Photo Album - Itaewon
I've been creating some online albums of photos I've taken so far. You'll be able to go to the photo albums either through this entry, or through the links posted on the right side under: "Pictures".
The first weekend we were here, the 2 other Canadian teachers we teach with took us out Saturday night. Blaine has been here for almost a year. His contract is almost up (3 more days to be exact) and he's flying back to Regina. Matthew is orginially from Welland, but hasn't lived in Canada for a few years, traveling and working mainly in England and Ireland.
Ilsan is on the Seoul subway system, but since Seoul is so big, it takes about 20 min-1 hour to get to the main areas of Seoul. Matt and Blaine took us to a part of Seoul called Itaewon. It's near a U.S. army base, so there are a lot of "foreigners" with lots of shops, bars, and restaurants accommodating our English. Many non-traditional Korean girls come here to meet foreigner men. Usually it's a "no-no" for Koreans to hang out with foreigners, let alone date them, but the younger generations of Koreans are becoming more accepting of us foreigners.
Blaine knows a few people from Regina who are here teaching, so we met up with them. We all went out for dinner at Ho Lee Chow (yes, a North American Chinese restaurant....) and went to a bar afterwards. Blaine is dating a girl from Korea named Jamie. He met her at our school. She was one of the Korean-English kindergarden teachers there. We were all sitting in the bar, when suddenly Jamie jumps up and pulls out her camera. Park Shin Yang was there and just went into the bathroom. Matt told us that Park Shin Yang was a famous movie/tv actor. He's on a very popular soap oprea that 1 in every 2 Koreans watch. I was surprised that he would be in the bar where we were, but Matt said that Seoul is like the L.A. of Korea...actors everywhere.
Blaine got his autograph for Jamie, and during their conversation, Blaine mentioned he was an English teacher and Park Shin Yang said that he is interested in learning English better. He gave Blaine his home phone number and email. Later that week, Blaine received a phone call from Park Shin Yang, and they are going out for dinner before Blaine leaves for home. If this all works out well, Blaine said he might come back for another teaching contract, and teach Park Shin Yang on the side. I still don't believe it.
Here's some photos from that night.
The first weekend we were here, the 2 other Canadian teachers we teach with took us out Saturday night. Blaine has been here for almost a year. His contract is almost up (3 more days to be exact) and he's flying back to Regina. Matthew is orginially from Welland, but hasn't lived in Canada for a few years, traveling and working mainly in England and Ireland.
Ilsan is on the Seoul subway system, but since Seoul is so big, it takes about 20 min-1 hour to get to the main areas of Seoul. Matt and Blaine took us to a part of Seoul called Itaewon. It's near a U.S. army base, so there are a lot of "foreigners" with lots of shops, bars, and restaurants accommodating our English. Many non-traditional Korean girls come here to meet foreigner men. Usually it's a "no-no" for Koreans to hang out with foreigners, let alone date them, but the younger generations of Koreans are becoming more accepting of us foreigners.
Blaine knows a few people from Regina who are here teaching, so we met up with them. We all went out for dinner at Ho Lee Chow (yes, a North American Chinese restaurant....) and went to a bar afterwards. Blaine is dating a girl from Korea named Jamie. He met her at our school. She was one of the Korean-English kindergarden teachers there. We were all sitting in the bar, when suddenly Jamie jumps up and pulls out her camera. Park Shin Yang was there and just went into the bathroom. Matt told us that Park Shin Yang was a famous movie/tv actor. He's on a very popular soap oprea that 1 in every 2 Koreans watch. I was surprised that he would be in the bar where we were, but Matt said that Seoul is like the L.A. of Korea...actors everywhere.
Blaine got his autograph for Jamie, and during their conversation, Blaine mentioned he was an English teacher and Park Shin Yang said that he is interested in learning English better. He gave Blaine his home phone number and email. Later that week, Blaine received a phone call from Park Shin Yang, and they are going out for dinner before Blaine leaves for home. If this all works out well, Blaine said he might come back for another teaching contract, and teach Park Shin Yang on the side. I still don't believe it.
Here's some photos from that night.
posted by Mary @ 8:49 AM
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