We also had our staff party this month after everyone was done with their open class. I had mine all alone back in January, so I got to sit back and watch everyone else go through it. We went to a place we call green galbi (because the sign outside is green) and it was delicious as always. Our director proceeded to buy us countless bottles of beer and soju as is the custom at a Korean staff party.
Our staff party, after everyone's starting to get a bit tipsy. I was at the head of the table, taking the picture.
The next day we went to a baseball game. It was at an outdoor stadium, so it reminded me of the Twins stadium without the $8 beers. They had normal priced beer but no nachos supreme (which is the real reason I ever go to baseball games). The game was a lot of fun though, complete with our own dancing pep man.
Dancing man riling up the crowd. I really wanted some of those red noise makers.
We also went to Caribbean Bay, which I guess is the largest indoor/outdoor waterpark or something like that. It wasn't really my thing because we had to wait in really long lines to go down any of the slides. I would rather be laying in the sun or constantly going down slides one after the other. It seems like a waste to wait in the shaded line (because Koreans hate the sun) for 45 minutes just to go down a slide for 8 seconds. But that's just my opinion. One thing I did notice was that almost everyone walking around the waterpark was either wearing or carrying a life jacket. You could rent them at the park, and they were required for the wavepool. Many people were also wearing some form of clothing to swim in, mostly over their swim suit.
The entrance to Caribbean Bay. Notice the strange fake town behind me.
At school, we had a field trip to an 'agricultural theme park,' which was really just a big garden with little open huts to eat lunch at. My kids had a good time trying out traditional ways of life, and then playing on the up-to-date playground.
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| Anthony in a traditional hut. He is just so cute! |
 Sohee trying out traditional tools. |
This is probably my favorite pic of my class. It was at the end of the trip so they were all tired and making ridiculous faces haha.
We went to Muuido again, the little island off of Incheon. It was a lot of fun and so nice to get away from the city. I miss having closely accessible beaches whenever I want! My favorite part was probably walking around the squishy mud flats when the tide was out and looking at all the little sea creatures living in the mud. We had a bonfire, some chocolate diget s'mores, went hiking the next day, and laid out on the beach. It was a different beach experience than I'm used to, since everyone there had set up a tent for the day and was fully clothed, even in the water. We were the only ones on the whole beach just laying out on towels in our swim suits. I continuously applied sunblock, of course, because the one small patch that I missed got burnt.
A different beach experience than I'm used to, but everyone was still having a good time.
This last weekend we hiked up what I like to call Suji mountain, since it is the main mountain in Suji. Our plan was to get to the top to see the beautiful sunset, but when we got to the top we realized there was just way too much smog and we weren't going to be able to see anything. There are good and bad things about living in a busy city, and smog is definitely one of the bad things. Then, today I had a parents meeting. I feel like it was the last stressful thing I will have to go through at LCI, and it wasn't even that bad. I had to go into a room full of all of my Kindergartner's moms and say good things about each kid individually. It lasted less than ten minutes, and the only question they asked me is, "Do you have to leave?" So I guess they all like me and don't want me to go, which is a good thing. There's only two months left of Korea...it is going by way too fast, and it keeps going faster and faster!
