Sulak Mountain Hike

The food in Korea

The food in Korea is REALLY GOOD. They have a lot of soups in Korea, but I've been trying some good stir fry like dishes. My favorite dish so far is called "Bip-in-bop un-gook-kah" Basically it's a rice, meat, veggies, egg and some other good stuff served in a hot stone pot. Today Jennica and I decided to try eating in a
restaurant on our own for the first time. We knew what we wanted: I wanted adumpling soup called "dak Mandu Cu" and Jennica wanted a dish called "Bip enBop" (not the corect spellings of course). The Korean restaurant ownerclearly did not understand our mispronunciations. After several minutes of her talking fast in Korean and us shrugging our shoulders she went into the back an emerged, 10 minutes later, with some food. We got some scrambled egg (which was the "bip" part of the bip en bop) and we got some soup (which was the "dak" part of dak mandu cu). It turned out to be great and didn't cost very much. It was like a surprise bag of food. Needless to say, tonight when we were walking with one of the American teachers from our school we asked him which restaurants had pictures of the food on the menu. Jamie and usually go out for lunch everyday and it costs us about 1-3 dollars per person (not too bad considering lunch is our main meal of the day and we eat a lot of food).

Teaching

Jamie, dressed to the nine's on our first day of teaching.

Today was also our first day of teaching.




Our teaching schedules are pretty sweet. Jamie works from 10-11 am and from 3 pm-8 pm. Jennica works from 2 to 8 pm Mondays and Wednesdays, 2 pm to 6:35 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays and 2 pm to 9 pm on Fridays. Teachin turned out pretty well. We teach right out of a book, along with a tape series. Very straight forward after we figured out the schedule (the schedule is drawn up based on the physical classrooms, with the classrooms listed on the axis, verses the time and day on the axis, the way we are used to). The kids are really loud and hyper but all of them are so sweet. The nice, quieter classes make up for the loud, obnoxious ones.

The City that never sleeps

One thing I've noticed about Seoul is that everything gets going at around 9 pm. On the streets of Seoul (at night) you will see several street venders and markets as well as many children on the streets (you would thnk that 10 pm is past a 1 year old's bed time....)



It was so hot on this night that the lens actually fogged up.


Jennica at the Mac store in Osaka. Jamie and I spend all of our train money on a dvx part for our ibook.


This picture is one of the numerous bars in the Nowan area. The other night Jamie and I discovered two outdoor bars with big screen TV's set up--Lydia and nathan, we'll have to definately hit up one of those place.

friends

Jamie and Jennica's Wedding

Jamie and I were married on May 7th in beautiful Oliver, BC and then honneymooned in gorgeous Oceanside, Oregon.

Korea

It's thursday, August 4th and jamie and I have been in Seoul for a week already. We are teaching at Herald language Institute, a Hagwon school. We will later be joined by our good friends, Lydia and Nathan at the end of this month.



Here are a few pictures of our Vista run to Osaka, Japan. Yesterday we went to Japan for one day: the famed
> one day Osaka Visa run. It
> was such an interesting day that I'm going to write
> a piece of creative non
> fiction about it. Regardless to say, we flew out of
> Seoul at 10 am and flew
> out of Osaka at 7 pm, and in between those hours had
> to find our way to
> downtown Osaka and apply for a Visa at the Korean
> consulate. The whole deal
> was a lot more interesting because we ran into about
> 10 other English
> teachers doing the same thing. Ever see the reality
> TV show "the amazing
> race"? Now I know how it feels.







This is a traditional tea house in the Anguk district. Jamie and I went here for tea after church last Sunday. Anguk is kind of an artistic, cultural and historical place in Seoul.

Grad

April 30-Jennica graduates from Trinity Western University with her Bachelor's of General Studies (in Education)

I am so ready to graduate, the last 6 years of post-secondary education has worn my brain out and I need a HUGE break. In the last 6 years, i have been to 6 different post-secondary schools. First of all, there was Capernwray on Thetis Island (1998-1999). Next, Canadian Bible College and University of Regina in Regina, Sk from 1999-2001. Then I moved to Victoria, BC and took classes at Camosun College (2001-2002). Finally I moved to Abbotsford, BC with my two sisters and attended Trinity Western University (and I took some of my pre-reqs at UCFV).