Wendizzle's birthday

Last week was Wendy's birthday so we went for Sushi in Itaewon.

Mine and Fontaine's present!

Chris's face...

CAAAAAAAKE!!

Yum yum!

All gone.

We also went to the arcade on saturday, Wendy decided to beat the crap out of this machine.

Temple Stay

Here are my pictures FINALLY from our temple stay. Kev la and I went to find out what goes on in a Buddhist temple. It wasn't quite as authentically Korean as we'd hoped as there was only really one monk and he was Russian... but we got a taster anyway (up at 4am, meditating and chanting AND totally vegetarian food!)

This was the tea ceremony

There were two other guests as well as us; 1 chinese and 1 New Zealander.

Sleeping on the floor. Kev and I were in separate rooms.

This was the main temple building where we went for the chanting - evening, 4am and 10.30 am (midday...)

This was where we slept.

Another building, we went for calligraphy here.

Afterwards we went on the hunt for some meat! yesssssss!

and then out for Ice cream in cold stone... standard.

Nostalgia

I've just had a weird recollection on a rhyme my mum taught me when I was little when I ate prunes, or something else with pips to decide who I would marry when I grow up...

 Tinker

 Tailor

 Soldier

Sailor

Rich man

Poor man

Beggar-man

Thief

Clearly mum didn't expect me to aim very high. I now have other ideas! (See below)

Mmmmmmmm....

Here are some Christmassy lights pictures that made me happy! :-)

Music and Fish

This week I developed the world's worst cold (seriously) and on friday rejoiced as my co teacher let me off last lesson as she wanted to employ the kids in preparing the school hall for a classical concert the next day. I went to wallow in my ill state in my classroom. Then she confirmed that we were infact allowed to leave school an hour early! so; happy days!! and I went home to crawl into bed. Not being one to wallow and miss out I had a cat nap and then forced myself out of bed to meet Wendy and Fontaine near Wendy's place to go to VIPS, a steak and salad restaurant which offers a salad bar buffet thing that puts harvester to shame! Saturday I went to the concert at school, where my coteacher played an amazing solo and afterwards met Wenders, Fonts and Luke in myeongdong (shopping district with H&M and Zara). Here are some pics of the concert.

My grade 5 Co-teacher is the violinist to the left on the picture.

Einer kleiner nachtmusik (I think)

My grade 6 (and main) Co-teacher, obscured by the music stand...

 Amazingly talented student playing the violin!

Another student, this time on the drums during Aladdin 'A whole new world' (far right of picture)

After the concert and shopping we went to Seoul fish market; Noryangjin. I'd been once before with my school. We thought we should look around the stalls and choose what fish we wanted and then we should take our purchases to one of the restaurants inside the market where they cook the stuff for a small fee. Turns out that the restaurant we went to totally fleeced us and we paid far too much! The fish was delicious though so perhaps we can just put it all down to experience...?

Fishes

Fishes...

Our sashimi fish choice...

Wiggly octopus

Massive prawns! 

Seriously delicious!

Luke was the first to try the octopus...

My prawn! <3

Huge scallops!

Crabby...

We asked her to sort the crabs cos we basically had no idea what to do.

At a house part after the fish market, out host, Kevin asked us to write one word to sum up your time in Seoul so far:

Luke.

Michael

Fontaine 

Wendy

Me :-)