My School... and Students.. Little Ankle Biting Korean Students...

Here is the elementary school that I will be teaching at for the next year. I will help co-teach English to students from Grade 3 - 6.... this school is a LOT older than it looks in this picture here... and for some reason it's always freezing inside... my co-teacher says it's very cold in the winter and very very hot in the summer... sounds great... i get my own brand new computer that they put an english operating system on for me... and my own desk... laura gets her own office with couches and stuff... i share mine with 7 other english/music/gym teachers... but i don't mind.. i just sit on the internet all afternoon whether they're here or not... yeah...

i teach in the mornings... from 9am until about noon... then for the rest of the afternoon i sit on my butt and read up on photography and hockey... that's it... oh.. and i always listen to the late game with my headphones on... which is usually a west coast team.. but whatever...at first i thought it was pretty boring... now i'm kinda liking it... i've asked the other teachers if i can help them with anything... they usually say "no.. take a rest.." hahaha... oh man...

here's a view from the window at my school.. busan is pretty cool because as much as it's a city... it's surrounded and built on mountains... so whenever you want to get away on the weekend ... you can go hiking and get a pretty sweet view of the city or mountain ranges.... laura and i went to the beomosa temple the other sunday and i got a pretty sweet shot of the skyline i'll be posting later this week.... the only problem with "getting away" in asia ... is that 10,000 other asians are also getting away.. so... you're never really alone in a tranquil place.. they're packed too...

here's a shot of the kids... they're all really cute.. and absolutely love foreigners... i sign about 10-20 autographs a day.... still.... the hilarious thing about these little whipper-snappers is that they're not afraid to say what they're thinking.. mostly because they don't know much english.. but i get told almost daily that i look like pinnochio.. or my nose is big.. or i have a small face... hahah... but that i am handsome too??? .. i am also considered to have a fat stomach... i

am 6 foot 3... and 190 lbs.. .by north american standards i'm pretty thin... over here.. i'm fat... damnit... gonna have to work on that... and i'm guessing that eating rice every meal and hiking my way to work is going to help on it's own.... i'm going to do a few more little posts either tomorrow or the next day.. 'cause i've been slacking lately... mainly b/c i blog at work and have to transfer my photos from camera to my mac.. then from my mac to my memory stick.. then from that stick to my school computer... so hold your horses... i've still got to update you guys on food poisoning in korea... it's like your stomach getting poked with chop sticks that have been heating up for an hour on a grill... and our beomosa hike... haeundae beach.. gwangalli bridge.. and our st patty's day night out ... so.. stay tuned.... until then... annyounghekaseyo !!!

asians always do the peace sign when they take a picture... and say kimchi !!! instead of cheese...