B-ball

   Last Friday a big group of us went to watch the pro basketball team in our city. It turns out that they don't usually get a group of 18 foreigners to fill the seats, so they treated us to a number of goodies. Some of us got free water bottles; one of us got a signed ball, and we all got a slice of pizza from Domino's. We cheered our team on to an easy victory. After the game, we headed to the Pub to wish our friend Hank a safe trip back to Canada. B and I left early since we had to get up for our 1st class of the new term on Saturday.

  We started our Business Ethics course at 10 on Saturday; our professor is a fellow Minnesotan (and our travel agent's husband). The class has gotten off to a good start and promises to be interesting. We take this one Mondays and Saturdays. Our 2nd class will be Marketing Mgmt., but that one won't start until Dec. 9th. When it does start, we will take it 3-4 times a week for 4 weeks. It will be the most intense class we've ever done. 

 After class on Saturday we went to Costco, where we loaded up on some fun foreign foods. Back in Wonju, we went to our friend Sean's 25th b-day party. We ended up staying out until the wee hours of the night, so on Sunday we took it easy.

  This week is flying by, and on Friday we'll attend a wine and cheese party at our friend Emma's house. Then, after class on Saturday, we'll head back to Wonju to partake in a Thanksgiving dinner with some fellow ex-pat's.  We really wish we could celebrate back home with our families. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!! 

Cheering the Wonju team to victory.

One of the 2 foreigners on the team: Reggie Okosa. His guard wanted him to keep walking but he stopped to sign a few more autographs for the kids instead.

Fun Weekend

On Friday night we had some friends over to play Catch Phrase (my fave board game of all time). I made some fruit soju and everyone had a good time. Then on Saturday we went into Seoul to meet up with some of our Sejong classmates. In all about 40 past and presents students turned up. We enjoyed chatting with our friends; we hadn't seen most of them in over a month. Today we did a bit of shopping in Seoul before coming back home and had a relaxing evening. 

One of our classes starts this Saturday already; it's our business ethics class and the professor is a fellow Minnesotan whose wife is our travel agent. Our other class, Marketing Mgmt, doesn't start until December, and will be an intensive, 4-week class. For now we're enjoying our last 5 days of relaxing time at home. 

Enjoying our break

We're half-way through our 3-week break from grad school, and have been making the most out of it. On Tues night there was another Promy Basketball game (we were the winners). On Friday, H's rural school took yearbook pictures (in Korea they only get yearbooks when they're graduating from that school) so it was fun to partake in some of the photos! After school, Amy and Heath came over as the girls got all dolled up for a 70's themed birthday party for one of our friends. Amy did my hair/makeup, and I even had a dress to wear! The night was really a blast.

Saturday 7 girls went to Emma's house for a full day of Pride and Prejudice viewing. The BBC version lasts 6 hours, so our whole day was spent watching and chatting. It was interesting; the 6 that stayed the whole time were from different countries: Australia, England, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, and the US. We finished the night at a nice Korean restaurant. The boys, meanwhile, enjoyed a game night of their own.

Today we may just relax at home with Chomps. This Thursday there's a national test for students; B's been told he doesn't need to come to school that day while H is still waiting for word!

9th graders at H's rural school (17 in the whole class).

The leaves are at peak color right now!

Amy & I after she made me beautimous!! 

The girls all dolled up for 70's theme party.

Halloween

Happy (late) Halloween & Happy Election Day to everyone. Halloween was fun for H- her rural school kids dressed up and went trick-or-treating at the school. That evening B and I and a few friends dressed up in costumes and went to watch the Dongbu Promy basketball game (the pro team in our city). We were the winners AND we found out that our mugs were featured on ESPN a few times! We're stars now  ;)

 We're really enjoying our 3 week break from grad school. We get to come home every night after work and just hang out. Chomps seems to be enjoying the extra company, also. We'll start back up for term 2 on November 22nd, but for now we're enjoying our down time.

Today H's school has their PE test; so the students have to do the mile run, push-ups, sit-ups, sit and reach, the 50 meter run, and long jump. The kids aren't looking forward to it at all. Nothing else happening here at the moment. Hope everyone is enjoying their fall and doing well.

8th graders all dressed up for Halloween!

Nick, Dayle, H, B and Heath at the basketball game.

My co-teacher's kids came to trick-or-treat and stayed to play with Chomps.

Chomps curled up a lil ball.