Blogs from Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, Asia - page 7

Happy Canada Day to all you Canucks back in the mother land! The fact that no one knows this holiday here makes us miss home even more! The fireworks, the parades, the day off work! Today also marks the official 2 month mark until we leave Korea! But, that does not mean we are coming home! More on that later, but we will be traveling in Asia for 100 days before returning home in December! So what have we been up to the last couple weeks? Mostly, World Cup! Seeing as Korea actually has (had) a team in contention, there was a great atmosphere here! We bought Korea shirts and took to the streets and stadium as any proud Korean would do, cheering with the crowds "Dae Han Min Gook" (the great Korean people!). Alas, the ... read more

Hilarity ensues. Sorry if you guys got that last e-mail. For some reason, it published while I started writing it. Oh well. Anyway, this entry is dedicated to Buddha, who made this entire trip possible. Thanks, Buddha, for having a birthday that allowed us to have a three-day weekend. Our trip started off on Friday morning. Originally, we were all to meet up at the bus station at 10:30. However, as our entire weekend extravaganza was actually Ally's birthday weekend extravaganza, a few people were a bit hungover. Ally couldn't find our friend Katie, so we pushed our meeting time to 11. Katie was located, but then Adam was running late. We got into the bus station after noon. We bought our bus tickets, most of us together, and then they hand us one ticket. "One ... read more

Just a quick note...I can't even believe it's been over a month that I've been living and working here. There have been a lot of ups and also some downs. Most days I have those "I love Korea!" moments. They usually involve food...hahaha. The food here is amazing, not just Korean food, but also the markets! We made spring rolls last week and the fresh veggies were so cheap. I'm also trying to get more involved...Cindy and I went to Daegu to volunteer for an animal shelter. They walk dogs at a popular park in Daegu and hand out fliers about their shelter to try to get the animals adopted. It makes me really want a dog, but knowing my work schedule and the lack of space here, it would be hard to have a dog. ... read more

An example of making do with what’s leftover in the fridge. It was pretty delicious, I fried the tofu in olive oil until brown. I then placed it on the plate and covered it lightly in soy sauce. Next I lightly pan fried the cherry tomatoes by themselves and added soy sauce and sesame oil when they were soft. Once on the plate, I added kimchee. I love the kimchee juice mixing with the rest of the sauces. On the right are peppers with daenjang (bean paste). It was really good for an impromptu meal :)... read more

Officially finished my second week of teaching, I'm slowly finding a groove. I still get confused sometimes on what I'm supposed to teach or what homework I'm supposed to check since the Tuesday and Thursday schedules are a bit different than Mon/Wed/Fri. Some intriguing stories from the last couple weeks: - I got $35 worth of free stuff from the 1000won store! There's a Daiso in Jukdo Market downtown where I've been doing a lot of my weekend shopping lately. For those of you who don't know, Daiso is a Japanese chain of dollar stores and I loooove it! They even have them in California and my cousin took me there last November. So, I had a really long list of things I wanted to buy and found a lot of stuff at the Daiso. My ... read more