Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Fireworks in Busan

The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) closed with a fireworks
show, so we decided to check it out.

(Pusan is the same as Busan. P's and B's are interchangeable, as are G's and K's in the Romanization of Korean words.)


The journey from Ulsan to Busan is normally about an hour by bus, but a little misinformation given to Andrew, led his, Judy and Matt's bus ride to be over the two hour mark and still require a 20+ minute taxi ride to meet up with everyone. Luckily, they had burritos waiting for us so we didn't have to miss out on Mexican for lunch!



Everyone on Haeundae Beach, our meeting place

Our neighbors tossing the frisbee in sweet man thongs


Fawn and Judy


O'Kims!

"I'm on top of the world!"

This was Fawn's hat, but Andrew took an immediate liking to
it,
and hijacked it for the rest of the trip, as you'll see...

A meeting of the minds

The first of many group shots
(and pictures of Fawn holding people)



The Tomato Cruise Hotel...

Art

Yes, we have. We've poseidon.


Majestic


The fireworks were launched from this bridge


Eugene and Trinh holding down our spot on the sidewalk

Judy, Angela, Eugene and Korey


A sad Fawn


Eugene and Jay







The fireworks were amazing. We're pretty sure most of them would
have been illegal in North America.


It looks like Korey was dancing a jig and
Judy and Amy flew in behind him to join.



We attacked these poor Korean girls and forced them to take this picture with us



Judy's turn for soju

No idea what's happening here

Group Hug

More Group Hug

And the group hug grows...









We're in an elevator, let's take pictures!




The waitresses...


Victory hug

Awww...






She drank all those...

Policemen, let's take a picture!


Time to say goodbye to the hat




Sunday, November 1, 2009

Traditional Korean Attire

A supervisor from the Metropolitan Office of Education came to Judy's school, so her vice principal brought a humbok, traditional Korean dress, for her to wear.


The music teacher Kim Hyun Suk strapped Judy into the dress and tied the top extra tight in order to make Judy's chest look flatter.



The trees and foliage in the middle of Judy's school.


Ms An, Mrs Kim, Mrs Pak, Judy and Mrs Hur


A random spattering of children that the teachers stopped for Judy to take a picture with.


Judy and Ms An, her coteacher that teaches 3rd and 5th grade with her.


Judy and Hur Nam Young, her main co teacher that helps her with life and teaches 4th, 6th and after school classes with her.