Art & Culture

This week, as the title says, I got exposed to some art and culture.  Some was better than others as you'll see.  The first bit happened in the classroom.

Some Korean recipes and my drawing in pictionary

I work at an academy teaching kids, however once a month I have a class with adult students.  It's a nice break from the kids.  It allows me to have some real conversations, and also I can usually walk away having learned something.  Our theme this month was "eating out vs. home cooking."  After our discussion I had the students give me a few recipes for some simple Korean dishes that I could make at home.  As you saw in the previous post, I'm pretty special in the kitchen, so these three recipes shouldn't be a challenge.  One recipe is a fried rice dish, another is for soup, and the third really isn't very Korean, as it's really just a glorified fried egg, ham, and cheese sandwich.  I haven't tried cooking them yet, but I'm excited to give them a try.

The fourth picture is from the kids class I taught.  I usually play pictionary with them to help reinforce vocabulary.  This piece of art is titled "listening," and was drawn by yours truly.

Of course the aforementioned culture and art wasn't all I was talking about.  This weekend Seongeun and I had a museum date.  I've never been a big fan of going to museums, but as I'm getting older I am learning to appreciate them more.

Seoul Museum of Art - Nordic Architecture Exhibit

There were no pictures allowed inside, which was ok.  There was nothing Earth-shattering that I felt I needed a picture of.  But it was an interesting look at some Northern European homes, schools, furniture, and even some winter clothing.  Koreans are very fascinated with Nordic architecture, it's a bit of a craze here now.

Though there were no pictures inside, there were some artistic ones taken outside.  You can decide who the more artistic photographer is between Seongeun and myself.

But as you can see, it's not much of a competition (side note: I instructed her to pose like that). 

The last bit of "art" just happens to be me modeling some outdoor clothing.  I didn't know it beforehand, but I ended up in a full-page newspaper advertisement.  It was in one of the big three national newspapers, and Seongeun's mom happened to see it and kept the papers.  I appeared in consecutive weeks about three and four weeks ago.  Now those papers are hanging in my home...I'm not vain at all.

Choseon Newspaper ad

Did any of my readers have an artistic week?  I'm talking to you Bri and Seongeun ;)