My KPOP Dream. . .

TAEYANG: The Concert

Yes, it has happened.  I can finally leave Korea a very happy woman.  I went to a Kpop concert.  A member of the group BigBang that has turned solo, gave an amazing concert, his name is TaeYang. 

 As we were walking up to the concert, we spotted our first poster.  Yes, that man is gorgeous!

TaeYang maybe shorter than me, that's okay our love can endure. . .

A free cookie with his face on the package.

I was a little excited. . .

This is where the concert was. Pretty amazing!

My other kpop buddies and I gushing about having tickets!

So not only did we get to go the concert. . .but also we saw some other famous celebs.  IU performed with TaeYang, she then sang an ballad in English.  IU is the girl that sang Marshmallow.

Our seats we were on the 2nd tier which was not so bad.  I could admire TaeYang from afar.  BUT!  G-Dragon was in the audience and walked by our seats about 6 different times!  I FREAKED OUT!   I was only 3 feet away from this man!   

Also a group of 4 girls with hoodies and security guards walked by our seats. I'm pretty sure they were 2NE1. . .which I LOVE.

(If you want to look up some 2NE1 songs, go to my kpop blog and look them up.)

Best moments of the show?

*TaeYang dropped down in a white ball that was opened up at the front. . .big pimpin.

*For his song, I Need A Girl, he went throughout the main floor among the fans and pulled a girl up on stage with him.  My friend Corinna and I were going REALLY crazy as our other friend Jessica sat transfixed.  TaeYang proceeded to sit this girl on a plush purple couch, sing to her, give her a gift and had her opened it, it was hot pink underwear and he laid his head in her lap.  The real kicker, he brushed the girl's hair from her face then kissed her cheek.  I almost died!  The girl had her hand over her mouth the entire time and then got to walk down and off the stage in back with Taeyang.  It was awesome!

*Another great performance was Break It Down.  Let me tell you, TaeYang makes a band uniform look good.

*And finally TaeYang was talking the fans at the end of the show and our translator, Jessica was attempting to tell Corinna and I what this beautiful man was saying.  Basically he said it would be awhile before he was going to come out with another CD or have another concert. . .he started crying.  It was SO cute. 

We love you TaeYang!

We also were on of the awesome fans that waited till TaeYang's van left. The security guys were really nice in telling us to back the heck up but when the van drove through everyone went crazy.  This is the best pic of the van that I got. . . since I was being shoved and pushed by screaming Korean girls.

The TaeYang Concert was money well spent and well I would definately do it over again. 

It was EPIC!

I felt a little like this after the show. . .

My friend Corinna's perspective:  http://sixfeetoffire.blogspot.com/2010/09/epic-saturday.html

Fog

Check this out!

This is what I woke up to on my way to school last week.

It was super thick!



An Aussie Party

September 21, 2010

Our friend Sean from Australia had his birthday party at an Outback steakhouse...how appropriate.

Mmmm bread and songpyeon.  Songpyeon is a traditional food for Chuseok. Yum!

Sean's special waitress friend from the Outback.

Birthday noreabang! Uganda and Aussies unite!

Some of the noreabang girls, jamming out.

An Epic Saturday

September 18, 2010

We had a church Relief Society brunch on Yongsan Base--which is where the American Embassy housing is.  It was a little slice of  Americana.

Dongdaemun shopping with Denice and Laura.  It literally just keeps going and going...

On my way to the subway station, I happened over a concert.  I have no idea who they were but they were definately jamming!

My friend Robyn and I babysat for a friend of ours in a typical HUGE Korean apt.

Robyn and I also went clubbin that night with our friend Kyle and some of his army buddies.  Good times!

Happy Chuseok!

September 22, 2010 was Chuseok in Korea!

I went to my adopted Korean family's house at 9am to start in on the feast the the women had prepared.  Rice, soup, and SOOOOO many other things.  Everything was so great!  After the eating, we drove to their grandpa's gravesite, did some bowing, cleaned up the area then went home to eat again. 

A little more info:  http://www.lifeinkorea.com/culture/festivals/festivals.cfm?Subject=Chuseok

Sports Day

September 16, 2010 was Sports Day for Chusan Elementary School.  This meant no classes! Woot! 

Our little band

This is a student I had the first semester I taught here.  She couldn't participate in the day's festivities because of her broken leg.

The Physical Education teacher and I waiting for things to kick off.

Some of the 6th graders waiting their turn to go run around.

Running! They would run half way down the short distance they had then had to climb through plastic tubes and continue running.

This was the best dodgeball game I have ever seen!

Two epic hats meeting.

They had to get their HUGE ball from one end of the line to the other.  It was really fun to watch up from my window.

Tug of War!

All the students doing cooling stretch exercises.  Thats all 1,400 of my students out on the field. WOAH!

Mags

My friend Maggie is leaving Korea in the next few weeks, so she had a going away party at a Reggae Bar in Hondae.  It was pretty awesome and I am going to miss this chica!

Maggie is a really sweet and fantastic woman, I am so glad I got to meet her while I was in Korea!  Plus share in crazy Songu-ri times together!

Luv you Mags!

Amber Teacher's Board

This is my student that lived in America for about 2 years.

Can you feel the love?

Yeah, and he is adding horns. . .I love my kiddies!

Taeji left this on my board, I have no idea, I just thought it was funny!

The Dog Cafe

That's right, one of many things I wanted to accomplish before leaving was going to the dog cafe in Hondae.  Don't judge. . .

You come in, try to find a seat that is not occupied by a human or pup, order a drink then proceed to get your puppy luvin fill.  I think there were probably 15 dogs  of varying breeds wandering around the cafe.

This little one, came and crawled into my lap. How could you resist that?  It's impossible, I assure you!

BOLT!  He wouldn't have anything to do with us until the treats came out. . .what a surprise.

I think there were about 6 of this breed in the cafe that all traveled in a pack together around the cafe.

Just too much excitement from everything. . .

This was my favorite dog in the whole cafe!  He was SO funny!  He would lay out on the floor, waiting for a little one to walk by him then jump and tackle a dog twice as small as him.  The rest of the dogs in the cafe would then run over, barking and try to help out the little one.  While this furball was slipping and sliding on the floor.  Too funny!

63 Builidng

The red heads (Corinna and Jessica) and myself decided that Saturday was the perfect day to go to the 63 building. The 63 building is located next to the Han River and it's an AWESOME view of Seoul. I still can not believe that I am living here at times, especially when I can see just how much of Seoul there really is.

This link is for my friend Corinna's blog about our trip as well:   http://sixfeetoffire.blogspot.com/2010/09/view.html