Giant Squid

Once a week they take him out and have him fight the giant shark.

Day Without Bungee Jumping

We all came out to the lake with plans to go bungee jumping. Sadly it was too windy and thus, bungee jumping was closed.


Luckily we were still prepared for a fine picnic.

Here are Megan and Leo playing badminton (did you know that's how it was spelled? I didn't). It appears that Leo is on his cell phone.

Here is Bin (formerly known as Handsome James) making out with a giant metal ant.

We took a walk through the park and found some hula-hoops.

James got VERY interested in the sport when Sinead gave it a whirl.

Man Date

I went out on a man date with James.

This is a chicken dish that I don't remember the name of. I like that it came with a splatter guard.

After dinner James and I went out for an ice cream sundae.

Here is Megan with a can of Confidence.

My thoughts exactly.

The pepper grinder broke on my breakfast.

Ping Pong Room

In Korea close friends are made very quickly. Case in point; this is Sun Ki, whom we met yesterday at the singing room. Sun Ki is already our very good friend and has invited us to stay at his house near the beach.

For some reason Leo decided that this would be a perfect spot to pose for a picture. Maybe he can use the picture for the cover of his new album of love ballads.

Sun Ki took us to this ping pong room. According to Sun Ki, in the Korean military one plays table tennis everyday and as all Korean males are required to do 2 years of military service it would follow that most Korean men can hold their own at the ping pong table.

Unless you haven't done your military service yet (i.e. James and Leo).

Singing Room

 This is Megan and our new co-teacher Sinead in Seoul Square.

We made some new friends at restaurant. Our new friends suggested that we go to a singing room. As the name would suggest, a singing room is a room where you go to sing. This is our new friend Sun Ki, he is very nice and loves to sing.

 Actually, I guess we all love to sing.

 Here is James doing a rousing rendition of "Under The Sea".

Mixed Bag

 We spent about an hour wandering through back allies searching for this gallery.

 Many restaurants have large tanks out front so that you can pick the fish you want to eat. This is the only one we have seen with a giant shark though.

 I will let you try and figure this one out yourself.

Dumpling Steam

Yellow Dust

Every spring Korea is overwhelmed by something called Yellow Dust. According to the locals Yellow Dust originates in China and is very bad for your health. In order to protect myself from said dust, I purchased this mask. While I do believe that the mask helped keep the pollutants out of my delicate respiratory system, I couldn't walk half a block without it fogging up my glasses.

Business Trip

Our work sent us to Guam for three days to take care of some official government business.

As you can see we were very upset about this.

I assure you that while I posed for this picture I was actually thinking about teaching Koreans grammar.

 This is deep fried parrot fish with rice and butter. The people of Guam really like deep fried food.

Free Gifts

In Korea it's very popular for stores to give you a little something extra with your purchase, they call it a "service". With our purchase of this regular milk they included 2 containers of banana milk. I knew we wouldn't drink the banana milk, but it's so hard to pass up free stuff.

Speaking of gifts, one of the parents brought us cupcakes. Here is Matt getting ready to enjoy said cupcake.

This is a man who is ready for Saint Patrick's Day. Who knew being Irish for a day was so popular in Korea.

Sally ordered the most disgusting drink ever invented (actually James wanted to order it but we managed to talk him out of it). They call it the Blue Monkey some of its ingredients include: blue liquor, banana liquor and milk...