Lately I have been dreading my teaching schedule. I have been teaching kindergarten from 10AM - noon then i have a two and a half hour break until i teach the rest of the munchkins from 2:30PM - 8:40PM. They are long days for sure. Really gives "living for the weekend" a new meaning in my life. Other than that I have really been enjoying my time here. Especially because I have had really awesome things happening and to look forward to.......
On the first weekend of the month, it was my friend, Greg's birthday. Good friends + good environment = good times. enough said. here are some pictures from our silliness....
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| gotta love a bit of small face competition with my buddy Jason... |
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| what the big face comp. with the birthday boy, Greg? |
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| ohhhhhh 5am Bday McDonalds munch... |
My buddy Jamie came out and visited me for the first 10 days of April, and we had a BLAST and a half! Unfortunately, I had to teach during the days, but at night and on the weekend we got a little wild. Here are a ton of pictures from his stay over here...
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| Saw this store on the way to pick Jamie up at the Gimhae airport... I didn't know you could hunt for children... |
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| Jamie lookin hella cute as a KOR Rail worker |
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| I took this picture with one of my favorite students. His English name is Chris. He loves soccer and ever since I started teaching him back in August and he found out I am a Liverpool FC fan, he has been one too. He is a really smart kid and his English is just awesome. He was calling everyone there name + stiano Ronaldo to make them have a silly name like the soccer player Christian Ronaldo. And he always says the word "namsae", which means "smelly" in Korean. So naturally, I started calling him "Smellnaldo" and he LOVES it. writes that as his name on all his homeworks and everything. I had to take a picture with him in Liverpool FC shirts. |
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| Here is Jamie and I on part of our trip to Seoul when we went to the N. Seoul Tower. |
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| Always have to swoop from some questionable public water fountains.. |
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| Here I am in one of the doorways at the Gungbok Palace in Seoul. Korean people a few hundred years ago must have been barbie sized. |
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| one of the entrances to the palace |
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| some cool building surrounded by water in the palace |
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| another one in Gungbok-gong palace |
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| YEAR OF THE SNAKE BABY! |
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| Chillin' like a villain at the palace! |
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| Having a good night out with Jamie and some other friends in Seoul. |
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| MMMMMM BACON HOTDOG AND ITS REAL! |
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| Only way to end a good trip is a few beers and fireworks on the beach. Jamie and I had a blast and I'm so happy he got to come out here and visit Korea. |
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Then this last weekend, from the 14th through the 16th of April, I went to Japan with a couple of my friends. We went to Fukuoka (which is in southern Japan kind of near Hiroshima). It was only a 40 minute flight away from Busan Gimhae airport. It was such an amazing trip. Let the pictures to the talking!
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| HA! asked a woman to take a picture of us at the airport to start the trip off and she snapped one of herself! |
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| TAKE TWO! here is Autumn, Greg and me at the airport getting ready to take off to Japan! |
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| SCENE REPORT! Thats a bathroom stall to do your business...gives "pop a squat" a whole new meaning... |
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| Check me out on the subway with my new best friend! (he really was trying to get out of the picture, NO LUCK SUCKA!) |
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| yummmmmy some more public water at a temple. |
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| Probably going to Buddhist hell for this one... but had to ride the cow. no one was there..so it happened. |
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| Here is a view down one of the Canals in Fukuoka |
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| Sushi in Fukuoka! This was the best sushi ever. truly amazing. There you can see some pickled ginger (which is one of the best things ever), seared horse meat sushi, salmon, scalop, sweet shrimp, and fish eggs. and of course some Asahi beer! |
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| more sushi... this time: blue fin tuna, raw horse meat, and jack macarole |
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| another shot of one of the canals.. |
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| kids were lining up to take a picture with this thing so I had to get in on that one. This is in a massive shooping mall/food court called "Canal City" |
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| I didn't know Tommy Lee was such a BOSS or had coffee machines in Japan... |
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| Asahi Brewery here I come! |
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| Here is the dining hall in the Asahi Brewery where you pay like $30 and get all you can eat BBQ and all you can drink brewskiz. AWESOME! |
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| Some Dragonball Z lookin statue outside of a temple. |
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| ring me! |
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| really cool temple |
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| more of the temple |
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| me and a Buddha statue. AAHHHHH |
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| This was in a temple. Really cool too. Unfortunately, I couldn't take too many pictures or I would have gotten kicked out... |
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| So we walking around looking for a restaurant, really hungry. We stumble upon a Japanese sword shop. So naturally, we had to go inside. This place was selling samuri swords that were upwards of 800-1000 years old. EPIC history. Some of the swords were over 7million Yen. ( about a $100,000) The shop owner didn't speak English but still let us hold one sword that costed a good $50,000. amazing. |
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| so bad ass... |
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| view of Fukuoka, Japan |
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| funniest subway stop name ever? |
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| street market where you eat the best ramen in the world! |
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| here is my bowl of pork raumen |
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| here we are munching that super tasty raumen. Which we ended up getting ripped off for... oh well still good stuff. |
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AMAZING LAST TWO WEEKS!
