Leaving Korea...

Tonight is my last night in Korea. It's been a very memorable and life changing experience living here the past 15 months. I will miss many things about Korea, especially the close friendships, and of course, the food. I'm leaving for the airport in three hours, I should get some sleep. See you back in Canada at the end of the month!

Rainbow Stairs at Yongsan

On Saturday night we met up with Cara and Geoff for dinner. We found this great staircase at Yongsan and had some fun playing around and taking pictures.

I Got Married at Nanta Theatre... but not really

This past Saturday Kenton and I went to the Theatre to see the precussion musical Nanta. They use pots, pans, plates, and knives as musical instruments. Our seats were close to the front, so I was picked along with another foreigner to go up on stage during the performance! They put a hat and Korean style bib on each of us, and we had to sample some soup. At the end, they played the wedding song, had us link arms, and threw rice on us... so.... apparently I got married! Kenton wasn't too happy.... just teasin.

Goodbye Dinners.... for me :(

The staff at work surprised me with a dinner at school on my last day.

Dinner with friends to say goodbye

Saying Goodbye to my Kids :(

My Kindergarten 7 year olds

One of my Grade 1 classes

My Grade 6's. The boys keep wanting to be tall like their teacher.

Last week was a pretty emotional week saying goodbye to all my students. I thought it would be the hardest to say goodbye to the young ones, but then I had some of my grade 3 boys really impress me with some very kind words of appreciation before they went out the door. They stopped, thanked me, and said "goodbye teacher, you are very good and very nice teacher, thank you."

Korean New Year's

House we stayed at in the country

Traditional New Year's breakfast

Kimmy, her cousin, Kenton, and I playing a traditional Korean game called Yutnori

A couple weeks ago Kenton and I went to our Korean friend Kimmy's uncles place in the country for Korean New Year's. We ate traditional meals of rice, vegetables, fish, kimchi, soups, and lots of fresh fruit in between. We also played some traditional games which were a lot of fun, but got pretty competitive! :-)