Blogs from Jeollanam-do, South Korea, Asia - page 6

On last weekend, I went to Buddhism temple, Backyangsa in Jeonnam-do to do a zen with other zen learners. I set off my zen travel at my house in Dae-gu on 10:00 last Saturday morning. I drove my car for Backyangsa. I took about 3hours and 30minutes to arrive Backyangsa by inter highway between Dae-gu and Gwangju. we gathered altogether in the zen house in this temple for us on 15:00. all of this zen learning are nine members. we stayed one night and two days in this temple. In staying here, we did as the monk in this temple did. but most of all. we concentrated on a zen with our master monk(female monk). we did a zen 4 hours including done two hour zen with our master monk in last Saturday. we got ... read more

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

Hey everybody! It's been awhile since I've put up a travel blog. A few of my Mokpo friends went to China with a tour group during the lunar new year. I'm settling with seeing the great wall vicariously until I get a chance to go out there to see it for myself. I stayed home during the lunar new year break. I want to start saving up money for my next vacation so I can do something spectacular like that. It was snowing on and off last weekend. It's cold, well compared to Washington State, but it's been beautiful outside. Not too much exciting or out of the ordinary has happened with me. That's why I hadn't thought to update in awhile. I know folks back home want to know I'm doing alright even if I ... read more

Hey everyone! I went hiking around a mountain earlier today. Want to see some photos? That was a fun hiking trip. I've got two days to teach this week and then I go on New Years' vacation. I'm probably going to Daegu for the time off, there's a bunch of things to see and do. The following I wrote on another online blog but I think it fits here as well if you're wondering how being here has been in a nutshell; If you haven't travelled outside of American/Western Culture before in your life it sort of feels like you've been dropped off on a whole new world. Which is dichotomous; it's amazing, exciting and you want to soak it all in. You are meeting all kinds of people and trying new things. Then it's terrifying, ... read more

I saw a movie, Yes Man with Jim Carrey Saturday night. Theaters in Korea have assigned seating. If you saw this movie back in the states, I'm sorry. I mostly hung around town this weekend, kind of loafed around which was nice. Another work week is coming up! So if you didn't hear, it's Christmas this Thursday. I've got the whole day off and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do, but not Friday. There's some other foreigners I'm trying to get to know and I think they're planning something. I think I'll do what I do best and play it by ear. Don't worry, I'll do something special for Christmas. The Christmas Cards I bought and plan on sending to the States might come a little after Christmas. Sorry! I'm still planning ... read more