all these places: Jeju Island, South Korea.

Next stop: Jeju Island, which I started thinking of as South Korea’s Hawaii. Beautiful place, with lots of foliage and beaches. I spent most of the time in Seogwipo on the south side, but we also spent an evening in the city of Jeju for a pre-wedding celebration [two Americans who came together to teach for a year and are going to get married in Samoa]. I hung out with a lot of Canadians [I think Shelby has been hanging out with them too much – she’s starting to say “out” funny].

Oedolgae ["way-dul-gay"], one of the many beautiful areas on the island to go for a dip.

I went to school with Shelby for a day. This is her English classroom.

School lunch!

In the cafeteria.

This is the phallic dude I mentioned earlier – he even guards the produce.

Pre-packaged octopus. At this point Shelby got embarrassed that I was taking pictures in the grocery store so I stopped. No fun.

The beach where some people may or may not have skinny dipped after the pre-wedding celebration.

My last full day, we went in search of a waterfall. The first one we stopped at only flows when there’s been enough rain – but it wasn’t going that day. But the area was still gorgeous.