Stuff

So as an effect of not having to teach all day for the last two weeks I got super lazy and used all my extra time to sleep or study.

I started taking Korean class a month ago and then I got upgraded into a new, much harder class. Most of the class is taught in Korean and I have to concentrate a TON! But I do love the class, it is nice to learn something that I can put into practice immediatly.

Last Wednesday I finally went to a local market that is really well known. I have been meaning to go to it since I heard about it. That was maybe a year ago...Anyway the market is full of all kinds of things. This is also the market that you would go to to buy a dog to eat. I saw them, too sad. Doesn't make me not want to eat dog, just is sad. I bought a "fruit" there. It looked strange so I thought I don't care what it is I will just buy it. Turns out this "fruit" is used like an airfreshner. You don't eat it, you just put it in your house or car and it makes it smell good. After it dries up you can make a sweet tea from it. I might as well try it, right?

Thursday was our birthday party, nothing new with that, picture anyway.

Friday was Halloween, well when we celebrated Halloween. Many of the teachers bought costumes online this year so many of us were some sort of animal. I was a skeleton with a couple of the other girls. I really wanted to scare my kids and make them cry but it didn't work...

We were going to carve a pumpkin but ours was really old and filled with maggots so I decided not to carve it...

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I need to go out and take pictures of the beautiful leaves before they all fall down. It is just starting to get cold here.

Updates

So I'm sorry but I haven't posted in a while.

Right now Swine Flu has taken over. We didn't have morning classes last week and this week we don't have afternoon classes so I have been working half time for 2 weeks now!

Plus this week we have a day of birthday parties and preschool missed their Halloween Party so we will have it this week too.

I have no excuse for not being around, actually the problem is that with too much time on my hands I get lazy... I will try to post something interesting soon...

Have a good week but guaranteed it won't be as good as mine!

Hmmm

Checkout my August 31st post. It isn't really new, I started it in August and just finished it, but since I started it in August it left the date the same...Anyway, just do it.

Updates: Late Style

I am so bad. I have a couple of updates to let you in on that I have been to busy to share lately.

First starting October 10th I finally started going to Korean classes. Right now I am the smartest one in my class. We are learning the alphabet and all kinds of easy stuff, basically starting at square one. I can do almost everything in the book that we are using. But it is also good for me because I was self teaching myself before and now I am getting a better explaination of everything.Next I finally got my black belt in Taekwondo, this also happened on October 10th. I was waiting because Erica (American Style) has the video of me fighting (a boy) on her camera and I wanted to put that up to...I guess you will wait.

Then last Thursday (the 15th) we went sweet potato farming

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On Friday (the 16th) we went to the TanCheon. The TanCheon is a smallish river next to the school. It is man made so there is a nice sized bank that they built playgrounds and swimming pools in all along the river. Anyway, right now there is a sculpture display and I thought it would be nice to take my students to.

Thats cool and all, but the really awesome part is that I will be on TV for a short while. They (someone, I don't know) were filming an English show and asked me to be in it. Of course I said "Yes." I will put up a link later so you can all watch!

Japan Day 4

The last and final day of our trip to Tokyo. I just want to note that I am stellar for even having much of a last day. Our plane left the airport at 3ish so we had to be there at 1 or so which left very little time to sightsee on the last day. Not to mention the fact that we also didn't get in until 5am...A couple drinks turned into maybe one too many.
Anyway, I got up at 9 and tried to squeeze in as much as I could before I headed home. The first thing I did was go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Office. They have a free observatory from their 60th or something floor. It was nice. One of my favorite things to do is to see the city from up above. This was nice.

After that I headed over to a really huge garden called Shinjuku-Gyoen. It is a large park with an eminent garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naito family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. It is now a park under the jurisdiction of the national Ministry of the Environment.The imperial gardens, which were once meant for the royalty, were completed in 1906, and destroyed in 1945, during the later stages of World War II. The jurisdiction over the Imperial Palace Outer Garden and the Kyoto imperial garden was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) with Shinjuku Imperial Gardens in 1947.Basically I just wanted to see one of them there traditional gardens in Japan that everyone keeps talking about...
Then we got on the magic fairy (notice not ferry ㅋㅋㅋ) and headed for home. Not before snapping a few more picks of the Toyko skyline though!

Japan Day 3

So even though we were out late last night we managed to get up early to see the infamous Mt. Fuji. We didn't want to climb it or anything like that so we just went to a famous little place called Kawaquchi-ko which is a lake that Mt.Fugi can be viewed from. When we arrived we asked the first person we saw if we could see Mt. Fugi today and they said "No" so instead we went to lunch and a winery. It's a well known fact that Mt. Fugi is "shy" and that you can't see her like half of the year or something... The not seeing of the Mt.LunchWineryWine from Missouri...random huh?My favorite Korean TV show advertised in JapanMe after a long day(bus ride =4 hours roundtrip), a couple drinks and a new hat...

Japan Day 2

So Day 2 in Tokyo was a busy one. We started our day at the Tsukiji Fish Market. This is a place where you can obviously buy fish but you can also buy other things as well. You can buy many kitchen gadgets and trinkets. My favorite part however is that you can buy fresh sushi. We had the best sushi of my life here. We also visited the Namiyoke-jinja Shinto Shrine where the fishmongers go to pray before work. After that we took a nice stroll from the fish market to the Imperial Palace. Although all of Tokyo is easily reached by subway, walking allows you to see parts of Tokyo that you wouldn't be able to see if you were in a train all the time.

Then while we were casually walking around we saw this cafe and just had to stop inside. To me it was clear what to order because it was all over the menu, it looked like noodles...Here is my delicious "chestnut flavored noodles". I'm exactly sure what it is but they are delicious and I would eat them again if given the chance.Next we visited the Imperial Palace, well the grounds anyway, the palace is only open to the public like 2 times a year and it wasn't one of the 4 days we visited...

Tokyo Imperial Palace (皇居, kōkyo; literally Imperial Residence?) is the main residence of the Emperor of Japan. It is a large park-like area located in Chiyoda, Tokyo close to Tokyo Station and contains various buildings such as the main palace and the private residences of the imperial family. The total area including the gardens is 7.41 square kilometers. During the height of the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the palace grounds were valued by some as more than the value of all the real estate in the state of California. Thanks wikipedia ;)After that we went out for dinner and drinks (nothing special there) and then went into a photo booth. I this photo booth, like other you get your friends together and act crazy in the booth but afterwards you get to decorate the pictures. You can put like comic vocal bubbles on the photos and other pictures like hats and bow ties and pick a back ground. It was really cool. This is a picture of some creators at the machine...