Quick update

This week has been rather uneventful. This weekend I stayed in Dangjin and didnt get up to too much. Friday night Nat and Nick had a few people over and we just hung out there for awhile. Saturday Nat and I went to the local market and got a bunch of veg and made a nice vegetarian dinner that night and we went to the jimjilbang. Sunday Nat and Nick went to go pick up Natalie's brother and his girlfriend from the airport and me and Dominic hung out for a bit watching movies and relaxing. Then school started again on Monday and Natalies brother and his girlfriend arrived so we all went out to dinner. His girlfriend is British too but she lives in China studying and working. She loves it there and is in Beijing. She leaves in July so I dont think I will be able to make it there before that.
School is pretty normal, nothing to different. We do have one little boy who has decided he wants to pull his pants down and moon everybody. He started Friday and is still going strong. Its pretty hilarious buuuut we need to make him stop its getting out of control. Students keep coming and leaving which makes class kind of difficult bc you can never plan accordingly but it all works out in the end...to a degree.
Friday we have a sing and dance contest...my kids arent very good but we do it every month so hopefully in a few months time they will improve. The foreign teachers and I have decided each month we should pick a genre and video tape all the performances and then put them online for you to choose which is the best. Ohhhh the stupid things that excite a teacher hahaha

I just made a nice dinner with a bunch of garlic and ginger and now Im heading off to do back to back yoga classes because I will not be going on Friday. Im heading to Seoul and we will show the visitors some sites and it will be good for me too since I havent see any sites yet!!

Ill take pictures to show you later

Hope you're all doing well. I miss everyone!

Easter at school

Not much happened this weekend. I stayed in Dangjin. We did celebrate Easter at school Friday. We had an Easter Egg hunt inside because it was raining out, a spoon and egg race, and pin the tail on the bunny. They had a lot of fun but I dont think they completely understood it. Easter is celebrated here but all they do is go to church. There is no Easter bunny or candy or Easter baskets etc but they had fun anyway!

Joshua & Andrew eating their Peeps. I shared mine from America!

Gloria in her Easter best.

pin the tail on the bunny

typical lunch cuisine

Monica vs. Gloria in spoon and egg race

Kids looking for their Easter eggs.

I gave me Korea teachers my peeps because they have never had one before!

A rather insignificant weekend

A video of me talking about what happened this weekend! woooo!

Giman,Melissa,Dana and me

one of the many cherry blossoms

mushroom house at Children's Park

Grand Children's Park in Seoul

Grand Children's Park in Seoul

the groom chasing after his bride in Dangjin

And some photos!

Specifically for Keith and Terri

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the wonderful package! It was really amazing to get this at school! You know everything I like so well! I was soooo excited! Thank youuuuuuuuu!!!

Camera Shy

Here are my friends I work with and my boss at the coffee shop after school. They didn't want to talk so this is all I got for now!

Kijisi museum

Today we took our kindy kids to the Kijisi Museum. This is a museum dedicated to the tug-of-war that happens every year in Dangjin. This is a very big deal here. The process to make the ropes for this event takes a very long time and they ropes are so long they run entire street lengths and takes about two days to set it all up. The kids didnt seem too interested but then at the end they got to do their own tug of war and that was a lot of fun.

My class now has 7 kids. I forget if I told you that. 

David, Joshua, Sarah, Andrew, Jerome, Gloria and Zoey.

Black Day

In Korea, Valentine's Day is a very long drawn out holiday. Today is black day. A day for people who arent in relationships to wear black and eat black noodles to commemorate their singledom.

South Korea celebrates Valentine's Day, where local custom dictates women give gifts to men. It has taken on a popular event born in Japan but sweeping Asia known as White Day on March 14 when men return the favour with gifts for women.

But Black Day, on April 14, is a South Korean original. It is marked by people who have not found love dressing in dark colours and commiserating over meals of black food, with the dish of choice being Chinese-style noodles topped with a thick sauce of black bean paste.

"I had a miserable time on Valentine's Day, felt even lonelier on White Day and now I'm crying over a bowl of black noodles," said a young women who asked only to be identified by her family name Na out of embarrassment.

"Things better be different next year."

At universities across the country on Monday, students without lunch dates ordered black noodles, dined with other lonely hearts and searched for companionship.

South Korea marketers have hatched special days for the 14th of each month to create a calendar laden with love.

Some days have gained traction such as Black Day, while others such as Green Day in August, when couples are supposed to drink cheap liquor that comes in green bottles and walk in the woods, have yet to attract much of a following.

Black Day events have snowballed, with a major matchmaking service this year providing an evening of speed dating where the dish of choice is sushi blackened by squid ink.

An on-line company for movie tickets sponsored a speed eating competition of black noodles for those who bought single tickets for the latest films.

"It is depressing enough going to the movies by yourself," said Shin Youn-joo of the company called Max Movie.

"We just wanted to spread a little joy to the 'with-outs'."