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Hanam Slideshow
Hanam
Travel Blogs from Hanam, Korea Rep.
Round 2
... to upload all my photos. I will go in chronological order starting with China and ending with Nepal. A quick update: I am now back in Korea and have begun my 2nd year of teaching. I am at the same high school teaching grades 10 and 11. I have been lucky ...
Gotta LOVE long weekends
On Friday/Saturday Eric and I hiked to the top of Geumosan. We stayed the night on the second highest peaked and hiked to the top the next morning. Our hopes were to catch a beautiful sunrise over Gumi city. As you can see from the photos, we got just ...
Update
... me to. I could go, however, I would have to take 5 days of my vacation time for quarantine when I arrive back in S.Korea. I just don't think it's worth it. Yes, I'm a little bummed. Instead I will be spending my days with various teachers throughout the ...
The Beginning of a Long and Joyous Journey
... guess this is true for most of Korea. I was told by one of my cooperating teacher's (sing sang nim, Korean) that 70% of Korea is mountainous. I think I came to the right country! I have had the luxury of climbing to the top of 4 mountains with another one ...
HO HO HO Merry Christmas
... my friends have to teach Xmas day, luckily I don't) I will be going to Everland. Everland is the largest amusement park in Korea. Apparently there will be a Christmas Parade and fireworks at night. They are also having a mock "snowstorm". I am going with ...
Jijiksa temple
One more time, we wake up in the night at 3AM to enjoy the ceremony and the breakfast, but this time we did a different hike, we went in a temple: Eun Sun Am ( little clean temple). We had as guide the girl that we met the first day and who finally ...
Rock Climbing in Mungyeong
... group seemed to be made up of mostly Canadians, I can honestly say I didnt realise there were so many of them in South Korea. Also, pretty much everyone in the group were English teachers living in Seoul. There was only myself and an Australian girl who ...
The lost months
... make changes. I spent a few months "enjoying" my time. I spent a lot of time at Live Bench, singing noraebong with the Hanam-si band and drinking soju and cass. It was hard, I missed home, but tried not to think about it. I guess ...
Ooo students ^^
... ...pretty cool... I will get the beat down ahaha. So a word of warning to those that want to teach elementary school here in Korea...be prepared to be loved. My third graders are still asking for my autograph and my second grade boys like to shake my ...
Lalala
What a week so far...and it has only been a few days since I last updated. Classes went better on Monday. I can definitly tell which students care/don't care, are bored, or just don't understand. There is such a wide-range in my class...I'm going to ...
Update-ishness
My Korean friend, Gloria told me today that her first impression of me was that of a child. She said when I got off the bus I had a huge smile on. She thought I was innocent and haven't had any hardships. Granted I have not had the worst of things in ...
Gimcheon Singing Competition
The last week of May, there was a singing compition here in Gimcheon for the elementary school level. A few of my students participated. A group for the group compition and then a few girls for the solo. We won first place for group and won several ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
... also on high security. It will be interesting to see what will happen. http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/18/kim-jong-ils-son-kim-jong-un-poised-to-lead-north-korea/ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57344887/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-has-died/ ...
Mom and Connie arrive!
... bathroom as soon as they got off the bus, and that bathroom has come in handy more than once since! We caught the bus to Hanam-si and I got to introduce them to my city. We had mandu for dinner, which is a steamed dumpling filled with meat or ...
Moving Forward
I think I'm ready to move on, to press on, to forget and to let go. I had a love once, it was great and wonderful until it fell apart and tore me apart. I was crushed, stepped on then torn apart. However, I have come back stronger than ever and I ...
Can More
A cute little cafe by the train station. When heading out of the station, to your right there is a building with a restaurant on the first floor, Can More cafe on the second, not sure about the third and a disco noreabang on the fourth. The inside of ...
Home Sweet Home!
Arrived back in Korea on Friday around 5am. Back in Gimcheon around 10:20am. I started to unpack and then I took about a 16 hour nap from 2:30pm to the next day. I am going to avoid international red eye flights if I can...that sucker killed me. Yesterday ...
Last of introductions
Yesterday I felt like a celebrity and I have to say, I feel sorry for those people. I introduced myself to 3rd and 5th graders. The first group of third graders were just amazed by my presence and starred at me with their mouths open for awhile. When we ...
triple take
Yesterday I had my first triple take. I was at the college waiting for Korean class with some friends, sitting outside. I enjoy people watching and anytime someone walks by I would look up. A group of guys were chatting away and when I looked up, I made ...
Friends from Germany!
Vik and Joanna, my friends from Germany visited me from Monday - Friday. On Monday, Jenny, Jessica and I took them to Jikjisa park/temple. Then I took them all out to dinner (minus Jessica, she left early). Tuesday we watched How to Train Your Dragon, ...
preparing for test
On Thursday, all the elementary students in Gimcheon (not sure about the rest of Korea), will be taking tests. So today and tomorrow Hui-Jung and I will be preparing the students for the English portion by taking a practice test. Today was the 4th grade. ...
teacher and kid
Haha the new gym teacher in my room thinks I have a calm personality...i can but I'm mostly energetic once you get to know me. Guess it is because I'm quiet. Also, its amazing to watch these kids grow throughout the year. My one 3rd grade boy was almost ...
Tuesday
I feel like something happed Sunday and Monday to write about but I don't remember. So, Tuesday it is! Ok, remember MinSong? The 4th grade boy that did the sexy thing? Well, he did it again. I walked into the classroom, he raises his hand, slowly ...
Friday
Classes went well, talked to Seok Jin and Jun Min after school. They asked me to sketch them, and well, I'm out of practice but I tried anyway...they had a good laugh. Jae Sik picked me up after school and took me to dinner. We had spicy bolgolgi...was ...
I will update…I will update…I will upd
4 more days of Japan to update and all of september… *sigh* ...
My apartment at the Livingtel
... . I don't have an oven though. I am planning on borrowing one of the other teachers' because he has two now. In Korea you must take your shoes off when you get into a home. I have a small tiled section to take off shoes and a shoe ...
My first real weekend in Hanam
... me where my stop was, even though I was totally ready for it. Sunday, I was all ready to go to E-Mart (walmart of Korea) when Russell and Francis stopped by my room to say they were going into Insa-dong, which is the traditonal area in Seoul where you ...
6th Graders
Today I was introducing myself to my 6th graders. The first batch, at 9am were very quiet. They didn't ask many questions but were still impressed with Buffalo and the buildings.My second class showed a bit more enthusiasm and were amazed that it took me ...