Our life in Busan!

There is a typhoon coming through Busan so we are stuck inside. No new movies downloaded, books just finished, cooking done, so we feel it is finally time to start our blog! We are so sorry it has taken us so long, but here we go…

We are absolutely LOVING our new life together in Busan, South Korea! We live in a small studio apartment on the top floor of the school we work at. Before coming to Korea we were turned off by the idea of living in the same building as our school, but it is actually one of the things we love most. It is like we have a five-story house with an elevator! And we have the luxury of coming up to our apartment in between classes and for lunch break.

We live in a very Korean part of Busan, so there are not many foreigners passing us by on the streets. Little Korean women are chopping up fish and selling produce on the sidewalks; adorable kids are running to one of their five academies they attend each day, and men are drinking Soju (Korean vodka) while hiking up the foresty mountains in the area. The ocean in ten minutes away and the subway station, which takes us anywhere in Busan, is right down the street from our school.

Okay, the job. We work from 10-5:45 Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 10-3:30 Tuesday and Thursday. That is with an hour lunch break each day. We teach Kindergarten and Elementary level students, and, nose picking and booger eating aside, we absolutely adore them! Teaching was difficult at first, but now we have built relationships with all of the kids and know how to make them listen to us! Working with kids every day is incredibly refreshing. Their innocence, energy, blunt honesty (every day they pull our arm hair and say we have fur like their dogs), and simple way of being is wonderful and fun to be around.

We are loving our life outside of work here as well. We often go on hikes, go to the beach, go shopping at markets, go out for foreign food with friends, and work out at the gym we joined. In August, we had a week off and went to Japan, which was a blast! Last weekend we took the ferry to an island off of Busan and ventured to beautiful beaches and cool mountains. The Korean thanksgiving is coming up this month, so we will have more time off to travel!

There is our last two months in a nutshell! We are so glad we decided to come live here and can’t wait for the weather to start cooling off haha! Every day we talk about our family and friends back home and how much we love you all. Here are a couple pics of our life here and hopefully the next post will come sooner!