Grand Busan

... Ann move all the leftover supplies back to her apartment (so conveniently located next to E-Mart), we headed out to meet up with Jiyeon, Kiran, Jason, Colin, and Patrick at the Yachting Club outdoor theatre for a concert presentation and a screening of the French film "Sisters."

The venue was massive and completely ...

... is in august though, so we missed the crowds but since it was labor day weekend, all the americans from all the bases were there in full force. it was like we were on PB in san diego...they even had a surf contest that weekend. there was one major difference though, between beach culture in the states and beach culture in korea...koreans go to the beach fully clothed! everyone was wearing normal day clothes and if they ...

... of Korea.

It was not a mall like you can find in the Emirates for example. It is not an entertainment place, just a shopping place: a department store laying over 9 floors, in one building, with escalators etc...
Basement is the food court, roof is a bar-restaurant.
When you enter the ground floor, you are among the cheap jewelery and handbags. Then all the make-up and beauty stuff that women put on their skin, you know all the shiny glittering and bloody ...

... I *lso tell him wh*t room I *m in *nd invite him to c*ll on me the following *fternoon. He does, *nd I show him *round the b*se on th*t Frid*y for *bout *n hour. He is *nxious to get his "juicy" experience, *nd I tell him it's re*lly not worth it. Th*t most of them *re dumb *nd m*ke you buy them lots of drinks. But he insists. So I tell him, "fine, we'll go to A-town *fter I get off work tonight." He *grees *nd I rele*se him to his own devices so ...

... m a resourceful gal, but sometimes I felt like I was doing this blind. THIS YEAR, though, I have SOO many options, and everything has already gotten the juices flowing. Now that I have this new room, I feel like I have a place. I've been really excited about implementing some new program ideas as well. Like a movie club, a reading club, and an English lab. Yeah, it means more work for me--and it's not required, but I'm really thrilled right now to get the ...

... we later saw the fishmarket ladies skinning alive. The poor guys would wriggle around without any skin on them, and we were pretty grossed out by the fish after that. We met up with our tourguide and the rest of the passengers. Our tour guide spoke in Korean only, so I had to do my best to translate for Jeremy. I think I got about 60% of what she said but she tended to tell a lot of jokes, which got frustrating ...

... nice and spicey..... Korean Notes so far Not as clean as Japan people Not as trendy fashion wise Not as many people speak english Korean sounds a lot different to Japanese - more gutteral i.e. rolling their r's and sounds a lot like turkish really. Food is way more spicey here 70% mountaineous country Marriage is a big thing as regards respect, Older people are respected by their juniors but married people are more respected

... the overnight ferry to Fukuoka, Japan enjoying the comforts of the cabin we were upgraded to thanks to Nick's 'connections', an upgrade we took full advantage of by sleeping for the majority of the 12 hours we spent on the ferry (only 7 of which was spent sailing). A tale of two halves Our time in Busan nicely sandwiched our 4-day, 3-night trip to Japan (see the next entry for more on that). I won't go ...

... last 5 months. The next morning was whiled away at the beach and then back to Donghae to catch the train to what would be one of our more.......memorable destinations. We had booked ourselves to stay for one night in a Hanok, a traditional Korean house. This particular one was 40 minutes outside the city of Andong, and was run as an artists' commune by a certain Mr Kim and his wife. Mr Kim collected us from the station and after about 20 minutes we found oursleves ...