Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons Connexus offers intensive English classes. This was one of those classes and it was really fun one. I taught them speaking, Mark taught them listening, and Marvin taught them writing.
At the end of June our church went on a retreat to a beautiful place in the mountains.
We enjoyed swimming in the little river that was near by. The kids were all really cold and got my towel nice and wet. :)
At the beginning of July both of the Connexus receptionists left. Here we are at a good-bye meal for them. Hee-jung, second from the right was our morning receptionist. I'm sad she is gone.
A couple of Fridays ago Mark and I went to a baseball game with one of my classes. The fans were so in to it and there was so much music and so many cheers that it made it really exciting. There were also these cheerleaders who did cheers on this platform a lot of the time.
They also handed out sparklers to us at one point. It was great fun.
You might have heard in the news that there have been lots of candle demonstrations or protests happening in Korea for the last two months. It is kind of a complicated issue but pretty much many people are really upset with the new president Myeong-bak Lee because they feel he is not listening to the people. Mark and I along with Heather, Joel and Kwang-kyu went to see what was happening a few Saturdays ago. I couldn't believe how many people there were!
Last week Cheryl had her last day with Connexus/KAC so we took a good-bye group picture. 
This past weekend a bunch of the teachers went to Chuncheon for part of the weekend. We have friends living there and one of our co-workers lives there as well. Some people went on a hike and here we are at the end of the hike. It was a beautiful place and nice and cool. Lately it has been so hot and humid so it was nice to escape that.
With Ana and Will:
I thought it was odd to have a T.V. with the plants...hmm...
Yesterday I went to Suwon which is just outside of Seoul. A friend (who was also my student)Boerum invited me and Alice, who is a new teacher at Connexus, to go there. Here we are at the Suwon Fortress.
Then we rode this little train around the fortress. It took us to the top of a hill and we thought it would take us back but apparently it was a one way ticket so we had to get a taxi to get back to our car. Not the best train I've ever been on.
At the fortress we tried to do the Korean archery. I was not doing so well so the leader helped me out.
After the fortress we went to a Jim-jil-bong which is a Korean sauna. Everyone is given these matching clothes and there are a number of different sauna's you can be in. My favorite one was the one full of little clay pebbles and you lie out on them. So relaxing. We also tried "doctor fish" which is kind of a foot treatment. The little fish bite off your dead skin...kind of disgusting and it's so ticklish!
Well, that's all for the pictures. I can't believe Mark and I are going to be in Canada in less that 5 weeks! We're really looking forward to being home again and seeing everyone. We are also a little sad to leave because things are going well here. In two weeks we have a week off and we are going to Jeju Island. We're really excited. It's a really small Korean island just south of the Korean peninsula. We plan to spend a lot of time at the different beaches, hike some mountains and explore whatever else there is to see.
I hope you are well where ever you are.