New Beginnings. New Life.: Worldly Things

This week has gone very well. Wednesday our entire kindergarten (all three floors) went to Busan for a picnic lunch. I asked my co-workers what else we were going to do there. Nothing. Just eat, take some pictures, and come back. And that's all we did. We drove 2-2.5 hours both ways for an hour long lunch. Not that I'm complaining at all. It was a really easy day of work. I sat with a couple of my students on the bus ride there where I was roped into playing "rock, scissors, paper" as it's called here. I've tried to explain to the kids that it's actually "rock, PAPER, scissors" and they seem to think I'm kidding. It's definitely "rock, scissors, paper". They are incredulous whenever I say it wrong.

Our picnic was located at a horse racing arena. It seemed odd to take children to a place of gambling but it seemed to be decently kid-friendly.

Fall seems to be the holiday season in Korea. So Thursday we had a day off. It was very hard to go back to work on Friday when you felt like it was already the weekend. There's another holiday coming up on Wednesday but then there are no more holidays till Christmas.

So, with the holiday next week, I have a really easy work week. My supervisor told me that I have to go with her to Seoul next Thursday-Saturday for a teaching conference. It's basically a training seminar for the particular ESL program our school uses. Although I have to be at the conference during the normal work day, I get evenings free. So I basically have a free trip to Seoul! I'm pretty excited about it. And it also works out well because it turns out that Alan has a business trip those days as well! Thursday and Friday, his lab group is going to a polymers conference. So we're both going to go travel a bit and have a good time. I'm going to attempt to find some dancing. :D

Friday, I was a little irritated with my school. You know that medical exam I had to do for my ARC? They made me re-do it. Why? Because the Department of Education wants the paperwork and they can't find the papers I gave them. So I had to pay $50 for a medical exam that I had already taken and passed. I'm not overly thrilled about it.

The rest of the weekend has gone well. Since we got married, I got Alan started on playing League of Legends. So, Saturday afternoon (Korea time) the League of Legends World Championship event took place. We haven't kept up with the season matches, but we weren't doing anything else and thought it'd be fun to watch. The live stream was available online. Korea's SKT vs China's Royal Club. Royal pretty much got raped. SKT destroyed them. The Koreans are the LoL world champs!

We spent that evening at the Ulsan World Music Festival. They had various food booths representing different countries and had bands from all over the world. We saw an electro/flamenco fusion band that was pretty cool. Although I didn't necessarily prefer the singer's style, they had a flamenco dancer that did an absolutely beautiful job on stage.

Stage for the Electro/Flamenco fusion concert.

We also saw a Hungarian folk group that ended up being my favorite. (Alan didn't favor one over the other at all). It was a group of mostly elderly men and a couple elderly women that were good-humored and entertaining. They had some Hungarian folk dancers with them that danced for us and even had all of us dance too.