We got down with some seoul music this weekend and visited our nation's capital.  We put the soul in Seoul.  James Brown kind of soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbpucWLfpE&feature=related
Actually, I didn't know who James Brown was until this weekend, and we didn't do too much dancing, but we made sure to keep the the soul in Seoul joke going the whole time.

After taking the night bus which brought us to Seoul Station at 3:30 a.m., we discovered how bad 'love motels' can be.  The only one that would take us put us in these super small cubical rooms with paper thin walls, down in the basement.  I didn't get much sleep.  Thankfully we found a much nicer one for the next night.

The highlight of our trip was Saturday night when we decided to climb up to the Namsung Tower, which is at the top of a pretty big hill.  Despite not knowing the way and getting lost once, we found the staircase leading to the top and all made it up in one piece.  We would have had to wait an extra 50 minutes to go up the actual tower, so we decided against it and just hung out at the top for a while.  The view was nice and the company was great.  Then we took the cable car down.

The next day, we had some afternoon hours to walk around Hongdae, a cool area of Seoul.  There, we found the coolest coffee shop ever.  It's called "Thanks Nature Cafe".  It was cozy... it had great hot chocolate... it had cool little sheep figurines on the table...



... it had a really nice sheep painting on the wall...

... and it had REAL SHEEP outside, just chillin in a small pen! Sheep in a city, who'd'a thunk it?



So that was our trip to Seoul.  It was fun.

Back at school, things aren't as exciting.  Some parents have been complaining more lately for some reason or other, and as it always seems, the teachers are the ones who get talked to.  So again, I feel like more like a puppet of the parents, and less of a teacher.  So that's frustrating, but we'll get over it.

On a happier note, Alisa and I and a couple of others have just bought flight tickets to Hong Kong for the Lunar New Year holiday in January!  Can't wait!

Thanks for reading,

Michael