on the other side of the world….

Yesterday Kate and I went on a field trip with our school to the Uljin Nuclear Facility – more on that later but we also went up to this small pagoda overlooking the ocean.  I took this set up photos and uploaded it to photosynth.net – a microsoft photo project and here’s how it turned out!!  Not amazing but it’s still cool.  I’ll start uploading the photos for the better one I took in Seoul from Seoul Tower soon.  It takes a long time for the software to do it’s thing but it does some really cool stuff.  Enjoy.

Kate and I are heading off to Seoul after school today.  It is the middle of the week, but Kate is taking the first part of the GRE tomorrow morning – it’s only offered during the week.  I’m going with her to keep her safe (Wish Kate Luck!!)

School is going really well so far this semester.  The class that gave us the most trouble last semester is much better (so far)… not sure who’s to credit for that but we’re happy.  We’re feeling very good about our teaching and are pretty well planned out for the semester.  It’s old routine for us now…    Knock on wood everything stays this good.

This week we have the Seoul trip, another school field trip, and I have a day off from my small school on Friday due to a sports event.  In two weeks we have a 4 day weekend for the Korean Thanksgiving “Chuseok” then in the middle of October and November the classes will have testing for the national assessment.  Then we’ll be into December and almost done!  Wow it’s flying by so fast already.

Strange how I’m already beginning to feel like I need to take every bit of this place in before we leave.  We’re so lucky to be able to do this.

On another note… our students LOVE this video.. and I’m sure you will to.  Be sure to watch for a while… some funny guest singers pop up

Enjoy!

-Chad

Hello all,

We’re back in Korea now for our last 6 months and I’m finally getting around to putting these photos up.  We’ve been home for almost 2 weeks now but time is already flying by.  We started back to school this week and things are going pretty well so far…

Our trip to the USA was amazing.  Thanks to our Families and Friends for being flexible and seeing us whenever it was possible.  We were so happy to see everyone and so thankful that we were able to spend so much time with so many of you.  We also were pretty happy for the food too

In our 4 week whirlwind tour we visited nearly 20 cities, 5 states, and a LOT of people.  We packed a lot in but it was an amazing month… one we won’t ever forget and will cherish and miss while we finish our last 6 months in Korea.

Hopefully we’ll have some new posts up very soon with more substance about the changes we saw and reverse/reversereverse culture-shock.  We’ll also be posting about what’s next and our plans for these 6 months.  (aka save money, then go to china and nepal on our way home…)

Here are a few albums of pictures that I hope you’ll enjoy.  If you’re on facebook you might have already seen these but there might be a few new ones here.. (and they’re much better quality here. – booo facebook photos).

Enjoy!  Please leave some comments

-Chad

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