Bookworm Bookmarks!

I'm always looking for creative things to teach about, our create, during my Wednesday morning English broadcast TV show at my school!  It's important that it be a topic that first through 6th graders are interested in!  What's that you ask?  Well, there aren't many topics and this is my 2nd year doing the show and repeating a lesson would just plain be lazy!  So, this week, I got online and found this adorable bookworm bookmark and explained the phrase "bookworm".  Turned out to be a big hit and so easy to make!

I spy with my little eyes, three little baby bookworms!

Home sweet home...

Busan has been having abnormally beautiful weather this year, which I am VERY thankful for!  Today being one of those days!

When I think back over the last 3 1/2 years, I don't remember seeing beautiful blue skies like these, or feeling cool breezes more than just a couple days out of the year! I recall it being either REALLY hot and humid with a thick layer of white sheet clouds, or really freezing and gray.  Today though, it looks and feels just like the weather back home in Orange County, California.  

As I was teaching today, I walked over to my wall of windows and opened every single one, took a deep breath, closed my eyes, took in the cool breeze and dreamed I was driving down PCH with my windows down and then walking from my car to South Coast Plaza (weird, I know, but I dreamt it)... Needless to say, it made me euphorically happy, and then instantly sad and home sick. Living in Korea has it's perks, don't get me wrong, but I am soooo ready to be back home in America...

Thanks for reminding me how much I miss it, Korea! 

This week!

This weekend was an abnormally early morning weekend!  Aaron and I had scheduled 2 sunrise photo shoots, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday, both of which happened to be on the other end of Busan!  I'm not sure we truly knew what we were getting ourselves into with scheduling sunrise shoots until our alarms began buzzing at 4:ooam!  Wow, that is EARLY!  But we made it through and have some really beautiful photos to prove it!  (You'll have to wait though, sorry!)

Some new news for us... we're transitioning into being vegetarians!  After watching the movie Forks over Knives, I think we both just realized the benefits of sticking to a plant based diet, and are gonna try our best to cook vegetarian meals at home.  I may slip in a little meat at the school cafeteria, or some Korean BBQ if we're out to dinner with friends, but for the most part, we're gonna try to steer clear of meat!

Chuseok is coming up this weekend and with it, we're given a 5 day vacation from work!  Our KTX train tickets have been purchased and we're planning to spend 3 days up in Seoul with Jess and Carlos!  We are soooo looking forward to getting some quality time in with them, seeing some new scenery, 

cooking with Jess, shopping at H&M and Forever21 (aaaahhhhh American sizes!), sipping tea in cute coffee shops, eating delicious food in trendy Seoul restaurants and even fitting in a photo shoot of the two of them!  It's just what the doctor ordered!

Tomorrow, I'm off to a birthday dinner for Meagan and Wednesday's a teaching dinner with the teacher's in my hallway at work!

Should be a nice, relaxing week!   

My fetching kitty!

Some cats boast of their beauty, other boast of their long and soft hair, others of their stunning eyes, or of their cute little button noses...

But mine boasts for reasons that top all the rest!

My little Maverick can FETCH!

 

That's right people, I've got myself a fetching cat!

Kickball tournament!

Remember elementary school, or middle for me, when you would play kickball during PE class?!  I was always pretty coordinated sports-wise, but gymnastics was my sport of choice.  So, when kickball was on the PE schedule, I would always get so nervous! My heart would beat out of my chest when it was MY TURN up at bat kick!  What if I kick and miss?  What if I kick too hard and fall backwards?  What if I trip when I'm running to first base?  Ahh, the silly anxieties of a junior higher!

Well, today, the kickball tournament began at my school; one 6th grade class against another.  It was actually pretty funny to watch my studious students attempting to be sporty!  There are about 4 semi-athletically gifted kids in each class, and the rest fumble about!  I'm pretty sure I only saw a few catch a fly ball!  Sports obviously aren't a priority in Korea! :)

Here are some random photos of the tournament.

(*** I accidentally shot low quality resolution photos and was shooting manual with a 2.8 aperture in the sun! UGH, stupid Jillers!  I obviously wasn't thinking! I think I was just excited to get outside and enjoy the game.)  

Loola (my part time co-teacher) came out with me to watch the game!  Isn't she cute!?

The scoreboard girls!

And the tournament begins...

Most of the girls rigged it somehow to where it was never their turn up at bat kick!  

Clever girls.

The dugout!

I think they preferred being here over the field!

 After 45 minutes, class 6-2 was declared the big winner!

Good job kiddies!