Grand Motel Chuncheon

... paths crossed again, and in Seoul, Korea of all places! Feeling gratitude for the coming and going of people in my life....

Last Sunday I ran my 2nd full marathon! The marathon was in Chuncheon, and the 2nd largest marathon in Korea, behind the Seoul International Marathon. The course was beautiful, winding around a large lake surrounded by mountains covered in fall foliage. The weather was perfect- overcast, about 21C. Although I've ...

... best students from each school in my city. This was my first contact with teachers that really believed in teaching, and students that really wanted to learn English. I found myself happy to wake up and stumble off to camp, happy to eat with the kids for as many meals each day as possible, happy to spend my free time avoiding the other teacher-creepers and hiding out with the students. It was an unreal week - education is not usually like this. It was the other Korea where English ...

... it anyway. it's made walking around town very bearable. one of the days here, eunice and two of my uncles took a day trip to chuncheon, just about 50km north of seoul; it may have only been 50km, but it took 3 hours because of seoul's crazy crazy traffic... and you thought the 405 near UCLA was bad! seoul traffic is horrendous! anyways, the purpose of our trip was to visit the youngest of my cousins. his name is byoung as well; actually all the ...

... day of flying (including a rejected breakfast of spicy octopus), i arrived here [at the Kangwon National University campus in Chuncheon, South Korea] EARLY last Monday morning and have now been here for almost a week. Chuncheon is in the province of Gangwon-Do, which ...

... country, having an intense crash course in the Korean language, and we've even gotten to get some firsthand experience teaching Korean kids. I taught my second lesson today.. It was interesting. Kids here sleep really openly in class because they are so overworked and drained. It's hard not to take it personally, but I feel like there's a lot to be learned from a teaching experience that isn't stellar.. Just ...

... shadows, so it is better to go in spring or fall. It is favourable to many couple to date. Hompage of Korea National Arboretum in English : http://www ...

... towns) and three hydro-electric dams have created a summer water playground in this area - there is a nice three to four kilometre walking path along the levee. Used a local bus going southwest to Gangchon and hiked to the Gugok waterfall. Although frozen it was a glorious 10K return walk - it was entertaining watching the climbers scale the one hundred plus metre ice wall. Korea, because of its large population and small size (relative to ...

... a good sign. So they took all our info and said he should get it in the next day or two and that they would ship it to us. Anyone want to make a bet to see how long its really going to take or if we even get it back? Besides the luggage the flights went well. Everything was on time. We sat in the business section on both flights which makes flying 7000 miles a lot more tolerable. While we were sitting in the lounge in Tokyo we actually ran ...

... anyway. I've come to realise that this term "famous" get thrown about a bit rashly in Korea. To me, famous means internationally famous or close to it, but in Korea when they say "This restaurant is famous" they really just mean...it's good. Unfortunately the rain was having a substantial effect on the decision maing process. We wanted to get inside as quickly as possible. Miraculously, the clouds were able to hold out the entire train ...

... where they teach you how to make Korean handicrafts, and awesome Korean food (even if it is a little overpriced). So today I got a free tour to Seoul, South Korea from Asiana Airlines (yeah they rock) First they took us to the president's house which is across the street from Gyeongbukjung Palace. They call the President's house the Blue House because it has a blue roof (and because of the White House). We got free entry into the Exhibition center there ...