Merry Christmas! We've had a pretty good last few days and had some fun being silly foreigners wearing Santa hats both at school and around town. We both wore them all day at school on Wednesday and Thursday while trying to make some really boring lessons interesting for our students. One of the classes (mostly 2nd graders) was learning about how to manage money. On Christmas Eve. We felt bad for them, but we don't have much freedom so we just did our best to be funny and weird for them.
Last week we found a great online shopping site that has an English-language website that has free shipping domestically in Korea. We ordered a couch, a table, and a rug from it, and they were delivered this week, which was an awesome Christmas present to ourselves! We also got a really nice gift from one of our bosses--Dongbaek tea from Jeju. Dongbaek is the pink flower that blooms in the winter. After school we went home to our new furniture, made some pasta (it's a luxury here), drank some of our new tea, played Christmas music, and opened the presents that my parents sent us. It was actually a really nice Christmas Eve.
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| Our fancy new tea |
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| Our living room actually looks like a place people live with our new furniture. Our little tree and presents are in the corner. |
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| Delicious pasta for Christmas Eve dinner |
Today, we got to talk to both of our families, and we went for a run while wearing our Santa hats. We were just going to go for a normal run, but a couple miles in we just decided to climb a mountain instead. Geoje is so awesome that we can just randomly decide to do that. We climbed the same mountain that we climbed our first weekend here, but it was a lot cooler this time because it was a really clear day and we know our surroundings a lot better, so we could see more of the island and places that we saw meant a lot more to us this time.
In the afternoon we decided to explore for a place to eat. We walked through an outdoor market for a while, then we went to the big 8-floor department store and wandered around for a while. We got a Christmas-y drink at Starbucks and people watched for a bit before exploring town a bit more. We went to the part of town that's closest to the Samsung shipbuilding yard, which has a bunch of foreign restaurants. We hadn't been there before so it was a new place for us. We looked at a few of the restaurants but none of them seemed like they would be worth the price. We ended up going back to the restaurant on the 6th floor of the department store that we went to the first weekend here. We didn't want to go to a place we'd been before, but it was really hard to turn down getting full on delicious food for only 15,000 won, which is like 12 or 13 dollars.
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| Even though we didn't eat at this restaurant, there was a garden on the roof on the 11th floor that was open so we got a nice view of the Samsung shipbuilding yards. |
Tonight we were watching the action movie channel (Harry Potter Deathly Hallows parts I and II this time), and there was a commercial for an app that lets you order takeout. Sarah decided that we needed to try it since we were both hungry again after eating at 4. So we ordered pizza delivery and it worked! This might be a bad thing for us...
Anyways, Merry Christmas to everyone! Tomorrow we're off to Cambodia, so we should have some interesting stuff to share here!
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