weird museum

was wandering around today and found this museum. it was very strangely shaped. it's apparently for a famous korean video-artist. didn't go inside yet, an adventure for another day.

there was a nice little park behind it, lots of families were there playing. i'm glad they don't make that an area you need to pay to get into.

classroom, big window

i'm awesome at titling things.

here's my student jenny, i'm not sure what she's doing. she hated this picture, hahaha.

omg it's a dragon

ahhhhh. lantern festival for buddha's birthday. here's some of the highlights. sadly i couldn't get any pictures of the GIANT PARADE. hundreds of kids, hundreds of people in full traditional korean garb. even a group of kids in wheelchairs, pushed by nurses who were dressed up, with giant kid-in-wheel-chair-with-dressed-up-nurses balloon floats! lots of big lit-up statues too.

sunglasses

almost no one wears sunglasses here, but i often see people with umbrellas to block the sun. i think it's more for skin, but c'mon. it's difficult to even find cheap ones unless you find little 'side of the road' shops.

will upload some pictures later, feeling very sleepy this morning. gotta go to the store and get some breakfast, hooray. kimbap maybe?

good shoes

glad i got water-resistant shoes before i left. went with my friend roger to do some shooting tonight. we decided to go to a local bridge/semi-dried up river. here's one of the picture i didn't hate:



life is good lately, pretty calm. two new teachers coming in next week, that should be interesting. will have to get them oriented and trained. being the boss has its downsides, haha.

have to wake up early tomorrow to take a bus to seoul. trying to take some pictures of my friends as they finish their half marathon. after that is the lantern festival. (http://www.llf.or.kr/eng/index.asp) Where there's a bunch of pretty lanterns! Hopefully will get some very nice pictures. We'll see.

I wonder if New Hampshire is as warm/hot as it is getting here.

why does this exist

and why is it so delicious:


honey and aloe, strangely amazing.

top of the hill

earlier i posted pictures from the temple on the hill i live on. here are a few pictures from local areas. one from a buddhist graveyard on top of the hill i live on, another view from the same hill, a view from the top of the only walmartish place near me and a bonus:









apparently i've built up a reputation for drawing really cute things on white boards. to the point of where i've run out of things to draw. so here are some of my sketches to copy in class when i need new material:

mystery solved

shayla wins it:

hot days

so the days when i sweat while walking around have started. i feel like koreans don't sweat, the deodorant they have here is terrible, but they never smell. i'm glad i brought a two year supply from home of the heavy-duty stuff.

pretty uneventful sunday, just cleaned up around the apartment, watched some movies, walked into town for lunch at burger saloon. i'm a more-healthy-eating kick at the moment, i wish salad fixings were cheaper. and available without a bus ride.

here are some pictures from my short trip down the hill:

this is the first person i've seen on a skateboard in Korea:


a view down one of my streets near my work. you can see the horizon of apartment buildings that are EVERYWHERE here.


and bonus points to whoever can tell me what this says, the bottle kind of gives it away: