Carl
I'm a recent college graduate from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and I'm going to teach English to preschool-middleschool aged children in South Korea for the next year. CarlF
I've got a friend from college, Amelia, who I'll be teaching and living with, and her fiance Dylan who I will also be teaching and living with abroad.
Travel Blog Posts
I think I almost let a month go by without updating
Published: July 29th 2009Asia » South Korea » Jeollanam-do » Mokpo
July 29th 2009
Hey everyone! Well, it's been a great month out here in Korea. Some of the lesser highlights: I've learned how to play the intelude from Blondie's "Heart of Glass" on guitar. I've gotten back into drawing in a rather large but pocket-friendly sketchbook I've got. Some of the more awesome highlights: Discovered after going to Noraebang without drinking that my singing voice has actually improved. I guess that's due to a lot of practice... I swear I thought noraebang was lame before I came here and tried it. I've been writing up a storm in my handwritten journal. Jotting down memories, things I've done, impressions of what its' like out here. I'll blame that on not giving this travel blog its' due efforts, I assure you all when I return to the USA that you will ... read more
July 8th 2009
It's that time again! Well this past month has been a lot of fun and a lot of work. For the 4th of July we went to Oedaldo and stayed at a traditional homestay. The free water park on the island's been opened up. There's two kinda big pools full of sea water, which was a surprise when I cannonballed into the water. So last weekend was fun in the sun. We set off a lot of fireworks and sang the national anthem on the 4th. Sunday was rather low key, one of our party was very ill from the night before. It's surprising how beautifully green everything is here, after all I came here during the start of winter. It's been very humid here, but I think no different than say Florida or Tennessee. It's ... read more
June 22nd 2009
Well on a plus side, I was able to get the photos from my Busan trip off of my camera. Downside is the camera is toast. Let's see, some highlights of this past month. Where to begin... With me in the latter half of my contract now and building up to its' completion I've been bouncing back and forth between wanting to stick around another year or going home. I love it out here and hate it at times. It's hard to explain unless you've lived on the other side of the world for a long time. I turned 25 last week. A freaking quarter century. I've been very contemplative in the past two weeks'. It's easy to admit that when I graduated High School I hadn't anticipated this is where my life would take me. ... read more
May 27th 2009
Well, it's been awhile since I've updated my travel blog. A lot has been going on. For some highlights: My good friend John finished his contract a few weeks ago and we had a big weekend long celebration. I think right now he's in Cambodia, he planned on traveling after his contract was up. It was sad to see him go, but he'll be back in a few weeks to get his stuff and hop on an airplane back to the good ol' USA. The other night while walking home in the middle of the night, with pouring rain and blowing wind that had flipped my umbrella inside out I stepped on a snake. Scared the hell out of me. Of all the things in the world to accidentally stumble upon, a freaking snake. It was ... read more
May 10th 2009
Here's something I put in an email to my mom, thought I'd copy and paste it so I can have an update on here for Mother's Day. Happy Mothers Day! I gotta say I love this country. Yesterday was a good friend of mine's going away party and it was held on an island (Oedaldo). I had a make up day and had to work on Saturday. I went to work with my bag packed for overnight and rushed to the ferry terminal as soon as I could get out of work. I missed the last ferry by maybe thirty minutes. Not wanting to give up, I got in a taxi and went to the fisher's dock and found a boat that would take me and got there just as the sun set over the water. ... read more
May 6th 2009
Well, on the weekend of the 25th and 26th I finally made good on my wishes to go see Busan. It was a lot of fun. There was a lot of cool stuff to see, the APEC building where world leaders met in 2007, Gwanganri Beach, Heeundae Beach, and the Busan Aquarium. Sadly my camera bought the farm on this trip. It fell out of my pocket at a beach just as a wave came crashing onshore. Assuming my memory card's fine, there's some good pictures on there. I guess next month I'm going to get a new camera. Last weekend I hung around Mokpo. I rode my bicycle everywhere, and it's just getting to the right weather for that too. In fact it's time to start wearing shorts. It's been in the 80's the past ... read more
April 14th 2009
Earlier this month, from the first through the 7th, my dad and Karen came to Korea. Here's my account of their visit. I saw him Friday the third through Tuesday the 7th. Well on Friday night, I had just gotten off work at 9:30. I knew my dad was taking the train into Mokpo, but we were having problems with his phone being able to reach me, so I walked to meet some friends for dinner. I get into the door and get a call from my dad, he's in Mokpo, and has been since 8:30pm. I took a cab to downtown and met him on the second floor of a building, Imsil Cheese Pizza. They had a lot of luggage, most of it being things from America I'd asked them to bring out for me. ... read more
March 30th 2009
I went to Seoul last weekend. It was a good trip. Just a word of advice, if you're going to go anywhere with a lot of people make sure everybody agrees on the same itinerary. We kind of were winging it and We left Friday night right after work and hauled ass up the highway to Seoul. Got in around 2:30am. The first night we found Itaewon but wound up staying somewhere else. I can't recall where it was. Saturday morning we're up and got some Indian food for breakfast. Couldn't tell any of you how long it's been since I've had any Indian food. Very good. One person from our group met up with his Korean friend and the rest of us went back to Itaewon to find an all English bookstore. I picked up ... read more
March 26th 2009
Hey all, I'm going to Seoul finally. I've been here 4 months and passed up a few chances to go up and now a good chance came up so I'm going. I can't wait to go up there. It should be a lot of fun. We'll rent a car or van depending on how many people come with, and I can not emphasize how much road tripping around Korea is the way to travel. Buses are cool because you will go from point A to point B, but when you're in a car with friends you can stop at random places along the way if you feel like it, and you're not as limited to a schedule to make sure you don't miss the last bus. So you can stay later, and see the sights a ... read more
March 23rd 2009
Hey there, I haven't updated in a long time. Sorry about that! I've been pretty busy... I went on a weekend trip to Oedaldo in the off-season and can't wait for the summer to come so I can go back. Oedaldo is an island about fifty minutes away from Mokpo by ferry. The island is small enough you can walk from one end to the other in a half an hour. It rained a little saturday night so we played poker until the rain died down, then walked around beaches. I didn't know how to play texas hold 'em until I came to Korea. I have no poker face but at least now I know how to play the game. I went to Daegu a second time with my friends a few weeks ago. That was ... read more
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