Soo Bong Tourist Hotel Incheon

... one is also a reunification wish tower.

Then we went to Kongdol or bean pebble beach, which is also rocky beach, but as the name indicates, the rock are very small. They felt good to walk on, and they encourage people to walk barefoot, for the massage sensation. This beach oddly, had no sea glass.
Time for a group photo, there were many of these taken ...

... with the desire to get established as both an ESL teacher (which I very much consider myself a professional ESL teacher) and as a church worker (which I very much desire to give my life to God). As far as ESL work, Korea is definitely the place to begin that career! Working in a church, I guess, you can consider my volunteer work and ESL as my profession. Something like that. No matter what, I hunger to give my life to God and ...

... aunt's work, dropped off our luggage then went out for a local bite to eat. We ended up finding a chicken place that served grilled chicken. They gave us side dishes one that tasted like caramel apple with a cabbage crunch to it and a very vinegery radish. The chicken we order was very delicious and we couldn't finish it all so we took it with us ...

... and literally just throw all our stuff right in the Hotel lobby. Check-in isn't for a few hours and all so then its off to walking around. Now this trip is probably just gonna be a long list of "Firsts" for me, so here we go first: plane ride, Subway, and even Taxi. I know i know. So we got on the subway, not bad, then went to bupyeoung, to walk around in the market, which I must say is pretty awesome, well ...

... shopping area would be like in the orient. You can get everything you want at South Gate Alley. Our time was over and we had a long drive back to the ship thru evening rush hour traffic. I say long in that I was told it was long. When we arrived, I mentioned that the ride back was shorter that the one going and I was told that was because I was awake durning the morning trip. So it was a great tour in which I learned, toured, ate, bought, and even slept. We enjoyed this taste ...

... Ha! Wish me luck! I hope they don't grade too hard! Some of the other classes have teenagers who are at really low levels and those classes are the hardest to teach. I can't just give them something to color like I can in the kindergarten classes. And I can't play hangman for 10 minutes like I can with the 10 year olds. I have to spend the afternoon thinking of age-appropriate games and incentives. I have a feeling they are not going to participate just because they ...

... dotting the complex.

As I moved towards the third inner gate, the looming presence of Mt. Bugaksan, one of several mountains surrounding Seoul, came into view. Known as Geunjeongmun, the third gate served as the southern entrance to the royal throne hall called Geunjeongjeon. The large hall used to be the venue of important state functions, such as court officials' audiences with the emperor, receptions ...

... rainy and humid summer will still be a month away. And Buddah's birthday!!!!!!!! I heard it is a really really awesome parade with tons of Buddhist monks marching around with homemade paper lanterns! All places north of the Han River are nice...they are the older areas of town and have more conservative styles. South of the river is newer and for some reason it is ******! I think they built southern Seoul in a hurry just so they have a place to put all ...

... kids saw that but at the time I couldn't help but laugh my face off while trying to tell them "yo you gotta cut that out'. I know your probly thinking "well that's just weird" but to actually see it happen, im HIV positive youd **** your pamps for sure. They bust my balls sometimes and go "TEACHER you watch big man, red, XXX, 19 and up movie". Theres no manual for how to respond to these situations. While on the topic of buttcheek swiping apparently Koreans ...

... to live such strict lives and rarely laugh with someone that is 'supposed' to be their superior. ********* if you ask me. They are not that much younger than me and I never really felt I was more than 17 to begin with so we get along just fine. Don't get me wrong, they can be a pain in the ass and I dread every class before it starts but by the time we get things going and I have made them laugh once ...