Little Updates....

Well we've been here for just over 3 months now and we still haven't shown you any photos of where we work! So we took our camera into school before class today and took a few snaps of the classrooms and staff room.  It's a hagwon which is a private english school academy with 4 classrooms and an IT room. It's only been open for about 1 year and a half so it's smart and new! Here are some pictures:

Last weekend we decided to venture in to Busan. We had heard that Busan had the largest department store in the world so we decided to take a look!! It was 14 floors high and included a spa, cinema, permanent ice rink and hundreds of different shops. We were amused to watch both adults and children fill the ice in their pink and yellow helmets while we ate lunch. We also stumbled across a foreign food shop which had some things we hadn't seen for months! However, even the most basic English supply like Yorkshire Gold teabags was being sold as a luxury item for almost £10. We had a longful look at the mature cheddar and all the tea and moved on. After a long look around the department store, we wandered down the road to Busan's most popular beach: Haeundae. Although it gets over 1 million visitors in summer, the cold January weather meant that it was largely dominated by hungry seagulls. The naive people who chose to feed them were hounded by packs of them. One defiant man had managed to somehow catch one and he stood on the beach showing it off to onlookers. Here are some pics:

One more thing, the other day we bought a hell of a lot of baked goods from our local supermarket, it being our traditional cake sunday and all. Because we bought so many, we were given a special bag to carry them home in and it made us chuckle: