Cherry Blossoms

I did absolutely nothing special this weekend except take some pictures of cherry blossoms which i will share.

Nurimaru APEC House

Last weekend, we stopped in Haeundae to go to the beach on a day the weather was decent. We were already out so I didn't bring any trunks so I didn't go in the water instead we walked to the Nurimaru APEC (Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation) House. I am not completely interested in the trade agreements between countries, to be completely honest I think it's pretty boring. But the walk from Haeundae to Nurimaru was completely worth it. There was a nice wooden walk way that was a border from the rocky shore and nice forested area. A bonus was Nurimaru has some nice architecture and although looking at pens and pieces of paper about some trade agreement is pretty boring I did enjoy the overall environment of the building.

The ocean from Haeundae Beach

Mermaid Statue out on rock.

For some reason I like the look of these big natural rocks.

As opposed to small artificial rocks.

This picture is almost the same as the last one... Almost

The kid in me wanted to cross this bridge more than once.

But I didn't so I just took it's picture a couple of times

There were signs saying "don't worry about the smell of rotting flesh it's just this plant"

They actually didn't smell that bad, until later when there were a lot more of them.

Some more big natural rocks.

Sometimes I think the picture is self explanatory, these were fishermen out on a rock.

This old guy was singing or chanting or both

Nurimaru

This is the first thing you see when you enter

Conference table for all of the participating countries

And the ceiling

And the observation rooms

I actually saw this before going into the APEC House but it was a better shot leaving it

Some walkways at the Exit.

Some trees

Some more trees

The end

Orphanage

Recently I have been visiting an orphanage on the first and third Saturdays of the month. The kids are around Kindergarten age or a little bit younger. Here are some photos.

Busan Snow and Seomgyeopsal

While my belly is still full from the delicious food I just ate, I will make a post so I will not forget to later. Today It snowed for the first time since I've been here, granted I've been here less than a year but I was told from students it's the first time it's snowed in five years. While I'm not sure of "weather" that's true or not I can believe it since people were going pretty crazy about the snow when it only snowed about 54mm (about 2 inches), tests were canceled I know some Koreans didn't go to work, and I even saw one vehicle with chains on their tires.

The snow was a pleasant surprise and a nice break from the cold rain we've been getting. It was very beautiful, although I didn't get to experience much of it spending most of the day inside, teaching. After school I went through my normal Wednesday tradition and went out to eat with Ji-hye tonight we ate seomgyeopsal (Korean BBQ).

Here are some pictures of my day

Some snow on the mountains.

Another snowy mountain

A mountain with snow

A Snow covered mountain.

I thought this was a little excessive, there was no snow on the streets.

A mountain near work, the clouds are gone and the snow is finally starting to melt.

Delicious delicious seomgyeosal.

It's cooking that is some kimchi in the back, some pickled turnip next to it, garlic in the front and seomgyeopsal in the middle.