Palace Seoul

... only recently got into some of their newer stuff. Their set was electric, mixing in tracks from their four studio albums as well as mixing some more well known stuff like The Doors and Smashing Pumpkins. The visuals were great, as was the performance, especially by one of the guys who spent more time dancing on stage than actually mixing.

There was a half hour break before The Prodigy came on stage, and we camped up the front to get a good position. When they came on ...

... eating all the edible parts (the pork was amazing though!) did we realise that you were supposed to wrap lots of bits in a lettuce leaf and eat it as a parcel - ah well, maybe next time ;-)

Quiet night with Rob attempting to stay up for the Spurs game, but fell asleep far too early!!! Early morning however for out flight to Beijing so probably for the best! China has banned many websites so we might not be able to update for a while, so until next time................

... to their family in North Korea.
That is all for now.
I am going down to dinner and then we are going to a show called Nanta- it is supposed to be funny, but no noise.  We won't be back until late, so I probably won't write again.
Tomorrow we leave early in the morning- at 8 am and in the night we go to our home stay family's house for 2 nights.  I am soo excited to meet my home stay family and we will be learning how to make kimchi with them tomorrow- so Antonella, if ...

... I might also be greeted as “Reuben’s mother” because he is my oldest son (Sorry Erin). Spouses might even refer to each other like that also.

There is etiquette for drinking/drunkenness, gifting, dinning and more. Of special note, teachers were to discipline children and could use corporal punishment until it was outlawed in 1997. “Shaming” is still allowed.

Our lunch that day was a formal Korean meal and ...

... formula? I was on fire with the singing (at least in my opinion!), and Juli and me produced a storming version of Living On A Prayer! There were tears at the end of the night, but Juli will be back in August so we will definitely be having a Nokjiwon Reunion...

As mentioned, I haven't done much travelling of late, but that is set to change in the near future. I went through a brief phase of repeatedly booking flights to various destinations ...

... escapes my hole detection and I wear it to school. But today was a day of joy as a package of "Old clothes are new clothes" arrived from mom and dad. Now I can look the part of a well funded teacher. The Blue Jay class sang the Wheels on the Bus yesterday and I feel they did a pretty good job. My colleagues had a chuckle as my hips swayed back and forth as I did "the wipers on the bus go SWOOSH SWOOSH. Everyone has bad days. A ...

... find him drinking with four Korean stunners - the old dark horse! We ended up drinking lots of soju, and I enjoyed winding the girls up about the Hula Hoops that are always supplied on the table. For some reason, there are always a few random green ones included, and I had them worried that eating them would result in a bout of illness the next day! It was good fun... Naturally, we all went to the noraebang afterwards, and I did a duet with one of the girls, namely "Stand By ...

... Last night I worked on a test and did two of 18 reports. The last few days of work have been great. The students seem to have adjusted well to life back at school and me as well. Routine is good for them and me alike. Of course a few priceless moments have brought on some laughter; inside of course. Like when as my kinder class worked on a writing assignment on sailboats, a student went into detail on how a shark was going to eat me ...

... I am trying to get the hang of chopsticks. I'm not doing too bad. Sometimes I get the hang of it, then all of a sudden I lose the knack, so I hope to be consistent by the end of the trip. Then Jong went back to work. We shopped some, and then had dessert. which was green tea waffles with green tea ice cream. It was warm and yummy. After that we went to this giant palace. I loved it. It ...

... across their border. So big Seoul businessmen jeopardize everybody for some cash and China prefers to have North Koreans starve at home to avoid embarassment about having them starve on their side of the river. It's not quite medieval politics, but it's close. Forgetting all that, I found Seoul to be pretty pleasant. Scrub hills with some green in the distance, nice folks, and some wonderfully different food. Seoul seems to fall ...