One down three more to go!

   I have now officially finished my first semester as an English teacher. Albeit, summer semester is the shortest semester out of the year. It has been a lot of fun getting to know some of the students and it has been less than fun getting to know some others. Overall though, it has been a good semester. The one thing I have learned from this semester is that no matter where you are in the world, kids will be kids. I was under some delusion that kids in South Korea would be so polite and overly respectful to their teachers, which is just not the case. However, it has been a challenging but fun experience. I have one day off and then alas the new semester starts. To get refreshed for the new semester myself and some other teachers are going to to to Caribbean Bay, which is a huge water park not too far from Suwon. Hopefully it will be a blast.

One of my students drew this for me on her first day in my class.

On the last day of the semester my awesome student Rachel gave me this card. So sweet!

Bunnies in Suwon Station!

Last weekend I was hanging out with some friends in Suwon Station. This is an area where there is an actual train and subway station, but it's surrounded by bars and restaurants. We were walking down this pedestrian street that is filled with all of these vendors. Most of them sell street food or different trinkets. All of a sudden in the middle of a street there was a man selling bunnies. Yes, bunnies in the middle of a bar district. How bad of an idea is that, drunk people buying bunnies!The bunnies were also wearing little colorful capes. A few of my friends I was with suggested getting a few, tying them to watermelons and dropping them off of our building. They were of course, thankfully, joking.  Boys have the strangest sense of humor sometimes.

My Vacation in Busan!

I know I have only been in Korea for a very short period of time, but I have already had a small vacation. I got three days off from work for summer vacation and the weekend, so a total of five days free from the tiny humans! A lot of the teachers I work with took trips out of the country, but I haven't been able to save up too much money since I've been here, so staying in Korea was the only option for me.  Busan is the second largest city in Korea. It is second to Seoul of course. It is located in South East Korea.  I went down by myself to just explore and see what this new city had to offer. For the most part I had a pretty good time.  The only downside is that I kept getting asked if I was Russian. Which, in Korea and a lot of Asia essentially means that they were asking me if I was a hooker. Proof that it's not always convenient to be pale, blonde and traveling by yourself. Some of my trip highlights included seeing a baseball game, having Mexican food at a restaurant called Hello Kimchi and enjoying the beach and ocean!

Jellyfish!

Broke back shark!

Quite a silly looking fish.

There were just a few people at the beach.

...and just a few umbrellas.

I got to see a Lotte Giants baseball game! It was really fun and made me feel like it was really summer!

Koreans love to sing at sporting events! It's quite entertaining, but a little hard to join in because go figure...it's all in Korean.

Go Giants! We did totally win by the way!

You are probably asking yourself, what the hell?!

Believe it or not, this is how you support your Lotte Giants.  These are two cool English guys I watched the game with.

Self portrait on the beautiful coast line walk to the APEC house.

APEC house

The conference room where the meeting took place.

Do I look like  I belong?

The Diamond Bridge at night.