Crown Busan

... more to my life, my family, and society in general, if I'm employed. As it is, I'm applying at various universities in Busan to be a professor. It's a step up, and I'd get more vacation time, which is AWESOME!!<br><br> I'll be going home just after the holidays, and I'm excited about that. I miss my family. My mission for next year is to convince people to come visit me. Last year, I was blessed with visitors ...

Gyeoung-ju was the capital of Korea for over 500 years around 1000 years ago. So it was scattered with imperial tombs and ruins and remnants of the old empire. We visited the tombs and the museum housing the treasures found in the tombs, then rented bikes for $2.50/bike for 2 hours and rode past gardens, rice paddies, lily ponds, temples, and royal mounds/tombs in the city. The kids loved it. <br><br>Paul wrote:<br><br>On the 4 hour drive back up ...

So, I landed totally jetlagged and ill, in a word shattered, in Ulsan, where the driver mister Lee seemed surprised that mister Adrien C. was actually me. Maybe he was expecting a gringo frenchie.<br><br>The first thing that struck me before landing in Ulsan, was the sheer number of refineries, chemical plants, and factories in general. These were there for kilometers and kilometers, and then we flew over the city, with big habitation buildings alignments, and then more factories ...

... the stop button doesnt work on the VCR and I started to freak! Ahhh, make it go away! Just make it go away! Every night we stayed out until 6 a.m. and the sun was already up! The second day most of us were pretty hungover so we decided to get Thai massages! It was great! Four of us together in one room and two of us in the other room. We changed into little cotton "scrubs." Then little Thai women washed our feet and led us to mattresses on the ...

June 8th, 2008 As taken form my leather bound journal for when one does not have access to technology. "I want sand in my hair; if it's got a beach, to the city I must go there" Early morning starts if followed by moments of fun are no sweat to me. We woke at 4am to ensure we would make our 630am train out of Seoul. I was up an at 'em after my four alarms and their non-synchronized buzzing and beeping woke me from my not so long slumber. With only ...

... lakeside resort near ahuge dam used for hydro-electric power. I sort of screwed up by eating with my left hand but I was too tired to remember so I'll have to work on this. I live on the fifth floor of the building which has the school in it and school is on the third floor so getting to work shouldn't be a problem. I get a nice but small apartment to myself and amgenerally satisfied with the situation.

... for Gyeongju. Gyeongju is where Autumn lives in Korea. When the rest of the country is still stuck in a stale green or scorched and barren yellow, Gyeongju is aflame with reds and oranges that glow electrically. Gyeongju is also an old historic centre for Korea. The Korean ancients - whether monks or emperor - had impeccable taste. All the most naturally beautiful sites in Korea are marked by temple or palace or temple-palace. Bulguksa temple, a 1500 year old site ...

... as if to say "It was delicious, but really I couldn't manage another bite" we paid up and were about to leave when the restaurant owner gave a shout. Anxious, we turned around to discover she was just bagging up some cherry tomatoes for us to take with us. Would never happen in Cafe Rouge. We went back to our friendly bike hire man and set off on bicycles to the nearby Gugok waterfall. The cycle there was pleasant, if a little tiring due to it all being uphill ...