Blogs from Seoul, South Korea, Asia - page 127

Fiona's just gone home, and so ends our week of mad tourism in an attempt to squeeze the country into a nutshell for her. This also means we don't have to do any more touristy stuff for the rest of the time we're here, yay!... read more

Some stuff has happened. For example, we began Uni today, and Fiona has arrived. Other stuff shall be contained within photos, please peruse them at your leisure.... read more

After leaving Australia on the 27th... leaving the teary-eyed behind... we prepared ourselves for our inevetible onslought apon malaysia. This involved a fair portion of drambuie on my (dylan) part, however, matt piked after a couple of games of chess... During our stay in KL we partook in some sort of cheap brandy called 'Three axes' and a lot of chinese food... (photos included). Since our arrival in Korea, we have not really done a lot of sightseeing as we're waiting for Fiona to arrive, and for matt to stop eating (he eats perpetually). We have however studied a little Korean, missed the level test for our University (through no fault of our own), and seen a lot of friends from last year. Well... photos shall be included... most of which have been taken at our ... read more

This trip turned out to be kind of an Asia sampler tour because of the people we wanted to see and the flights arrangements we made (SF to Singapore, with loooong layovers in Seoul). We spent a few days in Singapore and Seoul at the beginning and end of our trip and we spent the bulk of our time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in Vietnam. We spent the first night of the trip, New Year’s Eve, in Seoul, South Korea. It was pretty cold so we bought some funky stocking hats from a street vendor and walked around the Gangnam area of Seoul. There were a lot of people out and it was pretty festive. We had some difficultly getting dinner at first. At the first Korean BBQ restaurant we went into, we were told ... read more

Last Saturday I had to go to foreign teacher conference here in Seoul. So after a long night out on the town I had to wake up at 7am for a 45min subway ride to the other side of seoul with one of my coworkers. We were positive about it though, thinking maybe we would learn some teaching techniques, immigration tips or at least get some free stuff. Boy were we wrong. First of all, there were around 500 teachers at this thing from all over Korea; one girl we met travelled for 3 hours to get there, so no small get-together here. The fiasco started off with a girl reading word-for-word the imigration laws off a handout we already had. After that a guy gave a serious speach with an overhead projection of his ... read more