Sokcho

Last weekend, I went to a beach party in Sokcho, which is on the east coast. I didn't take many pictures, and the ones I did take turned out pretty lousy, but here are a few anyway.

Near downtown, Sokcho.



When we left Chuncheon, the weather was beautiful, but when we rolled into Sokcho two hours later, things had turned nasty. It was cold and misty. Fortunately, I brought along a sweater and pants in my backpack.





There were fireworks and sparklers.



The next morning, we found some leftover sparklers.



Then, at 7 AM, I decided to go for a dip in the ocean. If I had gotten more than an hour of sleep, and if I weren't still drunk (though I didn't quite realize it) from the night before, I would have realized that that was a bad idea. A really big wave punched me in the face and swallowed up my glasses. I was pretty helpless after that, but luckily, I had some friends around to get me back to the bus terminal. Once back in Chuncheon, I walked home Mr. Magoo-style, narrowly missing speeding cars and open manholes. Then, I slept for about 20 hours.

I shoved a half-eaten package of raw shrimp to the back of my refrigerator a couple months ago. Here's what it turned into.



A couple weeks ago, I went on a field trip to Hedgehog Island with my third graders. It was a lot of fun. We just played sports, ate fried chicken and kimbap, and drank beer (yeah, some of the teachers brought beer). I learned how to play chokoo, which is like a combination of volleyball and soccer. You can see a picture of some of my co-teachers playing below. I was too scared to play with them because they looked really good, so I waited and played with the students later.







Last weekend was the mime festival that happens every year in Chuncheon. South Korea's ex-president bit the dust last week, so some of the festivities got cancelled out of respect. I was disappointed because there was supposed to be an all-night party on Friday, but they called it off. It was okay, though, because I went to a dance club called Arabian Night Club and had a blast. The Korean girls loved my waygook dance moves. As usual, I was a little shocked to walk outside and see daylight. I love that bars and clubs and noraebangs (karaoke rooms) here stay open until the owners get fed up with you and kick you out on the street, which usually happens around 5 AM.

Fortunately, all the mime festival activities picked back up on Saturday, so I pulled another all-nighter out at the park and had another wonderful night. The performances ranged from amazing to painfully boring, but there was plenty of good company and good (well, cheap) drinks to keep things entertaining. I never got a good seat, so most of my performance photos aren't too great.

























Some of my students wrote down these answers earlier this week. The first one is vaguely on topic (we were talking about social problems around the world), although I'm not sure how Michael Jordan fits in. The other one is mostly incomprehensible. Hopefully you can read them.





I just looked up "Operation CWAL" and found this.

EDIT: Okay, I think most of the things on that paper are just Starcraft cheat codes.