Field trips

Not too much to report on our end.

Kwon has moved me to Kyle's school 2 days a week, which really means that I work 2 hours at my school and then the rest of the day at his school, or my favorite variation: 2 hrs at Kyle's school, 2 hours at my school, and back to Kyle's school for 2 hours.  She is nuts.

We had a few field trips within the past few weeks.  Kyle got to go potato picking with his classes.  He then made delicious mashed potatoes from said potatoes.  "Nothing like eating potatoes that were picked with the sweat and toil of child labor."  Kyle also got to go to a traffic museum where students learned how to look before crossing the street.  In the parking lot of the museum, Kyle's school's bus driver tried to run over numerous small children.  He found it ironic since the parking lot of a safety museum should be a safe place for small children.  We then both got to go to a "swimming camp."  It was this big area that had different activities involving water set up for kids to play in.  Examples: a water gun area, a sprinkler area, little boats, a big swimming pool, etc.  We got to take the kids into the big swimming pool, but the student/teacher ratio was WAY out of proportion.  Although the swimming pool only came up to our knees, I was convinced someone was going to drown or that we were going to lose someone since they all look alike in their matching swim caps.  I called it, "the place where small Korean children go to die."  Other than that we had a lot of fun splashing small children and dunking them in water.  Here are some great pics from the day:

Kyle's students

We had Tim's birthday party and going away party back to back weekends.  On Thursday, Tim left us and returned to the great land of Canada.  We have a feeling he might be back if he can't find anything to do in Canada so we'll see.

We went to Itaewon last Sunday.  It's where one of the military bases is located.  We had ever seen so many foreigners in Korea until we walked around there.  We didn't end up going to Taco Bell because the line was around the block, but we ate at a little Mexican dive place across the street where we had scrumptious burritos.  There are very few mexican restaurants here, someone could open an authentic mexican food restaurant and make bank on foreigners.  Only problem, you have to move to Korea.  As our day turned to night, we started to encounter some werewolves and vampires roaming around.  We had been warned about such sightings.

I went with Hannah and got a pedicure the other day.  While they didn't give me the good 'ole foot scrub that I love back home, I did get my toes painted for only $8.  Not too bad.

Summer vacation starts tonight!!!  We are so excited.  We have a 12hr layover in Nagoya, Japan and are going to leave the airport and explore the area.  There's a big Japanese castle and a shrine that is supposed to be one of the 3 most sacred places in all of Japan.  We plan on grabbing some real sushi for lunch and then heading back to the airport where we will then fly to Guam.  We will then go from Guam to Saipan and then back to Guam.  As of right now, the game plan is to just relax, lie on a beach, work on our non-existent tans, snorkel, and be free of Korea, Kwon, and small obnoxious children for 9 days.  One of the ladies who works in Dad's office is from Guam and still has family there so we are looking forward to getting a tour of the island by a local.

That's all for now.  Expect an exciting and detailed report once we get back.  Hope all is well with you.  Miss you!  Love, K & M