Posts from — November 2009

Last week the Samcheok Office of Education hosted an English Festival for all of the Elementary and Middle Schools.  This 3 day event was mainly a competition consisting of speeches, skits, and quiz games.  Our school participated in all of the events and Kate and I judged a few of the events as well.  All in all it was a fun few days and a nice break from being at school :).  Here are some pictures from the event.  For the full album visit this page.

I’m also in the process of uploading videos from the event.  They’ll be up soon. UPDATE: They’re up now!

As always - click the image to see a larger version.

This is MinJae - one of the students in our skit.  He’s amazing… and has the best smile around!

Our 2nd grader, Hanbit, reading an English story about his mom.  Be sure to check out the video of this… adorable.

This is Miguem.  Kate wrote about her speech a few weeks ago here. She did a great job!  Again - a video will be up soon. is here!

These little guys were from another school and they sang and danced to a song called “Do the Elephant!”.  Pretty amazing!!  Check out the video soon!

We did “Who’s on First” for our skit.  It was pretty great - at least we thought so.  They did a great job and I think they understood it which was great.  This is Who, What, and I don’t know - the players.

This is Jaeook and Minjae - the fans going to the baseball game.  They’re both really sweet boys in the 6th grade and they did a great job in the skit!

Throughout all of this - Kate was more nervous than any of the students.  But they all did a great job and Kate made it out alright too

-Chad

I’ve been hoarding a bunch of new pictures for the past few weeks - waiting for a good time to edit them down and post them. So here we are. Be sure to check the captions on the pictures for more information about them. We’ve had some great adventures lately and these hopefully capture a bit of them. I’ve been trigger happy lately ending up with 5 and 6 hundred photos from some trips, so this is definitely a sampling - but it’s really all the pictures anyone would ever actually want to see. I’ll be posting some more photosynths of places around Korea soon too. (That’s really where the photo counts go up like crazy! )

Enjoy and please leave a comment!

-Chad

Seoul Trip 1 (GRE)

The first trip to Seoul for part of Kate's GRE test.

25 Photos

School Trip to Nuclear Plant

School Trip to Nuclear Plant in Uljin (1 hour south of Samcheok). We also went to a pagoda near the ocean and a festival center.

37 Photos

Hwansangul (Hike) 2

Our 2nd attempt was much more successful at Hwansangul. Great day and a great hike! I was also trying to take some pictures of the fall leaves and some direct sun shots. Got a few good ones...

44 Photos

Samcheok Farms

Took a walk down a random road in Samcheok and ended up finding these amazing farms in the hills!

9 Photos

Seoul Trip 2 (GRE)

Second trip to Seoul this fall for Kate's final GRE exam section. I bought a new camera lens! Here are some pictures I took the first day and a half I had it!

31 Photos

DMZ Trip

Our Trip to the DMZ and former North Korean area (above the 38th Parallel but now in South Korea). Check out the captions for more information.

59 Photos

 

This is a photosynth I took while in Seoul last month.  It took me quite a while to get this online because I had about 400 pictures and needed to edit them down to about 300 for the program to work correctly.  I hope you enjoy it - it’s an interesting way to see Seoul.

N-Seoul Tower is a “space-needle” like tower in the middle of seoul on a big hill.  Great view - but it was a bit cloudy the day we were there so it’s hard to see everything in the pictures.  Still impressive though.  Hopefully you can see enough to get an idea of just how large the city is.  Pretty incredible.

Again you might need to download a plugin to view the photosynth.

Enjoy -

-Chad