Body Painting Festival!

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Sorry for slacking in the blog department, but my computer is still broken (yes, I have been lazy). Work has also been super nuts the past few weeks.

At work we have had a bunch of things going on. We have had class level changes and a change in our own classes that we teach. Seven out of nine of my classes that I teach have been changed. Quite a few of those are classes that I have never taught and I have idea how to conduct class. Luckily, I am pretty quick on my toes and pick things up fairly quickly. My new classes seem fine and should be fun. I will miss some of my students in other classes, though.

Another thing adding to the chaos at work is we are getting three new teachers and two more are leaving, while one has already left. The one who left only gave two weeks’ notice and broke her contract. This has caused problems because she has left a lot of things for the rest of us to do. We also have gotten two new teachers and should be getting a third tomorrow. The new girls are very sweet and one even went out with us this weekend.

While I enjoy the new people it puts stress on the office because training falls on the old teachers. We have to explain classes and have them shadow our classes. This means we have less time to do our work. Mind you this is falling during the time of class changes and everyone is super stressed.

Now for more fun things, like a body painting festival! That’s right, two other teachers and I went to the international body painting festival this past weekend. It was absolutely one of the most unique things I have ever done or seen. They had about 30 tents sent up where the models (boy and girls) were being painted. We got to watch the entire process.

They also had display booths sent up. You could get your face painted or a henna tattoo. They had some of the most interesting combos of food booths as well. There was Russian ice cream, gyros and fried fish on a stick. I of course had the corn dog covered in French fries…

We eventually left the park to find a place to stay. We had seen a few love motels while trying to find the park, so we went to one of those. It was about 25 American dollars for the night. That is pretty cheap, even for a love motel here. The lady that ran the place was nice enough and she kept giving us random drinks.

The rest of the day was spent wandering around the festival. We had a bunch of Koreans take our picture when we were just standing around. I guess it might have been because I had my nose ring in…

Then, the show case began. We had pretty awesome seats and could see really well. All the models walked on to the stage one at a time while music was playing. Some of the models went all out and danced, did the splits and even break danced. It was a lot of fun to watch. The best way to describe it is a cross between a fashion show and the circus.

The next day was a lazy trip back. All three of us were beat from the festival. When we got back a large group of us went out for some yummy sit-on-the-floor Korean food. I have found some places that I do like the food a lot. Most of them are places where you cook your own meat and other dishes. I don’t like a lot of other things though, like anything that has tons of seaweed.

My apartment is an ever-changing work in progress. I keep adding pictures (hint: pictures would be a good thing to send me) and other random things from my adventures. I finally have a chair so I don’t have to sit on pillows on the floor. Yippy! I also have managed to get my place more and more organized every week. It’s nice that it keeps feeling more comfortable all the time.

Ok, work is almost over and I need to do a few things before going home. I miss everyone and hope all is well!!