Friday, September 16, 2005

Letters by students

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What's up homies! This week I had my students do a letter writing activity as I am starting a pen-pal program in the school. I got all sorts of hilarious letters as the students could write to whoever they wanted to. Three letters in prticular I want to share with you. Note: I am typing word for word here, so some of it does not make sense.

Dear President Bush,
It's been a long time since I saw you last. My name is KwangLim Lee. I'm fifteen years old. How old are you? I feel sorry that you destroy Irag and you killed so many people.

Dear President Bush,
Hello. How are you? I am fine. I am happy but I study hard to get good point (test). I have a lot of money, so I invite you. I have swimming pool. 1000000 million houses, and 10000000000 $. I buy your land. Aleska, give me!
I want to need some oil.
And I have India, Africa, Austrailia, China, and Europe. So I have many many army, jet plane, tank, hack, and airplane sail.
I don't scared you.
Please write back, see you soon
(Miss Briana It's funny letter so you don't angry)

Dear Briana,
Hello I'm Natalie. Your reply letter is very good. Umm...Miss Asmus? I have a metter. I want to ballet. Desire earnestly ballet. But my mom doesn't agree my dream---> a ballerina. How can I do? I like ballet very much. But I don't take ballet lesson. If I play ballet- I practice long time. Practice very hard. I envy you...I have two ways. One way is ballet, the other way is study. I'm begin to agony....^^! You know? Always your smile is so beautiful.
Sincerely,
Natalie

Sunday, September 11, 2005


The sun sets over Busan. Posted by Picasa


Katie and Meeeee!!! Kimchi!!! Posted by Picasa


More beach. It was deserted. Posted by Picasa


Haeundae Beach Posted by Picasa


I lost 1000 won in this damn machiene. Damn you claw game. Posted by Picasa


Noribong.  Posted by Picasa


The market in Busan Posted by Picasa


Mowing a kimchi burger at Lotteria, the Korean version of McDonalds Posted by Picasa


The city of Busan Posted by Picasa


These are apartment buildings in Busan. Most apartment buildings are like this (not mine though). The tallest buildings here.  Posted by Picasa

Busan. Square.

Well another successful weekend of shopping and Noribonging it. This weekend I went to visit my friend Katie who lives in S.K.'s second largest city, Busan. Busan is on the southeast coast. I took the KTX train, which is the high speed train to the city. It only took three hours, and I slept for most of it. Busan is known for its markets, so Katie and I walked around most of the day shopping and looking for shirts with American words on them. The funny thing about the clothes here as well as many things that are in English is that a lot of the time they don't make sense. For example, we saw a short that said "No War, peace, love, hapiness, square." Where did square come from? We spent the rest of the day serching for shirts with nonsensical phrases on them.
Saturday night we went to a potluck dinner at Katie's yoga instructor's house. We had some amazing food, imported Salmon from the Netherlands, and chocolate cookies from Austrailia. There were all different types of people there. Then on to the Noribong where we belted our little hearts out until 3am and I pretended like I was Brittany Spears.
The following day Katie and I went to the beach. It was slightly overcast, but still very warm, and I can now say I have seen the Yellow Sea. Here are some highlights from the weekend.