Jacks costume

Jacks halloween costume as depicted by one of his students!

Jacks impression with gold banana!

Nanji campground BBQ

Nanji campground is based next to the Han River (the main river that runs through Seoul) as it is rare to have a garden or any door space in Korea many people come here to have barbeques. In true Korean style the barbeque area was extremley regimented and there was not a blade of grass, or the river in sight! However, we had a great afternoon/evening eating kebabs, jerk chicken and ribs and drinking an unlimited supply of beer form the campground shop!

enjoying the food!

meats

Summer days

Well June seems to be flying by and it is most definitely summer now, averaging between 28 and 30 degrees! This temperature is great when you are on holiday and have easy access to a swimming pool but it is a bit different when you are surrounded by apartment blocks. Luckily the school is well air conditioned although the same can't be said for our apartment! It gets a bit cooler at night though, perfect weather for spending evenings outside having dinner and drinks, which is how we spent this weekend!

Rooftop bar in Itaewon

On our way to Lake Park

Bits and pieces

Patbingsu - Redbeans, fuit, sweets and chocolate over shaved ice

Red pepper- the taste of Korea!

Socks galore

A meal out with our co-workers

Jacks 25th Birthday

For Jacks 25th birthday I surprised him with a trip to Everland, Koreas biggest amusement park! A group of friends joined us for the trip and we had a brilliant day, the weather was great and despite what I had heard the queues were not long at all. We made it on most of the rides including the T-Express (a large wooden rollercoaster) and a few other spinny things ha ha!

T-Express

Somebody must have told them!

After Chicken Galbi                      

                                                       After a day at the park we were all pretty tired, but the day did not end there! I arranged with some more friends to meet in Jongak and we all headed out for chicken galbi (a kind of marinated chicken with cheese and noodles, yum!), plenty of Soju then on to a beer pong bar for some friendly competetion and finally a Norae bang for some disastrous singing. It was a great day, thanks again to all our friends in Korea who made the effort to come and celebrate :-)