Capital Seoul

... we ended up getting a room at this place for like $50. Now the rooms are nice and all, but if you don't have money to just throw away, there is no point in staying in a place like this. The Internet wasn't free, the hotel restaurants were outrageously expensive and the hotel isn't really conveniently located for anything. The best part about the place was the toilet in our room. I wish I had taken a picture. This thing had more buttons on it than a military command post. I ...

Back to the grind (for Heather). Back to the TEFL for me. Monday I just kind of hung out and did some work I needed to do. Heather and I went for a morning run down by the river and I looked around Hanam-si while she taught her kiddies Engrish. For those of you that think I just misspelled English I refer you the the entry in my Thailand blog entitled "The Engrish Competition." OK, now we are all on the same ...

... kimbop, because I don't like raw meat.  I think that I am going to start bringing this to school some days instead of sandwiches- it is a very healthy and balanced meal!  You lay out your dried seaweed and then mush rice on top of it in a thin layer.  Slop in whatever veggies and meat you have in your fridge (I want to experiment with some fruit and salsa when I get home) and roll it with your rolling thing.  Eat up!  We will make this when I get home too!<br ...

All I have to say is that Korean Air has the biggest individual screens I've ever seen. I felt like my nearsightedness was worsening during the 12 hour trip with the screen not more than one foot in front of my face. Not that it stopped me from watching 4.5 movies and getting a big headache. That combined with sitting in the middle seat (did I ...

... of 800km/h flight, how lost can you get if you go down there? Will have to find out some day.<br><br>I should have slept, but I found La Dolce Vita on the screen... so I ended up sleeping 30 minutes that night, and woke up above the Gobi desert. I was hypnotized and could not unstick from the window for an hour. Just at Dawn there was the misty ground, the sky already blue-grey because the atmosphere was receiving sunlight, and in ...

Flying into San Francisco looks like you're going to land right in the water... it's freaky. Flying into Incheon looks like you never left home... all the airport buildings out the window have English on them. At the airport I follow a strange man into his van and the first thing I notice is that it's not nearly as cold as I had been warned by my Korean friends. We head for a motel in Seoul ...

... but the children don&#8217;t get to properly grow up. These are just my own thoughts, reactions and interpretations though.<br><br>Interacting with Koreans I do find them warm and catering. I definitely get the occasional ***** look because (my fellow co-workers thought) of the Othello principle i.e. exotic = erotic. I do have big boobs and blonde hair, which is extreme ...

... about Koreans, they shop with absolutely no regard for anyone else in the store. They park their shopping carts in the middle of the aisles, they linger in front of you as they talk on their cell phone, they cut right in front of you because they see something they need on the other side of the aisle! But....that is just the way it is here. Either join them or get angry and make a fool of yourself....yelling at a Korean in English is going to get you no ...

Hello WORLD - Welcome to the lives of Little H, Big H and Big D! Today was a rather auspicious day for us all here. It's the first day of the rest of our lives. A rather special event, don't you think? I think so. Thanks Couch, Wanderer and all you others for making it possible. Our Sponsors are too vast to mention, but y'all know who you are. Big H slept for most of the ...

This is Tony. I met him at Yoido Full Gospel Church here in Korea. Our first date was at Starbuck's in Itaewon on October 12, 2005 and we've been together since. He is from New Zealand, ironic. I've not traveled to many places, but I have been to New Zealand. It comes in handy ...