time to finish yesterday's post

so I arrived in Daegu on Friday night as previously mentioned.  I woke up early on Saturday morning, because I was going to a little air strip with the Young Falcons group an hour or outside of Daegu.  The kids had flight training but the wind turned itself out a little too much for the kids to get a chance at all to go up in the air.  Instead we flew kites (that look like parachutes), some model planes, played soccer and I hit some golf balls, while the kids retrieved them for me.  We were probably at this little place for six hours or more.  It was a fun time, but I got a little cold, and decided to sit in the van and take a nap towards the end.

I got back to the house and changed clothes so I could out with my friend Soo-Hye.  She's one of the girls that has grown up in the neighborhood.  She wasn't hungry but I was, so we went to one of the pork restaurants in the area, because I wanted some good food really bad.  When dinner was finished, we went to Sleepless in Seattle, local coffee shop, and just talked for a good while.  I had a blueberry latte, and we shared one of those fancy waffles, that people eat in those fancy coffee shops.  The coffee shop was showing Notting Hill on the little projection screen, when we arrived.  The next movie was Becoming Jane, which I thought was an odd choice, especially since this one didn't show any subtitles.

Sunday was another day of fun with the Young Falcons of Korea.  Only this time the group was much larger.  One of the kids in the neighborhood is in the group, so his mom prepared my lunch for me, which was awesome.  Sunday was Family Day.  Family Day is a day where many of the families get together, and go on a nice hike at a local mountain.  This time the destination was Mt. Apsan, which is just barely outside the city of Daegu.  The weather was decent, but could have been a little warmer for my liking.  I took the group I had been with the day before to the top, while the others stayed back mostly because they had younger kids with them. On the way back down we all stopped at an area full of tables and enjoyed our meals.  Many of the families shared what they brought with the other families as well.

The event ended around 4 pm, and I was able to come and relax for a little bit at the bathhouse.   I also sat in the office there and got to chat with one of the aunts, an uncle, Grandma, and a few others as well.  I was a little tired, so I decided I would leave Sunday night after dinner with samchon (which means uncle), and Eun Byeol.  So here's how I got back to little Gongju.  I was hoping to get the 7:30 train out of Daegu, but it was sold out.  I got a 7:47 train instead.  That meant, once I got to Daejon, I had to my bust my butt, and get to the bus terminal from the train station.  Luckily, that's only a five or six minute ride in the taxi.  I got off the train at 8:42, ran out the station, got in a taxi, arrived at the bus station about 8:52.  That left me just enough time to buy a ticket, go to the bathroom, and get on the 9 pm bus.

Yeah, so that was my weekend in a nutshell.  I still haven't caught up on sleep, and finally a little sick right now.  So, I am going to attempt to finish this awesome book tonight, and then crash big time.  Tomorrow is Thursday, and that's a relief.   I took a kid's phone in my first class, because the little guy was too distracted by it, and he punched at me for two or three minutes before I finally took him to the owner.  He tried and tried to think he could hurt me, but I wasn't successful.  The little guy could not sit still at all during the class.  It sucked to make someone else deal with it, but I'm not the person, who's gonna yell and scream at a kid, or even touch the kid (in Korean culture, sometimes it's alright to hit the kids).  I think I'm gonna start resorting to putting kids in the corner like I did in my first job.   Anyway, I've left a few pictures from the weekend here.