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Boldog Új Évet! /Happy New Year 2011!
Ezúton kívánok kis családom minden tagjának, SK-nak és családjának, barátaimnak, munkatársaimnak és minden kedves blog olvasómnak nagyon boldog új évet! _________________________ Herewith I would like to wish all my family ...
Pyongyang, October 10, 2008, Friday (continued)
... , so I couldn't check what else there was around. I settled for watching people. Which was always fun. Particularly here in North Korea. From somewhere we started hearing music. It wasn't on the fun fair grounds. Somewhere from outside, rather. Well, the ...
Making the most of the final weekends
... of the twentieth century, I did leave feeling a little disappointed. It was the first exhibition of any kind I had seen in Korea which didn't feature an English translation, and the sign at the beginning which claimed this was due to "lack of space" ...
NICK: To the Seoul of Korea
... (if not faster) than the bullet trains in Japan. They're cheaper, and just as comfortable. One thing that I particularly liked about Korea was that things were cheaper than in Japan. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the people are just the ...
National Folk Museum
... one of my favorite field trips. The collection included lots and lots of old and new items that reflect Korean culture. Korea is a very old society and many of the items on display remind you of that. Just walking into the grounds was ...
Feeding the Seoul
... floor! In Korea all of the floors are heated too, so it makes it even more cozy. Zen Buddhism, as practiced in Korea, is quite different from other lineages I've experienced. My background is mainly in Theraveda Buddhism, which focuses mostly on self. ...
Lost track of the weeks.
... of antiques, and there are a lot of tea houses. The weather was beautiful, which made it so much more enjoyable. Think Korea, Think Kimchi. Kimchi, the staple of every Koreans diet, is a vegetable that is pickled and covered with pepper paste and then ...
Staying 6 more months~!
... to see the Grotto Buddha. Hiked an hour and a half to see a magnificent Buddha. It's the biggest Buddha statue in Korea. I'm not Buddhist, but even I could appreciate the beauty of this Buddha... unfortunately no pictures were allowed to be taken. So ...
First week in Korea starts out bad
I arrived at the Incheon Airport excited but scatterbrained from lack of sleep. Instead of sleeping on the plane I chose to watch 6 movies. I got through customs and immigration quickly and stopped by the exchange booth to change my dollars into won. ...
Yonsei University
... 1885 as a teaching hospital and has gone through numerous formations and names. It became named Yenisei in 1917 and Korea’s first modern university. Yonsei U. is a private Catholic University. Between its two campus, graduate and ...
A little Seoulfood
... need to address if it truly wants to be a player in the global arena. Another interesting Korean phenomena: plastic surgery obsession! Korea is extremely materialistic and superficial, as you tend to see in much of Asia. It is odd to see this trend in ...
Gettin Dirty: Boryeong Mud Festival
... was pretty accurate... I saw more "foreigners" (Americans, Europeans, etc) that day than I've seen during my entire time in Korea. A pretty good description of the event is a somewhat toned down Korean "spring break". After trying to clean up in ...
Where does the time go?
... which is in the south to check out the law school that Dan is going to. Just last week I went to the War Memorial of Korea and saw all kinds of military stuff from the Chosun dynasty to the present. It was pretty cool. I'll post some pics. Just last ...
South Korea's 2nd city
... - handy) but it ate it - luckily our train station lady friend saved the day. She explained that about a year ago Korea released new money (different pictures, colours and sized notes and coins) which machines could not use (!). She took us to her ...
Angry Ajummas
... We wandered around some cute little neighborhoods and the "artsy" district of Seoul. The streets were lined with little galleries and cute cafes. Korea is so structured and it's rare to see this kind of artistic freedom in the country. I am so grateful ...
Holy Grail...
Undeterred by the previous day's failure, we once again set off on a mission to find my brothers' Holy Grail - the Stussy shop! I'd called the foreigner helpline in the morning and a very helpful lady gave us precise directions, beginning with the ...
Rain, Rain, You're A Pain
... Stoppard Back again? Back in Korea. Back in its capital, Seoul. I love this place. If you ask me everyone should experience Korea, its amazing culture and people, at least once in their lifetime. This is my second trip to the Land of the Morning ...
Seeing a bit of Seoul with some locals
... looking at what she could buy. The vegetarian restaurant Min found for us was just what I had been looking for in Korea. A place where I could order anything I wanted without fear of pork or some other such animal product buried beneath the ...
Let the adventure begin...
Righty o then, its day two and after today shenanigans I've decided to try and write a travel blog, try been the key word there. I’d start with jump starting the car then breaking down on the A63 but thankfully I know no one would find that ...
Vasúti bringa / Auraji Railbike
A vasúti bringázás frissítő élmény a nagy nyári melegben, én a Gangwon-do tartományban található Jeongseon melletti pályát választottam. Szöul Cheongnyangni állomásról vonattal kényelmesen és szép tájakon át lehet ...
Shincheorwon Olympics
The past two weeks have been a pleasant surprise with many days off and chances to "take a load off," and show off your athletic skills. Sports Day. This is the biggest event of the year. I found this particularly interesting because ...
Mud-Festival
Am Samstag den 24.7.2010 hatten Jule, Julia (zwei neue Praktikantinnen) und ich die Idee zum altbekannten und verrücktesten Festival zu fahren. Das Mud-Festival an der westküste. Natürlich hatten wir alles vorher im Detail geplant :-). Leider verlief ...
Teaching
After a month of office BS and preparation, we finally had our first students. It was definitely good timing because if the students hadn't have come this week there were probably going to be a few "office blowups" between some teachers and between some ...
Lame rafting and a soggy Arboretum
We took a day trip with Ashley, her friend Cassandra, Julie, and Scott to go rafting....The rafting was.....well, rather silly compared to rafting back home. The arboretum was nice except the rain kind of got in the way. But all in all it was a fun ...
Knut búcsúzik /Farewell to polar bear Knut
Még mindig felfoghatatlan, de múlt vasárnap az örök jégmezőkre költözött a világ legjátékosabb jegesmackója, Knut. Pár hónapos korában nekem is volt szerencsém meglátogatni Berlinben és az elmúlt 4 évben ...
feels good to be back
Some things just feel right, whether it be sitting at home all day watching re-runs of bad 90's australian tv dramas, or eating so much KFC that you think you're gonna be sick, some things just feel good for an inexplicable reason. This is the feeling I ...
Precious reminders
This morning has been an unusual morning, as it started of with a text from my sister notifying me that a good friend of mine had committed suicide. Derek and I have been friends for probably 20 years, growing up together, going to school together, ...
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. ...
Happy Halloween!
They don't celebrate Halloween in Korea, but we taught the children all about it in school and ventured out for a little trick-or-treating to some of the student's homes. I thought I'd post some pics of the little ...
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 ...