Grade 5 Music Videos

Taking inpiration from another teacher here in Seoul (and fellow blogger) the last 2 weeks my grade 5 students have made music videos to go with the song "what a wonderful world'. This was to fit in with the lesson 'What a nice day!'. Here are the finished versions. Hope you enjoy them! :-)

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Oh Canada!

 Happy Canada Day! Until recently I didn't even know Canada had a day. But now I do and our friend who left us here, Chris, is Canadian and we miss him a lot, so this post is for him, and to prompt him to get his arse in gear and sort out a new job so we can celebrate his return! We will be in the pirate bar tonight to down some soju (goodbyes and let's throw Canada in with the mix too!) so Happy Canada Day, let's celebrate Mounties, maple syrup and beavers! :-)

My mum sent me a box of these from the UK and everytime I opened them I thought of Chris! Yummy!

Teaching

As I said in a previous post this week we're playing Guess Who? because the topic is describing appearence. My co-teacher asked me if she could film me explaining my powerpoint slides and game instructions. I've never watched myself back teaching before so it was a bit weird but just thought some people might like to see me in action, hopefully I'm a bit better than when I first starting teaching on my CELTA course!

Latin America

Last time Kev visited we decided to hike the Seoul Fortress walls. I got the info for this from this site. We found the place ok but only walked a little way and the wall ended. We went in seach of the next part of it but were unsuccessful. One of the best things about living abroad is when you plan to do something and although it doesn't work out you stumbled across something else cool happening. As was the case on this day. We saw some tents ahead of us and went to check it out. Turns out there was a Latin American festival going on so we stayed and ate, drank and enjoyed the entertainment!

The only picture from the Fortress walk...

Italian arancini

Worth the crazy long wait!

Dancing!

We went to Peru, Brazil, Mexico...

Peruvian fare. The green sauce on the potatoes was the.spiciest.thing.I.have.ever.eaten

I think the potatoes are this dish: Papa a la huancaina although at the festival the sauce was green, perhaps because of pepper availability

Spanish Omelette

Mersey tunnel

Caipirinha and sangria

Cheese bread from Brazil (pão de queijo)

Basically a cheese and ham toastie. Ah-Mazing! (This: empanada)

One way to hold my bag

Leave FFs.

Summon the police woop woop woop

I've been taking a night class at the National Palace Museum throughout June and last week as I was making my way to class across the road were loads of police officers. The Museum is near the Police academy building so it's not unusual to see cadets practising, but this was much more. A lot of them were decked out in riot gear and they were all lining the edge of the pavement. This was an unusual sight, so I filmed it as I crossed the road. Once I got across I realised there was a kind of protest/demonstration happening. Lots of disabled people in wheelchairs were moving along the pavement, many with tin cans dragging along behind and with posters, which naturally I couldn't read. This seemed a bit strange as the police were so heavily armed with safety equipment and I couldn't imagine those protesting making that much trouble. I guess the police were there to offer the protesters protection, but it still seemed rather excessive. Here is the video I took, sorry it's a bit jumpy but I was walking along.

This is the bar of soap I made at my first class. It's a peach, which has some symbolism, which I can't remember at the moment. Opps!

Spring in Nakseongdae park. It's a really peaceful place to relax. Here are some images from Autumn

Nice day in the park

Who knows where the name of the post is from?

17 things that happen when you're computer-less

This weekend my computer has been held captive in the repair shop. It was supposed to take 2 days to fix but that was on wednesday and I still haven't had the call to say it's ready... this weekend I had decided to check out a photography exhibition I heard about on facebook, that is until I remembered I didn't have a computer to check the details. So here are 17 things I found to do when completely computer-less

- Make cookies

- Spend too much money in daiso (pound shop) on things for the home

- Buy a completely overpriced UK magazine

- Drink too many cups of tea

- Listen to music on the extremely substandard speaker built into your iPod.

- Watch TV

- Realise how bad the signal is on your TV

- Do some washing (even though your washing basket is nearly empty)

- Clean your apartment

- Write a letter to a friend you have neglected for a while

- Finish reading your book

- Paint your nails

- Watch a terrible movie with Kevin Bacon in it just because it's the only thing in English on TV

- Read overpriced UK magazine cover to cover

- Use it's 'revamp your life' section to replan your life

- Read your horoscope and actually take what it says to heart.

- Consider practising Korean, and then realise you don't have a computer to play the CD-Rom on. Duh!

- Phone Kevin and have a go at him because you're bored and he's not.

Pizza School Love

 I recently read a blog which was pretty negative about the foreign food you can get out here in Korea. Especially pizza. This made me think, because so far I've not been horribly dissappointed when eating western food in Seoul. It's never going to be what you are used to at home, but then I know that Indian food in the UK is not like it is in India, and Chinese food is certainly not like it is in China. Anyway back to pizza. As you'd expect western food out here is expensive. Pizza is no exception, Mr Pizza, Pizza Hut, Dominoes and Papa Johns are all available here but thay charge an arm and a leg. But let me introduce you to my favourite take away shop; Pizza School! As far as I am aware it is a Korean chain, and it is cheap! Yesterday I bought an Iced smoothie from Holly's coffee for 5000 won. Pizza school pizza starts at 5,000. FOR A WHOLE PIZZA! This is cheap. It's made on the premises, infact st my local one I like to watch the lady preparing it, looks like fun! Yes, the toppings can be unusual; sweet potato (not that good as it's sweet potato paste), potato pizza (my fave, comes with bacon as well!) and all the pizzas come with sweetcorn as standard. Now that might be a bit weird but it's something different, and if you like sweetcorn, where is the problem?? You can get stuffed crust and dipping crust and garlic sauce (yum yum yum). What is not to like about pizza school? I usually try and eat only half the pizza for tea and then it can do me for 2 meals (I'm trying to save money here!). One down side is that the pizzas are only available in one size, but really, if you want more why not just buy two? I really like pizza school, and so what if it's not the same as you're used to at home, it's not like UK, American, French, Canadian, Australian, Spanish,German, Russian etc etc pizza is authentically Italian is it?!!