I can’t believe "Prison Break" is on hiatus for 3 months. The Fall Finale was tonight, and I can’t believe it’s over… until March of next year. As much as I wanted Michael and the other inmates to escape, you couldn’t help but wonder what would become of the show. The first paragraph of this MSNBC article said it best:

On "Prison Break’s" fall finale, Michael Scofield said the best six words we could have possibly heard: "We’re not getting out of here."

This was ingenious.  I love how Michael has every little thing planned out.(I’m sorry if you don’t follow the show.  You’ll have no idea what I’m talking about.)

I hate it when perfectly good shows have to throw in a kissing scene that’s not pertinent to the show.  Lincoln looks like he’s kissing his mother.

This is when Michael realizes they can’t escape.
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When I first saw these, they looked like brown clown shoes.  Still, Mat was raving about them, saying they were all the rage in NYC, and how comfortable they were.  Ok, I thought I’d at least put them on my feet.  Well… I’ve been in love ever since.  Yes, they’re a little bulky looking, especially with all that toe room in the front.  But that’s what makes them feel so good.
I will say this, these are THE MOST COMFORTABLE SHOES I’VE EVER WORN!  Give then a chance.  Try them out the next time you see them.

Adnan, Saman, Raswan, and I went looking for a kalbi restaurant for lunch today.  We went into one restaurant and found out that the cheapest price was 19,000 won ($19 USD) per 150 grams of beef.  At a normal pork restaurant, a serving size for one person is about 200 grams.  This was less food, and more expensive than the typical 6000-8000 won for pork.  The question was, did we want to spend $80 for a Sunday lunch?  The answer was no.

We walked a little further and found another beef restaurant.  This one turned out to be 15,000 won for 300 grams.  We thought this was reasonable, and sat down for lunch.  We decided to order two servings at first, and decided later if we wanted more.

What came out were 3 thin strips of beef, each attached to a heavy bone.  Half the weight of the order was the bone that was included.  If you look at the picture below, those were two of the three strips.  We looked at our food in disbelief, because we were 4 hungry people.  Even the side dishes couldn’t make up for the lack of food.  I think I had 4-5 pieces of beef.  That’s it!!  What a ripoff.  Why is beef so expensive here?

Guess what’s coming to Kunsan!  An international Migratory Bird Festival.Actually, a friend who’s been to this festival before, told us that the birds are stuffed!It’s just an exhibition of stuffed birds.

These are two of the teachers I work with, Adnan and Mathew.

Mat and I dropped by a Biology exhibition in our building.  Oddly enough, there were two stuffed chickens that looked out of place with microscopes and petri dishes.

Here’s a microscopic view of a fly.  If the microscope isn’t scientific enough for you, there’s the model of a fly made of out felt.  And you thought they were two apples stuck together in front of a piece of turd!  Silly you!!

This is Adnan.  He showed me this note, that his student gave him.  It says:Have a nice Day~ ^^*Mr. Alam = Will Smith?!-Random student who will remain nameless

Like every Wednesday morning, Mat and I showed up at 9 o’clock to pick up our classroom keys from the administrative office in the building where we teach.  I reached for the door knob, and surprisingly found it locked.  All the lights were off, and nobody was there.  It just seemed odd.  We then went to the grumpy security guard of our building, to see what was going on.  He proceeded to rattle off something in Korean, and all I could make out, was something about 10 o’clock.  The office staff wasn’t going to be in until 10 o’clock?  I don’t know.  We didn’t have our classroom keys, but went and found unlocked rooms to teach in anyway.

After class, I went to my office, where the Korean supervisor apologized for not telling us about a nation-wide college entrance exam that was occurring at 8:40 am that morning.  All government workers were told to come to work an hour later, so as not to cause a traffic jam for all the 600,000 high-schoolers who had to take this test.  She also told me that demonstrating farmers in some city, had decided to delay their protesting for an hour, so they wouldn’t disturb the students taking their test.

"The College Scholastic Ability Test for the 2006 academic year will start simultaneously at 966 schools in 75 districts across the country at 8:40 a.m. on Wednesday. A total of 593,806 people will take the test this year. Education authorities earlier said the level of difficulty would be the same as last year?s.

All CSAT takers have to report at designated schools by 8:10 a.m. and bring their admission tickets and IDs with them. They must leave their mobile phones at home because carrying them even by accident will be regarded as cheating.

All other electronic devices including digital cameras, MP3 players, electronic dictionaries, camera pens, calculators, radios and Walkmans are also banned."