Japan vid...finally

Yep, here ya go. But I suggest to watch the high-quality version on my Facebook.

My First Bungee Jump

Cory, his gf JiYun, our attractive friend Jung-ah, and I went up to Andong last Saturday to go bungee jumping and see the annual Mask Festival. I was sooo excited to finally go bungee jumping! When I got up to the top of the crane I was a little nervous but thinking "Man, I can so do this!" When I stepped to the edge, my heart sank looking down. haha. In the vid, you can hear some guys at the top saying to me "54321 JUMP!" but I didn't jump the first time assuming they were going to nudge me off. So I made them count one more time and BOOYA. It was awesome. JiYun is the one filming. She was laughing at me cuz I was "yahoo"-ing and also said "Ji-Gi-Neh-Aeh!" in the air which roughly translates to "that kills!" (in a good way) or like "That's Awesome!".

Who wants to go with me next time?!?!

House Party II

Old "BR" student/teacher letters to Me and Nate

Click the image to see it larger:

Now here are the original letters.
First, my former higher level elementary student, Nancy. She's a very smart student but got distracted a lot by other students although she could also keep others in line if she wanted to. She was a pain at first but got better as she warmed up to me:

Maria, super smart and a sweetheart although has good ability to provoke mischief. But she did it in a very fun way. Great kid. The korean she wrote at the bottom of the page means something like "Come back again!":

Anna, cute little sweetheart. I felt terrible one day when she got hurt playing our introductory Butt Soccer game. She cried. Sorry, Anna. Next time, punch Peter in the face. I won't tell anyone:

Kevin, or as I liked to call him "Kevin 7" to distinguish him from another Kevin in the class. Good kid. Fun. Smart. Unpredictable. He had a unique personality. Very creative actually:

The infamous Peter. Kind of a dopey kid. Annoyed the crap out of everyone. "Peter, where's your pencil today?!" ..everyday. seriously.. 진짜! Notice how he signed his name as "secret":

오랜만이야! (o lan man iya ~ "long time no see")

Sup. Long time. My bad. Just wanted to share the designs I've made for the church this year. First is the Sunday bulletin for church. It's a tri-fold and I have to update it each week.


Second is the new Kurios 2010 Conference flyer that's happening in October. I didn't want people at church to notice it, but I'm the guy throwing his hands up in the logo at the top of the page. haha.

Happy 4th!

Update

Not too much has been going on but I'll try to squeeze something out here..

Umm...World Cup soccer games started up this month in South Africa so the Koreans are going CRAZY over it. Korea won their first game but lost terribly in the second, and they have a 3rd on the 23rd I think.. So a couple Saturdays ago I went to Duryu park here in Daegu to watch the game on a few large screens. There were a ton of Koreans all in red and glowing devil horns. I always knew they were a little evil.. On the phone, Cory says "Hey! I'm the guy wearing a red shirt! Can u see me?!" I replied, "Oh yeah, there you are...and there you are, and there you are, and there you are... As if you weren't hard enough to find before!" Anyway, it was a ton of fun. Check out the pix:








School's going well. My kids are much better than before. There's a few I'd like to adopt! hahaha.

In my free time I usually study Korean which I've done a LOT lately, more than usual.

I'm also working on a few paintings as well as entering myself into an illustration contest here through a chain of coffee shops, called DaVinci Coffee. Winner gets 3million won ('bout $2,500).

Thanks to my church friend, Karin, I also signed up to participate in a world-wide sketchbook tour through 'ArtHouse Co-Op'. They send me a small sketchbook that I fill up based on a theme I chose from a list they provided. The theme I chose is "It'll be fun, I swear." A million ideas ran through my head already. Anyway, once filled up I send it back to them by January for them to digitize it for their website so that it can be viewed by online visitors. In March, among thousands of other sketchbooks from around the world, my sketchbook will tour around several major cities for people to check out from a library to view and read. I have complete freedom to include anything I want in the sketchbook; name, contact info, and even a price of however much I want to sell my sketchbook for. Sketchbooks in the past have been priced at a million dollars, but I don't think I'll be that steep. haha. Anyway, I will also be notified by email or text message whenever my sketchbook is checked out on the spot. After the tour, the sketchbooks are cataloged in the Brooklyn Art Library for life.

Sounds pretty darn rad to me.

Anyway, I gotta go get some shopping done. Love u guys. cya!