Long Weekend

This weekend is Korean Thanksgiving.. Which means I have five days off. Work five days, five day break, two more days off. I don't want to get too used to it, because I think it will be a while before I get a break like this. So after my first full week of teaching by myself I am getting into the swing of things. I still haven't had to makeany lesson plans myself yet, and I won't probably the week after next. By the end of the month everything should become routine. The classes have been good so far. I really like the kinders, but I still need to learn how to discipline them better. I think I'm going to try to rely on positive reinforcement more so than negative punishment from now on... Which means I'll have to buy candy... Lots and lots of candy.  Some of the elementary classes have been a little difficult so far. It's hard to get kids to pay attention when you don't exactly now what is going on yourself. So next week, when I actually have a feel for the classes it should go better.

    After two days of the long weekend I have seen a lot of Seoul! Yesterday I went to the Cheonggyecheon Stream which was really nice. It is a small waterway running through Northern Seoul with park space on either side. It was a very peaceful walk. I also went to Seoul Tower. It was only 9000Won so I decided to go to the top of the tower. The view from the top was spectacular. I'm glad I did it. 

   Today I went to Bukhanstan National Park and climbed the highest peak, which was about 3000 feet. The trail was a lot harder than I was expecting because of the steepness of the path. I underestimated how hard it would be and at the beginning of the hike I was pretty much running up the hill... Big mistake! It took about 2 hours to get to the top, with picture breaks, and about the same length of time to get back down but I took a different route. The view from the top was breath taking, words couldn't even describe it. The other hikers were incredibly friendly too; they offered to take pictures of me and gave me food! 

   I still have a lot planned for the next three days. After going to the track tomorrow morning I am going to go to Olympic park and walk along the Han river. Depending on how expensive intercity buses are I may take one to another national park on Tuesday. I am excited! After this extended holiday I'm going to try to get back to training. My workouts have been sporadic right now and I can't do any olympic lifting until October because my gym is closed. And there are no other  nearby  OL gyms available. I'm going to take out the gates tomorrow morning and see where my 30m time is at. Hopefully I'll do some bounding



too.