Saturday, October 26, 2013

Bundang Central Park and Other News

The beauty of fall.

I feel like my weeks keep getting busier and busier but I'm not even sure how that's possible. At least we still have time here and there to have some fun...

This month our school celebrated International Day. For the last four weeks or so we've been spending time teaching our afternoon kids stuff about different countries and we were required to pick one country to study specifically...which is how I ended up somewhat "assigned" Mexico (my own fault for not coming up with sometime better...).

One of the things we had to do with our class is make a presentation. We were told we could do anything (talk, sing a song, dance, etc...) and so, to make it more entertaining I choose to be the worst teacher ever and have my students dance the Macarena. 

Oh, it was worth every little bit of the guilt I feel for asking this of my students. 

Teaching. Sometimes, it rocks. 

Anyway, this week was also our field trip week and we got to go visit a farm (yey, home away from home). I think it was nicer than our last field trip (to the recycling center) and we even got to meet this guy:

 


Apparently, he's quite famous and was even featured in a movie staring Cha Tae Hyung (excuse me while I fangirl for just a moment) though it's one of the few of his movies I haven't seen...yet...(Title is Champ [챔프])

Doesn't really look like a "farm" does it?

The farm itself is actually really pretty and we were able to make ice cream with the kids (after they got to milk a cow) so it was an enjoyable day. 

Today, Jenee and I made another stab at finding Bundang Central Park and let me just say: you really can't believe everything you read online. 

Multiple sources have said to go out Gate 5 of the AK Plaza at Seohyeon Station but in fact you need to go out Gate 6.

The first time we went (last weekend), we left out Gate 5 and then took the road to the right and thought we found the park but we didn't really so, we gave up and decided to try again once we got better directions. 

Once home, we looked it up online and found that we needed to go out Gate 5 but turn left...so okay, we did that today and walked for forever and still couldn't find the park. 

Whatever.

We went back to the plaza and I took us out Gate 6 (because why not). Bam. There it was. Can't really miss it!

So, bad news: spent a lot of time wandering around searching for this local spot. 

Good news: it was so, so pretty!! 





Fall has finally arrived and the trees are starting to look for-real gorgeous. The park itself is actually pretty big and even includes some "hiking" up a small mountain. It can get a little confusing though because if you come in from the wrong end (as in, not the main entrance--which is what we did on accident) there isn't any maps. I suppose it all goes around in a circle (we didn't walk the whole thing) but it was a little frustrating not knowing where we were going. 


The view was totally worth it though. I'm so glad this places is really close to where we live (only 3 stops away). I'm sure it's going to be somewhere we go often! 

Tomorrow, we are making another stab at going to Chungdeok Palace (remember our failed attempt to go there during Chuseok)? This time we are going with a group from our church so we will be able to see the Palace and (hopefully) the Secret Garden if we're able to get tickets. I'm really excited!  

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Bundang Central Park and Other News

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The beauty of fall.

I feel like my weeks keep getting busier and busier but I'm not even sure how that's possible. At least we still have time here and there to have some fun...

This month our school celebrated International Day. For the last four weeks or so we've been spending time teaching our afternoon kids stuff about different countries and we were required to pick one country to study specifically...which is how I ended up somewhat "assigned" Mexico (my own fault for not coming up with sometime better...).

One of the things we had to do with our class is make a presentation. We were told we could do anything (talk, sing a song, dance, etc...) and so, to make it more entertaining I choose to be the worst teacher ever and have my students dance the Macarena. 

Oh, it was worth every little bit of the guilt I feel for asking this of my students. 

Teaching. Sometimes, it rocks. 

Anyway, this week was also our field trip week and we got to go visit a farm (yey, home away from home). I think it was nicer than our last field trip (to the recycling center) and we even got to meet this guy:

 


Apparently, he's quite famous and was even featured in a movie staring Cha Tae Hyung (excuse me while I fangirl for just a moment) though it's one of the few of his movies I haven't seen...yet...(Title is Champ [챔프])

Doesn't really look like a "farm" does it?

The farm itself is actually really pretty and we were able to make ice cream with the kids (after they got to milk a cow) so it was an enjoyable day. 

Today, Jenee and I made another stab at finding Bundang Central Park and let me just say: you really can't believe everything you read online. 

Multiple sources have said to go out Gate 5 of the AK Plaza at Seohyeon Station but in fact you need to go out Gate 6.

The first time we went (last weekend), we left out Gate 5 and then took the road to the right and thought we found the park but we didn't really so, we gave up and decided to try again once we got better directions. 

Once home, we looked it up online and found that we needed to go out Gate 5 but turn left...so okay, we did that today and walked for forever and still couldn't find the park. 

Whatever.

We went back to the plaza and I took us out Gate 6 (because why not). Bam. There it was. Can't really miss it!

So, bad news: spent a lot of time wandering around searching for this local spot. 

Good news: it was so, so pretty!! 





Fall has finally arrived and the trees are starting to look for-real gorgeous. The park itself is actually pretty big and even includes some "hiking" up a small mountain. It can get a little confusing though because if you come in from the wrong end (as in, not the main entrance--which is what we did on accident) there isn't any maps. I suppose it all goes around in a circle (we didn't walk the whole thing) but it was a little frustrating not knowing where we were going. 


The view was totally worth it though. I'm so glad this places is really close to where we live (only 3 stops away). I'm sure it's going to be somewhere we go often! 

Tomorrow, we are making another stab at going to Chungdeok Palace (remember our failed attempt to go there during Chuseok)? This time we are going with a group from our church so we will be able to see the Palace and (hopefully) the Secret Garden if we're able to get tickets. I'm really excited!  

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