beach day, hike, Seoul

Ok, I am going to start today and tell you how much I love living in the area I live in, and how much I love kindergarten kids!
We had beach day on Thursday! Oh my gosh it was the best day ever! We took the subway to haeundae beach and met up with the Korean teachers there and the kiddies. We had a sandcastle competition! I thought my class made the best castle, but my friend Rick's class won with their alligator! My class made a car. Seriously, once I can upload the pictures from the day I will show you our car! It looked just like a little beetle! So cute! The kids loved helping too, they would run to the water bucket and fill their little pails with water to help smooth out our creation.
The kids all wore their matching shorts and t-shirt uniform shorts set. We started the event by all lining up and singing and acting out songs. Just imagine this, 8 classes of 10 students all singing and dancing. Ohhhh I could teach these kids forever! They are so cute!
Lunch time was my favourite. One of my little kids, Allie, her mom made me and the Korean teacher lunch. Allie is a really cute smart kid, but her mom cries to the school all the time that Allie is not getting enough attention. My boss tells me that Allie is special and I have to give her a little extra attention... her mom is rich, and I guess that makes my school want to do what they can to please her.
Anyways! She made kimpab (google it!) It is sooooo good! I loved it. However she made two HUGE tupperware containers full and gave us two yello mellons and raspberries!! mmm!!! This was my favourite part of the day! haha The cutest was seeing all the little kiddies eat with their chopsticks and laugh at me because I'm not very good yet! They also LOVED that I didn't know a lot of their food yet and would say, "here Teacher Sherry, try this!!" They loved to see how I reacted to it!! :)

I had to teach a class when I got back from the beach and do my man to man class too. (That is a class where I tutor a university student) I loveeeee that class. It is right after my hardest class (that class is so hard, I don't know how to communicate to them, I have to try and simplify my vocabulary and use tons of visuals!) So going to my man to man right after that makes me so happy! I got to edit one of his university papers. I LOVEDDD it! He had to write an opinon essay on Capital Punishment, it was so interesting to read our differing views.

Today I went hiking with two teachers from my school. My friend Steph and George. Steph is from London Ontario, so super close to my home in Cambridge and George is from the UK. He has such a cute accent, but his family is from Spain.. it is cute to hear him speak Spanish with his English accent! Anyway, I also can't wait to post these pictures. We didn't do the whole mountain because we were all a little hungover, but we walked for a good 2 hours. It was a good workout, and the view is just breath taking! The coolest thing about this hike, other than the fact that it is minutes walk from my house, is they have rest stops all through out it that has gym equipment... neat eh? A free gym on a mountain right by my house? George and I have decided that this will be a weekly thing! :)

So I must get going now, poor Heather sprained her ankle and couldn't come on the hike, but she is on her way to my place now and we are going to go and play pool with some of my work friends and walk along the beach! :) yay!!! I will never tire of living beside the beach!

OHHH one more thing.. I went to Seoul for the day on Saturday. I had to go for training. It was really cool to be on the train and see what the land looks like. I didn't get to see Seoul since right after my training I had to run to the train station to get home.. however I am very proud of myself. I took the bus to the train station in Busan, then a subway in Seoul to my traning class. There are 15 lines of subway in Seoul. And this is MEEEE.. I am TERRIBLE with directions! I know... you're impressed! :)

Butt.... before I go..
Happy Belated Birthday to Kylie and Happy Birthday Jenny!

Happy Daddy's day to you Dad!
love you!