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Cold and back at work

ryguy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:31 +0000

I don’t know what’s going on but this is the coldest weather I’ve ever had to deal with. It’s supposed to be -7 C (19 F) tomorrow and I’m super exhausted from having to wake up again. I want to go back to the Philippines where it’s warm and the rum is cheap!

Btw, posts from the Philippines are coming later when I find more time to write them and get pictures from Andrew’s Camera. Most likely after I finish reading The Hunger Games…I just finished the 2nd book and I’m hooked at the moment.

Yeye’s Little Onion

ryguy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:27:56 +0000

So while I was in the Philippines I sent Yeye a photo of myself via KakaoTalk. So Yeye sent me a picture of the Onion plant she has been growing in our apartment.

Yeye's little onion plant

Why is she growing an onion out of a whiskey glass in our apartment? I dunno but I like it.

More Student Art

ryguy — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:39:34 +0000

I forgot to post these pictures from about 3 weeks ago now. The same student who drew me before decided to start featuring me in her classroom assignments and also gave me a going away drawing at the end of winter camp.

A charicature of me on my students menu project

Also this is her giving me a going away drawing. She’s got some serious talent I hope she makes use of it in her future.

The artist herself. She drew a pic to give me as a farewell present.

Finally a Day Off From Winter Camp

ryguy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:09:08 +0000

So between my 2nd and 3rd Winter Camps at BGV, I got a day off. It’s surprising how full you can make a single day off when you haven’t had one in so long. I only had two plans for my day off, 1) to recover from the inevitable hangover from the night before and 2) to start putting together my beer brewing kit. I accomplished both of this things and had plenty of other surprises along the way too.

Probably the best part of the day was finally meeting back up with Kenny since he is now back from the US of A. After meeting him, we found a rocking kitchen supply shop in Haeundae that has some awesome deals; I was really tempted to buy a big cleaver that I had absolutely no need of, thankfully I was reasonable enough not too. I did pick up a strainer and a kimchi fermenter that I’m going to use as my carboy for my brew kit. After Kenny and I picked up these supplies we went out for some Chinese style dumplings chock full of spicy ginger pork…love that stuff.

Sadly this is where Kenny and I departed from each other. He had to go meet his lovely little lady and since I had no where to be I decided to walk back home. Fortune must have been smiling on me that day because it was a great walk home. First the weather was the best it had been in a long, long time. Which meant that there were tons of people all over Haeundae beach, including colorful locals like the kite man or Mr. Busan in his speedo. But probably the coolest part of my walk home was stumbling upon a Sci-Fi Toy Museum. It’s name is Movie in the Box and it was fantastic! The dude who runs the place hand makes a lot of the display items in his museum. The ones he doesn’t make are usually mint condition collectibles. He also has everything labelled in multiple languages, etc…. Really cool place that I totally recommend visiting. It’s nearer to the Westin Chosun side of Haeundae beach, located one street back above a GS25. After that, I stumbled across another museum. This was a museum of photography featuring pictures of Busan from half a century ago. Great stuff! I’d say this day was a success!

TL;DR: One day off, I begin constructing a brew kit, meet old friends, eat good food, and stumble upon two museums.

Just a date with the Little Ye

ryguy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:37:10 +0000

It’s a little late on the posting but whatever, it’s my blog . Anyways a few weeks ago Yeye and I went on a date. We don’t do enough dates because we are always so busy, I’m trying to change that. We went out and saw a movie. We saw the new Sherlock Holmes film. It was pretty good and definitely a big improvement over the first movie. We also went and got some Ramen at my favorite Ramen joint in Busan, Hotaru. I fucking love that place.

OMFG! I love you Ramen

Excited for Ramen

Sake that YeYe wouldn't help me with

The date was great but Yeye was still feeling the effects of our last drinking outing. So she made me drink all the Sake to myself. I didn’t mind but I really didn’t want to get that drunk.

Winter Camps are DONE!

ryguy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:18:28 +0000

So stoked right now that my Winter Camps at BGV are finally complete. I have weekends again. I don’t have to be at work for the next 2 weeks! I FINALLY get to sleep in! AWWW-YEAAHH!

Now it’s time to go out and celebrate.

Philippines and Winter Camp

ryguy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:00:26 +0000

Finally, this damned winter camp is almost finished. To many days of work in a row! About 3 days off in 30 days makes one very, very tired. So I’m planning on going down to the Philippines with my co-worker Andrew and just relaxing. Her is the game plan so far. Fly to Cebu, find a beach that is happening, cheap, and near by and fucking relax. Possible activities: lounging on beach, swimming, getting sun burnt, drinking copiously, massages, kayaking, etc…. It’s going to be grand.

I’ll Be Afraid of You!

ryguy — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:32:00 +0000

So I get easily bored at work. To alleviate this I pull pranks on the kids. I know childish, but it keeps me sane. One thing I do is scare the kids. Like just walking up behind them and then saying “BOO!” The other day I scared some student that I’ve never before spoken too. I finally ended up subbing in her class and then she drew this picture of me and we had a re-enactment.

I'll be afraid of you!

Thai Food in Deokpo

ryguy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:25:21 +0000

My co-worker Jamie told me that she had found an awesome Thai restaurant in Busan. It’s super cheap and serves some authentic Thai dishes. I tried to get a pool of my co-workers to go with me to eat some Thai on the cheap, but winter camp is killing us all. So it just ended up being Summer and I, after Andrew, Jake, Blake, etc… all bailed. Whatever though they missed out on some good foods and awesomely Summer is much more outgoing than outside of work than at work, so all was good. I didn’t snap to many pictures but I got a pic of the pad thai…

Amazing Pad Thai for cheap

and the exterior of the restaurant.

Terrible night shot of the exterior of the restaurant

Beer and a Drop of Blood

ryguy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:13:33 +0000

The other night I went over to Madeline’s house for her 26th birthday and she had a little surprise from home waiting for me there. Kelsey had sent Megan and I a little care package. She Sent us a bottle of Life and Limb! A truely epic beer from a team up between Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada Breweries. My life has been lacking in excellent beer recently and this helped fill that void. It’s dark, strong, and has a very full taste! Thank you so much Kelsey!

Life and Limb before opening the bottle

A picture of the actual beer. Picture not taken by me btw..

Life and Limb

Also Kelsey sent Little YeYe a cute little drop of blood. It has now been added to YeYe’s collection of little things.

Little Drop of Blood