Hotel J'S Daegu

... goodbye to my beautiful family and two week old niece, i had a delayed flight, a random yet lovely trip to Windsor with my mum and brother, a long plane journey, a very long but comfortable bus ride from Seoul to Daegu and a wonderfully warm welcome to Daegu by my director, Violet, and Mrs Gim!

First few days were spent eating a lot of very yummy and tasty food, attempting to find my way around, getting used to the huge amount of bright lights that ...

... t feel were as important since we were short on time, but I was told I have to do everything. I also have to go over a webzine. The students are supposed to do a webzine and so far about three classes have done a webzine. Even if they don't do one, I have to pull up a random one and use it as an example. I think after the head instructor told me that yesterday I wanted to explode. I barely manage to get everything in as it is and then to spend more time on an ...

... she got to the street corner leaving the church she picked up two other people. The whole way to Chung Dahm, I could hear lots of Korean with the words "E-Mart" and "Chung Dahm" thrown in. They would something completely in Korean and I would look over and notice they were all completely staring at me and smiling as if everything they were saying was about me. She dropped off one of the ladies at a bus stop and I was starting to feel sick at the time. I felt ...

... Unfortuneately, I don't have a phone to call them, but I will have to find one soon because I'm getting low on money.

I've decided I need to make some friends so I won't be so bored, but today I met a couple from the church and they were very nice. I hope to get to know some of the teachers better.

I learned how to use the subway in Daegu today. It's a little different from Seouls, but there are only two lines. I think transfering is more ...

... the water, preparing the tea for cooking and then placing the cups all leading to us having tea to first "look", then "smell" and finally "drink" (green tea which is the only kind of tea in a ceremony). It was good, but the best parts were Mr. Lee talking about old traditions in Korea and Beth and Matt asking questions which promoted back and forth sharing. Beth is picking up a lot of Korean this way by just talking ...

... which is meat that was cooked right at our table with many accompanying side dishes. It was very good, but it took a little getting used to eating sitting on the floor. After dinner we all came back up to our hotel room and visited and enjoyed homemade chocolate chip cookies and Korean coffee. The 'youngins' devoured the cookies since they hadn't tasted anything similar for quite a while. On Saturday we took a ...

... went for some yummy vietn*mese food! I felt * lot better once we'd e*ten! I then went for * cheeky wee G&*mp;T with J*n on the Novotel roof, before jumping on the subw*y *nd he*ding out to meet J*cint* for * lovely evening of food *nd girlie ch*t! We then went to E-m*rt where I bought * ch*ir. I then took my ch*ir on the subw*y home, *pp*rently foreigner with ch*ir is even more hysteric*l th*n foreigner *lone! It seems its not the done thing to t*ke household items on the subw*y here ...

While many of you were unwinding on Friday night, I was just beginning my day on Saturday morning... During the previous night I had enjoyed a wonderful birthday dinner with my co-workers. Shabu-san is a Korean restaurant which offers the novelty of BBQ'ing your meal on a shovel. It's pretty quirky, really fun, and absolutely delicious. Long stings of adjectives aside - I spent the night undefeated in intense battles of rock, scissors, paper with the wait ...

... we went to Jang's building to play tennis. Well, anyway, I watched him play tennis. I was utterly amazed at the skill and intensity of these players. It reminded me of what I read in one of my guidebooks: Koreans take life and the tasks they undertake very seriously. After tennis, we all went out for dinner. It seems that Koreans eat out a lot; I think it is because there is a lot of preparation involved in a Korean meal ...

... I need to entertain myself with indecent answers to lovely accusations. Haha - the other day when we were having one of our 'chats' we were sitting in silence (as we often do) then he turned to me and said "UH eat and sleep UH?" (when he puts UH at the end it means I've to translate it into a meaningful sentence). I said "Yes, yes, eat and sleep is fine. You can say They came to eat and sleep at my house". But he wasn't happy with this. So he spent about a year looking it up ...