Blogs from Cheongju, South Korea, Asia - page 7

Our first Weekend! Friday So after our first full day of teaching on our own one of our coworkers took us out for a night to relax. After a $4 taxi ride we were part way across the city at a Korean barbeque, which is very popular, where we had samgyeopsal, similar to thick-cut bacon, but it’s actually pork belly. The traditional way to eat it is to barbeque it in small pieces, then place it on a lettuce leaf with some weird tasting soy bean and hot pepper paste and maybe a slice of radish. Then you wrap it all up and pop it in your mouth. I (Rachel) loved this! Scott just ate the meat off the grill and dipped it in sesame oil mixed with salt and sometimes pepper, which is also delicious. ... read more

What can you say about a thirteen-and-a-half hour flight? It was long, really, really long. Comfy but long. Our attempts to sleep failed. As we found out, sleeping upright is difficult and somewhat uncomfortable. In total I got around 2 hours and Rachel got a little more. It wasn't all bad though. We had televisions embedded in the seat in front of ours with many movies (lots of new ones), music and TV shows. The service on Korea Air was great. The stewardesses were very helpful. All in all though there isn't much to write about... we flew... from Canada to South Korea, that's it. Oh, it was raining when we arrived... The real fun began when we got to Incheon International. We arrived at 3:00 am local time, a little later than expected because ... read more

After 2 weeks of very sporadic weather (sweating in the heat walking to work one day and then freezing with a winter coat on the next) I think Cheongju has decided to let Summer begin. The last three days have been very warm and I know it's only going to get hotter. I won't complain yet because I know there will be plenty of that to come...ha ha. Last weekend, as soon as we were out of work on Friday, we decided to check out one of the local jimlilbangs. Before we checked in for the night we decided to grab some dinner at a place very close to where we all live that has been completely packed every time we walk by it. It's a rather small restaurant and the biggest table seats 4 so ... read more

Preliminary Trip Info So... this is just to update those that don't know yet, or for those that care. Rachel and I will be teaching overseas in Korea for approximately one year. This will hopefully be followed up with some traveling. I'm mainly writing this entry to play around with the blog and different text settings. We will be living and teaching in Cheongju, the provincial capital of Chungcheongbuk-do, in the Republic of Korea. As of now we don't know exactly where we will be living, and I don't know whether I'll post that anyways since at the moment this is in the public forum. I will post our school address though. Where we are teaching: Wonderland School 2F 1754 Gakyung-dong Heungduk-gu Cheongju, 361-803 Chungcheongbuk-do Republic... read more

I have been trying to put off writing about this weekend because I knew it would take forever. But at the same, the longer I wait, the more I forget. And this was a weekend to remember! Friday night after work, none of us got to bed until about 3am. So 6am came quickly. When the alarm went off, I had no idea for a couple of minutes, why it was going off, what day it was, or what I was supposed to be doing. After realizing we were supposed to meet a bus load of people at the church in only an hour, I jumped out of bed. Everyone was a little slow at getting up so we were running late. We didn't know how easy it'd be to find taxis at 7am on a ... read more