Less than a month to go !!!!! Today we had an activity Day at School. Early in the afternoon we took the young kids out for a picnic and a few games. At about 6 O'clock we went back to school and watched a movie with the middle school kids. After that we had Cooking class. I really liked the cooking class!! The kids made labokki. For those of you who don't know what labokki is, I'll tell ya. It's water with red pepper paste mixed in. After that you add fish cake, rice cake, onions, green onions or what ever odds and ends you can find. At the end you add instant noodles. It's really hot and yummy. Sorry no pics!!! It won't let me add images!!! I'm really starting to get pissed!!

Well not much new in these parts! The past few weeks I've been just keep close to home. The weather is just too hot for a Canadian boy like me. I'm dreaming of the flying snow.. Today marks the first day of my last month of work..Yeehaaa!!! The end of August was suppposed to be the end of my contract, but I was asked to stay on for as long as I could. So I told my boss that I would stay until the 22nd of Sept. Jade was also asked to stay. It's nice to be wanted, but free time is also sweet!! The photos are of my hood, slugs, a beetle and a cicada. The sound of cicadas can be heard throughout the city. It's almost deafening in the forest. It sounds like yeeeeeeeeeeee mem mem mem mem yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. The Korean word for it is memme. The brown slug was about 15 cm long and about 7cm wide. Pretty big!! The only other slug I've seen that was bigger was a sea slug that was about a pound and a foot long.

Jade and I decided to go to an island about 40 km from home. On a good day it should take about 50 min to an hour to get there. Today it took about two hours by bus. The traffic was really heavy. It's a long weekend and everybody is on the move. The west coast of Korea is one large mud flat, so we didn't do any swimming. We just hiked around the coast for a few hours and had a small shore lunch. The weather was really nice and clear, with a day time high of about 35. After resting in the shade we decided to head for home. We caught the bus at 6:30 and we didn't get home until 10:30. It took us four hours to do 40 km!!! Gee wiz!! That sure was a long trip. I don't think we'll be going there again on a long weekend. Jade said she's never leaving the apartment again. I can't blame her for that!! Tomorrow I'm heading to another island, but I'm taking a ferry this time. So there will be no traffic jams!!!

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The photos above are of my school. The woman standing in front of the sign is my boss, Mia. She's pretty cool. I really enjoy working at the school and I'll be sad to go. The students are also very nice and I will surly miss them too. My last day of work is Sept 20th. Time really seems to be flying by. It won't be long and I'll be sitting up at the camp and counting the stars and breathing that fresh Canadian air. On a good night in Incheon you can see about three stars and the air isn't what you would call fresh!! The photos are of two s.u.vs that I'm thinking about buying in December. I haven't made up my mind yet on which one, but I think I'm going to get the smaller one. It's really hard to find parking in my hood. Which one do you like????

Well I didn't do much this weekend. It was too friggen hot! Here in Incheon it was 34.7 degrees, wow! So I just stayed in front of the air conditioner. On Sunday at 6 o'clock Jade and I went over to her aunt's apartment. It was Jade's uncle's one year death memorial service. They all prayed and sang hymns. After that we all ate together. Jade's aunt doesn't have air conditioning, so it was really hot. The photes are of Jade's cousins, their wives and children. That's it for now!!!

here are some pics from last weekend. I've been trying to post them for three days, but it won't let me. I hope it works this time!!!!!