Shabu Shabu Dinner

Last night we went out to dinner to a Shabu Shabu restaurant downtown with Ramin, Tahereh, Dan, John and Michelle. Shabu Shabu is like a Chinese hot pot where you boil thinly sliced meat and vegetables in a pot on the middle of the table. We also added thick noodles to the mix. It's SO good!

John's only been here for a week...still trying to get used to chopsticks! He's from Oregon and is a forest firefighter.

Dan's new here too. He's been here for 3 weeks and is loving it! He's from Boston.

This little boy and his mom sat next to us...he was so cute!

Dan, John, Michelle, Tahereh, Ramin, Frank, Mel

After dinner, we had Krispy Kreme for dessert! It's the first one we've seen here, so we were pretty excited. It was a nice taste from home!

Snapshots of Ulsan

Well, we've been in Korea for 3 and a 1/2 months now and the time has flown by! We've taken a few random shots around Ulsan that we wanted to share with everyone.

This is the street we live on. Our apartment is a couple of blocks down the street on the right. Our neighborhood actually has a lot of foreigners living in various apartment buildings. Notice the McDonald's? We usually go there a couple times a month.


Around the corner from our apartment is this huge middle school.

Here are some boys at the middle school. It's crazy the hours of school that these kids have...a full day at regular school M-Sat, then various academies (English, math, science, etc) after-school until 11 or 12 at night! The English academy we work at has classes for middle school students until 11:45pm every night!!!!

Here's where we work, ELC. The first floor and part of the second floor are offices, and then classrooms are on the second through fifth floors. The school is one of the biggest in the area with 1,000 students. We have several busses that bring kids to and from ELC, which is nice for the parents. Our school is about a 5 minute bus ride from our apartment.

This is a sign posted-up in front of ELC with the teachers names and degrees.

This is a view from the bus stop in our neighborhood. Our apartment is behind and to the left of the brick building. The big stadium in the background is where the lake is that we walk around every day.

This is another view from the bus stop. Notice the huge church? There are churches everywhere here. S. Korea is about 50% Christian. We actually haven't seen any temples since we've been here.

This is Shinae, which is one of the shopping areas in Ulsan. It has a covered walkway with rows and rows of restaurants and stores.

Us shopping in Shinae with Ramin and Tahereh.

Florida shirt for sale...Go GATORS!!!

This is a bus that they made into a Levi's clothing store!