Mud . . .

More of Summer

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August 23rd 2011
My school didn’t have class for 5 weeks, and I expected that I would have a long, boring summer, but this summer has flown by. I went away a couple of weekends, did summer camps at 2 schools, and took the first half of my TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) class. First, in early July, I went to the Boryeong Mud Festival with a big group of other foreign friends. Boryeong is a bea ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Daegu

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more