I'm Rich Bitch!!!

A millionaire before the age of 25. Not many people can say that.

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that I'm finally a MILLIONAIRE!!!! That's right. First months pay: 1.7 million (after taxes of course). How do you like that. Drinks are on me.



Too bad it's only Korean WON. LOL.

Peace

-Tommy

Last two weekends of fun

Hi everyone. John posted our last two weekends on our site http://wevegotseoul.blogspot.com
and said pretty much all I was going to say on my site. (I also have links to that blog, Kasia's blog, and Miron's blog in the right column, if you hadn't noticed) So I suggest you check out wevegotseoul and this way I can be lazy and you can get the scoop on what we have been up to lately. Win-win situation I suppose :). Things are still going well and we are having fun. Only thing we are waiting for is our first pay cheque so we can finally start budgeting our moneys.


I wanted to add a few more pics of of the past couple of weekends as well.
Here they are:

Craziest site for a tent or what? Looks like it could be comfortable... err?


Most of the dogs in the country are caged up and ready to kill.


The best green tea I've ever had, prepared by a Buddhist priestess. Notice the pouring with two hands, very important.


Somewhat phallic...


I thought I'd leave you with that.
Bye for now.

-Tommy

First Week At School






We walked to the dirt-rod building where our school is located. We expected the school to be its own building but it's actually located on the 6th floor of the Hyaendai building. Got off the elevator and to our suprise was a brand new school. A "Sick, Wicked, and Nasty" was definetly in order.

The great thing about where we live is that we can leave 5 mins before we start work and still get a coffee and make it on time. Everything is really close. It's also really lax at Kang's because we can listen to our pods while we work. One of the only disappointments was that there were no other foriegn teachers. They were all older Korean women. Not old old, but older.... late 20's and up.

A pic of a Korean teacher and one of John's students.
Anyways the week went well overall. The job so far is really easy. We have way too much time on our hands when we're not teaching, which is good and bad. Sometimes it's really boring. The students are really good, only a couple of trouble makers, nothing we can't handle. And did I say that the job was easy.

Here's a pic of the entrance to our beautiful workplace.

The girls we work with are super nice. They are always buying us donuts and cold coffee bevri, among other treats. Another thing, last week we met two of the investors for Kang's Academy. They thought we were moshta (handsom) and we got two pimpin tickets to see USA vs. Lithuania at the World BAsketbal Championship's this Sunday. Oh Yeah!!
Anyways, be back with another post soon. Peace.

- Tommy and John

Finally, Some Power!!!

Last Saturday John and I went on an adventure to Yongsan (Electronics capitol of SK)to find a power converter so we could hook up all our electronics. SK runs on 110V while back home its 220V. This crazy box does the conversion and allows me to use all my toys (ie laptop, ipod etc).

We hopped on the subway at Miguem station which is maybe a 2min walk from our place, transfered 3 times and made it to Yongsan. The Subway system is one of the largest in the world yet one of the easiest to use. Everything is bilingual (Korean, English) and signs are posted everywhere. It's impossible to get lost. Well almost impossible. During our transfers we noticed a big trend in male fashion here. Pink Purses!!! (I couldn't get a better pic but his GF had her own purse) Check it out.

Back to Yongsan, there are literally 100's of shops in this electronics mall (it's almost like a flee market but way nicer). Here you can bargain for anything from extension cords to plasma t.v.'s. Very interesting. So we ended up finding our converter for about 20,000 won (about $23CAD) and bought a set of speakers too for about the same price.

We took the hour subway ride back home and explored Bungdang (the city where we live). Tons of restaurants, bars, and shops. Really cool. Here's a sample.

Anyways, I'll be back with a post about our first day at school... umm work.

- Tommy