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.

Busan Museum

Today I decided to take a trip to Busan's Museum. It seemed like a good thing to finally do, and today was a good choice because it turned out to be Korea's Independence Day. Which meant the museum was free. Unfortunately taking pictures was not allowed inside the museum, although I did take a few photos of things that I thought my camera flash wouldn't damage. While I was there I learned quite a bit about Korea's history, and why most Koreans hate Japan. Without further ado here are the pictures.

Ji-hye pointing to something, this was before she knew I had my camera with me.

Some wax statues at the museum

I think this was a typical Korean house hold.

A copper smith

A tool shop

A fishmonger.