big big picture post

I apologize for taking so long to update! for now, since I don't have a large amount of time or patience i'll just put up pictures since arriving in chungcheongbukdo. for the last week 33 of us have been staying in a teacher training facility in cheongwon. pretty much in the boonies.. but very beautiful!
taken from the bus ride about 2 minutes from the dorms:



our dorm rooms (newly renovated and super nice!):

view from my window:

last sunday we took a field trip to songnisan to hike and see a buddhist temple:





me and giant gold buddha:



on wednesday we visited chungcheongbukdo foreign language institute:

my roomie and future apt mate--kyuhee:

but i only have pictures of us hanging out on grounds:



cool picture.. except i didn't take it.. hahaha

and afterwards... SANGYUPSAL TIME!!!


it was seriously.... AMAZING....

and the man that made it happen... Mr. Jo! our supervisor who took amazing care of us this last week:

mr. jo and just the girls!

took a walk around the grounds and found this amazing spider spinning a web:

strolling





pic of the walkers!


that's what i have for now~ tomorrow i'm going to chungju to move into my one room studio! i probably won't have internet for a while.. but when i can i will try and be a better update-er!
i miss everyone from home.. wish you could all be here

spoils of the day!

did a little shopping spree and i just wanted to put up what i got! :)

i know.. the shoes are very gold.. but they were only $5!! and the heels were $15!

surprisingly, even with the traveling to busan and taxis and whatnot, i still have about half of what i cashed.. so about $100~ hooray for me!!

busan

my camera battery died just as i got to heundae (the beach in busan)

but i had the most tiring day ever. that's pretty much it.

and i bought gold shoes. :)

now that i'm not impatient i'll post what happened yesterday

friday: went to an elementary school in the morning to observe their english program~


this is their garden that their vice principal bragged about like it was a huge school effort. i later learned she's the only one who works in it

weird tomato/pepper hybrid looking things





BIGGEST SPIDER EVER!!! it was the length of at least my index finger and its body was at least as thick as 2 fingers

if you look close you can tell it's eating something..

in the english section of school



english chat time! hahaha

that night... >:]



beer and chicken... the best combination





haha english chat group! (the tall one is austrailian!!)

get ready for a monster picture upload!

Sightseeing Day!

first we went to bulguksa: a buddhist temple:




guardian thingys?

front view

mountain stream water!

some tower-magijy

inside the temple




Next we went to Seokguram Grotto:
basically we walked uphill and up steps for about 15 minutes, passed through a small temple place for 2 seconds, wasn't allowed to take pictures (but i did) walked out and that was it. 15 minutes back down the mountain.

in front of the entrance with christina

big rock and little rocks

giant bell

view from the top

what we climbed up to see... my illegal picture!



i think that's the actual grotto.. from far away

lunch time!! the program rented out an entire restaurant to feed about 200 people.. it was DELISH!

the sea.. i forget the name..

clean water!

christina and i again.. at the water

this was... ananpji pond








and that was my day!!

tomorrow: busan!