Shrek

For Halloween we were asked to dress up for school, I played it safe as a witch but Jack put in the extra mile and went as Shrek! The kids loved it, (although some of them kept calling him Hulk) and he got a pizza voucher from the school for his efforts :)

Seoraksan

I have definitely been neglecting this blog a bit recently as our time here is coming to an end pretty shortly. Our final trip was to Seoraksan, kindly our lovely friend Ji arranged a condo for us to stay in and we had a fun weekend in the mountains. Although, to say it was busy would be an understatement, I have never seen so many 'hikers' in all my life! We sufficed with what I would call a walk, still there were some pretty views.

Lovely mountain view

Green sausage

Green tea cake, green tea cappuccino, green tea ice cream .... green tea sausage?!

Nope, chilli sausage thank goodness!

Global Gathering in Korea

After a couple of interesting experiences at Korean festivals we decided to give it one more go at Global Gathering and this time we were pleasently surprised! The festival was at Carribean Bay, usually it is a waterpark but the water had been drained out for winter, this made for quite a surreal setting, lots of pirates and waterslides alongside drum and bass and dance music! We made some new friends and saw a few acts including London Elektricity and Orbital, both of whom were great, so great in fact Jack felt the need to go and shake their hands, luckily he didn't get thrown out! We ended up back at home at 9.30 on Sunday morning with a pair of flashing Minnie Mouse ears .... how Korean!

London Elektrcity

Alan!

Family visit

Korean BBQ

On Saturday I said goodbye to my family who came to visit us for a week. I put them up in the local love motel (which was actually quite nice) and organised a substitute teacher so we could have a few days off. I  jam packed the week with activities including Hongdae nights out, cycling along the Han river, hiking, lots of BBQ, Nami Island trip, fishy experiences, a cat cafe and the DMZ tour! By the end of it we were all truely exhausted, luckily we had a couple of days holiday this week to recover, although they might need another holiday!

 Live prawns and fish head soup, yum!

Cyling along the  Han River

Nami Island

         

Beach party

This week instead of the usual Hongdae night out we decided to go to a beach rave organised by some other English teachers. After a long journey from Hongdae and a very dodgy taxi journey we made it to the beach, where there were more foreigners in one place than we have seen since being in Korea. Security was pretty tight too, not police or security guards but army soldiers 50 metres down the beach! It was certainly an adventurous night, fun but strange especially as we had to go to the airport to get  home, hungover and sandy we didn't fit with the pristine holiday goers!

Last semester!

Well our final semester has arrived (very, very quickly)! People teaching here say that Korea feels like a time warp and that feels about right. With less than three months left our thoughts are turning to our next step, possibly a quick trip to India, then home for Christmas! However, we still have plenty to keep us entertained here with family visiting and still lots of sights to see I'm sure this last semester will be our busiest yet!

End of semester snack party with one of my younger classes :)