Mud Slinging

I spent this last (3-day! Ahsa!) weekend in Boryeong, South of Seoul on the Western coast. There's a pretty decent beach there and (supposedly) some sort of reservoir of skin-cleansing mud nearby which used to attract Koreans with skin problems from all over. Nowadays it's pretty popular with foreigners who pour into the village during the annual Mud Festival, and this weekend was the start of the week-long event. There were waygookins everywhere, lots of beer and soju to be had (not that that's different from any other place in Korea...), and giant vats of mud in which all the drunken soldiers/teachers/other losers could vent their frustrations and cover themselves with crap.

I had a good time, and I really don't feel like going into the minutia of the trip, so I'm just gonna let a few pictures do the talking.

Mud racing...


Mud wrestling...


Mud on my face...


Escaping the mud in a noraebang...


Looking super sexy on the beach...


Homeward bound...

In Comic Book Guy's Voice:

"Worst Field Trip Ever." That is, until the next one we take. Last week the SLP preschool crew took a trip to the, get this, water treatment plant in Bucheon. Yowza it sure was fun. I don't really feel like recounting the episode but I did take a few pictures and thought, what the heck, why not share these gems with the world?

Wow, check it out kids! It's a bunch of pipes!


The younglings were mesmerized by a video about the dangers of over-flushing:


A traditional Korean clothes-washing scene, I guess:


Ah-sa! It's a pump!:


Naturally the kids were pissed since the trip sucked so much ass, and didn't want to smile in the picture. Nah, actually I told them to make an angry face:


Horse class looking uncharacteristically docile:



Chan Woo managed to get over the sucktitude of the day by playing with a piece of plastic on his nose:


Back in class for snacktime....: