Lindsey's Co-teacher and Classroom

This is Lindsey's Co-Teacher and friend, Oh, Heejeon. She is awesome.

Guess what game we played?

Settlers.

I can't remember who won... it was proly either me or HeeJeon, because I know it wasn't Lindsey.

We had a great night. Cheesecake, Tea, a little music in the background, and a rousing game of Settlers.

This is Lindsey, and HeeJeon's, classroom. Lindsey's desk is the one on the left... the one by the window. Heejeon is the other one.

This is the classroom that Lindsey is always talking about. It has the worst design for a classroom. Large tables that are spaced throughout a really large classroom.

Lindsey will have to comment on this to add more details....

Noraebang

This is one of our favorite places to go, Dunsan. We just have to jump on the bus that stops outside our apartment an ride for about 20mins. I used to think that Public Transit was awful, but now I enjoy it. The busses here are not bad, the drivers could use some practice, but it is not that bad. Here is a pic on the way to Dunsan. This was one of the more crowded times of day.

Here is downtown Dunsan. This is where most Koreans (that we talk to) go to hang out. I'll try to put up more pictures of this later... cause the bright lights are kinda cool and this pic doesn't show them.

This is one fun thing about Korea. The Norae-bang. Basically, it is like Karaoke, except that it is just a small room of friends. There isn't anyone there to watch you so it is totally fun. This place, Smile, is actually what they call a "Multi-bang" meaning it is not just for singing. It has everything: Wii, Playstation 3, DVD, Norae (singing), PC, Internet, Board games, and coffee/icecream/snacks.

This is us with our friends Matt and Jen. I think this was Hey Jude. I was being ridiculous because you can when you are all alone in a little room with the music on. Matt rocked that one.

This was the guy who worked there. He was trying to show us how to plat Wii. Little did he know, that we already knew how to play and he was just talking to no one in Korean.

But they are really nice there so you can't complain. Just nod and smile and wait till he is finished.

Ha.

We went back a few times and took some of our Korean friends. It was fun, to hang out more outside of School and to get to sing and play Wii with them. Heejeon, Lindsey's co-teacher, is a big fan on the movie "Once" (as are we) and so we sang pretty much the whole soundtrack together.

So that is Noraebang. Any questions?

Pumpkin Carving and Domestic Living

Ok, so it all started when one of my Co-teachers (Luke's) asked, "Do you carve pumpkins on Halloween?" I said, "Well... yeah. Yeah we do." She then went on to say that someone from our office (whom I still don't know) wanted to buy one for me so that we could have our 'Halloween tradition'. The next day a really nice looking pumpkin arrived on my desk.

So, on Halloween we decided to crack it open and see what we could do. Our plans to go to Everland (Korea's version of Disneyland) had fallen through at the last minute because of swine flu and all of our friends had already made other plans. So, we decided to make a night out of it.

As we were carving we decided to try to be awesome and make, not only pumpkin seeds, but Pumpkin Spice bread. Both of which are un-heard of in Korea.

Lindsey started with the top and cut a perfect hole. Then she decided that it was too hard and said that I should do the rest. (typical... ^-^)

So after we scooped out the nastiness from the I began on the face. We went for the toothed look this year. A classic.

Our pumpkin had this little spot on it that turned out to be a perfect little upper lip mole for out pumpkin. His name was 'Jack-O' (original I know).

So the eyes, nose and mouth turned into the key ingredient for our dessert...

Pumpkin Spice Bread

These are our creations that night.

In Lindsey's hand you see a small portion of our Baked and lightly salted Pumpkin Seeds.

Directly below that we have the PS Bread.

And to the right we have 'Jack-O.' (ok... we didn't give it the name Jack-O, I just wanted to give it a little bit of personality... because it DID have personality. It spent the next week and a half being poked at by hundreds of Korean kids during Lindsey's classes.)

Here are some of the seeds... ready for salt and some oven time.

This is a little better shot, but we aren't in it so... sorry. Linds says everyone hates shots like this.

OH!!!! My favorite part! We had some leftover pumpkin and so I made some pumpkin pancakes to start our next morning right. They tasted pretty good if I can say so myself.

Ok... this has nothing to do with Halloween or Pumpkins, but it was awesome.

This is one thing that Korea did great. Ice-cream on waffles decorated with fruit, nuts and chocolate syrup. This whole package was about 8 USD. That is three waffles, three scoops of ice-cream, and two cups of coffee. A perfect way to wait for the bus. :)