Sometimes a concise, to the point, well organized post is in order. This is not one of those times. There is ground to be made up, I have not posted in a while so I need a more effective method of information sharing. So I deem this the shotgun post..scattered, a little messy, but it packs a punch and has a wider spread. I'm gonna throw a bunch of pictures/words/happenings at you, they will have very little if anything at all to do with each other. I've done so much while here that it is difficult to talk about everything unless I want to write everday which I simple don't have time for right now...just this week I:
have auditted a yearly budget for my church...
learned 4 christmas songs on my guitar for worship (which are stupidly difficult)...
worked on 5 lesson plans for a special extra class I'm teaching...
went to some random party in the basement of a salsa dance club...
saw Twilight (and woot)...
reinterpreted Desperado by the Eagles...
had 10,000won(and my pride) ruthlessly stolen from me by my pastor in a game of texas hold'em...
killed some large troll thing so my friend could get a new pair of pants...
and did some laundry.
Oh yes, Korea offers a full life my friends.
This first set of pictures is from my friends Kyungran and Youngi's daughter's birthday party. You can see them in the picture right below here (that's their son Youngi's holding by the way, daughter to come).
Here sits the vile stealer of masculine pride in the foreground, the pastor at the international church I go to, Josh Broward. Behind him is Joe, the incredibly helpful man who runs sound at the church and makes me sound better than I am whilest plucking at my guitar.
Now for a comparison between Korean and American children. On the right you see SuHyeon (spelling is probably way off there), the birthday girl, accompanied by two of her friends. This was like the third picture I took because it is a trial to get some Koreans to smile in pictures, especially silly, slightly shy young korean girls. Don't they look cute and polite.
Little need be said. First picture...didn't tell them anything..just held the camera up. American children.
These next two pictures are from the school festival we had earlier this year at my middle school. Basically a couple days of events and parties. Here I am leading an "XO" quiz for the entire student body. This is a true/false quiz over random trivia and kids get prizes if they win. What makes it fun is you have about 1200 students out on the field all trying to run to the correct answers side at the same time, and maybe half or less actually know the answer. There was running, jumping, carrying, throwing, stacking, sliding and all other manner of movement visible.
The computer class made posters of famous movies where they replaced the main character with the face of a teacher. Obviously they have figured out I am a super agent.
Here are pictures from my wedding.
*muffled laughter*
Well, a wedding I went to, not actually my wedding....Don't worry Nana. The beautiful lady in front of me up there is 이미남, or Lee Minam. She is one of the teachers I share an office with and she was kind enough to invite me to her wedding. It was my first Korean wedding (though done in a "western" style). Below here you can see me with a number of my boys. These guys sometimes give me trouble, but they are good guys. They wanted to have a cool picture..I naturally look like a buffoon.
Now, I am heading to get dinner...probably 비빔밥, or 만도...haven't decided yet. A place down the street called 김밥나라 (KimBabNaRa) is like my kitchen, you can think of it as a Korean diner...except for the food is mainly vegetables and rice, not greasy meat or potatoes.
안냥히개새우 친고!
(My spelling needs work, but I'm starting to know more Catie..it will be fun talking about people without them knowing what we are saying...hehe)
