Wednesday night’s walk was about a mile away from our apartment. We had dinner at a place right across from Busan’s baseball stadium. I haven’t been to a game yet this season, but we are planning to go in July if we can get tickets in the cheering section.
The cool thing about baseball in Korea is that you can bring in outside food and drinks. There are vendors set up all around the stadium.
Barbecue Camp is a restaurant in Seomyeon that most people I know refer to as “beer can chicken.” They bring the chicken out whole and it’s still sitting on top of the can. They cut it up with kitchen scissors and place it on a hot skillet with garlic, onion and kimchi. They serve it with various sauces and you can also order tortillas to make wraps.
It’s soooo delicious and it’s one of my favorite places to eat in Busan.
Pore strips for babies or pore strips that give you baby soft skin? I’ll never know…
Drivers and pedestrians have to be really cautious because it isn’t uncommon for cars to run red lights. It seems like red lights are optional. There’s really nothing that stops people from doing this… Police don’t seem too bothered by traffic violations.
I had a really great weekend in Ulsan with Dave. I hadn’t seen him for almost two weeks because he had been back in Australia so it was nice to be together again.
We had planned to have a really relaxing weekend, but we ended up being very productive. We completely made over two of the rooms in his apartment. Now instead of two rooms that were quite cluttered and basically non functional, he now has an office and a bike room. We are both really happy with the results. And we had a lot of fun doing it.
I had to judge an English speech contest at my school today. The students all turned in scripts and I was able to read them over yesterday. This was my favorite speech. I thought it was clever and cute.
There were a lot of really impressive scripts, but it turns out that a lot of them didn’t live up to the writing. It was probably a mixture of nerves and the fact that the speeches were either written by or heavily revised by someone with a much higher English level.
I was really impressed by one 4th grader in particular. Yesterday when I read the scripts, I didn’t think much of hers. It was really simple. She wrote about I can/can’t.
She nailed it! She exuded confidence and memorized her speech perfectly. The great thing about it was that she probably wrote the entire thing herself. It was simple, but it was on her level and she did a fantastic job.
She won… the 3rd/4th grade competition. And both of the other top 3 had lived in the States for 6 months.
A while back I posted a pic of a man pulling a trash cart. It wasn’t a great pic… The cart wasn’t very full and it was pretty far away. I feel like you didn’t get the full effect.
This hunchbacked woman pushes trash all through the neighborhood. They are out when it’s hot, cold, rainy, you name it.
Yards aren’t very common here so a lot of people have rooftop gardens. This is one that I find particularly impressive. Its located right across the street from the back of my school.
What’s that? Oh, it’s just my feet in bags.
Beauty stores are HUGE here. They are about as common as Starbucks in NYC. They are on every corner.
Nature Republic sells these awesome peeling foot masks. You wear these plastic baggies over your feet for 60-90 minutes and 5-7 days later your foot starts shedding all of its skin. I’m planning to bring some back to Texas with me this fall. Let me know if you want one.
I took this photo as I was walking home from work. It’s two men sharing an umbrella. One of the men has his arm around the other. Touching is a form of familiarity here and it isn’t weird for men to walk with an arm around the other, or even to hold hands.
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