http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/NoMursi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from NoMursi en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:11:48 +0000 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:11:48 +0000 This summer I have been able to go and see a lot. I have explored more of Korea and found that although Seoul can be a ldquosoullessrdquo place pun intended at times there is quite a lot of beauty and friendliness outside its borders. Korea is a very mountainous country and most of the countryside resembles a lot of what I appreciate back home. I still havenrsquot seen all that I want http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Java/Jakarta/blog-444665.html Part 3 When Joe Justin and Jenny enter the other worldly realm of underwater exploration. Semporna and the surrounding islands are some of the best dive spots in the world. In fact Sipidan and island an hours ride away on boat is considered one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. It is home to so many underwater creatures and marine life that it is impossible not see at least a dozen t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Semporna/blog-434775.html As soon as I walked into our jungle hut as it were I noticed a small spider perched on the wire mesh of the window in front of my mattress. This wasn't a particularly big spider but did have a lot of stripes and paterns on his body. I have learned that it is not necessarily the big bugs that do the most damage but the wee little ornate looking ones that can pack the punch. I stood for a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Kinabatangan/blog-432986.html The human body has four million pores and the an area of skin the size of a quarter has over 600 sweat glands. WELCOME TO THE EQUATOR Sabah Malaysia....BORNEO Now most people I have talked to about my trip even before going had no idea where Borneo was much less heard of it. So I am going to delve into some geography for a second and explain what makes this such a unique island. Borneo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Kinabatangan/blog-428623.html The title speaks for it self of how hot and humid it has become. It seems that the weather here in Korea is just as sneaky as our short tempered neighbor to the North. Well last time I wrote North Korea hadn't detonated a nuclear missile and we were just beginning our heat wave. This is where I will begin there has been a lot happening lately including yours truly's 26th birthday.So I woke http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/Gwanak-gu/blog-412204.html A lot has changed for me and I wrote about that in the last blog. I am now settled down into my job and new house. Money is coming in and not in partial payments and I have friends that are feeling the same anxious warmth on our minds and hearts. The warm weather arrived and so did Swine flu along with it. I am lucky enough not to have contracted that wonderful gift but tempt my fate throug http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/Gwanak-gu/blog-398682.html So here they are the pictures I promised and not a few months later. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-384966.html How do you even begin to write about the past 3 months that included my parents visiting calling a relationship off getting kicked out of my apartment quiting my job and moving to another part of Seoul. I think the best way to do it is to make what has been described as a hard winter into an ammusing antidot for you the reader and well god knows I need it me the writer. I also will Tarent http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-382542.html I know that my blogs have been few and far between as of late but I don't feel like writing and you probably don't want to read about my some what repetitive lifestyle since starting school. Personally I think my stories were better when I wasn't working and you probably enjoyed reading those stories much more than how my kids in class strive to over come the English language. There have been http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-350904.html I was sitting at my desk at school on the first official day of classes when I thought...I'm going to be on the other side of that classroom. I wasn't nervous or overly excited to start. I mean after 5 and half months of vacation starting work no matter what it is is not going to be a heel clicking experience. I was ready though. If there was an emotion or a feeling it was this sense http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-336954.html Is it really going to happen am I going to start teaching It seems like it's headed that way. Our school had it's first outing with prospective students and parents. We converged on English Village which is a model town of what the west is supposed to look like but instead looked like a mix of England with Roman era buildings and courtyards. The only American part about the place was the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-327278.html ...this is what I want to accomplish in my life. I want to be able to look back and remember living in a high rise apartment in Seoul South Korea. I want to be able to say that I saw as much of this world as I possibly could given the funds time and well whatever else life throws at you. I was talking with some friends here the other day about moments you actually realize where you are. When http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-319703.html This is it the last and final entry and the end of the trilogy. Even like Lord of the Rings I don't want this story to end. Perhaps it is my fondness for Cambodia and the desire to see it again and maybe because it just leaves me back here in Seoul waiting to tell knew stories that at least live up to the ones from Cambodia. I want to thank everyone that has been reading my blogs. Your comm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Sihanoukville/blog-314947.html Siem Reap lived up to and more for my expectations. On the 6 hour bus ride from Phnom Penh I wasn't sure what to expect. I heard that it is the second largest city in Cambodia and has it's own airport. Was this city going to be the same as Phnom Penh Will the food be just as good or the beer just as cheap We arrived around 630 pm and were promptly picked up by a tuk tuk driver with a big http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/North/Siem-Reap/blog-312481.html Feel this here....whoa what is that That is a ball bearing from a mine I stepped on. Can you feel the shrapnel in my arm Right here...OUCH yeah there. Oh my god I'm sorry....it's ok. The shrapnel is quite close to a nerve if it gets pushed to hard it hurts but don't worry I'm ok. In total I have stepped on four mines lost one leg have about 40 vision in both of my eyes http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Phnom-Penh/blog-309993.html There is something special and spirit lifting about covering yourself in mud. Diving face first into a big puddle of watery gray matter only to come up with a huge grin on your face. That was what the Mud Festival at Daechon beach was like. I don't think I have looked forward to being so dirty in my whole life or have I ever been so dirty in my whole life maybe in a rainy soccer game or rub http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-302292.html Where to begin My last blog I talked about the waterpark and then left a cliff hanger for what happened on the weekend. Well I'm going to try and clear all that up and anything that I left out that happened even before the waterpark. So hopefully this doesn't come to jumbled....Our school that we work for is having a hard time opening the doors they seem to be waiting on government certifica http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-298208.html I have now been here a little over a week and have started to settle into a pace and decent sleeping schedule. The first week has been a whirlwind of activities theme parks Soju island hoping and meeting general great people. School has not yet started for us and is supposedly going to open July 14th now if this happens or not is still in the air. The workers that are building the school h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-296322.html Well We made it last night The total travel time was only 21 hours but was not so bad for the fact that Justin and I were bumped up to business class 1 hour into the flight which was awesome the free drinks helped the situation too. When we arrived we were greeted by a member of the school and drove us about an hour and half to the school where the owners 3 Korean teachers and the super http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Seoul/blog-292146.html