Blogs from South Korea, Asia - page 8
March 29th 2012
Day10. My day at South Korea, Seoul. While I was in my room showering, changing and having breakfast at the hotel restaurant and getting ready to leave I have realised how much I am going to miss Seoul. When I was finishing packing my bag the alarm on my phone went off saying that it was 11 o’clock and that reminded me that the taxi driver coming to get me. When I called room servers to help me with my bag I said my last goodbye to the Ibis Seoul Myeong-dong Hotel, when I was going outside I saw the taxi driver waiting with the taxi boot open and when the assistance came out the taxi driver helped him out. When my bags got in the taxi I got in to my trip to the Seodaemun ... read more
March 29th 2012
Day1. On my first at the Seodaemun Station (airport) I was so tired that I could drop dead on the floor. My flight was taking me straight to Seoul and I only had one stop. After my flight I rest for at least an hour at the airport, then I called a cab to pick me up to take me to Ibis Seoul Myeong-dong Hotel, three stars rated hotel. After I got to the hotel, it had wonderful services one on your arms and one legs and the hotel was beautiful. Wants they showed me to my room I had a shower dinner that they provide me and slept like a baby. (GOOD NIGHT)... read more
it's all over now, baby blue.
Published: March 28th 2012Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do » Daejeon
March 28th 2012
I knew Margo before I even met her. That is, I had read her blog while sitting hunched over my laptop on a sunny day in California, trying to glean information about the town I would be moving to in South Korea. I read that she was from South Africa. She liked her little town of Geumsan, but loved her friends in the city of Daejeon. She enjoyed partying and expected people to keep up with her. In my imagination, she was a black girl. Obviously, I was ignorant on most everything related to South Africa. Nelson Mandela, Charlize Theron, wild animals, and Cape Town. That would be the extent of my knowledge. Now thanks to loquacious and patriotic Margo, I know about things like "lekker" and "robots" and the infamous "braais". I first met Margo ... read more
March 26th 2012
"We should never forget our birthdays or the birthdays of those who are close to us. Birthdays keep us childlike. They remind us that what is important is not what we do or accomplish, not what we have or who we know, but that we are, here and now. On birthdays let us be grateful for the gift of life.”-Henry Nouwen Birthdays are my chance to plan something outlandish and my friends will have to do it. I absolutely love planning parties, dressing up, and doing something I've never done before and I use birthdays an an opportunity to do that. Year 20 was a trip to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, where we acted like kids, and had a party back at the dorms. Year 21 was the H party where I introduced beer pong ... read more
March 26th 2012
A little shy of six years ago my friend Cory sent me a link to travelblog, suggesting that I open an account so my friends could keep track of me over the summer. I am, and always have been, a reputed storyteller: a man of words. Brutally honest at times, deceitful and conniving at others. For good or for worse, sharing my experience with others in the form of an anecdote has been my chosen modality of living, if not the purpose of my life at large. Privacy was always of very little concern to me, and perhaps many of my wrongdoings here stem from my inability to comprehend its importance to the private person. As many ironies I find in the prolonged popularity of this blog, I can no longer justify my habits of exposure ... read more
March 23rd 2012
Hi all Okay so I’ve finally decided to get a blog so family and friends can keep up to date with what I’m up to on the other side of the world. I’ve been in Korea a month now so sorry about this but my first blog post is going to be REALLY long as there is a lot to say. I will keep it shorter going forward I promise! Sorry if I have already told you about some of this as well just skip to the new bits. Seoul Extremely tired and grubby we arrived in to Seoul on the 14th February. We had decided to fly out to South Korea early so that we could get over jetlag and adjust to the culture a bit. We decided the best route from the airport to ... read more
March 19th 2012
M & K – The Philippines was in the high 30’s,Taipai was in the mid teens but Seoul was barely into double digits when we arrived. After 9 months of travelling in warm temperatures it was a little bit of a shock to the system. Fortunately though Seoul has a great metro system (although not as good as Taipai’s according to my train spotting wife) and lots of coffee shops to keep warm in. Before arrival I had no idea what to expect from Seoul. The city looks to have been completely rebuilt in the last 30 years. There was very little in the way of old buildings. We spent a couple of days here exploring the main sights ( a couple of palaces and a small old quarter which had homes build in the traditional ... read more
March 18th 2012
Today I woke up super late at 12pm. I was feeling very lazy and sad that this is the last day I will spend in Korea. I got dressed had breakfast (or lunch) in the hotel. I went over to Avenuel once again but this time I bought some bags and clothes. It was very expensive since it was in high end shopping centre. After shoppoing I went back to the hotel to put my stuff away and went donw the street to eat at around 3:30pm. I had black bean noodles and beef. I really like black bean noodles as well. It is one of my favourite Korean dishes along with the spicy rice cake. I then went to the Seoul world cup stadium. The stadium was constructed quite recently for the 2002 world cup ... read more
March 18th 2012
There will be lots of pictures on this blog! This weekend, I decided to go to Seoul with some friends I met in EPIK orientation. We left after school on Friday, around 7 pm (so everyone would have time to get to their train stations), and we arrived there around 11 pm. However, there were only a few subways left, because it was late, and we had to get to Incheon, which is about an hour away. Somehow, we caught one of the last subways. Awesome, right? Nope. We were supposed to transfer at some point and didn't, so we were on a subway in Seoul going fast in the wrong direction. The Seoul subway system can be just a little confusing... Anyway, so we got off and tried to catch a bus. We asked numerous ... read more
that was then. and this is now.
Published: March 17th 2012Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do » DaejeonMarch 15th 2012
It's absolutely astounding to me how much the passing of time can change us as people. I've been in Korea for a year and a half, which in the grand scheme of things is a drop in the water, and yet when I look at pictures from when I arrived here or read my old blogs and personal scribblings, it's like peering at a stranger. I had an out of body experience today where I saw myself teaching my class and was pretty proud of how well I commanded the classroom. It was not so long ago that I nervously stood before a class, unsure of how to teach my students English. I didn't have the faintest clue how to connect with them or what to do when they got out of hand and tried to ... read more
