Motown to Seoultown

So it's been awhile since my last post. I figured I should make a post for the month of August.

So...

Summer break started at the end of July for the kids and most teachers but I only got one week off. In our contract, when school is not in session, our school can have us teach summer/winter camps and conversational classes in the morning. We get four weeks of vacation a year so it's up to you how you want to use them.

I opted to only take one week off for the summer and save my 3 weeks for the winter.

So during the summer break I had 6 days of summer camps in the morning and then 2 weeks of conversational classes the week after. The good thing was that they ended at around 11 am everyday. The bad thing was I had to sit at school for the rest of the day (until 430) for reasons unbeknownst to me. A few teacher friends said during the winter, try to ask if I can get to stay home for those hours instead of sitting there and accepting it.

The camps went well and the conversational classes for the most part. The conversational classes had four trouble makers that just could not be quiet or sit down so I had to constantly separate them or call the VP in.

For my one week break, I wanted to try to head to Jeju Island, but there were no hotel rooms so that was a no go. So what did I do during this time?

Well the Friday I got off, I went on a midnight hike up Mt. Gwanaksan. Yes a friggin midnight hike. Never thought I would be doing one of those but it was fun on reaching the top of that mountain and seeing the sunrise was so worth it. I was however so wiped out the next day. Even with me being wiped out, I decided to head to Seoul Tower with my friends Khiana and Leonard (and their adorable daughter). I had been wanting to go there for sometime and actually it was just ok.






Monday of my break week, I decided to head to Olympic Park and take some pictures. For the rest of the week I chilled out until Friday when my coteacher took me to Daecheon. It was a nice little town on the west coast and it was my first time actually seeing the country side of Korea. I wouldn't mind going there again.

Then on Saturday I headed to an art meetup group (even though I was late and left early lol). I love the art meetup groups because I like meeting other people who like art. It's been crazy trying to find some art minded people here.

Sunday I went to another meetup group, but this time to see a Korean movie about the Korean ski jumpers in the Olympics. It had English subtitles and was a pretty good movie.

So that ended my short vacation and even though I was sad it was over, I was sort of looking forward to get back in the swing of things.

I just finished the first week back from vacation and it went pretty well.

I didn't do much this weekend except help my coteacher with some English things and then she took me out to have some raw fish. Definitely not the first time I had raw fish, but it actually tasted pretty good although I can't remember the name of it.

So anyways, I'm working on saving money for a trip to Thailand and Japan in the winter. Even with my school loan payment, I should be able to save quite a bit of money. I also have another website which brings in some extra adsense money so I think the trip will happen.

Enjoy the pics.