Here, Have My Credit Card!

Yesterday, I was given my school's credit card to buy some bookshelves for my apartment!


I was shocked, to say the least, that they simply handed me the card and said I could buy whatever bookshelf I wanted without an Administrator to accompany me! Although, then it dawned on me that when I was the Office Manager at Millennium High School, I basically had the school credit card at my disposal because I was incharge of the $20,000 Maintenance and Opperation Budget and the $200,000+ Capital Budget and Dr Runyan (The principal) certainly never knew or cared about what I was buying with the money, because he trusted my bargain shopping skills and the way I always stayed in budget! He trusted me as if I were his own personal accountant! Maybe I should be some sort of accountant when I come back to the US! Sure seems like people trust me with their mula~!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

All around Busan, outside of arcades, or just simply on the street in random areas, you can find these boxing games! Ususally junior high or high school aged boys are crowded around them, ready to take out all their anger on the bag! I cringe everytime I see them hitting it, because they come sooooo close to hitting the metal at the top of the machine that holds the bag!

Busan Fireworks Festival

Last night, I went with a group of friends to the most incredible fireworks show I have ever witnessed! It was 45 minutes of over 80,000 fireworks, set to music, and spread out over the ocean and bridge at Gwangali Beach! (When you watch this video, look for the old woman who is trying to touch the fireworks with her hands! She was sooo funny!)


It wasn't a suprise at all that over 1 million people were packed on the beach to get a peak at Korea's most famous yearly firework display! We got to the beach 3 hours before it started, thanks to our co-worker's advice, just to steak out a seat on the sand... Luckily we had some dice to play farkle and lots of friends to talk to to make the time pass while we waited for the show to start. I took these pictures when we arrived (3 hours before it started, and look at how crowded it was then! It was 5 times more packed by the time it started!!)

If you ever have a chance to come to Korea, I would highly recommend planning it around this event! It was soooo awesome!

Rated R T-shirt Warning!

This blog is going to be blunt! Many of you will laugh... some of you will cringe - Regardless, I'm about to show you the reality of English T-Shirts in Korea. If I had to guess, about 70% of them either make absolutely no sense, or they are like the following:

1. "Jailbait" - worn by an elementary girl.

2. "Play Like a Mutha Fucka" - worn by a 1st grade boy

3. "In My Prime" - worn by a 4th grade girl

4. "Happiness is a strong cocktail" - worn by a 3rd grade girl

5. "No colon contact, no kiss." - worn by a 6th grader

6. "I am so fucking disco" - worn by a middle school girl

7 "Giant Cum" - Korean man

8. "Party Naked" - middle school girl

9. "High School girls rule!" - A male school Computer Technician

So, moral of the story is... When you're in another country, don't buy a shirt with foreign writting! Well, unless you don't mind having something like this on it!

Interview Day!

Side note: I thought my camera took bad pictures... but it's nothing compared to my student's camera... see pictures below!

The 6th grade students at my school are working on an "interview project" for their homeroom teachers. The assignment was to get in groups and choose an adult that everyone in the group looked up to and interview them. I was honored when some of them chose me! This afternoon was the big interview!


I was so impressed by how prepared they were. They had translated all of the questions into English and were ready, with camera and notebooks in hand to document the whole experience.

At the beginning, I would answer their questions and they would take forever writing my answers, so I offered to type them on my computer for them! They were soooo excited. I even went one step further and cut and pasted my answers into a Korean translating website and printed that for them too! I may be the coolest teacher in school now. :)


Part of the interview was about my job and how I teach in Korea, so we had to get some action shots! I hammed it up as usual! :)

Looks like a real class huh?!

This was the group! I love, love, love these kids... especially Seth (the boy on the far left). He is ALWAYS smiling... despite his angry mug in this picture and speaks English really well!