Springing into Spring!

March is almost over and it seems that we spent the whole month fighting a cold! It looks and feels as though it's finally going away for good. Our weekends had been filled with tea, medicine, and sleep but this past Sunday we were finally able to explore this beautiful city!! We started at the Haedong Yungungsa Temple about a 20 minute taxi ride from our place. This temple is very unique because it is on the coast. It was absolutely gorgeous and definitely calming. We decided to walk into town to find a place to eat for dinner. We ended up in Songjeong, a beautiful beach city. We saw a path that led to a gazebo looking over the ocean and a coffee vending machine close by! The path went through a small forest that had a bunch of exercise equipment including a bench press, an air walker(maybe?) and the biggest hula hoop in the world. We got a little workout in and then started walking in search for dinner. We knew that we were somewhat near Dalmaji Hill which leads us home, so we stopped at a coffee shop for a bathroom break and directions to Dalmaji hill. After the long walk up the hill, and a stop at another gazebo along the way, we stopped and ate at a really good Vietnamese restaurant. After eating it was just a short walk down the other side of the hill on a wooden sidewalk lined with tons of cherry blossom trees. They will start blooming in a couple weeks and it is supposed to be very beautiful.

On friday Adam went out with the teachers from his school. They went to a restaurant where you BBQ Australian beef (really good) over hot coals on the table in front of you. After, they went out around Haeundae to several different bars and ate a lot of raw octopus. He had a lot of fun but drank a little too much soju, perhaps :).

So since our last update, Adam and I have finally started teaching consistently, with the exception of this week (haha). Adam's 6th graders have a field trip Thursday and Friday so he'll enjoy two full days of deskwarming! He was supposed to start after school classes with 3rd graders this week but it was pushed to next week (again). I started my teacher training course last week. This is a time where teachers who are interested in improving their English hang out with me for 40 minutes. We read three 'easy English' news articles and have a disscussion afterwards. There is word that around the second week teachers stop coming and soon it will be cancelled... so we'll see how it turns out!

Adam had another successful day of volleyball. He had a lot of fun and afterwards they drank beer and ate dried squid. It's funny to see a bunch of teachers in an elementary school gym drinking beer during work hours, something that would never fly back home. I on the other hand have ended up in the "no volleyball" English team apparently. Just when I started to get excited about playing!!