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Daegu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Daegu, Korea Rep.
Bunny times
This is a top pick! Daegu, South Korea - My slow train from Seoul finally makes it to Daegu. Tickets are not checked in South Korea, they just trust that you have one! My couchsurfer Suze met me at the station, she is from Hayling Island in the South of England and is 26 ...
Exploring Geyongju and Daegu!
This is a top pick! ... I write, I'll tell you all about the food they eat in South Korea, and the things I have learned about South Korean people. Does anyone have any questions? Talk to you again soon! From Becca, your teammate in Daegu, South Korea ...
The first few days in Daegu
I finished training! I even passed! Training was so hard. I kept thinking, "what was I thinking coming to Korea!" and I even thought death would be better than this, because I thought I was going to fail and that would be really humiliating. But luckily, ...
CIS and World cup
... and if both win USA and Korea will play each other next and that would just be so exciting since there are a lot of Americans in Korea, and a lot of Koreans J. In the classroom I was given, there was a lot of random stuff in there. Not too random, there ...
North to Daegu
... After we left the train station we took a "jumbo taxi" to accomodate luggage to our hotel which is in the heart of East Daegu. After checking in Beth took us on a tour of the area including her apartment and the local markets. Her apartment ...
ARGH!!!
... her to yell at people who kick my bike! Anyways, not a good night. I can still use my bike, but the front is just falling to pieces. The fact that cars drive on sidewalks in Korea, was scary when I first got here, but now I guess I know my pet ...
New job, new apartment
... at a Christian school in Pohang, but I didn't want to move to Pohang. Some recruiters set up an interview on the other side of Daegu, close to where my friend Leana lives. The director was nice, but the school works Saturdays. I almost took that job. The ...
Gyeongju
Gyeongju This weekend Stacey and I took a train down to Gyeongju. In Ancient times, this city was the capital of the Shilla dynasty. The Shilla managed to unify all of the Korean Pennensula under one government due to military strength. What we found ...
Teaching Pictures
Hello All, A while back the local newspaper wanted to do an article on English Conversational teachers in my province. It just happens to be that my school got chosen! The article was published and with the help of my cooperating teacher I was ...
My Korean Clothes Washer or The Genetic Algorithm
Initial note to anyone searching for answers to your Korean clothes washer queries, you won't find this of much help. This morning I attempted to puzzle out how my 손 빨 래 brand clothes washer works. An online dictionary translates ...
Testing Out this new blog
I can't believe I leave in a few hours. I have lived in Korea the past two year and it has blessed me with travel opportunities beyond my wildest dreams. And now to test uploading photos! ...
Class
Class tonight was great! I think Thursday wins! It's my best class, plus I will only have one class on Thursdays, and it's listening, which is easier than reading. I'm now going on my second rounds of listening classes and I feel a lot better about them ...
Okay, now I live in korea
I live on the 16th floor of an apartment building in Gyeongsan, South Korea. Until yesterday, I’d never lived above the third floor. Way up here the wind screams incessantly and beats against the convex wall of windows on my balcony. I moved in ...
Bored
... . I can't complain too much about bordom. I could be flat out miserable.... I'll take this time to share a few things about Daegu. It's the 136th largest city in the world. The 2nd most disastrous event since the Korean war took place here in 2003, when ...
Chuseok holiday and teaching
... , but this address is more reliable I guess. Brianna Swaim Daegususeong Branch Goldtower Bldg., 198-2 Beomeo 4-dong, Suseong-gu, Daegu, Korea 706-821 I haven't actually received anything so I hope it is reliable. Chuseok This weekend is the ...
Daegu Parks!
... here are not heated) and sitting on chairs to eat (traditional style is to sit on floor). Today, Wednesday, we visited Daegu National Museum, Suseong Park and Mt. Apsam, all unique and interesting. The museum depicted a lot of the traditional (I ...
more observations from an 'alien'
Have just recieved my 'alien registration card' ... so I am now a legal alien in Korea! yay this means I can now get a phone... and internet! Life without these has been like stepping back in time. This is my first week of teaching actual lessons >> ...
How smashing!!!
... All I can imagine is playing with them in the 16th century and they have top hats on shouting 'What a smassing shot dear!'. Crazy. Korea seems to have this strange time warp thing going on. If you are under 40 years old you generally look younger than ...
Seomun Market and other chat
... said 'Yeh!! Did you see me there? Were you there?!' She said 'No. I saw you on tv'. The things i learn in class. Korea is bloody crazy!!! And remember emma's music concert? It was on tv the past two nights! Haha! Well, I have recently returned ...
Lets Dispell some myths!
... . It is reported frequently how badly behaved children are in the UK, and how we should take a leaf out of Japan, and South Korea's book. Well, I can quite honestly say that this is the biggest load of crap I have heard in my life. After teaching here ...
Seoul, Weddings and a Love Motel
... so many people in my life. They were like ants absolutely everywhere in this huge huge station. Since being back in Daegu I have had another massage, played badminton again, been to costco and bought syrup and candy canes (amongst hundreds of other ...
One month has passed
... down! These last few weeks have been really busy. I seem to teach more than all the other native teachers in Daegu, so I generally have 5 classes a day, then at lunch Ive been practicing the guitar for my debut rock star performance (which actually ...
Gyeong ju
We just arrived in this town - gyeong-ju - at 5pm without having booked accomodation - we walked down the street into this fab hotel & got a room - its cheap! about aud$35 and tv - fridge etc etc AND pc and free internet in our room! im staying ...
Welcome to Daegu
So here I am finally in Daegu! Im right up in the northern suburbs of the city – a bit of a trek away from downtown but Im getting used to the bus system. After having such an intense orientation period constantly having people around (and being ...
New information and my take on this weird place
... dancing tho. Amazing!!! I dance back at them. And they have microphones and music in the background. The noise pollution in Korea is immense - there are no rules. Outside every shop is someone with a microphone telling passers by why they should go ...
Daegu
... western food. Its amazing how good i feel after eating korean food. I stink to death, but i'm so light and everything!! In korea they don't have ovens. Anywhere. Everything is fried or....boiled i guess. Anyways, so we got a taxi back to our flat ...
First week in Daegu
... average the past two nights. Bloody time difference, and mothers and sisters who are unable to calculate a 9hour time difference.... So, Daegu's completely psycho! We have arrived 8hours early - no thanks to my agent Kyu who forced me to get up at ...
Daegu teaching
... NOT the first person to make the ET joke! Thanks for trying tho. I do look a little like ET on my card. In korea, everything is backwards, for example addresses, and names. So when i say i am Taransay Smith, everyone now calls me 'Smiss'. Excellent. ...
The wae-gook-in has arrived
... required. Finally, I have met many ex-patriot Canadians here and they all teach English at one of the thousand universities in Korea. Todd has graciously introduced me to his circle of friends and we have been out on numerous occasions. Soju is the ...