These pics above are some DELIOUS Bulgogi that the three of us had after visiting Anne in the hospital. (Anne is a friend of ours who burnt herself with boiling water on Monday and is now sitting pretty ath a hospital about 40mins away for the whole week). Anyways omg what a great meal, we had sooo many side dishes... a kimchi salad, a regular salad, kimchi, a kimchi soup, some tofou dish (one of my faves), another type of spicy soup and this great eggy dish... and thats not even the bulgogi bit! For those of you who do not know, bulgogi is a meat dish that is made at the table with mushrooms and greens. You then use salad leaves to roll rice, sauces and the meat into a nice little bite! Basically YUMMY!!!!!
Today (Tuesday) we went on a hike to Inwangsan Shamanist Hillside (and by we I mean all four teachers: Jen, Adriana, Rebekah and myself). The hike was only about 30 mins away from our home by subway and was beautiful. I really enjoyed getting away from the city being among nature etc. There was some very ornate buildings and sites to see (and a great view of the city). We took a picnic and found a very pretty place up in the rocks...
After this we walked towards Independance Park, which was a park dedicated to liberation from Japan. It was a very pretty relaxing area...
Work news: As most of you know we had Monday and Tuesday off due to a confirmed case of the swine flu. Woot we all thought, untill we were awoken Monday morning and were told that we will HAVE to make them up the Sat's of 19th and 26th. Us teachers were NOT NOT NOT happy. As there is nothing in our contracts menioning this, nor saying anything about working Sat's we are upset. Espcially as this now means that we will be working 6 days straight, one day off, another 6 days straight, one day off, then 4 days at work. WHAT! So today we had a meeting with Hosung our director to get some answers about the situation as we really haven't been told anything. After that us teachers ironed out our feelings and thoughts and are going to talk to him tomarrow during our lunch break to discuss the poor communication in this matter and what we would like to see happen in future cases: mainly that we be included in the discussion for makeup days as we would have much prefered to have staggered the Sat. work days.
I know some of you think we should just suck it up, but our feelings are that knowing the seriousness in this country about the swine flu, there should have been a clasue in our contracts mentioning the rules for this instance. That and the improfessional manner in which we were informed was annoying. Bleg, anyways hopefully everything will be ok and we will make it through the next couple weeks.
Anways that is basically that is the jist. We are now off to bed to start our three day work week. It should be a packed week as tom. we are heading back to visit Anne, Thurs is korean class with Hosung (which will be AWESOME!, situtational Korean at a bar), Friday going out on the town with the ladies, Saturday we are going to listen to another Korean Traditional Music concert then to a Seoul FC game, and Sunday we are off to COEX mall to go to a English bookstore! Ahh I know right!
Pic from Korean Traditional Concert on Sat
Well as I almost always say at the end, I miss you all loads, but am having a great time. I have very quickly realized that as much as I like kids teaching isn't for me but I love love love Seoul. This doesn't mean that I am not happy to be here and that I took this step as I love my kids, more it means that spccer really is my passion! Hopefully I will be able to get great at Korean and find a soccer job here hehe! Well thats it my friends, more soon!
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