My so called KOREAN life

Friday, July 1, 2011

summer welcomes us with rain

HYPNOTIST SHOW

ASHLEY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

ZOEY & GLORIA

ORCHARD CLASS

JAE, LISA, OLIVIA, ERICA

ANDREW. JULY STUDENT OF THE MONTH

OLIVIA, GRACE, ESTHER, GLORIA

GRACE

The past two weekends I have stayed in my town to try to save money and the weather has also been pretty rainy. Its typhoon season here and it rains so much! Everyday last week was heavy rain. The south part of korea got hit the worst and I think 9 people died from it! Today is the first beautiful day in about two weeks! So last weekend my friends and I went to a girl in towns farewell celebration. Her friend is a hypnotist and sort of a magician. He did a little performance for a group of us. It was really fun. He hypnotized a few people and did some card tricks and some mind reading tricks. It was pretty cool. He got my friend Jessica to think of a card and then I opened a brand new pack of cards and I made the card she was thinking pop out of the deck. It was really freaky! Then, on Saturday night my friend Ashley had her 25th birthday party. It was supposed to be a cookout but because of the rain we had it in someone apartment. She was really happy and it was a lot of fun too. Then Sunday we just had a movie day and hung out and watched some movies.

The past week at school our manager quit and had her last day on Tuesday. All the teachers and my boss went out to dinner to celebrate? Its really a strange concept. When you quit a job here you still get presents, goodbyes and even a party sometimes! So bizarre. So after the dinner a few of us went with my old manager to get some drinks too. It was a late school night. Then on Friday we had our July birthday party. This month is was all girls celebrating and most of the girls in school wore pretty dresses for the party. It was really adorable. Friday night I was very tired so I went to bed early and I also got to skype with my mom and my nephew. He is so big now! Today I woke up early and am just going to kick it around town. Going to do some rooftop yoga with my friend and tonight probably play scrabble. Nothing too crazy this weekend. I leave for the Philippines on the 30th so I am really trying to save money so I can go scuba diving!!!! Although the next two weekends are going to be busy but we already booked them last month so its already paid for. Saturday I am going to the DMZ and the following weekend is this HUGE mud festival!!!! The whole country will probably be there. I will give you more details on those events when the time comes! Until then...have a HAPPY 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND!!! Wish I could be there, Im not doing anything here to celebrate. Also, I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA! !!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA!

Friday, June 24, 2011

June sing and dance plus garage sale

Here are some photos and a video of the latest events at my school.

Today we had a yard/garage sale. The kids brought in things to sell and we set up tables with all the stuff on them. The kids had play money and had to practice their bargaining skills.

Andrew

"You are My Sunshine"

Lake Class

Volcano Class

"Animal Actions"

"Should I Stay or Should I Go"

"Hokey Pokey"

Sarah

Preparing fro the garage sale

kids buying things

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Wando

This weekend we had sing and dance contest at school. I had my kids do "you are my sunshine" and The Clash "should i stay or should i go". Neither of my classes one this month but they did a good job and had fun! I dont have the videos because my camera needs new batteries but my co-worker got the videos but I will have to get there from her later and post them. After school. the 3 of my co-workers and I drove to the middle of the country on a three hour journey to Gwangju. Its a city where my friends friends live. We met up with them and had some drinks and went to bed because we were off in the morning to head down south to Wando for a beach party. It was another near 3 hour trip to the island. A bunch of foreigners met at this beach to have a big beach party/camping trip. The weather was pretty crap and drizzled all day but never poured and then it stopped raining by evening. Luckily, our tents were under these bigger tents so it would of been okay if it had decided to pour. The party was a lot of fun. People just hung around in the day playing football etc on the beach and at night we had a big bombfire and dancing. It was fun but I didnt take any pictures! I forgot so you will just have to imagine what it looked like there. It was really pretty but it was a bit cloudy while we were there. Then Sunday morning we all woke up around 9 and got ready to head out. We had about a 5 hours drive ahead of us to get back to Dangjin. I slept through most of it of course but I feel exhausted tonight so Im going to bed at 9 haha. Hopefully I will feel refreshed by the morning for school.