A library right under our noses!

It's the Fall in Incheon Korea. Maybe there should be a comma after Incheon. I wouldn't publish that if I was your publisher. Or should I say were your publisher. 

No. No new paragraph. This is nonsense. No one will want to read this. The end.

No seriously, this is the end.

(The above portion was guest-contributed by Corey. He's very particular that his words not be minced so I have made sure to write them exactly as spoken.)

It's the Fall in Incheon, Korea. It's getting colder, but we still manage to go for some nice long walks. This past weekend we returned to Subong Park (where we saw the artificial waterfall a few weeks ago). This time, Corey ran into some of his students. He asked if they were going hiking. They shook their heads sadly, pointed at the building that's shaped like a boat and said, "no, we're studying at the library."

This was the first time we realized that we lived just ten minutes walk from a library. So exciting! Corey and I went inside to check it out. The first floor was children's books and they had a large selection in English so of course I was happy to stay there with a book by Gail Carson-Levine.

Meanwhile, Corey went to do some further exploring and took some photos of the ship-shaped library.

 Picture from the rooftop of the library.

 Top floor of the library. There's a ship steering wheel!

 One red tree in Subong park

We also went on a walk to Juan station, which turned into a walk to Ganseok station, which turned into a walk to a huge park a couple blocks beyond the station. I should know better now when Corey says we're going for a little walk that we're actually going on an odyssey.

We saw the finished knitting on the sculptures near Juan that we had seen women working on a couple weeks prior.

Sculpture covered in hand-knit garments.

We enjoyed the autumn colours in the park. Plus, this park had the largest selection of built-in exercise equipment I've seen since the Hangang Park in Seoul. It's about an hour walk to get there, but it's worth it. We passed a lot of interesting houses and businesses on the way to keep things interesting.

Corey sitting in the park.

 Corey being exorcised...er I mean exercising

Emily sitting in the park.

This was more than a week ago, but I also need to give a shout out to "The Boardgames Incheon Group" who meet weekly-ish at Bupyeong. I was invited to join them for the most epic game (even better than Risk!) called Red November. The way the game works is that everyone plays a drunken gnome, and together all the players try to save an experimental submarine from inevitable doom. If you get a chance to play this game, do it! It made for a very fun night with some fellow foreign teachers.