Teaching is hard.

In my classes this week, we did an art project. The kids (uh, they're high schoolers, but they're still kids to me!) drew menus because we talked about restaurants. It was pretty successful- I had 99% of the kids awake for the whole lesson, which is pretty dang good! Unfortunately, I think after a month and a half, I'm pretty much out of ideas for lessons. And I do the same one for two weeks, so that means that so far I've come up with 3 lessons total.... and I'm seriously all tapped out. Teaching is hard freaking work.
A lot of the boys made blood- and gore-themed menus.



There were some that were just crazily priced

(although this one does offer a reasonable deal on the corn, so you really can't complain!)

There were also many with very jumbled messages, that I can't figure out.

"Two eat don't know one die." The graphic depiction of where the food comes from is nice, too.

Cigarettes for dessert?! I'd rather have "this plus," thank you.


There were lots of "sexy" menus, too.

The sexy water is twice the price, but it's so worth it.

Woe is Seoul

Yesterday, Johan and I had a big, big day, full of big, big disappointments. We went to Seoul's Best Toilet!!

Well, it was Seoul's best toilet in 2005. I'm not sure it's really kept up the same standards... and if it had, the standards are low. It did have nice marble floors, but they were still grimy and nobody offered to wipe my bottom or spritzed me with any sort of upmarket perfume like I feel should happen in the best of bathrooms. If this is all Seoul's got to offer, I have to say, I'm not that impressed.

After the disappointment of the bathroom, we went to see the cherry blossoms in Yoido Park. Except they were mostly gone. Or we somehow missed them. Or something. There were other nice flowers, but it's cherry blossom time, and that's what I wanted to see. Johan did make a new friend, though.


Then we went to see the 63 building, the tallest building in Seoul (for now... there are plans to big the world's tallest building here very soon! Wooooo!).

We went up to the observation deck, which is only on the 60th floor, which was another major disappointment. I want to be on the top, darn it!

The view was nice and all, but I just kept imagining how much nicer it would have been if we were 3 floors higher. Sigh.

Johan and I went to Seoul Grand Park on Sunday. It was a little bit rainy, and we had to pay to go into a rose garden with no roses.

It was weird that the map knew exactly where Johan was, and just what he looked like! Hahahaaaaaaaaa.
The Park was nice. We didn't go to the zoo, or the art museum, or the botanical gardens (I think... unless the rose-less park was the botanical gardens, but I don't think so), and we didn't ride on the sky tram, so we need to go back again. We did go to the petting zoo, where we saw llamas and donkies and rabbits and monkies.

Fugly monkies. But cute llamas:

Enriching Our Seouls

The weekend before last Mirabelle and I went to some museums around Insadong in Seoul. We wrote down where a bunch of art museums were, and we found none of them. But we did stumble upon 3 other museums, so all was well.

First, an art museum, where people had re-thought classic works like the Mona Lisa. Then came the Gahoe Museum, which the lady said was a "Pork Printing" museum when we came in. So we paid our entrance fee, but imagine our disappointment when there was NO PORK to be found. At all. So I don't know what that lady was talking about.

I made Johan a present! It's an amulet of making lover! Dirty!

Then we went to the embroidery museum, which was pretty wild. If you think embroidery is wild, that is.
The museums were in this cute area with traditional-looking houses. When we were walking around, we stumbled onto three celebrity stores.

It was very strange that there would be one, let alone three. It seems really common here to group stores selling identical things together. It's really strange. Like if I wanted to open a store selling celebrity stuff, I'd do it where there were no other celebrity stores, not in a place where there were already two right across the street. Strange! The people working tried to get us to come in and look, but we said we didn't know any of the celebrities, so there was no point. But then one offered us free tea, and we couldn't very well turn that down, right? Mirabelle ended up buying a pair of socks with Jang Dong Gun on them, but they didn't have anything with my favorite Korean star (the only one I recognize), Moon Geun Young. She's the Mr. Pizza model!! I got a free picture, but no socks with her face. Drat.
Then Mirabelle & I had semi-crappy fried chicken, then we went home.
The End.