February in Pictures...I realize it's April now, sorry!

This is a post of just pictures.

There are so many to share, and there were too many pictures of my trip to Busan,

so another post. Hope you enjoy! One of the Korean Kings welcoming you to Seoul...near City Hall!

With the mountains behind it's quite beautiful!
On Korean Independence Day I hung out with some Korean friends and they took me to a traditional village for royalty. Apparently this was the biggest and was run by a queen.

Not sure if this was supposed to be the Queen, but they were showing what a traditional memorial service to honor their ancestors would look like.
This included a large feast of food for the dead ancestors to eat
(of which they eat after a certain amount of time since the dead really don't eat the food.)

My friends are ahead. This building was a guest house.
See the cut out under the door in the concrete?
That's where they lit fire's under the houses to keep warm...
and Koreans still use heated floors for heat today.
The flags are hung for Independence day. Korea's flag is red, blue, white, and black. Namsan mountain was beautiful with the snow. I have yet to go to the tower, but I hear it's awesome! The swastika is not a Nazi sign, fear not...but a much older Buddhist sign.
Of course the Nazi's would steal. My first house in Korea!
Juuuuuust kidding. I believe it's basically a supply closet....or maybe for kimchi stowing.

Traditional game being played...I believe Americans played this too though.

Wishes for South Korea's future were tied here. They were very pretty!

Took a trip with my friend Ashley to a town called Chungju. The best food EVER!

See all the food??? It was a feast (and that's not all of it) for about $8.
Sorry for the weird face I'm making!

The awesome cave/monster/gargoyle themed noraebang (karaoke room) we sang at!

Inside it make creepy noises and was really quite scary, it was awesome!

This was lunch...DELICIOUS! Tteok Galbi...veggies, meat, tteok is a chewy rice thing all in a sweet yet super spicy dish. YUMMO!!!

Koreans are really skilled at coffee art! This was Ashley's green tea latte.

The city of Chungju! I loved getting away from the dirty, crowded city for a day!

Here's the inside of a noraebang with my friend Eric singing.

This one didn't have a disco ball, but it is common. Also the videos that go to the English songs are terribly tragic (suicide by jumping in front of a subway, gang fights) but never go to the song.

I totally want to open one of these at home!

An appetizer for fried chicken and HOF (not good beer) is peanuts and dried anchovies with chili sauce. It's really quite tasty.

I'll only show one disturbing image of the mold of death that was taking over my apartment.

I hope it is really fixed now.

My 9th graders graduated to High School. I miss them! They were such awesome kiddos!

My Principal speaking at Graduation...it was in the gym and only students got to sit.

Some of my fav gals!

My favorite 3rd grader. He wants to be a counselor and that kid was cool.

He would talk to anyone without a friend and everyone loved him!

My after school girls...love them too!

Trip to Lotte World (an inside/outside theme park.)

Everyone buys these goofy headbands to wear in the park.

My job the 1st part of the day was to speak English with these rascals.

They were awesome! We played games to beat other groups.

Our team name was "The Strong Fire Dragons!"

On the carousel.

My Velcro buddies for the day. They were so cute!

Last but not least...Koreans are obsessed with couples things.

Couples shirts, shoes, pants...AND UNDERWEAR!

Nothing says love like matching pink heart undies!!!

With love from Korea :o)