A very yellow Simpson's Halloween!

What an amazing Halloween night!! After spending so much time preparing our Simpson's Halloween costumes throughout the week, I wasn't going to let my cold/sore throat make me stay in for the night and skip one of my favorite holidays! So, although I felt kinda sick, I had fun dressing up with Keith for about an hr...getting our yellow paint and detailed accessories on before heading out.

We went to the open mic bar for the big Halloween play/costume contest. It was a great night seeing all of our friends and seeing all of the creative costumes. Everyone loved our costume and told us that we had the best one there! And everyone kept asking to take photos of us! We were so happy that all the work paid off and it turned out to be the best costume I've ever had. That night we won in the contest for "Ok, I get it, you're a couple" and we got in 2nd place for "Best Overall Costume On The Island". Our friend Myles, who dressed up like Beeker from The Muppets won first place for the best overall costume. It was a really good costume too since he made it all himself. Check out the photo below!

Well, I'm glad I went out and today (Sunday) I am recovering and hoping I lose this nasty cold.

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween as well. I brought the holiday here in Korea by teaching my students about Halloween and the monsters and playing them the "Monster Mash" song like I did last year. I also kept the tradition of wearing a witch costume all week. It definitely felt like Halloween here, even though Koreans don't celebrate the holiday. I think all of my staff at my school were excited for it too because we carved pumpkins with the students during lunchtime and all the teachers got candy from me if they said "trick or treat" when I walked by their desks.

Can't wait to see photos of the costumes you wore and hear stories of your Halloween! Trick or treat and Happy Halloween!

Oh ya and today we had yellow paint over everything! It was body paint so most of it came off with a little hot water and soap, but we had to scrub everything in our bathroom where we had put on the paint, and we'll probably need another few showers to get ALL the yellow paint off of our skin. Plus, we found a lil bit of paint on our jackets, purse, etc. Oh my! What a yellow Simpson's Halloween!

Cultural Festival 2010

We had our yearly cultural festival to teach students about different English-speaking countries. Keith and I had the morning to walk around, check out the other booths, chat with friends and watch the performances that some foreigners had signed up for. The afternoon was spent working at the USA booth at the Jeopardy area. We got very lucky because the afternoon shift was slow. Most of the students had already left. It was a great afternoon filled with food, music, tons of sports and activities for the students, and seeing lots of our Saturday school students from Daehul Elementary School. Plus, we get 2 days off of school to add to our vacation time for working the festival! Here are some photos!

O'Sulloc Tea Museum and Glass Castle Museum

The final day of Keith's celebration, on his actual b-day, we went to the O'Sulloc Tea Museum and the Glass Castle Museum.

At the O'Sulloc Museum we saw the fields where they grow the different types of tea that are popular in Korea. The museum was very small and a quick walk through; however, we sat in the cafe for a good hour and while drinking tea and trying some green tea ice-cream and green tea cookies, we had a nice chat about life on Jeju as well as our goals, and our next destination we are hoping to live.

From the O'Sulloc Musuem, we walked a good 25 minutes to the Glass Castle Museum. Since the museum is filled with glass sculptures, and since it is new and was created by only one person, the museum was a little pricey to get into. We paid 9,000 won (about $8) which is probably the most expensive museum that they have in Jeju. However, the museum was very interesting because literally everything was made of glass...things that I could never have imagined to be glass. Also, Keith was telling me the difficult process of how glass is made, since he had taken a class in college. Check out the sculptures and the park. You'll be impressed.


After these museums we were going to go to another park, however, it was raining and a lil chilly so we headed back to Jeju-Si and went to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Zapatas, for dinner. It was a great b-day celebration and a wonderful weekend!