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here at the high school the 1st and 2nd year students are on a class trip to jeju island that started on tuesday. i only teach 1st and 2nd year students so im sitting around pretending to study korean while i watch arrested development. such a great show and i was lucky enough to find all three seasons on the pc in my room thanks to the teacher i replaced. the epik teachers in donghae have started korean lessons which is cool. the teacher is kind of serious about learning korean but with grammar and other things. i was kind of hoping for important vocabulary and phrases. whatever its nice that we have a free class to help us with korean. i have a student that comes to my classroom every day during lunch to tell me that my first name is the same a wwe wrestler, matt hardy. it was funny at first, but now its like 20 mins of him asking me questions that dont make sense on google translate. most of them revolving around wrestling. its amazing how cold its been this week. i swear yesterday it was only 45 degrees max all day.

last weekend was buddhas birthday and we visited gyeongju city. its an old city that was the capital during the silla dynasty (i dont know the dates you can check them). we went to the bulguksa temple and sokkuram grotto on friday. the temple was amazing and big. it was covered with lanterns and people. the sokkuram is incredible. the grotto is open for the public to walk around in only one day a year which is buddhas birthday. the rest of the year you can see it but only through a glass window. we were very lucky. to stay in gyeongju we used couch surfers and a got a free room from a professor at the university there. we also got free tour guides which were the professor's students who he told to help us while we stayed. it was really nice of them and they were a great crew. saturday and sunday were alright it rained all day both days. we did our best with ponchos and umbrellas to visit the national museum and ancient tombs in tumuli park. on the way to gyeongju we got a ride from an english teacher but on the way home we took the bus. the car ride 3 hours. the bus ride 6 hours. i think we must have stopped on the bus about 30 times on the way home to let people off. it was well, frustrating. im glad we werent in a hurry. all in all it was a really good weekend.

tonight we are going to chuncheon for the international mime festival. i know what youre thinking mimes? well its supposed to be a badass party fun time gala that goes literally all night, so suck on that. if not it will be cool to see everyone stuck in imaginary boxes or getting caught by giant hooks. anyway should be fun.

until next time.