It is officially Fall and, in fact, I think it is almost over; it feels more like winter. The leaves are really beautiful. Here are a couple photos from a park I went to in Seoul and some trees just outside my building. I also took a picture of the outside of my apartment building. All the apartments are high rises. Mine is actually rather small. Most apartments are in communities so there are tons all grouped together.
I told you me and my co-teachers had been hard at work decorating the classrooms. I took some photos to prove it. Also, I help teach an English club every other week for 2 hours. We have pen pals so we posted copies of some of the kids' letters. I thought they were pretty good!
I occasionally get little presents and gifts from the students. Usually they are stickers or maybe a piece of candy, but sometimes it is cooler. There 2 student who entered an English speech contest and I helped them prepare and practice. Neither of the students won, but I got to go watch and they did a really good job I. Anyways, one of the student's mothers came the next day and brought me a cake, a package of strawberries and a bag of persimmons. Don't worry, I shared! The following week there was an English festival for the region. My school had a group of 4 kids that did a Little Red Riding hood skit. Me and my co-teacher helped them practice for weeks. They also did soooo good at the performance. At the festival I was also one of the hosts for the closing "Quiz Show". Basically I made a power point with all kinds of random, kid friendly questions about stuff in English and then I had to go on stage in front of hundreds of people (luckily the majority were children) and read the questions and call students from the audience to come and answer. I was really nervous. I have some friends who took pictures of me and my students, but I don't have them at the moment; I'll get them and post them soon. Anyways, the little girl in the skit gave me a rose after the festival. It was really sweet.
Last 4 random pictures: 1.Last weekend I went to an International Film Festival in Seoul. We watched some short films. They were really impressive and then after the shows the directors, all from different countries, came and talked about their films. It was so cool and I would have watched more, but I had frisbee. 2. It's a picture of me, my friend Casey, and Rebekah. It's from a night we went out and played Wii for a few hours at a bar. I kicked their butts at tennis, but wasn't so good at bowling. 3. A big past time in Korea is karaoke, or as they call in Nora Bong. Anyways, this picture is from a night we went to a nora bong. You rent out the room and you have free range of the songs you want to sing. They also have tambourines you can play. That was my specialty of the night. 4. The last picture is of the Hammering Man. There is EXACTLY the same statue in Basel and as soon as I saw all I could think of was Switzerland, so I had to take a picture of it.
