Hotel Expo Daejeon

... korea (in my opinion) is. it is an island south of the mainland. it used to be where all koreans went on honeymoon. there is only one city and the rest is a cluster of villages. there are some beautiful beaches (by korean standards - much lower than the rest of the world). everyone wants to work here so its a little tuff to find work. the major downfall is that you are really isolated. you have to take a flight (one hour to busan) or a boat ride (i ...

... baseball field isn't up to par with the one back home. It reminds me more of a minor league field. But then again, Korea just got a baseball league sometime in the 80's so it's gonna take time, I guess. The teams here are named after corporations. I don't know how I feel about that. After being here for a year and knowing how much pride Koreans have I'm surprised that the teams aren't ...

... know I had to see what was up. I look out and see giant mountains covered in snow. Not California hills, but huge mountains. So beautiful I had to get up and get my camera out of the the above bins. Beautiful pictures of I am guessing, Alaska. Not exactly sure but Alaska made sense. So enjoy the couple of photos I shot. Oh, fyi, it was Alaska, I looked on the flight pattern, the city in one of the pictures is Anchorage. Lovely, lovely stuff!!!  ...Luke :P

... At the moment Meg is looking after 3 camps, and the 22 red-sweater wearing teachers teaching in them, while I'm looking after one camp and its 23 bright-orange sweater wearing teachers. The changes this week have also seen us split up and we're even working from separate offices on opposite sides of the same building. What hasn't changed is our workload. Neither of us has the time to do much of anything, except work and ...

· Jochiwon, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours No rest for the wicked Work continues unabated. We've spent the last two days crafting detailed and complex schedules for the upcoming camps, which has obviously left us little time to put any creativity into our own daily schedules, which have looked something like this - 8:00am: Alarm sounds and the loosing battle with the alarm snooze button begins 8:45am: We saunter into the cafeteria and decide if what's ...

... choice, not mine) & Miller back where we are right now, in the dorms of Korea University, the very same dorm that will become a strict 'no alcohol' zone once teachers start arriving from Thursday on. As I said, weird, and definitely memorable. Right now we're in our own dorm room of the university and we're trying as best we can to feel all festive. And quiet frankly, short of sitting down to watch Superman or Home Alone ...

... the lighter than normal backpacks we had strapped to our backs). Yes, we procrastinated (again) when packing for this move to Jochiwon, shoving stuff into plastic bags rather than neatly packing them away into our backpacks, where they should be. We don't have to do a real repack until we're forced to do so, which will be when we're preparing to leave Korea for China in February. Another culprit adding to our bulk was the bag holding our ...

... a circular platform under an umbrella and one inside the structure<br><br>flagging you in. Now this is not a simple wave, it is an elaborate dance that I think involves training in an after school academy. If I had all the time in the world and the patience to drive forever, I would pull in and out of these parking garages just to watch these people flag me in again. I tried to record it, but it didn't do it justice. Just take my word for it that it is hilarious.<br><br ...

... of assisting the ruler in the endeavor of leading by moral example. Koreans see law as something given from above, not created by the people. Koreans mindset hasn't changed with democracy to figure out that the laws are created after debate by people who are elected. Laws don't govern life as much as relations between people do. Laws are simply a last resort. That is why networking is vital and people rely on family, alumni and hometown friends. Even ...

... typically am simply Lo-Ra on legal documents) was taken to Japan at the age of 9 by a candy maker. He was a little rambunctious and the candy maker couldn't take care of him so he left him at a temple. Choi Yung-Sul saw murals of martial arts on the walls and wanted to learn. One of the monks was buddies with the Master of the art of Daito Ryu Aiki-Jutsu, Takeda Sokaku. <br> <br> Choi Yung-Sul lived with Takeda Sokaku for 30 years. He was a houseboy but some say he was treated like ...