Gwangju Prince Hotel

... that were made of broken clay pots that were mortared together. It seemed as though these roofs would last forever. When we were leaving the market I noticed a broom that I kept on seeing all through out Korea. It was made of twigs for the brush which I thought was unique so I took a picture. When we finally arrived to my mothers cousin’s house I was extremely tired from the jet lag and traveling so much. My mom’s cousins are sea salt farmers ...

... Japan. Daniel's Dad is a reporter so he knows all the head officals of everything local so he gets access to all the stuff we can't which is pretty cool. Next up was the man of Korea named Wang In that brought language to Japan. There is a huge site that is dedicated to him and his teachings. We saw chinese characters that are the root of kanji and formal korean spelling which I don't know ...

... I'm going to head to Wando (Mr don't speak is going back to Seoul) and get the ferry over to Jeju the next morning at 8am. Take a few days to chill on Jeju, then fly to Busan for a few days and head back to Seoul. To be honest I'm just really looking forward to getting to Hong Kong at this point. I know this isn't really in the spirit of things but it's really hard when I'm almost certain it won't live up ...

... I also had some lazy days here and I did some daytrips from Seoul, some even by subway (which network is extensive!). First I visited Suwon, an hour south of Seoul by subway. Here there is the very famous Hwaseong Fortress, which was indeed quite impressive and photogenic. Another daytrip went to Ganghwado Island, where I saw a dolmen (but I was hardly impressed because they have much bigger ones near my parents' place), a so-so temple and I climbed a ...

Monday turned out to be mostly a travel day for us. After using a PC-bang for internet (which is typically used by Koreans for gaming, but hey, it was cheap), we headed to the train station. We initially went to the wrong one and as we went to the subway to relocate to the proper station, an older man stopped to say hello because he saw Jeff's Canada patch and asked if we needed a ride. We said no thanks and headed on our ...

Nu er jeg i Gwangju, jeg har vaeret her 2 dage nu, og det er bare skoent at vaere ude at Seoul. Jeg bor hos Ji-yun og hendes familie ( jeg moedte hender over hospitality club = man kan bo hos folk gratis ) og de er simplethen saa rare og venlige. Ji-yun er 23 og snakker helt fantastisk engelsk, det gjorde mig virkelig glad, vi kan kommunikere problemloes. Hun har slev vaeret ude og rejse i 2 mdr og boet i England i 9 mdr ...

... your glass in a toast then you should never raise you glass higher then those older then you. 8 There are two kinds of barber shops the ones with the blacked out windows you can get a lot more then a hair cut??? Also two kind of coffee shops. One you can call the coffee shop girl to come and serve you coffee any where they are often calling into the bar we drink in to pour coffee for men in the bar they don't ware much clothes. 9 Korea is famous for Kim Chi ...

... a piece of the land that he worked--leaving me with a physical as well as spiritual base. But more importantly, the visit was an opportunity to learn more about my own father. My father was raised in the aforementioned farmhouse. I remember when my father used to regal my sister and I with stories of how he used to have to walk almost two hours each way to primary school. I had always thought that was part of some trite "grandpa" formula but my ...

In our orientation period we also did other things: Hiking Yep we went up a mountain and it is official, I am not very fit Baseball We were taken to a genuine Korean baseball game. From what our Canadian friends told us, it was a pretty **** game. Although, the beers being sold by the old ladies were cheap (or you can just BYO) and a lady sitting 4 seats from me was hit in the head by a baseball going at a decent speed, Unfortunately I was too much in ...

Kimchi: a very hot dish consisting of pickled cabbage and red **** that Koreans seem to love and eat breakfast, lunch and tea. We finally made it to Gwangju...it was a bit of a close call. We arrived at the international airport in Seoul and had just over 1 hr to get to our flight at the domestic airport, which is 40mins away by bus..so there we are trying to rush through immigration (but not trying to draw attention) - waiting for our luggage (tick tock). Nicole was made to come into ...