I leave the house and see a coffee machine... They're on every street corner.. about 20 cents for a half a small cup of coffee from tim's... I'll drink to that...
Here's Laura and my favourite ajumma... She has a little dog and works about 14 hours a day selling fruit... Laura buys off of her every other day... and I buy off her every other week.. and my fruit goes bad... go figure...
Some straw-babies... deliciousness....
Kim-chi pot... These pots are used to ferment different types of radishes, cabbages and what have you eventually used for dinner... They are on top of every other Korean home... You eat kim-chi with literally every meal... Koreans have a seperate fridge dedicated to Kimchi... Much better than the seperate fridge we have dedicated to beer.. or not.. you be the judge...
Okay.. I'm at the subway station... here's where I wait ... the train comes at 8:19 everyday like clockwork... i go one stop up and transfer.. i get to run with a few hundred koreans everymorning to catch my transfer or i'll be late... i HAVE to get this on video someday... there's just something hilarious about a tall white guy running with a herd of short koreans... i take that subway two stops down and i'm a 5 min walk from school...
a picture of a flight of stairs... is that spelt right? meh.. who cares... i walk up about 60 flights of stairs a day... and then there's the hill I walk up... there's a dramatic picture of this death hill on my flickr stream somewhere...
I spend the first half of the day teaching these runts... then eat lunch for a dollar... followed by me fetching coffee for all the men because i am the youngest.. for the rest of the day... i read about photography and look at pictures... I am looking at upgrading my camera soon so that there will be no holding back when i get home... i will start up a photography business of some sort after going to firefighters college... it's the first hobby in my life i've been passionate about.. i've had lots of "oh .. i just want this" and then give it up... this is different... underneath is a shot of the local camera repairman.. i haven't used him yet... but he's got tons of dirt cheap (like 50 bucks)old manual focus lenses i'm sure i'll dip into before the years through...
more shots of the goobers...
here's a pic with me and the other teachers that work in my lounge... a good percentage of elementary school teachers are women... i'd say 8/10 are women...
the ankle biters even found me on the streets after school was looong over....
I start to walk home and see this ajjuma cutting up herbs and spices on the street.. she has worker hands and has done this for half a century by the looks of it...
I cross by a market selling peppers... they sell everything else you can think of at the gupo market...
A man drives by on his scooter... Scooters are everywhere here...
Here's a shot of Bob, Pam and Laura in the area of Pusan National University.. My brother visited last week and we had a great time... It was really nice to see them and I will be blogging about those times after my next post... "a night in my shoes... in busan, south korea..." the pics are already done.. it's just a matter of uploading and jibber jabber now...
here's the end of my day and what i see close to my apartment building as busan falls into the night... this fella decided he would take a nap... maybe too much soju? maybe....
more on the night time antics next... (the pics are much more interesting) laterrrrrrrr...