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I also attended a hot spring with Kim and Devin. There was an outside area that was co-ed (swimming suits or if you are Korean long sleeves and pants) and there was an indoors where you can frolic around nakey with a million other women or men. This is quite the experience! Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately there are no pictures of this adventure besides the outside view.
The students are going on break in Korea now as they will have most of January and February off. As promised, the students have earned a movie day or two so my last 2 weeks in December have been pretty simple. I have been planning for winter camps as I will teach the first 2 week in January to new students. Each camp has a theme in which I plan various activities around. My first camp is superhero themed and the second camp is How to Train Your Dragon themed. Should be fun!
For Christmas, I visited Busan with some of the other islanders. What a nice time! We met with my friends Jess and Erin who I will be traveling with to Thailand soon. We ate delicious Indian food for Christmas dinner, did a small hike and cable car ride up a mountain, did some shopping, drank too much, visited the Gamcheon culture village, saw Christmas lights with the other millions of people, enjoyed a nice house party, did some dancing, and enjoyed our time staying at a hostel on Gwangalli beach. Please see all my pictures below!
For New Years, I visited Seoul for my first time! I must say, I really loved Seoul and I can't wait to go back. While Seoul is one of the biggest cities in terms of population, it never felt too crowded. Perhaps the layout of the city itself made it seem less crowded as there are various parts of Seoul such as Gangnam, Itaewon, and Hongdae (these are the three parts I visited). The first evening I met with Kim, Brandon, Jess, Jacob, and Amy for a night out in Hongdae for New Years! What fun! The rest of the weekend was spent wandering around this massive city, shopping, eating, drinking, and simply site seeing. I have some pictures below!
These balloons were everywhere and filled the sky on New Years!
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The students only learning from the best! Bwhahaha
The weeks after Busan and Seoul are spent at camps. My first camp is themed "How to Train your Dragon" and involves learning about vikings and dragons. For activities the students came up with a viking name, wrote viking messages, and built a dragon using clay. This was such a nice week as the school was very welcoming, the students were a pleasure to teach, we had fun, there were snacks, and I worked half days! This upcoming week I will be doing a superhero camp in Shin Jeju. On January 16th I take off for Thailand and Cambodia for 2 weeks. I'm so excited!!! Many pics to come! Thanks for reading!
