Hello hello
GUESSSSSS what! I am finished intensives! Today was my last day teaching intensives, and I went out with a bang! We had "Market Play" today. During my intensive month, my classes which were my extra classes I had to give my students these pretend dollar bills when they were good as rewards. Kind of like in the kindergarten class when someone does something that makes me happy I put a heart beside their name on the board. Anyway, we did this all month just for today. Each kid was sent a letter home with a list of things to bring to school... stationary items, fruit, veggies candy, drinks... anways. We made our own market! ANDDD I got to shop! haha Today at work I got paid to help my kids practice their shopping skills in English and I got some sweet treats from it too!! I got a few potatoes, carrots, a peach, a small green Korean pumpkin and some candies... it was awesome. My favourite moment today was when one of my little kids Jimmy (who is a girl, I don't know who named her Jimmy) got me to help her buy some treats. She is VERY shy, but she really wanted a cucumber. Bless her haha.. she is only 10. And that I think is Korean 10.
Another one of my intensive kids Sally had the same sort of thing it seems from her Piano Hogwan. She got some cool things here... pencils, pens, erasers, and she got these plastic rings. She gave me one as a best friend ring. It fit on my pinky ring finger haha. Thomas was really cute today too... of everything at the market today... he was most excited over his bananas!
While I am on the topic of school I will mention that because of intensives, some of my students took the morning class and transferred out of my afternoon class. One of my classes is now down to three students. They are all 8 year old boys. My last class with them I knew it was a class of boys because Bruce looked at me, said excuse me from the table we were sitting at and walked outside... I was shocked he did that in my class, he stood there for a minute then came back in. It was obvious what he did. He went outside to fart. At least he left the room to do so. haha oh kids.
Last weekend I went to Seomyeon with my friend Heather from high school and my friend Sakina after our Korean lesson. Sakina found this group which offers volunteer Korean lessons. These lessons only cost 3 dollar a month! And that is to cover the snacks! Right now I am learning the alphabet! I have some homework to do before I go to sleep from last week actually haha :) I love that I am a student again! This will be great.. I will be able to get around so much more easily and when/ if my family come to visit I will be able to ensure in Korean that there is no shell fish!
Anyways, in Seomyeon we went to a Vietnamese restaurant and then some window shopping, a few book stores, then to a cafe for gelato and Dr. Fish. What is Dr. Fish you ask?
Look at this youtube video Sakina found:
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IpcWRlp78
Now that you have seen that you can only imagine how I felt when I took part in that. My feet are extremely ticklish. I can't promise that if you touch my feet I won't kick you in the face... I am that ticklish. Pedicures and iffy. I went and had a bunch of tiny fish eat the dead skin off my feet. It was the weirdest feeling ever. For the most part I only barely had my heels in. I laughed too hard and made a scene.
The cafe which had these fish had a little library, served gelato, and with my gelato I got butter... why butter? They also served free bread for toast, jam and tea/coffee... it was a nice spot!
The following day I went to my beach just minutes away from my house and just read and loved life. The weather was nice, it wasn't as hot as it had been and had a nice breeze to it. My friend Steph met up with Sakina and I later in the afternoon and then we met up with some of the guys we know that work at the jet ski repair shop right by my house. Steph is friends with the owner. He drove over one of his jet skis and his employee took us out on it. It was my first time on a jet ski... and let me tell you... it is my last hahaha. Just imagine me... already nervous because I am not huge on deep sea water getting on a jet ski for the first time and I am nervous with machines that go really fast. The man who took me on the jet ski spoke very little English. Steph gave me a quick prep lesson on what to do to not fall off and we sped off. I held on to his life jacket and felt myself bobbing up and down a little too much. Not knowing what to say, I said... toooooo fast... I think he thought I said faster. My nerves were shot. So I yelled stop! haha He slowed down and I said... home please haha. He asked if I wanted to go again... haha no.
The man who owned the rapair shop and the jet ski also had one of those banana boat things that you would toe from the jet ski or a boat. Well I handed back my life jacket and said thank you for the ride... then he fastened it back on me while I said no that's ok.. and insisted that I try the boat... and he would go slow for me. Steph convinced me to oink (only in Korea)... so I decided to try it again after not liking the one I had been on in Mexico a few years back. She said it would be a great story. So I told him I would if he went slow... yes. I am a baby. He tricked me.. he went slow the first time, but the second time he sped up, then when we were docking he ensured he tipped the boat. You would think I would be mad, but it was great. I am glad that I was forced out of my element.
I started to feel a little homesick the other night so I forced myself to go for a walk. It was lovely to walk along the beach and think of home and feel happy where I was. It really is beautiful here and it helps to keep me focused. I just sat in the breeze for 30 to 40 min just day dreaming. It was wonderful. It was dark out and the bridge has colourful lights on it at night, it is a pretty sight. As I got up to walk home I bumped into my good friend Cheryl. I hadn't seen her in a few weeks since she was gone to Africa to visit a friend. She brought me back a key chain and a post card! :) I love getting post cards!
A friend from Canada moved to Busan yesterday. Her boss told her to tell me that she was at the Haeundae station at exit 4. So I went there. She has no phone yet or Internet access outside of school. I went to where I was told and waited for hour in a half. I didn't want to leave worried that she was lost in Korea... so I waited. While I waited I met this guy named Ian. We became instant friends and found out that he only lives 45 min away from me in Canada. Wild the people you meet across the world! :)
Well I finally get a call from my friend once Ian leaves for his bus and I am left to wait alone. She only has a minute before the phone cuts out since she is on a pay phone with a small coin, so I ask her what she sees. All she can make out before she is cut off was a building that said 2001. I walk up to a bunch of Korean women and ask if anyone speaks English, one of them did!! I told her I needed to find a building in this huge city which could be anywhere that said 2001! hha she knew what I was talking about and even left her group of friends to help me! Koreans are so nice like that! My friends boss had told her the wrong subway stop for some reason and I was two away. I managed to find her and we went and had a great first Korean meal! I even got to laugh at someone who was just learning chopsticks hahaha.. I have gotten a little better, so it was funny to see someone try it for the first time ever... especially where you hardly see forks here.
Also... side note as I end this entry... as I write this I am hearing Celine Dion blaring... hahah My Heart will Go On... I never hear English music really played around my apt, but today Celine is blaring!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
an update in my crazy month
hello hello
I haven't blogged in a really long time. I have been pretty busy still adjusting, and also my summer intensives are crazy... this is my schedule:
Monday and Wednesday and Friday
9:40-10:10 class
10:15-10:45 class
10:45-11:15 class
11:15-11:45 class
1:30-2:10 class
2:10-2:40 class
3:45- 4:25 class
4:30-5:10 class
5:15-5:55 class
6:00- 6:40 class
7:30-8:10 class
Tuesday
9:40-10:10 class
10:15-10:45 class
10:45-11:15 class
11:15-11:45 class
1:30-2:10 class
2:10-2:40 class
3:00- 4:30 class
Thursday is almost the same except I don't teach from 3-3:45.
However, it really isn't much of a change... I really only have 2 or three more classes than my regular schedule.
I am learning lot about myself by being here. What I can do, and what I want to do. I really think that I can teach. I really enjoy teaching these young kids... especially the 6, 7, 8 year old kids. They are just so much fun. I like colouring flash cards, playing games, and just having fun. My favourite is when you KNOW your student has had an "ah ha" moment. You can just see the bell go off in their heads. I really honestly think that this is what I want to do. So much in fact that I think my calling is to go into primary elementary teaching.
I know teaching here will be nothing like teaching in North America, but I just love being around kids. These kids make me laugh and we have so much fun. In my Courage class I always start the class by asking how the kids are feeling. My favourite response is from a little boy named Mike. He always says really fast that he is "fine, great, excellent, fantastic, then pauses, puts his hand on his chin and slowly says good." And lately he has also been adding that he is power ranger. We then continue the class by writing the date on the board, and then I ask my students about the weather. As I do I draw pictures on the board of the weather, then of me and what I might be doing in that weather. If you know me... you know that I can't draw at all. I draw what the kids call Joulla Man. I believe that is a Korean web comic of a stick man. hahah We draw me at the beach, sometimes I am wearing a tube for the water, holding an ice cream and fishing. Mike then wants his picture too and all the other kids chant until I do. Mike gets me to draw him as superman. I do this in all my classes and the kids just love it... in my Buttercup class, which is my main kindergarten class... and the hardest to teach because all those kids are wild children, I have captains everyday, and I draw a picture of me and the captain... kids look forward to being captain for those drawings, and especially helping me mark workbook.
In Buttercup class when I mark workbook we choose a shape, most often a happy face, heart, happy heart, star or happy star. The kids love to choose which shape they want. The captain also gets to choose which colour pencil I use that day on our worksheet. I love that most of the boys cheer for the dark colours, except for Ricky... He always wants pink. He is sooooo cute. He is always very well dressed. His dad is a doctor, and his mom was the one who bought me that real burberry bag. Well one day he was wearing his ECC uniform rather than his normal burberry getup. The uniform he was sporting this day was plaid burberryish shorts, with a short sleeve pink button up collared shirt, and a red bow tie. I LOOOOVVEEEE when the kids wear bow ties! Well, Ricky runs right up to me and says "Teacher Sherry!!! (with his huge smile), guess who is captain today!" I get down to his level and ask him who indeed was captain... he responds with an even bigger smile, "Ricky is..." then he tells me he loves me and runs away. Today I saw him just after my lunch and we cuddled as we watched sponge bob! :)
These younger kids are so much more fun to teach then one of my teen classes. That class has turned into a nightmare. The kids are so rude, and just don't have the time of day for my class... I have tired everything. I wish I could explain just how crazy this class is. They always have a snarky comment, and try to find ways to trick me and have them not do their work. Let me tell you... it isn't working. I am not giving up on them! This is my goal for the year... These kids will learn something from me! haha I think having this range is really teaching me a lot about educating, and something I definitely will be able to use in the future. My last class I had with them, only 3 out of 4 students were present, but ALL three of them got 0% on their spelling tests. I told them they had to copy out their words 10 times, then I told the Korean teacher to tell them they had to get their parents to sign the test. Yeah, that is right... I was strict Sherry!!
I am so glad to have a break after that class, it helps my energy level for my last class of the day. Those kids are great. I love them. It makes ending my day so good. They are so smart, and they love learning most of the time, and we just have a lot of fun in class. My boss came into my class and asked if they had all handed in their English Diaries, but one had forgotten, which is completely out of character. She is a lot slower than the other students, and doesn't try as hard, but always does her work! I told my boss I didn't get one, but not to worry, that never happens and they are really smart... blah blah blah... I praised them up the yang. They were seriously GLOWING. My boss responded by telling them all in Korean something along the lines of what great students they were. As the class continued you could just tell that made them really happy. We had a great class, and had a few of those "ah ha" moments. This class has the same circulum as the class prior, so I gave them the same test. They didn't do very well on the test either, but keep in mind... this is their summer vacation I am teaching them on... (side note, I only teach a hogwan, (public school), they go to their public schools as well, and also other hogwans like science, math, computers, music.... etc) Anywho... I made this same class write their wrong answers out 10 times and gave them the guilt trip of me being disappointed... these students were so sad that I was upset, they promised to do better next time. I told them they needed at least 6 out of 10 for their sentence tests this Friday, or they would have to write the sentences out 10 times just like their vocab words... although I was strict you could tell that they still loved me. As I leave that class I always tell them study hard, but do something fun! haha they nod their heads look at me like I am nuts and say yesss teacher haha... I always tell them to read books and play outside... they just laugh at me. We have great conversations in class... every Monday I start by getting them to tell me about their weekends, and I tell them the edited versions of mine haha.
I made a little girl bawl today in class. I was so surprised when she started to cry. We were learning about the star shape and the colour purple. I had them all hold their purple colour pencils in the air and as that was happening, little Geena and Allie were talking. I told them three times to not talk, and the fourth time I told Geena she had to move in an extremely friendly way. She looked at me and shook her head. I have learned to not give that much attention, and took her things and nicely just put them on the other desk as I continued the lesson. She stood there, with her things on the other desk and didn't cry, but power cried. I got the Korean teacher, then all was decent... although during our next story reading class she was still a little sad. However, I would take controlling issues like that than what my teens try to get on with any day!
Also, side note. If I ever hear the song "The Wheels on the Bus" ever again, I am going to throw punches hahah. I have heard that song everyday this month. EVERYDAY. And... the kids don't like to sing it... they yell it. haha.. ohhh... but one lesson with that class was so fun.. well two stick out in my head. I made bus tickets, and arranged the seats in the class to look like a bus. I have all the kids bus tickets and roles, when the song came to their part they got to get on the bus... it was so much fun!! Then one of the lines is the parents on the bus go chat chat chat. Well I needed to teach them what parents meant... so at my wits end and having no luck, I bring in my family photo and show my parents to the class. They were soooo excited to see my family! :)
So moving to Korea I have been forced to get used to a lot. I see meat hanging everywhere, the smells are always strong, fish and gasoline mostly. This was an easy adjustment for me... I didn't even care that much when I saw the row of pig heads. However, not last night, but the night before I found something that I will never get used to. I HAD A COCKROACH in my apt! It was the biggest bug I have ever seen. I screamed, I guess typical me, took a picture, again, typical me, however I didn't get close because I was too afraid. Then called my friend Rick who lived downstairs to get it out. I hope I don't get anymore... I hear they travel in packs. I am too afraid to google anymore information!
Over this past weekend I went to Boemeosa temple with some friends. My friend Heather who I actually went to high school with posted a note on pusanweb.com and asked if anyone could take us around and tell us and translate what everything was. It was seriously amazing. One of the best things I have done in Korea so far. My minor in school was Religious Studies, and most of my courses were focused on Buddhism. I loved listening to what things were, and just understanding it! Like when they spoke about Avalokiteshvara the Bodhisattva... I knew what that meant!!! :) I really loved learning about this particular Bodhisattva... in some traditions it is a male, in other this Bodhisattva is female. At this temple she was a woman. Most of the Bodhisattva's are male, which make it so interesting. A Bodhisattva is a sentient being who takes a vow to prolong their own Buddhahood, or enlightenment until all other sentient beings are enlightened. Oh gosh... I can't wait to visit other temples!
Today was a short day at work and I was finished at 4:30 so I went to the post office, mailed my letters, then went to the beach. Today was such a great day. Normally the weather has been insanely humid, but today it was cool... but still pretty hot. I loved sitting by the beach and just day dreaming. It was my favourite part of my day! The best thing was seeing all the people at the beach. My beach isn't as busy as Haeundae... which has been known to have a million people there at one time. A MILLION. Seriously, I went there last weekend, and it was body to body. And you have to rent an umbrella to stay at the beach pretty much... so it looks like an umbrella city... I wish I had my camera with me that day. Anyways, back to my beach. At my beach today there were a bunch of people there, and it is the Korean way to not wear bathing suits. When I went to Jeju, my friend Elena bought her first bathing suit, and Hannah refused to pack hers. We went to a tropical Island! At my beach I saw what I am assuming were students in black shorts, white t-shirts and red bow ties... swimming in the beach. It was so cute.
I went to the Mega mart and bought a new lap top computer. I am pretty pleased about it. I only spend 519 000 won on it, and my friends told me it was a great computer.... I know nothing about technology. I also got a pet fish. His name is Jack. I love him. I sing to him and talk to him everyday. He is so white he is almost clear with a little orange on his head. He is named Jack since Johanna asked me what his name was as I was watching Will and Grace and Jack made me laugh!
OHH... and I solved how the mosquitoes are getting into my place... the bottom of my screen window has an opening on the metal for some reason... I need to get tape... these buggers have been driving me bananas... I swear they have bigger brains then the bugs at home! But once I get some duct tape... I will be in sleeping heaven! :)
I am sure there is TONS more I want to talk about, just can't think of it at the moment...
oh wait...
I made friends with this girl who is from Sierra Leone originally and moved to Korea from the States to work for the military. She cooked us AMAZING African food, and had Sangria... it was wonderful... Also, her apt was the BEST place I have ever seen in Korea. She had two bedrooms, a study, a laundry room, a living room, TWO BATHROOMS WITH SHOWERS, AND A BATHTUB and a kitchen! Plusss... she had a full size washer AND dryer, and a dishwasher... if anyone works for the military... look into coming to Korea... you may just get the best place I have ever seen here! And the people I talked to who all worked for the military said they loved their jobs!
Well... hope all is well.. keep in touch.. and thank you to all who sent me such lovely little smiles in the mail! :)
I haven't blogged in a really long time. I have been pretty busy still adjusting, and also my summer intensives are crazy... this is my schedule:
Monday and Wednesday and Friday
9:40-10:10 class
10:15-10:45 class
10:45-11:15 class
11:15-11:45 class
1:30-2:10 class
2:10-2:40 class
3:45- 4:25 class
4:30-5:10 class
5:15-5:55 class
6:00- 6:40 class
7:30-8:10 class
Tuesday
9:40-10:10 class
10:15-10:45 class
10:45-11:15 class
11:15-11:45 class
1:30-2:10 class
2:10-2:40 class
3:00- 4:30 class
Thursday is almost the same except I don't teach from 3-3:45.
However, it really isn't much of a change... I really only have 2 or three more classes than my regular schedule.
I am learning lot about myself by being here. What I can do, and what I want to do. I really think that I can teach. I really enjoy teaching these young kids... especially the 6, 7, 8 year old kids. They are just so much fun. I like colouring flash cards, playing games, and just having fun. My favourite is when you KNOW your student has had an "ah ha" moment. You can just see the bell go off in their heads. I really honestly think that this is what I want to do. So much in fact that I think my calling is to go into primary elementary teaching.
I know teaching here will be nothing like teaching in North America, but I just love being around kids. These kids make me laugh and we have so much fun. In my Courage class I always start the class by asking how the kids are feeling. My favourite response is from a little boy named Mike. He always says really fast that he is "fine, great, excellent, fantastic, then pauses, puts his hand on his chin and slowly says good." And lately he has also been adding that he is power ranger. We then continue the class by writing the date on the board, and then I ask my students about the weather. As I do I draw pictures on the board of the weather, then of me and what I might be doing in that weather. If you know me... you know that I can't draw at all. I draw what the kids call Joulla Man. I believe that is a Korean web comic of a stick man. hahah We draw me at the beach, sometimes I am wearing a tube for the water, holding an ice cream and fishing. Mike then wants his picture too and all the other kids chant until I do. Mike gets me to draw him as superman. I do this in all my classes and the kids just love it... in my Buttercup class, which is my main kindergarten class... and the hardest to teach because all those kids are wild children, I have captains everyday, and I draw a picture of me and the captain... kids look forward to being captain for those drawings, and especially helping me mark workbook.
In Buttercup class when I mark workbook we choose a shape, most often a happy face, heart, happy heart, star or happy star. The kids love to choose which shape they want. The captain also gets to choose which colour pencil I use that day on our worksheet. I love that most of the boys cheer for the dark colours, except for Ricky... He always wants pink. He is sooooo cute. He is always very well dressed. His dad is a doctor, and his mom was the one who bought me that real burberry bag. Well one day he was wearing his ECC uniform rather than his normal burberry getup. The uniform he was sporting this day was plaid burberryish shorts, with a short sleeve pink button up collared shirt, and a red bow tie. I LOOOOVVEEEE when the kids wear bow ties! Well, Ricky runs right up to me and says "Teacher Sherry!!! (with his huge smile), guess who is captain today!" I get down to his level and ask him who indeed was captain... he responds with an even bigger smile, "Ricky is..." then he tells me he loves me and runs away. Today I saw him just after my lunch and we cuddled as we watched sponge bob! :)
These younger kids are so much more fun to teach then one of my teen classes. That class has turned into a nightmare. The kids are so rude, and just don't have the time of day for my class... I have tired everything. I wish I could explain just how crazy this class is. They always have a snarky comment, and try to find ways to trick me and have them not do their work. Let me tell you... it isn't working. I am not giving up on them! This is my goal for the year... These kids will learn something from me! haha I think having this range is really teaching me a lot about educating, and something I definitely will be able to use in the future. My last class I had with them, only 3 out of 4 students were present, but ALL three of them got 0% on their spelling tests. I told them they had to copy out their words 10 times, then I told the Korean teacher to tell them they had to get their parents to sign the test. Yeah, that is right... I was strict Sherry!!
I am so glad to have a break after that class, it helps my energy level for my last class of the day. Those kids are great. I love them. It makes ending my day so good. They are so smart, and they love learning most of the time, and we just have a lot of fun in class. My boss came into my class and asked if they had all handed in their English Diaries, but one had forgotten, which is completely out of character. She is a lot slower than the other students, and doesn't try as hard, but always does her work! I told my boss I didn't get one, but not to worry, that never happens and they are really smart... blah blah blah... I praised them up the yang. They were seriously GLOWING. My boss responded by telling them all in Korean something along the lines of what great students they were. As the class continued you could just tell that made them really happy. We had a great class, and had a few of those "ah ha" moments. This class has the same circulum as the class prior, so I gave them the same test. They didn't do very well on the test either, but keep in mind... this is their summer vacation I am teaching them on... (side note, I only teach a hogwan, (public school), they go to their public schools as well, and also other hogwans like science, math, computers, music.... etc) Anywho... I made this same class write their wrong answers out 10 times and gave them the guilt trip of me being disappointed... these students were so sad that I was upset, they promised to do better next time. I told them they needed at least 6 out of 10 for their sentence tests this Friday, or they would have to write the sentences out 10 times just like their vocab words... although I was strict you could tell that they still loved me. As I leave that class I always tell them study hard, but do something fun! haha they nod their heads look at me like I am nuts and say yesss teacher haha... I always tell them to read books and play outside... they just laugh at me. We have great conversations in class... every Monday I start by getting them to tell me about their weekends, and I tell them the edited versions of mine haha.
I made a little girl bawl today in class. I was so surprised when she started to cry. We were learning about the star shape and the colour purple. I had them all hold their purple colour pencils in the air and as that was happening, little Geena and Allie were talking. I told them three times to not talk, and the fourth time I told Geena she had to move in an extremely friendly way. She looked at me and shook her head. I have learned to not give that much attention, and took her things and nicely just put them on the other desk as I continued the lesson. She stood there, with her things on the other desk and didn't cry, but power cried. I got the Korean teacher, then all was decent... although during our next story reading class she was still a little sad. However, I would take controlling issues like that than what my teens try to get on with any day!
Also, side note. If I ever hear the song "The Wheels on the Bus" ever again, I am going to throw punches hahah. I have heard that song everyday this month. EVERYDAY. And... the kids don't like to sing it... they yell it. haha.. ohhh... but one lesson with that class was so fun.. well two stick out in my head. I made bus tickets, and arranged the seats in the class to look like a bus. I have all the kids bus tickets and roles, when the song came to their part they got to get on the bus... it was so much fun!! Then one of the lines is the parents on the bus go chat chat chat. Well I needed to teach them what parents meant... so at my wits end and having no luck, I bring in my family photo and show my parents to the class. They were soooo excited to see my family! :)
So moving to Korea I have been forced to get used to a lot. I see meat hanging everywhere, the smells are always strong, fish and gasoline mostly. This was an easy adjustment for me... I didn't even care that much when I saw the row of pig heads. However, not last night, but the night before I found something that I will never get used to. I HAD A COCKROACH in my apt! It was the biggest bug I have ever seen. I screamed, I guess typical me, took a picture, again, typical me, however I didn't get close because I was too afraid. Then called my friend Rick who lived downstairs to get it out. I hope I don't get anymore... I hear they travel in packs. I am too afraid to google anymore information!
Over this past weekend I went to Boemeosa temple with some friends. My friend Heather who I actually went to high school with posted a note on pusanweb.com and asked if anyone could take us around and tell us and translate what everything was. It was seriously amazing. One of the best things I have done in Korea so far. My minor in school was Religious Studies, and most of my courses were focused on Buddhism. I loved listening to what things were, and just understanding it! Like when they spoke about Avalokiteshvara the Bodhisattva... I knew what that meant!!! :) I really loved learning about this particular Bodhisattva... in some traditions it is a male, in other this Bodhisattva is female. At this temple she was a woman. Most of the Bodhisattva's are male, which make it so interesting. A Bodhisattva is a sentient being who takes a vow to prolong their own Buddhahood, or enlightenment until all other sentient beings are enlightened. Oh gosh... I can't wait to visit other temples!
Today was a short day at work and I was finished at 4:30 so I went to the post office, mailed my letters, then went to the beach. Today was such a great day. Normally the weather has been insanely humid, but today it was cool... but still pretty hot. I loved sitting by the beach and just day dreaming. It was my favourite part of my day! The best thing was seeing all the people at the beach. My beach isn't as busy as Haeundae... which has been known to have a million people there at one time. A MILLION. Seriously, I went there last weekend, and it was body to body. And you have to rent an umbrella to stay at the beach pretty much... so it looks like an umbrella city... I wish I had my camera with me that day. Anyways, back to my beach. At my beach today there were a bunch of people there, and it is the Korean way to not wear bathing suits. When I went to Jeju, my friend Elena bought her first bathing suit, and Hannah refused to pack hers. We went to a tropical Island! At my beach I saw what I am assuming were students in black shorts, white t-shirts and red bow ties... swimming in the beach. It was so cute.
I went to the Mega mart and bought a new lap top computer. I am pretty pleased about it. I only spend 519 000 won on it, and my friends told me it was a great computer.... I know nothing about technology. I also got a pet fish. His name is Jack. I love him. I sing to him and talk to him everyday. He is so white he is almost clear with a little orange on his head. He is named Jack since Johanna asked me what his name was as I was watching Will and Grace and Jack made me laugh!
OHH... and I solved how the mosquitoes are getting into my place... the bottom of my screen window has an opening on the metal for some reason... I need to get tape... these buggers have been driving me bananas... I swear they have bigger brains then the bugs at home! But once I get some duct tape... I will be in sleeping heaven! :)
I am sure there is TONS more I want to talk about, just can't think of it at the moment...
oh wait...
I made friends with this girl who is from Sierra Leone originally and moved to Korea from the States to work for the military. She cooked us AMAZING African food, and had Sangria... it was wonderful... Also, her apt was the BEST place I have ever seen in Korea. She had two bedrooms, a study, a laundry room, a living room, TWO BATHROOMS WITH SHOWERS, AND A BATHTUB and a kitchen! Plusss... she had a full size washer AND dryer, and a dishwasher... if anyone works for the military... look into coming to Korea... you may just get the best place I have ever seen here! And the people I talked to who all worked for the military said they loved their jobs!
Well... hope all is well.. keep in touch.. and thank you to all who sent me such lovely little smiles in the mail! :)
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Where is Teacher Sherry?
School is madness right now.
I am in my intensive teaching month... I am teaching 26.3 hours a week... that is only teaching... that doesn't include prep time, or just time I am at school between classes and such... madness. Plus in order to get paid for over time you have to teach over 26.5. I am JUST under. :(
However, in my class I need to tell you about my latest lesson with my Wake Up 3A class... and yes, I realize you have no idea what wake up means... it is the title of the book I teach... it is also one of the lowest level books... I believe wake up goes up until 6B.
Anywho. I had to teach the concept of on, in and under. I also had to teach bedroom, closet, dresser, and bed. So in the text book there were various pictures of these items. Also, with these items they had various things on, in and under them. I had to teach, "the boy is in the closet." It made me giggle a little (not out loud though, good god!), the graphic didn't help either with the boy looking sad in the closet and the other boy outside looking weirdly at him. Well, they were just not getting it. I was pointing at pictures, trying to draw them on the board, so finally I started using things in the classroom as props. I took one of the students chairs and stood on top of it... then said, "where is Teacher Sherry?" They all yelled the correct response, "Teacher Sherry is on the chair!" Then I took the chair and put it above my head. Again, this worked really well and they responded with "Teacher Sherry is under the chair!" Very pleased that I got them to understand these concepts after a frustrating lesson, I got to the concept of "in". I couldn't get in the chair (so sitting on it instead of standing) without them confusing it with "on"... so looking around the room ANDDD the only option I had was the closet. I had ten 7 year olds yelling "Teacher Sherry is in the closet!"
Thought that might make you laugh a little.
I am in my intensive teaching month... I am teaching 26.3 hours a week... that is only teaching... that doesn't include prep time, or just time I am at school between classes and such... madness. Plus in order to get paid for over time you have to teach over 26.5. I am JUST under. :(
However, in my class I need to tell you about my latest lesson with my Wake Up 3A class... and yes, I realize you have no idea what wake up means... it is the title of the book I teach... it is also one of the lowest level books... I believe wake up goes up until 6B.
Anywho. I had to teach the concept of on, in and under. I also had to teach bedroom, closet, dresser, and bed. So in the text book there were various pictures of these items. Also, with these items they had various things on, in and under them. I had to teach, "the boy is in the closet." It made me giggle a little (not out loud though, good god!), the graphic didn't help either with the boy looking sad in the closet and the other boy outside looking weirdly at him. Well, they were just not getting it. I was pointing at pictures, trying to draw them on the board, so finally I started using things in the classroom as props. I took one of the students chairs and stood on top of it... then said, "where is Teacher Sherry?" They all yelled the correct response, "Teacher Sherry is on the chair!" Then I took the chair and put it above my head. Again, this worked really well and they responded with "Teacher Sherry is under the chair!" Very pleased that I got them to understand these concepts after a frustrating lesson, I got to the concept of "in". I couldn't get in the chair (so sitting on it instead of standing) without them confusing it with "on"... so looking around the room ANDDD the only option I had was the closet. I had ten 7 year olds yelling "Teacher Sherry is in the closet!"
Thought that might make you laugh a little.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
my vacation
I am going to start this blog with telling you all something really cute that my Grandmother told my father.
If you read my last blog I said that I was learning how to surf. I obviously told my parents all about it. So, my father then tells my Grandmother one day on the phone. She is so cute.. when he tells her that I am learning how to surf, this is what she said. "With all the stuff she does on the computer, doesn't she know how to use the internet?" hahhah I love it. My Grams is an awesome 92 year old lady! :)
Well, I am just recently back from my vacation. I went to Jeju island for 4 days. If you are ever in Korea, please make time to go there. My vacation was perfectly beautiful. Just imagine an Island that has 4 distinct seasons, but the summer one is very tropical. There are palm trees everywhere, and the water is very blue, even turquoise in places, and every warm! The beaches were so nice.
Our first day there consisted of getting on a boat (cheapest way to travel there, only 38000 won) . We got there a little late, but in plenty of time for departure. The boat was leaving at 7, and we got there at 6:45 to board, but already had our tickets in hand. Soooo... since we were there "late", apparently there was no room for us in the area where we had purchased our tickets (the room that fit 212 people). We were upgraded!!! woooo!! We got to sleep in a room with 21 people. (Bryony counted). We got there, and as the boat left the dock I took some photos and then went back to our room, did some crossword puzzles a friend gave to me, then started to feel a little dizzy. I am known for getting sea sick, so I went right to sleep. All the lights were still on, and people we were teaching my friend Rick how to play "go stop", a Korean card game were loud. I didn't care.. I put my sweater over my head and conked out. I ended up sleeping the majority of the 11 hour trek. It was great, and everyone was so amazed that I could sleep in a state like that.
We arrive in Jeju at 6am. We can't get into our hotel room until 2pm, so first we go to the this botanical garden. It was beautiful. They had so much there.. they had plants, the had birds, they had a cave and they had a folk village. We got some great shots! Also, about the plants.. I always wanted to see how a pineapple grew.. oh.. I got to see one! Anddddd did you know for a kiwi plant to grow they need a male and a female plant?
After the botanical garden we went to the beach close to our hotel.. I slept in the sun for an hour or so then swam in the waves. I loved it. The water was so blue and so warm, and the waves were nice. We ended up meeting some other foreign people there and exchanged numbers for later that week. After growing tired of swimming we headed back to the beach and ordered chicken and it was sent right to our umbrella on the tent. It tasted lovely!
We then went to our hotel room. We hung out there for a little while... but let me tell you the best part. We get to our hotel and there are no beds. None. Can you imagine? We were given a mat for the floor, a pillow and a blanket each. After that 11 hour ferry boat ride I really wanted a bed haha. Oh well.. you make due with what you can right?
We went out to our BBQ area after our friend Elena made Kinchi chige (that is definitely spelt wrong.. but tastes AMAZING). It is a korean soup made with kinchi, onions, and spam with rice. The BBQ she made us was with this Korean green onion salad and pork. It was soooo good. There was a big screen in the BBQ area and they were playing the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks.. I didn't think I would have to sit through that movie ever again after seeing it with Bridget and hating it.. haha it drove us nuts.. so we just drank the beer and soju we brought and had nice conversations while we tried to ignore the film.
The next morning we woke up early to meet our driver for 9am. Once we met up with the driver we went to a million places.. I am going to try to remember them all for you. First we went to Mini land. It is a park that had miniatures of famous places from around the world. I got to see the great wall of china, the taj mahal, the white house, some building in Germany... lots more... but nothing from Canada. I half expected to see at least the CN tower. They even had a little section on dinosaurs, but nothing from Canada haha.
After that we went to a green tea museum and saw tea farms, it was small, and run by the major tea place in Korea, but pretty and nice to see.
After that we went to an art sculpture place and walked around in the sun and saw sculptures. It was nice, but sooooooo hot. But worth it.
We then went for lunch (and my timing might be wrong.. lunch might have been before the art place... oh well..)
Lunch was lovely... I had a sea food soup. I am warming up to sea food. In my soup there were so many different types of shell fish. Oyster, shrimp, crab... and another that I can't remember. There were also peppers and some other veggies. Then a side of rice to eat with the soup.
After that we went to the beach for an hour (we had a tight schedule with our driver and other fellow travellers... so that was cut down on for that day.. :( I was sad... but the day was still fun).
After the beach we drove to two different waterfalls and were able to see the falls. They were very beautiful, not very big, but very beautiful. Especially the second one since it was right beside the sea and emptied out into it. What I didn't like about it was we had to pay a fee to get in. We had to pay to see nature... oh well.. it was nice to have seen it.. even among all the other travellers who were trying to get their photo taken at the same time.. they were very busy spots.
We then went back to our apartment and started cooking again. We made curry rice that night.. it was wonderful! We ate that again outside in our BBQ area... I thank Elena for all the Korean cooking she did for us!! mmmm However, since we had such a busy day I was so tired and went right to sleep that night.
The next day was similar to the one previous with the amount of things we saw. We met the driver at 9:30 and went to love land first. This place was sooo funny. Huge statues everywhere of people doing it. hhaha It was basically a huge stag shop or our pleasures with statues everywhere. It was funny to see... I will have to post the link for pictures once I can get them off of my friends.
After that we went to a folk village and learned about old Korean life. The one thing I remember very well was the toilet. It was near the front of the village, very open with a pig pen beside it. The pig who lived there ate the waste that was put there from the toilet. It was very interesting to hear about that. They also had very interesting houses to keep cool from the heat... made from the lava rocks that the Island has with a thatched roof. The roof has to be replaced every year from all the wind on the Island and it takes a few months to make.
After that we went for lunch and had Korean food. It was BBQ pork that you wrapped in sesame leaves. It was BBQ with mushrooms and onions and had lots of side veggie dishes. There were also a side of a Korean potato pancake made with green tea... that was my favourite!
After that we went to a cave and walked around there... it was interesting and very cold which was nice since the weather was soooo hot.
We then went to sunrise peak... we wanted to hike the mountain, but it was really much too hot. We instead walked around the bottom by the sea. We even got to see a woman diver! She never dived in the water while we were there, but she collected sea weed along the side. This was my favourite experience of the whole trip. It was just beautiful and I had a I love life, I love Korea and life is amazing, the world is an amazing beautiful place moment on the rocks with my friend Bryony. I didn't want to leave... I seriously can't wait for you to see photos of that place.
After that we went to the Women Divers museum. In Jeju the women fish for the community (this is dying down, but still very prevalent on the Island... these women used to travel as far as Russia to fish). The museum was my second favourite. I learned so much about these women and have so much respect for them. They fish for the communities. There are 3 classes of divers.. the lower class are the ones that stay near the coast, but the higher class go into the sea. These women hold their breath for two minutes and dive down to the sea and collect shell fish mostly. When the Japanese invaded Jeju, they even fought with the men to protect their Island. These woman are just amazing!
After the museum we went to a maze park and walked around trying to find our way to the middle. It was pretty cool. We got lost a few times, but we found our way! It was a really neat place, and the hedges were really tall and big..
We then rushed to the ferry dock and took our friends Hannah and Elena there since they had a boat booked for that day and we had one more day.
It was really sad to see them leave.. but we continued with our trip and continued to have lots of fun. We went to our new hotel room... and guess what.. they had two really big beds!!!!!! :) I was soooooooo happy!!! We then decided to drink some of our beers and have a night out. Once the beer was drank we went to an area of town that our travel guide book said would be good... we found this Mexican restaurant the guide book said was good, and man was it ever! We had CHEESE!! I miss cheese!!! We shared quesidillas, fajitas and burritos... andddd drank two glasses of wine each... it was perfect.
From there we found this bar that some locals told us was fun, and free to get into! haha They were playing some dance music and we danced the night away for a while. At some point of the night a Korean band got on stage and played some music. They were a rock band and did a cute side step while they played their instruments!
We decided later is was time to move on so we walked down the main stretch.. while we were there more foreigners talked to us and we randomly met our friend Rob from the beach our first day. He took us to a bar called "Led Zeppelin". It was a good time and there were a lot of Canadians there.
From there we decided drunkenly we wanted to go to sunrise peak and watch the sun come up... so we get in a cab that Rob haled for us not realizing he thought we were going home to the first hotel we stayed at and asked to bring us to the beach where we met. We should have asked the cabby where he was driving!!! We just thought Rob knew where we were going!!! booo... so we ended up 20 000 won later on the wrong side of the Island!! Plus this area didn't have a very good view of the sunrise... oh well.. we slept under the stars for a little while then found another cab to take us across the Island again to our new hotel with beds!!!!!! :)
We got there around 7am and fell asleep until 10:30ish when we decided to spend the rest of our time on Jeju in the sun on the beach. We arrived at our beach and there was some sort of festival happening there and some guys video taped my friend.. she had to walk out of the water, call them over and give them this present that was advertising some event. It was pretty funny.
The beach was lovely, but really windy and blew all this sand in my hair... oh well.. it was worth it.. even though it was stuck in my hair until I got back to Busan to my house.
The ferry on the way home was much better... it was HUGE actually. They had a bar on it and everything. I never attempted any alcohol, but ordered a juice and played a card game with my friends and headed off to bed. I again slept the majority of the 11 hour ride without getting sea sick! Go me! Plus, we were late again this time and didn't have to seep in a big room. We slept in a room with only 10 people!! :)
After getting back to my home I slept until noon. A much needed sleep. After getting up for my day and having a much needed shower I went to the beach near my house to make the most of my last day on vacation. I spent a few hours in the sun then went to the 9th Busan international rock festival with my friends. It was great. They had lots of bands and it was on this beach about an hour away. They had the stand set up with sprinklers all around it since the weather was really hot... I tried my best to hide from those haha.. water and sand equal mud.. and I didn't want any mud haha.
It was kinda weird to be there... the media took tons of pictures of us since we were obviously foriegn... it got kinda annoying to get followed around. We went closer to the band stand after meeting this famousish band called super kids and danced. A group of wet, muddy, funny friendly Korean guys pulled me to the center of their dance circle and wouldn't let me leave.. ahhaha they wanted to watch me dance.. so I tried to flee.. since all of you who know me KNOW I am a terrible dancer! When they still wouldn't let me leave I grabbed Bryony and Stephanie too and we danced while the media filmed us and took pictures of us! haha I might be on the Internet somewhere! Or even TV.. haha I will let you know if I am!
We then decided to go home after the Australian band played since we start intensives next month yuck! But this has been a great vacation and it will have to keep me going for a long while yet! No more time off for a while!
Well folks.. that was my last few days.. a lot to say, and I never really explained anything.. e-mail me if you want to know more! :) I would love to tell you more stories of my time in Jeju!! I seriously want to move there!
Wish me luck with intensives tomorrow!
If you read my last blog I said that I was learning how to surf. I obviously told my parents all about it. So, my father then tells my Grandmother one day on the phone. She is so cute.. when he tells her that I am learning how to surf, this is what she said. "With all the stuff she does on the computer, doesn't she know how to use the internet?" hahhah I love it. My Grams is an awesome 92 year old lady! :)
Well, I am just recently back from my vacation. I went to Jeju island for 4 days. If you are ever in Korea, please make time to go there. My vacation was perfectly beautiful. Just imagine an Island that has 4 distinct seasons, but the summer one is very tropical. There are palm trees everywhere, and the water is very blue, even turquoise in places, and every warm! The beaches were so nice.
Our first day there consisted of getting on a boat (cheapest way to travel there, only 38000 won) . We got there a little late, but in plenty of time for departure. The boat was leaving at 7, and we got there at 6:45 to board, but already had our tickets in hand. Soooo... since we were there "late", apparently there was no room for us in the area where we had purchased our tickets (the room that fit 212 people). We were upgraded!!! woooo!! We got to sleep in a room with 21 people. (Bryony counted). We got there, and as the boat left the dock I took some photos and then went back to our room, did some crossword puzzles a friend gave to me, then started to feel a little dizzy. I am known for getting sea sick, so I went right to sleep. All the lights were still on, and people we were teaching my friend Rick how to play "go stop", a Korean card game were loud. I didn't care.. I put my sweater over my head and conked out. I ended up sleeping the majority of the 11 hour trek. It was great, and everyone was so amazed that I could sleep in a state like that.
We arrive in Jeju at 6am. We can't get into our hotel room until 2pm, so first we go to the this botanical garden. It was beautiful. They had so much there.. they had plants, the had birds, they had a cave and they had a folk village. We got some great shots! Also, about the plants.. I always wanted to see how a pineapple grew.. oh.. I got to see one! Anddddd did you know for a kiwi plant to grow they need a male and a female plant?
After the botanical garden we went to the beach close to our hotel.. I slept in the sun for an hour or so then swam in the waves. I loved it. The water was so blue and so warm, and the waves were nice. We ended up meeting some other foreign people there and exchanged numbers for later that week. After growing tired of swimming we headed back to the beach and ordered chicken and it was sent right to our umbrella on the tent. It tasted lovely!
We then went to our hotel room. We hung out there for a little while... but let me tell you the best part. We get to our hotel and there are no beds. None. Can you imagine? We were given a mat for the floor, a pillow and a blanket each. After that 11 hour ferry boat ride I really wanted a bed haha. Oh well.. you make due with what you can right?
We went out to our BBQ area after our friend Elena made Kinchi chige (that is definitely spelt wrong.. but tastes AMAZING). It is a korean soup made with kinchi, onions, and spam with rice. The BBQ she made us was with this Korean green onion salad and pork. It was soooo good. There was a big screen in the BBQ area and they were playing the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks.. I didn't think I would have to sit through that movie ever again after seeing it with Bridget and hating it.. haha it drove us nuts.. so we just drank the beer and soju we brought and had nice conversations while we tried to ignore the film.
The next morning we woke up early to meet our driver for 9am. Once we met up with the driver we went to a million places.. I am going to try to remember them all for you. First we went to Mini land. It is a park that had miniatures of famous places from around the world. I got to see the great wall of china, the taj mahal, the white house, some building in Germany... lots more... but nothing from Canada. I half expected to see at least the CN tower. They even had a little section on dinosaurs, but nothing from Canada haha.
After that we went to a green tea museum and saw tea farms, it was small, and run by the major tea place in Korea, but pretty and nice to see.
After that we went to an art sculpture place and walked around in the sun and saw sculptures. It was nice, but sooooooo hot. But worth it.
We then went for lunch (and my timing might be wrong.. lunch might have been before the art place... oh well..)
Lunch was lovely... I had a sea food soup. I am warming up to sea food. In my soup there were so many different types of shell fish. Oyster, shrimp, crab... and another that I can't remember. There were also peppers and some other veggies. Then a side of rice to eat with the soup.
After that we went to the beach for an hour (we had a tight schedule with our driver and other fellow travellers... so that was cut down on for that day.. :( I was sad... but the day was still fun).
After the beach we drove to two different waterfalls and were able to see the falls. They were very beautiful, not very big, but very beautiful. Especially the second one since it was right beside the sea and emptied out into it. What I didn't like about it was we had to pay a fee to get in. We had to pay to see nature... oh well.. it was nice to have seen it.. even among all the other travellers who were trying to get their photo taken at the same time.. they were very busy spots.
We then went back to our apartment and started cooking again. We made curry rice that night.. it was wonderful! We ate that again outside in our BBQ area... I thank Elena for all the Korean cooking she did for us!! mmmm However, since we had such a busy day I was so tired and went right to sleep that night.
The next day was similar to the one previous with the amount of things we saw. We met the driver at 9:30 and went to love land first. This place was sooo funny. Huge statues everywhere of people doing it. hhaha It was basically a huge stag shop or our pleasures with statues everywhere. It was funny to see... I will have to post the link for pictures once I can get them off of my friends.
After that we went to a folk village and learned about old Korean life. The one thing I remember very well was the toilet. It was near the front of the village, very open with a pig pen beside it. The pig who lived there ate the waste that was put there from the toilet. It was very interesting to hear about that. They also had very interesting houses to keep cool from the heat... made from the lava rocks that the Island has with a thatched roof. The roof has to be replaced every year from all the wind on the Island and it takes a few months to make.
After that we went for lunch and had Korean food. It was BBQ pork that you wrapped in sesame leaves. It was BBQ with mushrooms and onions and had lots of side veggie dishes. There were also a side of a Korean potato pancake made with green tea... that was my favourite!
After that we went to a cave and walked around there... it was interesting and very cold which was nice since the weather was soooo hot.
We then went to sunrise peak... we wanted to hike the mountain, but it was really much too hot. We instead walked around the bottom by the sea. We even got to see a woman diver! She never dived in the water while we were there, but she collected sea weed along the side. This was my favourite experience of the whole trip. It was just beautiful and I had a I love life, I love Korea and life is amazing, the world is an amazing beautiful place moment on the rocks with my friend Bryony. I didn't want to leave... I seriously can't wait for you to see photos of that place.
After that we went to the Women Divers museum. In Jeju the women fish for the community (this is dying down, but still very prevalent on the Island... these women used to travel as far as Russia to fish). The museum was my second favourite. I learned so much about these women and have so much respect for them. They fish for the communities. There are 3 classes of divers.. the lower class are the ones that stay near the coast, but the higher class go into the sea. These women hold their breath for two minutes and dive down to the sea and collect shell fish mostly. When the Japanese invaded Jeju, they even fought with the men to protect their Island. These woman are just amazing!
After the museum we went to a maze park and walked around trying to find our way to the middle. It was pretty cool. We got lost a few times, but we found our way! It was a really neat place, and the hedges were really tall and big..
We then rushed to the ferry dock and took our friends Hannah and Elena there since they had a boat booked for that day and we had one more day.
It was really sad to see them leave.. but we continued with our trip and continued to have lots of fun. We went to our new hotel room... and guess what.. they had two really big beds!!!!!! :) I was soooooooo happy!!! We then decided to drink some of our beers and have a night out. Once the beer was drank we went to an area of town that our travel guide book said would be good... we found this Mexican restaurant the guide book said was good, and man was it ever! We had CHEESE!! I miss cheese!!! We shared quesidillas, fajitas and burritos... andddd drank two glasses of wine each... it was perfect.
From there we found this bar that some locals told us was fun, and free to get into! haha They were playing some dance music and we danced the night away for a while. At some point of the night a Korean band got on stage and played some music. They were a rock band and did a cute side step while they played their instruments!
We decided later is was time to move on so we walked down the main stretch.. while we were there more foreigners talked to us and we randomly met our friend Rob from the beach our first day. He took us to a bar called "Led Zeppelin". It was a good time and there were a lot of Canadians there.
From there we decided drunkenly we wanted to go to sunrise peak and watch the sun come up... so we get in a cab that Rob haled for us not realizing he thought we were going home to the first hotel we stayed at and asked to bring us to the beach where we met. We should have asked the cabby where he was driving!!! We just thought Rob knew where we were going!!! booo... so we ended up 20 000 won later on the wrong side of the Island!! Plus this area didn't have a very good view of the sunrise... oh well.. we slept under the stars for a little while then found another cab to take us across the Island again to our new hotel with beds!!!!!! :)
We got there around 7am and fell asleep until 10:30ish when we decided to spend the rest of our time on Jeju in the sun on the beach. We arrived at our beach and there was some sort of festival happening there and some guys video taped my friend.. she had to walk out of the water, call them over and give them this present that was advertising some event. It was pretty funny.
The beach was lovely, but really windy and blew all this sand in my hair... oh well.. it was worth it.. even though it was stuck in my hair until I got back to Busan to my house.
The ferry on the way home was much better... it was HUGE actually. They had a bar on it and everything. I never attempted any alcohol, but ordered a juice and played a card game with my friends and headed off to bed. I again slept the majority of the 11 hour ride without getting sea sick! Go me! Plus, we were late again this time and didn't have to seep in a big room. We slept in a room with only 10 people!! :)
After getting back to my home I slept until noon. A much needed sleep. After getting up for my day and having a much needed shower I went to the beach near my house to make the most of my last day on vacation. I spent a few hours in the sun then went to the 9th Busan international rock festival with my friends. It was great. They had lots of bands and it was on this beach about an hour away. They had the stand set up with sprinklers all around it since the weather was really hot... I tried my best to hide from those haha.. water and sand equal mud.. and I didn't want any mud haha.
It was kinda weird to be there... the media took tons of pictures of us since we were obviously foriegn... it got kinda annoying to get followed around. We went closer to the band stand after meeting this famousish band called super kids and danced. A group of wet, muddy, funny friendly Korean guys pulled me to the center of their dance circle and wouldn't let me leave.. ahhaha they wanted to watch me dance.. so I tried to flee.. since all of you who know me KNOW I am a terrible dancer! When they still wouldn't let me leave I grabbed Bryony and Stephanie too and we danced while the media filmed us and took pictures of us! haha I might be on the Internet somewhere! Or even TV.. haha I will let you know if I am!
We then decided to go home after the Australian band played since we start intensives next month yuck! But this has been a great vacation and it will have to keep me going for a long while yet! No more time off for a while!
Well folks.. that was my last few days.. a lot to say, and I never really explained anything.. e-mail me if you want to know more! :) I would love to tell you more stories of my time in Jeju!! I seriously want to move there!
Wish me luck with intensives tomorrow!
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