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Chu-Seok holiday and the International Fireworks Festival
Published: October 7th 2012Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Yongsan-gu
October 7th 2012
Hello everyone! It's been a great week this week with lots of tourism!! As I mentioned in my last blog it was the Chu-Seok holiday (like a thanksgiving celebration) so when I broke up from school last Friday, I didn't have to go back until the following Thursday :-) The Friday was a fun 'Chu-Seok day' at school. We did fun Chu-Seok activities in the morning and had a really exciting assembly in the afternoon. The children did some dancing and Korean drumming and then we had some real Korean drummers come in and do a show. They have these ribbons coming off their hats, which move really effectively with the slightest movement of the guy's heads and they had this cool dog costume thing, which the kids went wild for! I've put a few pictures ... read more
October 7th 2012
I have arrived in Korea and am having a wonderful time exploring and learning about this wonderful country and people. Hope you enjoy the pictures...... read more
Hahoe Village and Andong Mask Festival
Published: October 17th 2012Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangbuk-do » Andong
October 6th 2012
6th Oct: Up far too early. I made my way to Seoul and onto the bus to take us to Andong. The bus journey was about 3 and half hours, not too bad. We stopped a couple of times on the way. We arrived at Hahoe Village around 12. We got off our coach and onto the regular shuttle buses that take you from the park's entrance to the main village. We took a five minute walk and then we arrived at our accomodation for the night. Hahoe Village is an old style Korean folk village, however it differs from other folk villages in that people actually live there, so it isn't just for show. It's all preserved in the old style. The only spoiling factor is the sky dishes attached to the houses and the ... read more
추석 Weekend: Suwon, Gyeongju, Everland, Psy Concert, Ganghwa-do
Published: October 7th 2012Asia » South Korea
October 4th 2012
This past week was Chuseok (추석) -- the Korean Thanksgiving!!! Most Koreans had Monday (10/1) and Wednesday (10/3) off from work & school for Chuseok as well as National Foundation Day. Me? I do not have classes scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so that meant that I had Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off this week!! I was kind of disappointed that I didn't book tickets to travel to another country earlier this month. Even if I had, plane tickets still would've been expensive and the airport would have been packed. Instead, I chose to take some mini trips around South Korea for a week :) I'll start from last Saturday (9/29): Suwon On Saturday, Yuki, Alice, Justine, Jarek and I went to Suwon. Suwon is a mini city north of Seoul with a really cool ... read more
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Sokcho and Seoraksan - Chuseok Holidays!
Published: January 29th 2013Asia » South Korea » Gangwon-do » Sokcho
October 3rd 2012
Chuseok holidays had arrived and myself and a friend had organised to go away hiking in the north of the country. Chuseok is basically Korean thanksgiving, most people travel home to be with their families and pay their respects to their ancestors. People prepare food as offerings and then go tidy their ancestors graves. My co-teacher Shasha told me that she would be very busy cleaning, cooking and visiting all her families houses - she doesn't consider it much of a holiday! It is customary to give and receive gifts at this time, so in the days leading up to Chuseok I was given an presentation box from my principal containing three bottles of olive oil and six cans of tuna; two pairs of sports socks from the vice-principal; a box of white lotus tea from ... read more
October 1st 2012
Well I am three days in to my five day vacation. I’ve been to two baseball games and will go to one more tomorrow. And it will be my last game until next season starts. Sad, I know. Today is my R&R day. I’m taking some time to just relax and get some things done in my apartment. It felt great to wake up without an alarm this morning. Anyways, yesterday on the way to the baseball stadium I was mistaken for the white foreign pitcher on the LG Twins. It was pretty funny, not to mention it was quite flattering. Haha. And what’s even funnier is that once I was at the stadium I went to Burger King to get some chicken tenders and who should be the only other customer there? The player I ... read more
September 28th 2012
28th Sept: Made it to Yangjae station in plenty of time. Traffic going to Seoul was fine. Stopped off for a Maccy Ds. On the bus by 11 and ready to go, however some people were stuck in traffic, so we sat on the bus and waited for them for 45 minutes. Personally I would of just left them. Once they arrived we started our journey south. The traffic was horrific, as expected at Chuseok as the whole country travels to their home towns or villages. Leaving Seoul there was a sea of red lights on the motorway as far as the eye could see. 29th Sept: The traffic seemed to ease up once we had left Seoul and then Gyeonggi province, and we started to move at a better pace. The bus was no longer ... read more
Field Trip and Traditional Korean Day
Published: September 26th 2012Asia » South Korea » Gyeonggi-do » Suji-gu
September 26th 2012
Like promised, here are some pictures of our field trip last weekend. To recap, we went to the Coal Museum, to the mud flats to catch crabs, and then to the beach. If you want to read more about it just check out my last entry… Today was Traditional Korean Day at school. Because Chuseok (추석) is this weekend (a 5 day vacation for me) we had our festivities today. Since Chuseok(추석) is a formal, traditional family holiday in Korea, Koreans where a hanbok (한... read more
September 26th 2012
This post is late in coming—my life’s been busy, and I’m in the middle of busy-ness, but I’m trying to stay semi-caught-up with these, so here we go. My last semester has been going alright—mid-terms are already in 2 weeks. Although time’s been going quickly, in the middle of some classes where students won’t shut up, time goes all too slowly. It’s the natural course that as the year goes on and the young students grow up a bit, they tend to become less interested and more unresponsive. I’ve been busy rewriting all the students’ English newspaper articles. Also, last week I graded third grade speaking tests. I don’t know what it is with this semester—even though most of my lessons just need to be tweaked from last year, I feel like I have way less ... read more
