So I'm all ready to go, my house is half packed two boxes of stuff has been sent home, I'm pretty sure my final pay is in my account and I have travel arrangements all the way to Koh Phangan.
I have four days of work left, it's absolutely fantastic.
I've been telling my kids, and I've been gettting a lot of cheering, goddammit.
Told my kindy, I don't think they understood, they probably won't even notice a new teacher.
I've had a great week actually, I've got afternoon kindy last period everyday and it is usually incredibly painful but I've been going downstairs and playing with toy trains (to clarify, I'm playing with the trains, my trains.) instead of teaching them, well technically they're probably learning better by playing in English than studying at the age of 5.

We went on a pretty awesome field trip on Friday with the kindy kids to the Civil Safety place, lots of fun stuff for kids to do, it was great for me when I'm standing in a room with two guides 5 other teachers and 50 kids and I'm the only on who can't understand a word of what he's saying.
Here's them learning what to do in an earthquake (the whole room is shaking).



Here they are in a wind tunnel experiencing 30m/sec (?) winds.
It was hilarious, mainly cos I was standing there and a bit of drool flew out of my mouth and the rest of the teachers are laughing their asses off.



This one was pretty cool they had to use fire extinguishers (actually water hoses) to put out a fire on a big screen.
The teachers went first and we couldn't put out the fire, a couple of the groups of kids did though. Grr.
There was also a VR rollercoaster ride though I didn't understand where it fitted into the safety idea, and an awesome little assault type course, covered in smoke.
Overall the most reasonable and fun experience the kids have had.


So here's the final line-up of Winnies-D sans Julia but she hasn't really fully integrated anyway.















Had a pretty hard-out week, too much drinking again. Went out in Cheonho for the last time on Friday night, went to Starbucks (not in any way affiliated with the coffee, surprisingly).


We were drinking 13 dollar jugs of beer, 2 liters a go. It got messy when someone had the great idea to play Never have I ever (We sucked way too much at bottles and kegs).
Managed to polish off 7 of them by the end.






Went to Yongsan yesterday to pick up a DS card for Lachlan, was a great trip managed to play with my new lens (Oh yeah I got a telephoto lens for my camera from Oona for my birthday, it's great fun).
Here's a picture taken from the stoop of the old BK. OK well that doesn't mean anything to non-Seoulites, but Sam will understand.











Last night we went to the Casino, pretty much to eat and drink for free :)
I walked in with thirty bucks in my wallet, spent the twenty I wanted to, then just before we left, the evil spirit told me to just put one more bet down, bet your last ten, you don't need taxi or booze money. Turned it into thirty and walked out even. Stoked.
Then went to a bar to watch some live music, first up was this three piece Korean band playing indie rock, they opened with a song in which the chorus was 뉴지랜드요, 뉴지랜드요 screamed out. This translates to New Zealand yo, New Zealand yo. Fucking amazing, I wish I could have understood more, but even my Korean friends couldn't understand the singers.

I think that might actually be everything... yip.
Adieu, 5 more days til Thailand

Brad