Another day in Bucheon

Mel plays the Goo Goo Dolls for them and they actually have learned the words. it is fantastic.



Thursday I spent the day at work with Mel again. Her munchkins were "cooking" which consists of making something educational and then eating it. Yesterday Mel demonstrated to them the making of a butterfly with oranges, tomatoes, and cucumber antennae. The kindergardeners were really driving her insane yesterday. They didn't seem to want to listen to anything. I would have lost my mind and killed one of them at some point, I think. hehe.

when kids get bored, they play violin with pencils and hair


Ms Cherry helping with their writing

she really does look this lost all the time

This is mel's favorite student, she's funny

the closest to a dress we'll ever see her! in her apron
preparing for her demonstration

he is a jokester

they wait patiently for her to let them make their own butterfly

Ms Cherry's butterflies

a student's butterflies - with no bodies haha

Show me how we line up!



watch this video. it amazes me how she lets them all read aloud, different books at the same time. I can't handle all of that noise!


For lunch we ate at the little restaurant by her work and I had Donkasu, the same thing I had the first day I was here. I love this dish. It is pork cutlet that is really crispy on the outside. It is served with white rice and baked beans on the plate. The shared side dishes yesterday were fish, kimchi, and cucumbers in red paste. I still haven't aquired a taste for the kimchi. It is way too spicy for my mouth. tear tear.
here you see the beans, rice, and pork!


side dishes = kimchi on the far left, fish already eaten from the top bowl, cucumbers, then some mushroom onion mix of yuck. soup in the bowl directly behind my plate

for dessert, a mystery popcicle. it was strawberry flavored and DELICIOUS

Mel had coke zero and I had pineapple juice



The head directors of Mel's school came in and they gave me 3 sets of 3 pencils advertising the school. hahaha. I think it's great because Mel already sent me some so now I have like 15 of these KC pencils.
the older classes are crazy too. this kid never shuts up

she's always talking, all day long!


she's beating the knowledge into them

he wanted his photo taken! haha



Yes, she ended the class with a game of hangman and the answer was SHUT YOUR PIE-HOLE!


you have to love this one too!


After work, we went to Pizza Muru. This is Mel's favorite pizza place. The crust is rolled into little pizza rolls, so picking up pieces is really interesting. The crust is stuffed with cheese and sweet potato. That was a taste I couldn't get used to so I tore off the crust and ate the yummy pepperoni pizza. It was FANTASTIC! Loved it. I bought some Australian Ice Vod (lemon flavored vodka drink similar to smirnoff) and it complemented the pizza rather well. When we got hungry later on, we went for street food. I have been eyeing these corndog looking things. I looked them up online and it says "hotdog cooked in pastry" so why not. It's only 1,000won so who can pass it up?! It was tasty except the hotdog was super thin and there was 2 inches of pasty. I had to tear the breading off so that I could taste the hotdog. It's double fried too, so nice and crunchy! I forgot the camera so no photos of pizza or corndog thingy.

OH! About the wine I said I'd comment on from a few days earlier - it was way too strong for me and Mel drank the entire bottle herself.