First Snow Fall in Korea

Last night it snowed for the first time since I've been here. It has been getting colder colder everyday and its only going to get worse...but the snow was really pretty last night and this morning when I woke up all the trees were white and the ground was VERY slippery....you know ice and I don't get along too well.

Three month update

I can hardly believe that I've been here for over three months....and I've only had two colds (stupid little kids). There are so many things I'm trying to get used to here, the language, the food, and well pretty much everything, but I've learned a lot. Korea is such an amazing place and if you ever get a chance to come here take it, and stay as long as you can so you can get the whole Korean experience.

But I do miss the States. Besides my family, it's mostly the food that I miss. Korean food is great and all but I miss the variety of things that the US has to offer. But one thing has really been getting me down lately and its the fact that Thanksgiving is next week and since most of the people I hang out with are Korean or European no one really cares, its just another day. So my Thanksgiving will probably be spent writing lesson plans or do something else that doesn't involve turkey and "the good" cranberry sauce. :'(

Halloween

So today was Halloween, one of my favorite holidays, and I was a little sad because of the lack of scary movies but the school had a Halloween party and that was fun. I had to decorate my classroom with Irene and we had the scariest room, we made 4 kids cry, two run away, and 2 wanted their mommies. While making little kids cry is great and all but I did miss eating my weight in fun size candy bars.

Picnic in the mountains

Last Wednesday I went one my third field trip with Bambini, a picnic in the mountains. It was a lot of fun, but it was a little dangerous with the little kids. I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have to worry about kids falling off the ledge and into the very rocky and very cold stream. We had a guide with us part of the way , he told the kids about the different trees and stuff but I had no clue what he was talking about (I still don't know Korean).

Everland

A few weeks ago, my friend Irene and I went with some teachers from another English speaking school to an amusement park called Everland. http://www.everland.com/htm/MultiLanguage/english/htm/
The park was pretty big, but there were only two real roller coasters in it and they were both pretty weak. The park also had a zoo, which was very depressing because the animals looked so cold and unhappy. : ( But we had a great time and I made some new friends from England (and Canada but thats not exciting)!!!

This is supposed to be a picture of a liger you know half lion half tiger, but it didn't turn out so good....but I see couple of them and they are freaking HUGE!!!

Bambini

Ok so I know I suck at keeping this thing updated, but I've been busy you know the whole living in another country thing.....But I'll try to update more often.

So the kids are really great at the school, they are a lot of fun and are pretty cute.

Lunchtime with Jane and Benjamin

6B: Cute little Helen

7A: Crazy Wendy

6B: Nari and Jane being silly

6B: Helen, Jane, Nari, Benjamin, and Timmy

7B: Julie working hard

7B: Ian he is one funny kid

6A: Eugene, Ruby, Michaela, Jenny, and Leo

Michaela and Ruby not eating their lunch

The Bambini sign

My place

I know you've all been waiting to see pics of where I live. So where they are. I live in a very small one room apartment, which we would call a studio but here its simple called a one room.

It looks so much better in black and white.

You can see my washing machine one the deck.....and yeah I know I need to clean up.

Chuseok

Sept. 25 is Korean Thanksgiving/Harvest festival called Chuseok. So no school Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday....great. Everyone I work with is going to spend it with family where they will make too much food and honor dead relatives and grandparents, so I'll pretty much be alone or hanging out with a bunch of Canadians (I know : /) because all restaurants and stores will be closed.

Anyway, the school went on their Sept. field trip to a Korea cultural museum where the kids had to wear hanbok or the traditional dress and they all learned how to bow and serve tea. It was really cool from an outsiders point of view.