Not much has been happening lately in Seoul. I'm in a basic school routine... Class, sleep, procrastinate, eat, sleep, homework, TV, homework, sleep, class... Not very interesting. But some small things to report on.

First, I visited a large Catholic church nearby. It was pretty much your basic cathedral with high arched ceilings and pretty stained glass. But the main door startled me. Usually, there's nothing to remind me that I'm in Korea as opposed to a Korean neighborhood in the US but then something jumps out. Look closely at the door and you'll see traditional Korean noble dress. I was surprised.



Also, I visited a board game room the other day. Korea has a whole room culture. It's starts with basic PC room(internet cafe/ arcade) or Singing Room (Karaoke) and then onto weirder things like sitting rooms (you pay for a nice place to sit) or board game rooms (you pay an hourly rate to play some of hundreds of board games. To work there you have to be able to explain the rules to all the game) Below we're playing a simple children's game that we all were terrible at.

And the last big change. I've started a volunteer position. (Couldn't stay away from kids for long) I now go each week to a poorer elementary school and with three others teach basic English to 1st through 3rd graders by playing traditional Korean games with them.
There are 35 students and this week we learned shapes. They now know the word triangle. (circle, square and parallelogram were lost to them) Aren't they cute?And of course I'm having fun too.