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Travel Blogs from Cheonan, Korea Rep.
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A new camera, fire drills & some Korean wrestling
... with ease. The next lesson was interrupted by a training drill which was explained as being mainly due to the conflict with North Korea. Apparently it is a national drill (it sounded like the siren was being broadcast by the radio) and they do it once a ...
My birthday in Korea
... a fabulous Thai restaurant and that is where we went for an early dinner. The food was amazing! All the way from Cheonan we lugged around a big polystyrene box housing the most amazing ice-cream cake from Baskin Robbins...in my favourite flavour – ...
My first few days in South Korea
... eat and drink (my first food in Korea and it was MacDonald’s!) and then bought our bus tickets and together we drove to Cheonan, my new city, 2 hours away. We chatted quite a lot as I had so many questions to ask but eventually guess what...I dozed ...
My second weekend in Cheonan - getting braver!
... as a lovely Korean girl and many others. Afterwards we went for lunch together and once again everyone was giving me tips on Korea, one of which was about the "yellow dust from China". Everyone gets warned about this horrible yellow dust which blows from ...
Feeling like a dork!
Yesterday I went to the hospital where I had a full medical test. If it comes back positive for drugs or HIV I get sent back home. Today I went to the bank but still can’t open an account so spent the rest of the day doodling the time away with a ...
Childrens Day
... & two other girls are catching the express train (KTX) to Busan and staying the night in a hostel there. Really looking forward to seeing some more of this country. Busan is the 2nd largest city in South Korea and a major port so should be ...
Visit to Gagwonsa Temple
Yesterday I finally taught my first two lessons and they went pretty well. I also caught the bus by myself to school for the first time and it all went smoothly. The only thing is, there is only one bus that goes to the school at the right time for me. ...
Easter weekend continued...
Happy Easter everyone! I've spent my morning cleaning this place...I have cleaned inside the fridge and put the deodoriser in there and it still smells – any tips? I’m sure there is something to do with bicarb that takes fridge smells away? ...
New Years Resolutions
... nbsp; I bought a bike and I bought a North Face Noosi jacket · I went to Cheonan Water Park · Nice new teacher (I believe that was me!) ...
Oodles of Noodles!
... ) felt a whole lot better too. Hester has put posters up of him all over the place but he has yet to be claimed. Unfortunately, in Korea is it fairly common for people to get tired of their pets and just put them out on the street. Sad but true. I have NO ...
Easter Weekend
... me with a little basket with 3 boiled eggs in it for Easter and she also sang me some songs. We later went to the Cheonan Museum which was pretty interesting and there I had a very touristy photo on a big chair dressed in weird robes that are apparently ...
Routine...
Life seems to have caught up with me the last few weeks! I have settled into a routine and seem to have very little spare time left! School has been busy as I teach more and more and I also stupidly planned a lesson that involved me marking a worksheet, ...
My first week of teaching comes to an end
... ;what is your favourite Korean food?” Two boys asked me how many countries I have travelled to, one asked what I think of Korea and another asked if anyone was ever attacked by animals when I lived in the bush. I discovered that very few students ...
Hanbok at school
Every month at the Kindergarten they hold a birthday party. This makes sure that everyone who has had a birthday that month gets to celebrate it and be the belle (or beau) of the ball. Korean ages are a little different to how we figure it in the ...
Saying goodbye to an old friend......
Yesterday we said a teary goodbye to an old, dear member of staff. After enduring months of it teetering on the edge of total breakdown, Young-Hun finally decided to replace the office photocopier with a newer, sleeker model. We couldn't let the ...
Day One
... have to try to learn Korean though. I am located in Yongi-kun (county) in Chungcheongnam-do province of the Republic of Korea. Presently I have no permanent address, I am staying with the English-speaking Korean teacher, Alice, until I am setup with a ...
Sangnok Resort: Compound
... was beautiful. A little bit of a history lesson was dicatated on the way and apparently during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910-1945) in 1919 a young lady started a revolution against the Japanese Overlords. She was tortured and killed as a ...
Mudfest and Summer Camps
... As it happened this was the first week of summer camps, destination: Soon Cheon Hyang University, the Medical Building. Its located near Cheonan about an hour south of Seoul. I was assigned Class Yellow, or B class. Unfortunately as I discovered on the ...
Attempt to Relax
... EFL Teaching-induced Self-destructive Weekend syndrome. Pretty good, eh? I should name diseases for a living. I arrived back in Cheonan. I briefly thought maybe a mental institution might be nearby that I could check into. Alas, no. I proceeded on ...
My kids in Cheonan!
Ok, so these were my little monsters. At first they were so nice and then at a drop of the hat they were kicking each other's asses. One kid broke a computer and I caught a few of them smuggling ...
In South Korea FINALLY!
... 10:20am Tuesday March 24. I arrived in the new Incheon -Seoul Airport Wed 3/25/09. I then had to ride 2 hours to Cheonan, which wasn't bad at all...just tiring. When I arrived and met the schoo director Mr. Chang Su Mo he took me to this ...
May
... , as the long-legged herons came stabbing over the fields, elegant coils of white in the world of green. This was the Korea I had remembered, it had come back, and I realised that my year was ending already. The whole long winter, the brief ...
waking up angry
... - and with all thanks due to Nan and none to the rest of my school - a new apartment was found for me, right in downtown Cheonan. And suddenly, just like that, I had a date set for my move. Whether I liked the new apartment or not. Moving day ...
New Junk, Old Junk
... ; All this bric-a-brac seemed out of place in this gallery. Arario Gallery opened in Cheonan in 2002, a sleek and contemporary space surrounded by the hippest department stores in downtown Cheonan (which are also ...
life under the shadow
... served as kumara fries in NZ or candied yams in the US, I knew it only in its delicious manifestation. But in Korea gogoma is served plain, that is, uncandied, unfried, unmayonnaised and uncheesed. It is boiled, peeled, and stuffed into one's ...
the rock star and the circus animal
The Korea i had imagined prior to arrival was one enormous, endless city, sprawling out to cover the tiny peninsular, all skyscrapers and clean sharp edges, perfect efficiency and neon lights. It was a country of business people and ...
Tomato Season
... about complete. The wet swathes that hung around the hills every morning were the same swathes I had seen when I first arrived in Cheonan. The rain when it came moved in silently, drenching everything, and disappeared fast but never for long. It was all ...
Up at 6:15 to make my way to Incheon Airport
I woke up insanely early but bumped for a prospective change of surroundings. My bus made its way to Incheon Airport much faster than on any other occasion. The trip only took 90 minutes, compared to the usual two-and-a-half hours. ...
transitions
... naked twigs of the plants were beginning to bud with green, white and pink. Cherry blossom festivals began around Korea, sometimes before the flowers they were honouring. When the blossoms did arrive they arrived en masse, great shimmering clouds ...
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