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

Hey everybody! ahnyoung ha say yo! I've been bad and haven't been posting to my travel blog regularly. I have another blog that I've been using a lot, and neglecting this one. I think I'm going to schedule updates on a set day of the week. How does Wednesday or Saturday work? Why not both. Ok, I from this date forth will try and update either wednesday or saturday if not both days. I suppose if you're in the US that means look for an update on tuesday or friday depending on how late I'm up. Honestly there's a lot going on in my day-to-day life here in Korea, but I know the people back home and abroad reading this would rather read the good parts. Or at least hear that I'm good and well. Last ... read more

I'm done with classes for Wednesday. I never appreciated the middle of the week as much as I do now. I'm not saying I don't like my job. My job's awesome, challenging and I take pride in my work. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jonesing for the weekend. Even with this being my second week here. A friend I made last weekend has some extra tickets to a cultural event this Saturday so I'm going for sure. A part of me wishes I'd flown in sooner so I could have time to get used to Korea and see places before I started working. There's so much to see around here and take in. My students seem to like me and I'm getting compliments from other classes of what they've heard about me. ... read more

I got off work not long ago and my roomate is going to show me the foreigner watering holes around Mokpo, conveniently a minutes' walk from my house. I really mean a minutes' walk. I live on the third floor on a building with shops below. One of the things I like about Mokpo is how most everything I'd ever want is within walking distance. Even within "American Walking distance" of a block and a half and then stopping to catch your breath and ... eating a cheeseburger or something. So today I was waiting for some new passport photos to be developed (you use them for everything here, alien id card, hospital visits, etc) and went into a McDonalds. I saw four westerners and sat down next to them. They're the first non-Mia/Dylan or friends ... read more

It's wednesday my time, around 10:30am. Things are going well, I've just got to learn more of the language so I can order my own food and get around town. The teaching is challenging at times but I'm starting to like it. There are misquitos here in the winter, and unlike the ones in America that bite you and your bite goes away quickly - they leave you with a huge bump that itches like mad that doesn't go away anytime soon. I've stocked up on bug spray. Normally I'm against using some super chemical stuff for pest control, but now that I'm facing misquitos from the great beyond, my outlooks' changed. I hear they are worse in the summer, which I'm not looking forward to. Monday night after my first day teaching, my roomates took ... read more

Well... there's my summer. I intended to write in here more regularly, but unfortunately, the summer (and my intense job as Orientation Coordinator Team Leader) got away from me. However, this is just a note to let all of my faithful readers (especially those who haven't chastised me already) that I'll be updating on the full summer soon, including a second trip to Songnisan (see the posting re: the giant golden Buddha in Summer 06), a visit to the DMZ (at a different location than my Orientation), how we tried to visit the small town of Hwacheon to say hello and ended up in their Tomato Festival Parade, and so on. Believe me, there are adventures galore (and some pictures), and I can't wait to share it with you. For now, though, I'm going to greet ... read more