Millions of Photos

I'm starting to build up quite a backlog of photos, and I've decided to throw a few up as a blog post. Millions is probably stretching it a bit, but there'll be a few! :) I am also including a photo slideshow video made by a fellow EPIK teacher. It gives a decent overview of what orientation was like I think.

 I'm going to try avoid writing much for this post, though knowing me that might not go really well. I am planning a more in-depth post about Seoul Global High School, but I'm not quite sure when I'll get that one I'm starting to build up quite a backlog of photos, and I've decided to throw a few up as a blog post. Millions is probably stretching it a bit, but there'll be a few! :) I am also including a photo slideshow video made by a fellow EPIK teacher. It gives a decent overview of what orientation was like I think.

 I'm going to try avoid writing much for this post, though knowing me that might not go really well. I am planning a more in-depth post about Seoul Global High School, but I'm not quite sure when I'll get that one up. Anyway, here's the video, then on to the photos.

up. Anyway, here's the video, then on to the photos.

Thanks to Daniel, a great guy I met at the EPIK Orientation and the creator of this video!

Last week I went out for food and drink with a couple of friends from orientation. We went to Insadong to eat vegetarian food, fish, and drink beer. It was a good time, and I just barely made it home before the subway stopped running.

Entrance to little alley where we ate vegetarian food.

The vegetarian mandu I ate. They were bloody delicious.

Entrance to vegetarian place.

Friends at a hof on Insadong. This was after the meal above.
Anything unusual about the picture?

View to the right as we are sitting at the table in the above picture.
Some people drank above, some below.
Everyone was outside though, because it was such a nice night.

Another photo of the school. This one features the little football field.
It was a nice sunny day, and the neighbourhood behind was looking great.

A sunnier shot of the neighbourhood from a lookout spot on my walk home.
I think I posted another photo of the same thing before, but with less sun.

This is a closer shot of the mountain in the background in the picture above.

So I live on the 2nd floor of my building. If you continue up the stairs though,
there's a little ladder and hatch that leads onto the roof (see below). It's not really
 a place for hanging out for long, but it was nice to get pictures from. I didn't crawl all
the way onto the roof, just stuck my torso and camera up out of the hatch.

The ladder-hatch combo that leads to the roof.

This is a close up of N Seoul Tower again from the roof. The picture before
last will give you an idea of the distance from my place.

This is what you see if you stick your head out my apartment window and
look down toward the main road. 

Chamchi (tuna) gimbap. These were my supper a couple nights in a row.
They're one of the best gimbap options; so delicious!

This Friday, a bunch of us went to a 50s style diner in Hyehwa, then some visited a cool place called The Doors the some of my coworkers frequent. A few of us then went across the street to a place called the Red Lion. It was here that I had the best squid ever. It was very delicious and I'm sure I'll go back for more someday!

This is the Red Lion, where we finished our night.

Some friends and I just before we left the Red Lion.

A view of the street from the second floor Red Lion window. 

Well, I think that's more or less the highlights. I'm glad to have finally included some food pictures, which I had been missing up to this point. Hopefully the phone I get will have a good camera, and then I'll be able to be even more photo crazy. Miss you all, and hope to talk to you soon!

P.S. I experimented with the photo caption option for this post, but I don't like how it looks. I will be going back to the larger script for photo descriptions next post (Can't be bothered to go through and fix them all, so you'll have to suffer through the small text for just this one, sorry).