Kate and Dave

In the past couple of days we've hung out with our new co-teachers almost everyday. It's been really great having them around. On Monday, Kate wanted to go for a hike up a small hill near our house. We thought it might take 30 min to get up so we decided to meet at 10:00 am. At 10 to 10 that morning, Kate and Dave show up at our place with bells on obviously awake are raring. I greeted them at the door in a towel as I was just barely awake enough to hear the knock. They patiently waited for our lazy butts to get ready and then we went out.

The hill only took 10 min to scale and then we played on the workout equiptment at the top. Yeah! Outdoor weight benches, without weights of course, and chin up bars and parallel bars... it's crazy, really. Here are some pics.

After that we walked all the way around the hill to burn some more energy and then decided to monkey around some more on the climbing wall! It was so fun! By the end of it Curtis has fully woken up and had some energy too so he even did a couple of poses. Ohh and we saw an enormous spider.

New Co-workers!

Last Thursday was our first day without Green and Andrew. It was completely melancholy and I'm not just being dramatic. There were definately some huge shoes to fill. Curtis and I had heard so little about our new co-workers that we were imagining the worst. At best we thought young partying hooligans who don't give a crap about teaching or kids were coming our way. Needless to say we were pleasantly surprised when Kathrine and David showed up. They made amazing first impressions on everyone (the kids were aglow with curiousity and delight) because they were smiley and happy. That normally wouldn't sound like a feat, but they got off their plane at 5:30 am, got on a bus, got lost, didn't have time for a nap and then came to school to work 8 hrs. Now I know what a Super Trooper is! Thank you ABBA for giving me an appropriet song for this moment!!! Everyone Sing Along!


Besides being extremely good natured, we also have quite a bit in common. They are around our age, share our sense of humor, are here to travel and want to learn the language and experience the culture, adore the kids, are responsible and THEY BROUGHT A BOARDGAME!!! Hehehe. It's funny, but Curtis and I thought we wouldn't pull that passion of our out of the closet until they got settled in a little bit, but then they brought it up. We were flabbergasted.

They just had their first full day of teaching and are still recovering from jet lag. I'll add some photos when we have our first full blown adventure. Ciao for now!

Photos... Hopefully...

Yahoo!!! It worked!! I'm so glad to bring you more photos!

This is from the beach we went to within an hour of landing. It was nice, but not spectacular. Lots of black lava rocks were strewn about.




The top two and bottom left are from a wooden sculpture park in Jeju City. It was pretty interested. Some of the driftwood sculptures had awesome names. The top lright is called "Walking Virgin Forest".



The bottom right is from a lava tube cave. I know I know, it looks dark, but I think it captures how awesome it was. This is a world record holding lava tube column.



This is my handsome husband looking out over a green lava crater.

I stitched together a panorama of the craters of Jeju, too bad it turned out so small. :(





This is the sunrise peak that we climbed at 4:30 am. This is the day before we did it, just marveling at it's wonder and beauty. Sigh.

This is the day we climbed... it was amazing! Note to those planning on doing it. Lonely Planet says it takes 20 minutes... that's if you're an avid hiker that does this sort of thing 5 times a day. Most of my reasonably fit friends wouldn't be able to do this in 20 min. Plan on 40 so you don't miss the sunrise.

Jungmoon tourist area pics. Waterfalls, temples and pineapple on a steek!

Really cool spheroidal weathering on the Yeongmoori coastal walk. The folks we drank Soju with is at the bottom.