Friday, April 20, 2012

Gardening Day April 20, 2012

So our school decided that it would be "fun" for the kids to plant plants in the garden of the schools owners place.  I think the kids did have some fun and we then filed time with playing games.  I was really excited to go because the weather was finally nice and we could go hang outside.  I was also very excited to go see what a Korean house looked like.  I really didn't know what to expect but I was thinking something similar to a small house in America.  Not quite the same.  There is a picture later to show you.  
As always the kids are so dang cute I had to take pictures of them doing their planting.  After they planted the plants in the yard we all got to plant our own seeds in a pot we took back to school.


Elin doing a great job.


Andy is really just interested in playing in the dirt and mud.

So this is the house.  It looked just like a long rectangle house made of bricks.  I did not get to go in but I was told it has some nice stuff inside.  I have to say this seemed like a way more functional house and you really don't need all the space we have in America.

Mike showing us his plant and Jessica and Ryan showing him how to plant.  Mike is our smallest kinder kid and he is so very cute!!

Some of my kids you have seen before.  Sam and Christina.

Yejee and Sunny

I think the kids did a pretty good job planting all the plants.

Snack time and these are some of the Harvard boys.  Andy, George, Mike and James.

Game time.  They had to hold up one foot and push each other over.  First to put their foot down lost.  Not an easy concept for the kids to get but they had a lot of fun and we enjoyed watching them.


Really fun day actually but a lot of time in the sun and the kids were quite the complainers when we headed back to school.  I was so happy to be in the sun again and not the dang cold we had for so long.  I also continue to love seeing new things in Korea and seeing how different the lifestyle is.  It was a great day and I always look forward to seeing more of Korea.  Maybe after 2 years I will feel I have seen enough.



Saturday, April 7, 2012

Mt. Acha Hike

So my now ex-supervisor has left school and I miss her a lot.  But we get together on the weekends and I have actually seen her quite a bit.  So this weekend we went on a hike right in Guri and it turned out to be a great workout.  I have a fitbit now that measures how many steps, floors, miles and calories I do during the day.  This hike was about 7 miles and we went up about 150 floors.  On a good day I hit 10 floors.  We also had Dana with us, another teacher from school, and I really thought we may have killed her.  But this was probably the first beautiful day in awhile and it was a perfect day for hiking.  We had some beautiful views form the top and I felt great after we were finished.        







Dana needed a walking stick to help her make it up to the top.  She is only about 27 years old.


Tombs are all over the mountain as you hike up.



They never like their picture taken.  I am not totally sure why!




Helicopter pad in case someone gets hurt up the mountain.  So smart!




We hiked down a different spot and came to this really nice park and they had pin wheels all over.  It was a very clean and nice place to hang out.


As we were walking back to find a bus to go home this part of town (whatever part it was) had really cute paintings on the walls all over the area.  


This was really cool because it is a painting that turns into a real tree. 

Like I said I think we killed Dana.  We had to get a cab to take us to a bus stop that would take us home. 

Great day and GREAT workout and I am looking forward to going again.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Insa-Dong Shopping

So I love going to Insa-dong to do some shopping and just being out.  There is a new teacher at my friends school, Justine, so I took her to Insa-dong.  There is always something fun to see here and always shopping to be done!

This time we found some crazy corn chip twist things and they were very popular!



 There was an addition to Insa-dong since the last time I had been there and they had benches painted with different designs!

 There was also these love tags everywhere and you could purchase a tag and write something on it.  They were all over and looked really cool!


 Who doesn't want to be a butterfly!

New teacher Justine