Seoul Electronic Music Festival!

Last weekend was our first experience of  a Korean 'festival' Seoul Electronic Music Festival (SEMF), which was very interesting! The festival itself was in the Kintex, an huge new building, only about 15 minutes from where we live, very handy. On arrival it didn't look too busy although the room was so big it would have been difficult to fill. After swapping our money for tokens to buy a few beers we manged to meet up with  couple of friends, a minor miracle seeing as they don't have a mobile phone! There was just one minor hiccup, they ran out of beer at about 1.00am which meant you had to use your tokens to buy the more expensive spirits, hmmm!

Crystal Castles

Alice Glass, an amazing performer!

Justice

Jacks picture from the front of the Justice set

School news

Wow! I can't believe we have been here for 6 weeks, it feels like we have been here for ages but at the same time it has gone so fast! The job has gone smoothly so far, the past week was our busiest week as we have had to fill out mid-term reports. This involves entering scores and evaluating the students, its not hard but it is time consuming. This also means you have to make sure all your students are up to date with their homework which is sometimes impossible! The classes are going well, we don't always know if we are doing things the right way however we are being observed my our manager this week so I suppose we will find out :-/

Oh I was persuaded by some of my younger students to sing Abbas Dancing Queen! Singing is definitley not my strongest point!

What!!

Just a quick post to say we saw some apples in the supermarket today thats cost £50!! Not joking! There are lots of New Year (Lunar New Year) gift sets in the supermarket at the moment, there are all sorts of things including ginseng gift sets, shampoo and conditioner gift sets,  spam gift sets and apple gift sets! All of which are pretty expensive but we have never seen 10 apples, big apples, but still apples so expensive! Didn't have a camera on us at the time so no photographic evidence :-(

Gyeongbokdung

After 5 weeks we finally made it out to do some sightseeing around a palace called Gyeongbokdung, only about half an hour from where we live. It was pretty cold yesterday (about -6)  but  it was a nice place walk around, I think we saw more wildlife there than we have since we got here ... about 10 birds!

Never ending underground market!

Unfortunately you can't really get the right perspective from a photo, but this underground market just feels like an endless corridor of stalls!

Jacks first Norae Bang

So, in Korea they have these things called Norae Bang’s. A bunch of  private karaoke rooms that you can hire out for you and your friends. The first Friday, after work me and Imogen where taken out for a nice meal then onto a few bars finishing in one of these Norae Bangs. To cut a long story short all I remember is  Purple Rain by The Artist Formerly Known as Prince blaring out at me while I threw up on my shoes. *sigh*

Happy New Year!

We started of celebrating New Years Eve with an amazing turkey roast dinner cooked by a friend in a kitchen the size of a cupboard! It certainly made up for our lack of Christmas dinner! We saw in the New Year in Hongdae, the student area of Seoul, which was packed to say the least! Everybody seemd to be in Hongdae particularly all the foreigners, it was odd seeing so many together. We had a great night, going to 2 bars, 2 clubs a coffee shop and a restaurant!

Other news .... we have successfully ordered our first takeaway which included  pizza, a duck, mozzarella sticks, pasta and coke for £12! Very healthy.... 

We are  starting morning classes at school this week for a month while the kids are on their winter holiday, so the next we are going to be pretty busy,  we also have plans for a ski trip and an electronic music festival too!