A Korean Christmas!

Well  it's Boxing day and I have to say  this is definitely the least Christmassy Christmas I have had especially as we have been working today! It sis snow on the lead up to Christmas though which was nice.

Here in Korea Christmas isn't really celebrated, it is seen as more of a 'couples' holiday instead. Having said that we certainly celebrated on Christmas Eve with shots of 151, pool competions  and ending up in a Norae bang with about 10 other Koreans and a tamborine!

 We spent most of Christnmas day in bed having and then went out for a curry with a friend, very traditional.... the curry was great though!

Jacks Body

This is what the 12 years olds in Jacks class think of him!

Night out in Seoul

Last Saturday we went on our first night out in Seoul, which was brilliant, not only do you get free food when you order drinks but you can also get your own private room with drinks to order, amazing! We ended up just getting the  first subway back at 5.30, not too bad!

Our private booking room!

Free fried chicken!

General Update

I thought I would give you a general update on our first two weeks here in Korea. It has been very easy to slip into life here, everything is so easy and convenient, we live about 20 feet away from a huge supermarket, we are right next to the subway and about 5 minutes walk from our school!

The job has been going well, it was a bit daunting at first but we have got into the swing of things now, with a bit of planning most of the lessons have been pretty easy. The kids are mostly well behaved although by the time they get to us they have already been at school all day so they can be a bit sleepy! I particularly enjoy my classes with the younger children as they are chattier than the teenagers and they come out with some funny things!

A street in Seoul

There is plenty of nightlife nearby, our friend Elias has been showing us the ropes in Ilsan, a bigger town nearby with some cool bars and restaurants. Everything here seems to be open pretty much 24 hours, on Friday we had dinner at 12 at night before starting our night out, crazy! We had our first night out in Seoul last night which was great, it is a massive city so we have a lot of exploring to do!

Other news ... I have started doing yoga classes 3 times a week, I have never seen so many bendy people and Jack is looking into starting some kickboxing classes too.  We are having a brilliant time all in all, except I can't believe it is Christmas this week, not feeling Christmassy at all :-( I am sure we will find some other foreigners to celebrate with though!

Would you like a bigger bum?!

Walking through the subway last night in Seoul we spotted these in the window, I don't think we have this problem in the UK!

Inappropriate pet clothing

The Koreans, believe it or not love their little dogs and like to dress them up however I would not recommend dressing your dog up in this ...

Also while you are in the 'Pet' section of the supermarket, don't forget to buy your hedgehog!

Funny Moment 1

Hi guys, Jack here.

So just thought I would fill everyone in on a few funny moments I have experienced so far.

Firstly, the incident with the fly. So it turns out that Korean children seemed to be pretty wet when it comes to insects. In one of my first classes a large fly arrived announced and tried to start a disturbance, it flew round the class causing utter hysteria.
I could see this was some kind of test so I decided to grasp the situation by the balls before it got out of hand. I waited until the fly had landed on a student poster mounted on the wall and made the decision to end its mischief permanently. The closest thing to hand was an A4 hand out with the weeks vocabulary words. I approached the fly with the strategy of catching it in the paper and the screwing it up and putting it in the bin, what a hero, an idol of Korean children everywhere. Unfortunately all I managed to do was squish the fly into the poster and then smear its remains a good three inches across it. This triggered complete chaos which then took me ten minutes to calm the children down. Now every time I teach in that class I have to tell at least one child to stop pointing at the remains of the fly’s corpse and laughing. *sigh*