Hotel Chelsea Incheon

... MDLs do not exist and the North and South can sit across the table from one another; the table literally straddling the line. Whenever visitors from the south are in the JSA, ROK soldiers stand guard to protect them.



In the sea the MDLs are referred to as the Northern Limit Line (NLL) and Southern Limit Line (SLL). This is where many altercations occur. On land there is a physical line drawn on ...

... plastic chairs outside the store
and crack it open (the beer that is, not the store). Jealous yet? Did I
mention it felt like I could have worn shorts?

After that we headed to the simply titled Rock Music Bar, where I
discovered that it took travelling to Korea to find a bar that
consistently played music I liked.

Next we sang ourselves hoarse at a noraebang or karaoke
place (lit: song room). WIth ...

... just started walking. After twenty minutes we realized we were leaving town, so we asked for directions again. We stopped at a grocery store adn asked a few shoppers for help. Amazingly....one of the women shopping offered us a ride! She actually insisted! She had her two daughters cram into the back corner of the van and sit on top of each other so the seven of us foreigners could pile into the van too. She said that because of the holiday, we would have never reached the ...

Little yellow sea islands

The taxi dropped us at the ferry port. Across the calm gray seas, behind the summer haziness lies our destination; a string of little isles with rocky outcrops. Taking out and unfolding Willemien's small bicycle from the boot of the taxi, the only ferry servicing the islands looked ready to sail. We rushed on board, the whistle blew and slowly we left the pier. Sailing to the isles is free of charge, though you pay to get back to ...

... Connection, www.canconx.com , So I go on there, blah blah blah, Did all my paperwork and everything in like a month and a half which is a pain in the ASS, seriously if you do something like this, plan ahead and DO NOT wait till the last min. Like me, lol, I bought my plane ticket at 5pm on Sat and left 5am on sun, not good. So here I am first time away from here and I'm ready to get started.

As we have had a change in leadership at work with our old principal leaving and the owner of the CIS chain coming in to be our new principal, there has been some apprehension as to how the machine will run. I feel pretty good about it all and hope that the well oiled device continues to run smoothly. Mr. Kim took the staff out on Friday night for a galbi dinner and then with a call to one of the bus drivers of the school we all ...

... I drink so much tea all the time, but I don't have a microwave. If my tea gets cold I have to make a new cup or dilute the old one with hot water...such a hassle! Wow, so Obama's inauguration is tomorrow?!?!? Time flies. I can't watch Grey's Anatomy here!!! Boo! The copyrights for ABC or NBC, whatever network airs Grey's, has prohibited downloads in all countries except the US! So, I have to find another "method" to watch the each episode! I read about a ...

... I checked Korea was not a police state but it definitely had that vibe. Police buses lined both sides of the street and every side street that we passed. They were lined up two and three deep when we arrived but as it drew closer to midnight they became closer to ten deep. They shut down one of the main roads and people claimed the street around the bell tower to wait for midnight. There was no official fireworks display ...

... fine as far as economy class goes, but the food for breakfast was typically Chinese. I don't consider myself "Western" as far as expectations go for cuisine. For breakfast, I don't **** around. I have never liked congee and probably never will. Living in Asia has been a rice overload, so the ...

... to add to the feeling of loneliness. The strangeness of the situation was increased by the fact that I had somehow, on the way over, lost an entire day. I could just hear my friends back home complaining about losing an hour's sleep the other night to Daylight Savings Time. I might've joined them if I was there... but being where and 'when' I was, it felt rather petty. I tried in vain to get on the internet with hopes of talking to someone to pass ...