Blogs from Daegu, South Korea, Asia - page 9

My school yard is full of falling Autumn. A lot of leaves of trees turned greenery to colorful-yellow, brown, red-. I shot yellowed leaves and beautiful flowers in my school back yard and caught my some pupils with living in playground. You can enjoy these shoots. Leaves are falling, falling like falling snows, This fall is falling, falling with colored falling leaves. 同李十一醉 憶元九 白樂天 花時同醉破春愁 醉折花枝作酒籌 忽憶故人天除去 計程今日到梁州 이십일과 함께 술 마시다가 취해서 원구를 생각한다 백낙천 꽃필 때 함께 취해서 봄 시름을 잊으려한다 술 취해 꽃가지 꺾어 술 잔 수를 세어본다 갑자기 먼 길 떠난 옛 친구가 생각난다 지금쯤 양주 즈음 갔을까 하고 길을 헤아려본다... read more

That's right, after six weeks in Korea we're finally making some money!! Its been a bit tight around here lately since we had to wait so long before our first pay check, but we've made do with plenty of budget adventures and meals (and one not so budget adventure... more to come on that). We're celebrating our first payday tonight by going to the make-it-yourself spring roll restaurant, our favorite place to eat so far in South Korea. Everyone says the first month is the hardest and we hope that's true. We're feeling more settled into the teaching life here and our network of friends continues to grow. Regrettably, yesterday we lost one of our first friends we made here as his year long contract ended, but he will hopefully be rejoining us in Korea in ... read more

We've arrived!!! After a 24 hour travel day, including three flights and me forgetting a carry on bag at the airport in my exhausted state (thank you South Korea for having an honest and friendly population!), we have landed in South Korea and begun settling into our new home. Unfortunately, our home at the moment is a sketchy motel called "motel prince" until September 1st when we can move into our apartments. We've spent our first three days getting acclimated by relaxing in the motel, eating anything and everything served to us, walking around the neighborhood and enjoying the quirks of South Korea (including superstition of the number 4. There is no 4th floor, no room 104, no packets of anything in 4s and amusing misspellings and English mistakes such as wapples instead of waffles). The ... read more

This entry is pretty much for the pictures that Lisa took during some of our first grade (US 7th grade) classes at the end of the semester, during my school's summer English camp, and during some other random occasions. The pictures of students wearing uniforms are from classes during the normal semester. After we were finished with the final exams and the textbook we had time to play some review games and some games that have nothing to do with the book at all! (yahoo!) :) The game with the grid on the board was a real sweet game that we called the tiger game. It was a review game where the kids were on four teams. One team was an explorer that wanted to first get to the jeep and the escape by driving it ... read more

For the past month, ever since we went to Apsan Mountain and "hiked" on a paved path, I have been mocking Korean hiking. However, when Heather and I went to Palgongsan, the concrete path we started on quickly changed to dirt and rock complete with quad shredding incline. It was a much rougher hike than I had expected and it shed a little light onto why so many of the old men and women carry hiking sticks (although this still does not solve the extreme hiking apparel mystery) . In addition to being physically demanding, it was also a really pretty hike. It was especially nice to be away from the concrete jungle for a little while (Palgong Moutain is about an hour by bus from the center of Daegu). We also had the rare pleasure ... read more