Twas quite the weekend!

Alright everyone! I had an excellent and weird experience filled weekend so I figured I'd fill you in. On Friday Ben and I were invited to attend a field trip with the younger kids at ECC. So instead of coming in at noon, we came in at 9:30 to get on buses with a bunch of adorable Korean kids. We bused to Tamyang about 45 minutes away. Tamyang is known for its bamboo forests. We hustled the kids through a bamboo museum before getting back on the bus to go check out the actual forests. We were provided with an AWESOME lunch by parents of one of the students. After that we walked the kids up a little hill to have free time. I should say "free time". The head teacher announced it was time to run around and play with the kids, but then they were ushered from one spot to another to take pictures with their teachers. They did get to do a little running around and bubble blowing though. Apparently for every school trip the school is expected to put out a photo album for parents. This leads to a lot of staged fun. We were then led in K-Pop group dancing. Let me tell you, forty 4-6 year olds dancing in sync to Korean pop music is hysterical....especially when you add six foreigner teachers. We headed home shortly after that. On the bus ride home the child who I am certain is the most adorable human person played with my hands and fingernails the whole way. It made for a long day afterwards because I had six hours of class after a morning full of little kids, but it was fun.

So Saturday night Ben and I met up with our friends Nate, Cheryl, Jack, Kezia and Kat to go bowling. Bowling is the same in Korea except for the wildly enthusiastic (and sometimes chanting) Korean men in the next lane. After that we went to Ashely which is an all you can eat all (the wine) you can drink Western buffet. Needless to say it was delightful to indulge in salmon, mac and cheese, pizza, cheese cake, and presecco (honesty note: there were like 15 more items that made their way across my plate) . After we met up with Joel and Jessica and played darts downtown and did a bit o' dancing.

SUNDAY! Lemme tell you about Sunday. We went to a jimjilbong. This is a Korean bathhouse and something that the west has messed up hard on. We need some of these suckers. So you go...and pay FIVE DOLLARS to have access to multiple hot tubs, a warm jet pool with heavy duty jets to massage....well, all of you....a cold pool, steam rooms and a sauna room. So we went with a big ole group of us and obviously split up by gender to spend the afternoon pampering ourselves. You can also pay an extra 20 bucks to have an older Korean lady scrub every freaking particle of dead skin off your body. We are talking cups of dead skin all around you when she is done. I did this. I have sweet baby skin now. Afterwards we went out for Indian food and then knocked out (after the most absurd bus ride of my life, the bus drivers here should be institutionalized). ANYWAY! it was an awesome weekend. More to come my pretties.