Pictures

Well, it's been a while, but here are some pictures from the wild and wonderful world of Korea! Due to a complete negligence in posting, a great many events have passed undocumented by this here blog. As such, the pictures shall be random and various in their variety and arbitrary order.



Here's a picture (obviously) of some of our church friends. Emily had to do a devotional for school so these are the people that volunteered their time to listen. Great people, them!
If you've ever considered leaving a fridge unplugged with the door closed for six months - don't. These pictures don't do the fridge justice - every dark spot is mold. Nasty, stinky, smelly, three hours of cleaning worth of mold. We actually switched fridges about a month after this picture was taken - our current fridge is huge, new and amazing.


The view from our apartment (one from each side - sorry the second one's not amazing). That's not smog in the first picture (just so you know), it's mist - Korea was famous for its misty mountains long before Middle Earth was.


Here's a picture from my sports day. Tug-of-war is done differently here on a sports day - two classes start at either end of a soccer field and run towards the middle where there are three ropes. You can choose how many people go to each rope, but you have to win two out of the three to win the match. It's really quite funny to watch. You will notice the grass field - incredibly rare for a school. It's normally sandy. Also, the picture is taken from the office. Basically everything you see (which is a soccer field) is all of the "playground" that they get. Land is expensive here - apparently if you "sold" Korea, you could "buy" six Canadas.

This is what a majority of shopping looks like in Korea - stands on wheels set up for the evening. They'll sell anything from puppies to jewelry to T-shirts and DVD's. It's my favorite kind of shopping since everything is dirt cheap and you don't have to go "in" to take a look at what they've got. This is a picture taken on our trip to Seoul with our friends Brooke & Ryan.
As long as we're being completely and utterly random, here's a picture from my birthday. We went out for shabu-shabu (an incredible meal of thinly shaved beef and a really tasty soup broth) with some friends. On the left, front to back, is Brooke, myself, Philippa and Carol (Brooke I worked with last year and Philippa and Carol I met this year). On the right, front to back, is Ryan, Emily, Jeong Eun, Mi Ok (two of my co-teachers) and Eun Gu (a friend from church). It was a good birthday, especially because there was good people to spend it with.


Across the street from our apartment, you can go hiking along a path for quite a distance. We've followed it 45 mintues in but no further as of yet. As you walk, you will come to three exercise areas where people actually do work out. Situps, parallel bar exercises and crazy looking hoola hoops are just a few of the calisthenical wonders that you'll experience.

Anyway, I'm not going to make any promises to post more regularly or anything like that. Check back every once in a while and hopefully there'll be something new when you do.