This passed weekend our Fulbright group of awesome sauce went to Dong Hae beach for a mini-vacation to relax before we hit the ground running doing major job training. I was kinda tired while I was there so at times I wished I wasn't really doing anything and was just sleeping. Even so I am really glad we went. The first was really sunny and we all ran over the the beach excited and got our feet wet and then we ate BiBimBap for lunch!! That is one of my favorite Korean foods. I was soo happy. There was a very nice woman serving my table who apparently was from Cameroon (Yes she was African) and she laughed at me a lot. I was dying for more water and spicy sauce.
Later that day we went to a Buddhist temple and hiked around a little bit, it was really beautiful scenery with these giant rocks you could climb on. And I hiked about 2.5 km to a small waterfall that was just gorgeous!
The second day was pretty cloudy and windy and so the life guards weren't letting anyone in the water to swim, which was pretty sad, so I still have not worn my swim suit. In light of that, me and my roommates when down to the sauna in the hotel together and had an awesome bath. My skin has felt so much better since then--no joke. When I go back to the states I want to move to an area with a Korea town, I'm told the Korea Towns have the same style of saunas. I bet they're a lot more expensive though. After that me and my roomies got a group together and went to do some sight seeing and I'm sorry I did not bring my camera for those adventures. But some other people did so I can include couple cool pictures here.
We did a few things, one of the things we did was go to a local small cave system. This is our little group before we went down into the caves. We thought we looked pretty dumb in those hard hats but in time we all hit our heads on the really low ceiling in places and stalactites, so we were grateful eventually.
This is me "riding" a trumpeting elephant. : D I don't know that this was technically allowed, but I was quick. This was at the front entrance of the museum.
This was just a cool dragon sculpture.
This was an artistic interpretation of the great wall of china. If you zoom in you can see all kinds of cool stuff in it.
This was part of the stalagmite section of the museum. It was a maze of interesting sculpture and water falls. All kinds of different streams and fountains ran throughout this section.
So the last thing I wanted to talk about in this post was Work. I had all this vacation, but today I had my first day of work. I implemented my very first lesson plan. I taught on Jurassic Park. I'm teaching at this camp and every day is themed. Today's theme was sci-fi, thus Jurassic Park. We had a good time reading through an excerpt of the book and then discussing it. My plan ran just a little short but I was able to make up the time. The students seemed to like my lesson and my observing instructor said that overall he thought it was a good lesson and that I handled it well. However, we both agreed that I needed a little more meat in my lesson and perhaps it was a little bit too easy for those students. Which I can do totally deal with. I've submitted a draft for my next lesson plan to my instructor for review for next week's teaching session and I've tried to make it a little more involved. *Crossing my fingers*
The second day was pretty cloudy and windy and so the life guards weren't letting anyone in the water to swim, which was pretty sad, so I still have not worn my swim suit. In light of that, me and my roommates when down to the sauna in the hotel together and had an awesome bath. My skin has felt so much better since then--no joke. When I go back to the states I want to move to an area with a Korea town, I'm told the Korea Towns have the same style of saunas. I bet they're a lot more expensive though. After that me and my roomies got a group together and went to do some sight seeing and I'm sorry I did not bring my camera for those adventures. But some other people did so I can include couple cool pictures here.
We did a few things, one of the things we did was go to a local small cave system. This is our little group before we went down into the caves. We thought we looked pretty dumb in those hard hats but in time we all hit our heads on the really low ceiling in places and stalactites, so we were grateful eventually.
Our last day on vacation we went to this odd museum that had this whole range of stuff that was a little bit of a strange combination but cool nonetheless. There was, oddly enough, even a European section.
This was just a cool dragon sculpture.
This was an artistic interpretation of the great wall of china. If you zoom in you can see all kinds of cool stuff in it.
This was part of the stalagmite section of the museum. It was a maze of interesting sculpture and water falls. All kinds of different streams and fountains ran throughout this section.
So the last thing I wanted to talk about in this post was Work. I had all this vacation, but today I had my first day of work. I implemented my very first lesson plan. I taught on Jurassic Park. I'm teaching at this camp and every day is themed. Today's theme was sci-fi, thus Jurassic Park. We had a good time reading through an excerpt of the book and then discussing it. My plan ran just a little short but I was able to make up the time. The students seemed to like my lesson and my observing instructor said that overall he thought it was a good lesson and that I handled it well. However, we both agreed that I needed a little more meat in my lesson and perhaps it was a little bit too easy for those students. Which I can do totally deal with. I've submitted a draft for my next lesson plan to my instructor for review for next week's teaching session and I've tried to make it a little more involved. *Crossing my fingers*
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