Sorry I'm a little behind on my blogs....been a busy bee!!! SO the 31st was Jessica's leaving night and James's birthday so their chosen theme was Ajumma's- the korean old lady! So I chose to be the sporty Ajumma that you see power walking through the park or along the river- usually with a small dog with matching outfit running alongside! So it was to be a subway bar crawl from Anyang station back to Suwon so we met at Suwon at 6pm. Obviously we got a lot of st...

Well the 24th was the day of the much anticipated ASK Now Scavenger Hunt!! ASK Now are the recruiting agency that got me the job so there was another 60 english teachers attending the event so ive been looking forward to it since I arrived! We met at Hanganjin subway stop in seoul at 3pm and got speaking to some really lovely people. We then got split into teams of 5 or 6. My team was team 3 and were lucky enough to have 2 Canadian/koreans so they could speak flu...

So a little rough from antics at Crazy Duck but made it up to meet Eunju at 10am to go to Hwaseong Fortress for Buddhas birthday! Yup thats right we're off school to celebrate Buddhas birthday!! We went to a temple first and had a chat with some Monks teehee then Eunju showed me how to bow to buddha...felt kinda strange and a bit stupid but hey "When in Korea!". There were poeple queing up to pour water over the buddha statue and so many people crammed ...

After school I went out for dinner with Sunny, her husband and 2 of her friends and their kids! Went to a meat restaurant near sunny's house, wasn't the usual korean style restaurants...this was kinda like picnic tables and benches with BBQ's fitted in the middle of the table. So first they order a huge sirloin steak each and ofcourse it comes raw so you cook it yourself. They cut it up though into Galbi chunks. It was delicious!! Cooked perfectly! They then brou...

PUBLIC BATHROOM EXPERIENCE!!! WARNING!! Eventually I was convinced to go along to the public bathroom or Jimjilbang (찜질방) with Jess, Michelle and Liz! What an experience! SO we paid our 8,000 won so thats about £4 then went through to get our locker and remove our shoes. As soon as you enter through the double doors there is just naked women everywhre, even the little woman at the mini shop selling beauty products was naked! Its such a strange feeling be...