Taekwondo, White Water Rafting & Bungee Jumping

Well monsoon season has hit here.  I am told that it should last about 4 weeks.  Monsoon season consists of days on end of downpours and sideways rain.  Thanks to my sweet mother I have a rain jacket and rain pants to help for the walk to school and I found some rain boots here.  Although I can say that I am prepared physically I am not too excited about all the rain!  We actually got a nice weekend this weekend after 2 days straight of rain so I am taking full advantage of it.  Last week some friends and I signed up for Taekwondo classes.  I took it back in middle school and have been wanting to get back into it and I figured why not start back up in the country it originated in.  The classes are kicking my butt but I am enjoying it very much! It feels great to get back in the swing of things and gives me something to do on these rainy nights.  The master speaks very little English so he tries to tell us what to do in class but a lot of the class goes by visual clues.  They have taught foreigners before, but you could tell they were shocked to have 5 of us in the class.  Today Molly, Tyler, Matt & I went with Adventure Korea to go white water rafting and bungee jumping on the Hantan River.  We got an awesome guide for white water rafting that spoke pretty good English so he was cracking jokes the whole time.  On the first rapid of the river our boat flipped and we all went overboard.  You could tell he did not mean to do that but it was fun.  On the calm part of the river he had has playing team games where we try to push each other overboard.  He then was constantly messing with me by dunking me under and splashing me as I would try to get back in the boat.  Needless to say I spent a good portion of the rafting trip in the water.  There was also a rock that we could jump off of into the water.  It was about 15 feet but I considered it my warm-up before bungee jumping.  After the white water rafting portion of the day we had lunch on the river and then headed for the bungee jumping site.  Matt & I were the only brave ones of the 4 of us to do the bungee jumping.  There were about 15 people total from our large group that did it.  We jumped off of a bridge over the Hantan River that was 170 feet high.  It was by far the scariest thing I have ever done.  The worst part was standing with your toes over the edge about to jump and getting a glance of what you are about to do.  The guide kept telling me don't look down.. look at the mountain.  Then I heard the countdown and knew I had no other option but jump.  I had a piercing scream on the initial jump, which makes it sound like I did not enjoy it but it was so awesome! It gave me a huge adrenaline rush and did not hurt at all.  The video of me is on facebook if you want to check it out.  I now can cross off bungee jumping from my bucket list and what a cool place to say I did it. Tomorrow is supposed to be another nice day so there is a group of us going to a baseball game.  This will be my 3rd game.  I am so glad we got a nice weekend and I was able to enjoy awesome adventures with my friends!