Wednesday, 17 July 2013

A few more pictures from around ICC

Here are a few pictures that I've taken. 

These first 3 are from my classes: 

 Playing a Bingo Game with Phonics 3 (my youngest students), these are their vocabulary words.

 Learning colors with my Level 1 Book 1's. Once I did a few examples for them, they really got into playing the game, which was great because they were having fun and laughing and not giving me blank looks.

 Level 1 Book 1 "Go For Sentences". I'm not really sure what the whole point of "Go For Sentences" are, but I give my students a worksheet like this every week while I do homework check and they do horribly on it. I posted this one in particular because of sentence #9. You can't really read it, and it was a spelling mistake, but it says "My sister has a shit mom". Which is funny because the sentence is supposed to be "My sister has a yellow dress." Now in the student's defense, the word that they chose from the Word Box was shirt and they just forgot the "r", but still funny. 


These next 3 pictures are just looking out of the window of ICC in the hallway. We're a little walk from the "main" part of Dong-gu (the neighborhood of Daejeon where we live, like Valleyview or Westsyde) and these pictures looks towards it. 

The buildings in the second picture, and part of the first, are apartment buildings, and they are ALL over Korea. Not many houses here because there isn't enough land for the population.

 As for the green field right next to the school, I asked Evan (my boss) and she said that she doesn't really know what grows there. Her guess is potatoes. She told us that the city used to own it and grow potatoes there. That was my guess before I asked her. There is also a short row of corn. A few weeks ago, I was looking out of the window and saw a dog. Something moved in the corner of my eye and I turned my head expecting another dog, only to see a deer. Seconds later, they picked up each other's scent and the dog took off chasing the deer. They ran down the middle of the field, then right and looped back to the field for a second run down the middle. The second time around though, there were two dogs. Then they took off through the woods. All this happened before I could get a good shot with my camera. Sorry.


In the last picture, if you walk through the woods (which surrounds the back of our school), you'll find the tallest mountain in Korea and a bunch of hiking trails. There's always Koreans walking through there. 



Food!!!

So for those of you who have been wondering what the food is like here in Korea, this post is for you. Normally, now that I've been here for awhile, I enjoy most of the food that I eat. I love ramen (it's basically just like Mr. Noodles back home but spicier). And it's 2,500 won at the restaurant I like to go to. 3000 won if I want Kim-chi ramen. 


 This is kim-chi ramen in the bowl, the red stuff on the plate is kim-chi (pickled cabbage in a spicy sauce), and the yellow slices is radish. Kim-chi and radishes are usually served as side dishes/ appetizers with a meal.           


We've also had duk-gal-bi (spelled phonetically, that's probably not spelled correctly). It's rice, chicken, rice cakes, onions, small pieces of seaweed, and something spicy, all mixed together and cooked before your eyes. Super tasty. 


  

 Erin, me and Crystal. If you wear nice clothing to some restaurants they give you aprons to wear so you don't muck up your clothing.

 One of the walls in the restaurant. We've been finding a lot of odd English phrases around Korea because there is a lot of broken English in their advertisements, on t-shirts, etc. 

 Being cooked in front of us on the table.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

 Ready to eat.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

 Ready to eat.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.

Being cooked in front of us on the table.


Now, I would be lying if I said that I love all the food that I've tried. I'm not a fan of extremely spicy food. Or anything that looks overly weird. I've tried Cold Noodle soup, which is a soup but made with cold water and ice chunks. Not overly yummy for me. I've also had Katsuo fried undin (I got the name directly from the menu). I thought it would be noodles and seafood, and to be far, it was. But they put some sort of weird thin brown thing on top of it, which looked like flakes of skin and wiggled. It was weird. I tried it, and it just did not work out for me. Needless to say, here's a picture.