Oh a holiday, is it?

Okay, so.. it has been a while since I have updated this blog, but it was because things were a little boring for a while. My friend Josh was back in America for some interviews at a couple schools to go into a dentist program.  But I did eventually find some way to cure my boredom. 

So this last weekend was Chuseok! (Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving) I also got gifts for Chuseok.  One of the student's parents gave all the teachers a big gift box, each containing 6 tubes of toothpast, 2 bottles of body wash, and 1 bottle of lotion.  cool.  All of the teachers also got another gift box from the directors. This one had 2 bottles of canola oil, 6 cans of tuna and 3 cans on original spam.  Im atleast happy about the canola oil haha. And I had a nice long weekend. I had Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off!   Over the long weekend I met some new friends.  They are also English teachers at hagwans that live near by.  Their names are Josh (from Canada)  and Paul (from London).  We seem to have a lot of fun together and have hung out quite a lot. It was nice to have some days off and meet some new friends. There was a little of a downside though... Teaching only 2 days in the week makes the kids very restless in class because it is almost the weekend on the first day of class in the week.  Even though a few classes were difficult, I still had a good time teaching this week. 

My school just hired another teacher, but not a native speaker.  Melissa is a Korean teacher, but she just returned from being at university in Canada for the last few months, so she has good English.  It is nice to have conversations in good English with someone at the school finally haha. 

I have also gone to dinner and drinks with my German neighbors Hani and Maria.  They are leaving this Sunday to return to Germany for about one month.  So I am taking care of their plants and their mail. They are extremely nice to me and I think this is something nice I can do for them.  They gave me a bottle of wine for helping me, I hope my friends like wine!

All is well in Ulsan and at St. Andrew.

Here are 2 pictures i took on my cell phone camera of cool things from the Tongdosa Buddhist Temple I went to my first weekend here.

These are two of the four guardians carved out of wood.  They are truly awesome in person. They are about 20 feet tall. Sorry for shaky hand cell phone quality :)

Here is an huge 3 floors high woven Buddha and other important figures. again bad quality...