My birthday

Saturday was my birthday so to celebrate I was going to let some Dr Fish nibble at my toes, but when we arrived at the place, the place wasn't actually there... we were informed by a crazy drunk Korean man that it had closed down because it is 'bad for you health'. So instead we went into a game bang (game room). These are places where you pay by the hour to play computer games, the one we found was for playing Wii, so we payed for 2 hours in 2 rooms and played as much as we could! Included in the price was as much toast, ice cream, drinks, popcorn and cookies as you wanted, so we duly stuffed our faces until we felt sick. Gotta get your moneys worth! In the evening we went out on the town, starting in Mama Gorillaz where they serve cocktails by the bucket.. and then off to a couple of different clubs for live music and dancing. Here is the photographic evidence;

Something arrived at school for me from Busan

Princess cake from my co-teacher. She obviously knows me very well :-)

Candles

Happy Birthday dear... dear? happy birthday to you! hahaha

Ji Sun, me and a cake

6th Grade teachers

Mr potato head and connect 4

We love to Wii

Free food, eat as much as you can!!

Playing japanese street fighter

The view

A bad photo of beer pong!

Mario cart. Chelsea's new favourite game

YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY! am I the top screen or the bottom?!

I'm a little Rooney

Cocktails in buckets

Mono brow

The ladies

Home friends

Blurry

Birthday girls

Papa Smurf

African Band

Bits!

A lot is going on here

Luke

She was dancing with them for some reason...

He stole my party hat

Whose glasses are they?!

He wasn't drinking, but you can't really tell..

A boy from Busan and a boy from London

Second cake. yummy :-)

Valentines Day

I'm not actually a valentines hater, seeing as my birthday is 2 days before that's more important anyway. I just thought these pictures were funny!

Tokyo

After returning back to Korea to work for 2 days (!) I was off again, this time to Tokyo where I met back up with Kev. We only really had 2 full days there so we tried to cram in as much as we could.

Tokyo Tower

View of the city

Sumo town. There was a big tournament on the weekend after our visit so there were a lot of sumo walking around and television crews everywhere.

The Imperial Palace

and again

Also managed to drag Kev to a photography exhibition

in return for checking out the beer museum near by

Sushi, the local delicacy

Harajuku (in honour of Gwen Stefani) the museum place was closed though so this ended up just being a place to wander around, some parts really reminded me of Camden Lock.

Yutaka met us one night and took us for food and drinks around the Asakusa area

Where we sampled some traditional japanese culture (the arcade!)

Philippines

For winter break Kev and I had booked to go to the Philippines so once the long slog of winter camp was over I was thrilled to be heading to the sun! Here are some pictures of what we got up to. We had 2 days in Manila (the capital) and 3 days in Port Barton, a small town on the island of Palawan.

Goodwill gate and entrance to Chinatown in Manila

This is public transport in Manila. They are called jeepneys and there are hundreds of them whizzing around the streets! You hop on and off and they are really cheap. It's certainly an experience, and it's difficult to see where you are and they aren't very user friendly for foreigners although the drivers and passengers are incredibly helpful so we only really got lost once using them.

San Miguel apple flavour! Lovely (and cheap!)

Very expensive salt and vinegar crisps that I couldn't wait to buy!

On our second day in Manila we decided to head to the Coconut Palace first,  Emelda Marcos had it built for a visit from the Pope, who then never showed up! Apparently it's very luxurious and it cost a lot of money to build. We went at the wrong time though so we never actually got to see inside! 

At rush hour they dedicate one carriage of the train to female travellers so I took advantage of the special zone. This did mean that Kev and I got split up though cos his section was too busy to get on. We were able to meet up at our destination station though. 

A deep fried hard boiled chicken foetus. Yuk!

The view from the hostel restaurant/bar in Port Barton

Hammock

It was very comfortable :-)

Cock fights are very popular in the Philippines

Day 3 - Island Hopping and snorkelling

Our guide cooked our lunch for us; BBQ chicken with rice and salad. Eaten overlooking the beach!

It was very beautiful and quiet.

A gambling game that the kids were all playing. You bet on a colour and then they let the 3 dice fall and you win if your colour is showing.

Our jeepney back to the airport. We were on there for about 4 hours.

Then we got a lift in a motorised tuk tuk which took us, the guy in the orange t-shirt and another woman with a big bag, along with the driver. Who thought it possible to have so many people in this little motorbike and sidecar set up!

School Picture

 

If only school pictures in England looked like this.