Camping

We had planned to go to the mountains but after heavy rain over night we decided to camp where Woogi's parents have their mini farm.

Enjoying camping and the company.

The lotus look really pretty right now.

Two bugs (in Korean Peebug cos they smell bad if you touch them) intimately hanging out.

Morning dew

A wee tree frog.


How to make hokey pokey (pokki in Korean) with a ladle and a cooker.
Step one: Fill the ladle with brown suger.


Step two: Gently heat the ladle

Step three: Disolve the sugar until the laumps are gone.

Step four: Put in a pinch of baking soda and stir

Step five: Put on a lightly sugared plate and serve!

Samgyupsal, kimchi jigae, iced beer and good friends.

Eclipse

It kind of disappeared in cloud for most of it but when it snuck through it was quite exciting. My students had a different kind of lesson today.

Children's Park

Woogi and I went to Children's Park before rainy season really set in. There have been a few changes since we were there last.

A little girl with her new dog ^^

Polar bears cooling off.

Hanging out

New dessert foxes with 'all the better to hear you with' ears

Praire dog

A cage full of hundreds of budgies

A green spider

A pretty ring

A coati (spelling?)

A meercat on the lookout

Night fishing and a dinner

This weekend we went away, though not so far away to the spot above to fish with some friends. After paying about $10 you are able to use one of these seats.

At 7pm a man with a smoke machine came around to smoke out mosquitoes. Tried really hard not to breathe.

A bug before the smoke machine came round. Did it survive???

I was really happy to find this frog.

Woogi's own organic mosquito and fish repellant. We didn't catch either though we did see some big fish jump out of the dirty water they live in. We stayed in a tent and got woken up at 5am to lots of birds singing. It was very nice - the birds not the hour.

From a company that has more than enough money to check out the cultural implications of this English.

Our pastor and his wife have decided to move back to the US and we had a farewell for them in a ambassadors home. Very nice.

Cara and Hsin

Kildong ecological park

Last weekend on a the hottest day of the month I went with two of my Korean class classmates to Kildong. Woogi and I had visited here before a few autumns ago. Autumn is probably a better time to go but it was still nice and quiet.

Rice

Hwang ho and Keiko

On June 18th the Spring semester Korean class finished and some of the higher level students graduated. Some students who has studied dance performed for us.

Classmates - 왕호, 호전, 왕효,우리 선생님, 유가, 아야코, 케이코, 루어스, 징가요, 샤르파

We had a lot of fun and it is sad to finish but I'm tired. Little bit of rest before adult classes begin again.

Hwanseongul and Daegeumgul

For awhile we wanted to go visit a cave that we had seen on a subway poster and finally got there for Woogi's borthday. Hwanseongul abd Daegeumgul are found in Samcheok, Gangwon do, about 3.5 - 4hours away from Seoul.

We had to go on a bit of a trek that was a bit step for some of the ajuma's along the way. There weren't many young people and just a couple of families but plenty of ajoshi's and ajuma's (middle aged men and woman)

The views on the way up were quite pretty too
A stick bug we found on the way.

All the following pictures are from Hwanseongul (Hwanseon cave).This cave is about 6km long with around 1.2km open to the public. It takes about an hour to walk around on the walkway and you don't get your feet wet.
It was much colder in the cave than outside but we had jackets.

Did we go to Mars?

Love to be found.

Daeguemgal has been open for just 2 years. People figure there must be a cave in a place where water was coing out of the ground. Whoever these people are drill a hole into the hill and found this amazing cave inside. You can't take photo's inside and as flashes damage the limestone I tried to take a few sneaky shots but they really don't show anything of how amazing it is. The only way into this cave is by monorail and with a guide (no English available but if you understand Korean you can listen to the guide's commentary through headsets given.