Nami cont.

No explanation necessary. 

Namirama

Last weekend we went to an island in a river, somewhere in Korea, west of Seoul. It was nice to get into some water and still have your clothes on. The night prior we stayed in some strange cabin located on  guys farm. We had a nice evening of soju, beer and sausages with co-workers.

Cabins in Korea don't actually come with beds so you have to sleep on the floor. We didn't mind too much, the soju helped I think.

This is me demonstrating the 'point-and-pivot' dance move. The key is to point as the name suggests and keep a strong base of the

 pivot leg and sway about with the other. The results are good and so long as the pivot doesn't get too tired you don't fall over. 

Here is an example of some students of the point and pivot who tried to move two legs at once. The results, as you can see, were disastrous. For best results be holding at least 2 litres of beer and be wearing a singlet. 

The island also gave me the opportunity to show off some poses I have been working on for the fall catalogue. 

This is the same pose I used for my Kindergarten graduation back in 1990, and as you can tell it hasn't aged and I am once again able to pull it off.

so i got my camera back from the shop yesterday and the battery catch is all fixed.  BUT now when i turn it on all that happens is the lens comes out, goes in, comes out, goes in, comes out, goes in, pauses, comes out, goes in and then nothing.

so i'll take it back tomorrow, and see what can happen.

El's Parents

Well, my camera is off being fixed at the moment. All that is broken is the little catch that keeps my battery in. It's costing me $50 to get fixed. Annoying. But anyway, it should be here by Wednesday, and it has some good photos we hadn't gotten around to putting up yet. So there might be a bit of blogging to come.

In the meantime, I got some photo's from some of our friends here. These ones are of our Korean co-worker El's parents. She's real wicked and we've been hanging out with her heaps in the last month. Her parents live in a place called Okcheon, which is about 2hrs south of us. We took a train there and a bus back.


I'm getting quite used to the frequency with which self-taken photos are shot. I didn't take this one, I'm not pro enough to get everyone in the shot yet. But I'm sure I will be by the time I leave this camera-happy country.






This was part of the lunch they served us. There's homemade kimchi (and another plate of homemade kimchi with the spice washed off), lettuce, green peppers, pork, this dish of cold potato noodles, various dipping sauces, donuts, kimbap (sushi) and more. As we were eating this they also cooked us pork strips on the bbq, and then made us some delicious fried rice.

Us girls got to drink wine or beer or coke, but the boys had to drink straight soju and nothing else. Suckers.

This is their outside bit where we ate. It was real cool, El's dad had built it himself and it had like, fans at stuff all over the ceiling. And he'd built all the tables and stuff too. This house is their retirement house so they've got a real nice garden, and they've done all the renovations on the house, and Dad just makes everything. It's pretty cool.





And this is all of us. Adam (from Colorado, friends with the new teacher at our school), El's dad, Nate (new teacher from Colorado at our school), El, me, Cam, El's mum (she's so small. she told us that her house was very small, but it's ok because she's very small.), and Atrina (she's Canadian but Iraqi parents, real pretty)