Another week done...crazy busy

Wow, if you want to lose weight move to Korea. I'm down about 7 pounds in 2 weeks! I'm not eating great here right now. I'm still trying to find Korean food I crave, but all the veggies are pickled and it's pointless to eat them. So I'm buying a bit of food, it's better that way but more expensive.

It was a busy week here. Classes are always busy, my kids are always a handful, but sooo much fun.
My kindergarden class is my main class then I have two classes that teaches children who are already in school as an afterschool english lesson. These kids are just beat by the time they get to class so i'm still trying to figure out a way to make more games and have more fun with them. Me reading to my class.

Us doing our morning 'yoga'. Sally's very tactile and likes to be close. haha

Nathens birthday, I love this kid.

On Friday, I had my first field trip with Maple Bear and it was a hoot. We went to the fire station and the kids got to fire water at a little fake fire then got to sit on the fire trucks and then we went up stairs to the 'theatre' and watched with really sexist anime type movie on how women and children start fires..haha

On our way to the busses.

Which one's the child?

Bruno trying on the oxygen mask, he's fearless.

The kids trying out some water. It was everywhere.


This past weekend I went into Seoul and got myself a brandnew professional lens, trying to build my lens library slowly ;). While I was in Seoul on Saturday I met up with my friend Allison and we found a cool little 'folk' village in the middle of Chungmoro (the camera district...heaven..). So we got to see some little old ladies sing and dance. It was a nice sight to see and Allison was able to snap a few shots of me photographing!
The women with bowls

I loved this lady



Me photographing those women

Some roofs of the village






..yeah..i dont know either






So the next day we planned on going hiking...what a day! Lauren and Nicole got up at 5:30 with me to go hiking, props to them! Only a few people have ever gone on a hike that early with me. Unfortunately it took us abotu 2 hours worth of public transportation to make it to Bukhansan National Park. The trip was worth it though. We followed other hikers to figure out where we were going and we met up with a cool woman from Singapore named Maggie. She decided to come along with us and we started up. Oh but along the way we passed like 40 outdoor stores where I bought a great trekking pole for $5! Nicole made fun of me all day becuase I thought it was a such a bargain. So we climbed and climbed till we met a little lady named Sylvia who took it upon herself to be our guide. She was great to have there she showed us alot of cool places. And gave us alot more infromation we all needed haha.











Then we came to this beautiful Buddhist temple in the middle of the mountain. We stopped there for a while to refeul, to eat and to drink tea. It was sooo nice.






By the time we finished it took another 2 hours to make it back home, but sooo worth it.

sunset over lake park