Volunteering in a foreign country

Spent half a day at a day care centre playing the kids. I was assigned to Team A, together with an American and a guy from Scotland. One of them is here to teach English, who has been here for 26months already. He will be travelling for another 2 months around before returning. As for the Scotish boy, he is here to learn Taekwondo. 3 boys were assigned to us. All of them aged 11. They can speak minimal English and they are super hyperactive. They can NEVER sit still. Lucky a Korean girl came along to help us. She managed to keep the boys in control. I think it's due to language barrier thus the boys misbehaviour.

After introducing one another, we went to make Scottish Egg. Some process!!

The food already prepared waiting for us to continue the process.


The boys busy coating the hard boiled egg with egg and flour.


Another picture of them busy at work.


He is peeling the shell off the egg. Finally he got cooperative and allow me to take a picture of him.


Frying the Scotish Egg.


Scotish Egg waiting to be fried. Who made them all so round?


Tada....here is the answer. This boy did it. All the teachers say he can be a cook in future. This boy is really obedient out of the 3. He bothers to help out and also clean up after that:)


Some of them were ready to be eaten and some of them still "bathing" in oil.


Enjoying their fruit of labour. All 3 said it was delicious. Other than these, we had bread, grapes and coke. I have to mention that the grapes in Korea is really different. The skin is easily removed from the flesh. Like pop..the skin is off.

After lunch, we played games with the kids. The first game was Gesture game. It was interesting to watch how the kids imitate one another. The next game was Ping Pong King. The team which can keep the ping pong ball on the bat the longest wins. After game session, we ended off with the boys and some groups took photo with their kids. Our kids refuse to take picture:(


The boys busy at work. Since they refused to take a team photo, Daphne took a photo of them at play.


Kids at work.


More kids at work.


Daphne and I. Evidence to show that we were there!!


This young Korean girl helped us throughout the whole session:)

We took a group photo with the kids and off we go. Some of them went off, and the rest of us went for casual chat in a cafe around Hongdae area. Ooh...we know a law oppa today. At first we were saying he look nerdy, then later we realised he studies law. Wahaha. We really mean huh?


This is my green tea latte from the cafe at 4000Won. It's really delicious.


Since it was still early, we went to Lotte Mart to buy instant rice for the next week. I love going to supermarket:) Shall just take the picture of the food when I'm going to eat them. Too lazy to take each individual food I bought.


Ate this chicken thingy for dinner. We shared a big one at 2000Won per cup. Sorry, I'll take a picture of the stall another time. It was raining when we went to that store. Oh, this store is along Ewha shopping street.


How can that chicken be filling? We went to eat ricecakes from the ahjuma store we went to a few days ago. Other than the ricecake (2500Won), we shared another plate of fried food, like the one we had before (2000Won).

Satisfying cheap dinner:)

Finally going to get a phone tomorrow:)

Ciao~~