A Not So Korean Christmas

We decided to celebrate Christmas with all the foreign teachers in our office. It was fantastic and couldn't have wished for anything else. We had an early evening dinner of roasted duck, chicken, potatoes, and a melody of salads. After dinner we went for a walk in the park, then came back and socialized all night until we finished with a late secret Santa gift exchange.

The before picture, this room is truly smaller than it looks

Hesue and I are cutting up the chickens, don't worry we both made it will all our fingers

Dinner time, we had 14

Small, but it did it's job well

Mark and I, the hosts of the party

A light walk after dinner and a little mauled wine got us going...especially since we sung a few carols in the park

Ashleigh and her favorite desert, wine...oh yeah she had chocolate covered strawberries too

Russian roulette, everyone gets a piece of chocolate, but one is actually a hot pepper

Clare receives a gift from Santa!

Santa receives a gift from Rosie!

The after shot, 17 people total, this room is truly much dirtier than it looks!

Fall Sports Day

We had another sports day on Monday. Several EG branches got together, were divided in teams and played each other in Basketball, Soccer, Tug-of-War and a Relay Race. Everyone had a fantastic time. My team came in second place, the first place team was the boss' team.

The boss, Mr. Jung, and I

Bryan is very afraid

Ashleigh and Clare enjoying the day

A little basketball action

There were many wounds, here is Mark caring to his

Bryan enjoying a beer at half time

Arial is taking a lunch break

Collin and Bill going head to head

Jordan is very intimidating

Independence Day

Korean Independence day is August 15th and they celebrate it much like we do back in the States. A bunch of us got together and had a Cook-Out, it reminded me of Michigan. We made some great burgers and sat in the sun right outside our apartment building.

Beijing, China

We spent four days in Beijing, China for a long weekend. We had a lot of fun. We saw all kinds of land marks, went shopping at the markets and met a lot of interesting Chinese people going out to the bars at night.


Our first meal was a little disappointing. We decided we wanted a real Chinese meal, so we went down a little ally and into a small restaurant. We did a lot of pointing and ended up with pork intestine. Pretty sure it was fresh intestine too!

A pleasant bridge outside of a tea house.

A Panda Bear at the zoo.

A memorial at one end of Tiananmen square.

At the other end of Tiananmen square is the Forbidden city.

We were the only foreigners in this bar and by the end of the night we owned that place.

One of the singers and me.

Here is the path to the tombs of the Emperors of China.

The Great Wall


Oh, at some parts its a steep climb.



The Wall seems to be very confusing, it weaves back and forth a lot and there are many different branches going in all directions.

MUDFEST!

We lost our disposable camera on the beach, so I stole these pics from another friend that was with us. The Mudfest is a celebration of mud. The mud in Korea is supposed to be very good for you skin, so for ten days Koreans celebrate mud. It’s basically a huge party on the beach and everyone is covered in mud. We had great weather and a sensational time.

Out for a Bike Ride

I’ve been a bit lazy on making posts lately, but I will try to keep up with it better. Everything is still going well. We’ve had some good weather lately and I have been very active. There was a holiday on Tuesday and we went for a bike ride around Seoul. We stopped at a climbing wall, saw some animals at the Seoul forest park and finished the ride with eating some pizza for dinner. Later that night we saw the newest Harry Potter movie. It was a good day.

The Lantern Festival

We went to the Lantern Festival on Sunday. It is a celebration of Buddha's birthday, which is actually on the 24th of May. There are thousands of Lanterns hanging all around the city. There is an opening ceremony (the first picture) and then a very long parade ending at the Jogyesa Buddhist Temple.