Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Kri-Seu-Mah-Seu!!

Christmas day brings me to my last week in Korea. Been a heck of a ride. Today Kevin's Mum took us out for dinner to Bono Bono, a higher-class sushi buffet (yes, Buffet!!) very popular in Korea. Unreal. Puts even Wabora (yes, Thom) sushi to the test.

I taught my last round of classes on last Friday, so it was a bit of a farewell with the students. I still hang around the school a bit, but won't be teaching. Had the Christmas party at the Hana club that I'm staff at on the Saturday night, ended up going to second and third round with a bunch of friends and a Canadian fellow who was travelling. Dennis happened to be a graduate of elec eng at Waterloo a few years back, had some good nostalgia.

After that night of mayhem I crashed at a jimjilbang in Sinchon for a measly $6. Decent place to sleep if you don't mind hardwood floors and bring earplugs. From Sunday to Tuesday I had booked a temple stay at Hwagyesa temple in Suyu, so was looking forward to this experience. At a temple stay you are able to live with the monks at a Buddhist monastery for a number of days; many of them are relatively wussy 4hr sessions, I felt like jumping into something a little more challenging to get the full exposure. I'll hopefully post more about it later if I get myself to it, it's a entire new subject. For now though, more pictures!

New Student in my class.


Velocirapteacher says work hardah students!!!


Spongebob Life with the Kinders. Great game.


Evan and the gals of Alpha and Beta class.


Santa Claus and some sort of Lumberjack Elf.