Hotel Ariana Daegu

... with a hangover! :)

Anyway, antibiotics kicking in and feeling particularly sleepy so that is almost all for today apart from the worst experience EVER yesterday - the most disgusting spider in the whole wide world was just THERE in my bathroom and totally panicked. No hoover so that wasnt an option so after having a pep talk from my mum i sat at the end of my bed opened the door to my bathroom armed with a hairdryer, bleach, hot ...

... will be teaching full time next week though. Today we taught from 9 am-3 pm. I only had one class so I only taught from 9 am - 12 pm. I showed up around 8:20 at the school. You're supposed to be there an hour early, I found out a few days ago. Chung Dahm says that you need to be there 20 minutes early, but our branch apparently requires you to be there an hour. No one has said anything to me though. I get there to find about four other teacher waiting outside the ...

... So, I decided to sit outside on a stump until I figured out if I needed starbucks. As I was sitting there staring off into space, wondering "Do I need starbucks?" a Korean lady came up to me and pointed at a table she was sitting at with other Korean ladies and said "drink?" and smiled really big. I looked at the table and saw something brown in what looked like used to be a water bottle and said "no thank you". Then I was observing the table from my stump and ...

... district I live in and which subway stop I live by. I have written in Korean where I live also to show the taxi, but I don't know what it is in English. I was at Darin and Mila's apartment and they live by the green subway line five stops down. I left around midnight and found out the subway was closed. They have a car, but we're all foreigners so they weren't sure about my address, but they knew how to get to the bus station and I know ...

... it is going to be a great day... After checking in at my hotel, I took a bus out to Bulguksa Temple, one of the most famous in Korea. Now I've seen plenty of temples in my time, but this was up there with the best, no doubt helped by the surrounding blue sky. I'm not sure why exactly, but wandering around temples like this one help me to relax, and I come away feeling rejuvenated. I even saw some pretty flowers on the trees, the first ...

... touch at the net has finally accepted me...maybe. He jokes with me about my funny clothes and mannerisms and I tease him back ...I have no idea what he's saying nor does he have any idea what I'm saying. And I feel in a small way I've been accepted by the tribe...But then again I do have a group of my own. In addition to family and friends who love me dearly, by growing up in a place like Meeker ...

... world. My favourite was a Romanian 'gypsy' band, who were just amazing! The next day we went to Busan for the International Film Festival. Its the 13th film festival they've held and I'm pretty sure its up there with Caine! The Koreans get very excited about it, but its really just a great way to see some small scale international films on the cheap! We saw a great one called Johny Mad Dog, about child soldiers in Sierra Lione. We also saw a ...

... nicht geklappt, die Holzbloecke haben Schimmel angesetzt und man hat sie wieder in die alten Hallen zurueckgebracht. Heute stehen sie unter UNESCO Weltkulturerbeschutz. Die Hallen sind natuerlich versiegelt (der Schweiss der Besucher wuerde wohl ein schnelles Ende bedeuten:-) aber man kann von aussen hineinschauen. Gruss Ralf P.S. Westler habe ich seit Seoul keine mehr gesehen, allenfalls japanische Touristen...

... that the teacher I replaced recommended, but I didn't. I decided to walk home (it wasn't very far), again possessing nothing other than the memory of the satellite image of Daegu. You think I would have learned my lesson from last time, but those who know me know I am like... oh what am I like? (chloe, you know what I'm talking about, right? That thing that never learns its lesson?) Basically, I had to get across Geumseung River, but the bridge did not ...

... show them a video of Highland Dancing, which they find hysterically funny! I'm trying to think of what else they say? The fashion in my school right now is for boys to steal the girls hair clips and wear them in their hair. That's always entertaining. The students are awful to control now. The weather makes them sleepy and short tempered and there's never a minute when there isn't a student being beaten in our staffroom. It gives me a ...