Flowers

I think flowers are my favorite thing to photograph. They don't wander off and the colors are beautiful.

let spring begin

Crosswalk

Why life as a pedestrian is not safe in Korea. I knew I wouldn't have to wait multiple signal cycles to get this shot, it happens every time. Oh, and watch out for the motorcycles cruising down the sidewalk.

Oh, and about the puppy. Her owner, some girl, just went inside the convenience store to buy something. She, the dog, was hopping around the little ramp to the side there at first but then decided it was time to take a break.

cute puppy

mini world

This weekend we went to a place somewhere near 부평 subway station in seoul. It had scaled versions of famous sites around the world. Also there were some performers, maybe from the philippines, who did a funny circus type show. The first picture is from the walk to the bus station from my apartment.

market + korean security

The vegetable stand and the fruit stand are actually right across from eachother. The market has multiple vendors selling the same items so you can walk around and compare a bit if you want. I just thought the barbed wire looked cool.

Pics and a story

An unexpected thing happened in my 2nd grade class today. Two of the students lied to me. I was quite surprised. After much trouble trying to just get the students to quiet down and take out their books, two students still didn't have their books out. I asked where their books were. They said at home. Are you sure? Yes. I asked them to stand with their hands in the air, a penalty for not bringing their books. Then they both said, oh wait, I have it, and immediately both took their books out from their desks. The weird thing was one of the students, a girl, was not usually a troublemaker. Students have used this excuse before. I wonder now if they were being honest.

Because we can't all live in asia...

Incheon, Wolmido, and back to Jeonju

On Saturday I headed to Anyang again. I met Monica and we took the subway to Yongsan to look at the electronics market there. You can get good deals on cameras and computers there, but you have to negotiate a bit. We then went to china town in Incheon. We walked around for a while and ate chinese for lunch. We then took a bus to Wolmido and met some junior high school kids on the bus also headed to Wolmido to hang out. Later we saw some of them again and took a picture together. I got one of their email addresses to send the pictures to them. The video is of some 엿장수, or yeot salesmen. It's traditional for them to dress up rediculously and act crazy while selling yeot, a kind of toffee nougat candy. That night we decided to both come back to Jeonju and spend the day here since it was predicted to rain all day. We mostly stayed inside and watched the world baseball classic Korea vs. Venezuela. Monica cooked lunch for us, samgyopsal and rice. She eventually headed back to Anyang at 7pm.