Rock Climbing

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September 25th 2010

Published: November 28th 2010

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Geoje

My co-teacher Tim is an avid rock climber. All summer he tried to convince me to go rock climbing with him, but I always seemed to have something else going on. Eventually, over our Korean Thanksgiving in September, called Chuseok, I went with him. We went to Gujora Beach, then up the mountain from there to do some climbing. Tim's sister Nicky was in town, which I think helped convince me, having another newbie along to relate to!! Turns out, I LOVED IT!! Since then I've been rock climbing with him at the outdoor wall in our little city, Gohyeon, every Wednesday night after work. There is a great group of Koreans who welcome us every week to climb with them. They are very encouraging and it's fun to share a sport, cross-culturally and encourage each other in our respective languages, neither of which the other understands...it makes for interesting times to say the least!! But, we share food and there is lots of miming going on, eventually getting the point across or ending in laughter, so all is well. I don't have much more to say about rock climbing, but wanted to share a few photos of my first successful