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35 hours of work/fun/travel aha

A travel blog entry by jonnytheroth

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... was talk of going to a no-rae bang (karaoke) but by this point I'd been up for 35hours+ and was dying on my feet...it had been a long, long day.

Once back, I slept till 5pm the next day (Sunday), went for a Moroccan meal somewhere far away with some other of Mark's teaching mates. The Moroccan restaurant transported me back to Israel, the usual decoration, excellent food. Then got back to the house to sleep again.

I stay in ...

Busan: Confusion, Conversion and Consternation

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... someone here. Luckily, I told him I only understood a little Japanese because he went on this oblique probing about my religion, whether I knew the Ten Commandments, and implored me to read his mission statement from his Korean church.

I politely declined all this, but he continued to struggle through his English to discuss Christianity. Finally, I just turned Korean and booted up my laptop and pretended to be absorbed in this blog. But he continued ...

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple & Fisheries Museum

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... Luckily the bus pretty much empties out at the stop for the temple so no guessing or getting off at the wrong stop.

To get to the temple you first walk uphill on a road for a few minutes to the carpark. As you approach the temple there is a line of vendors selling korean street food, religious goods, and other souvenirs. You then pass by twelve stone figures of the chinese zodiac. At the end was a giant pagoda and a golden gate with ...

Holidays and other days

A travel blog entry by jille86

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... in Canada, and I said no because a) I had not yet consulted with wikipedia and b) because I remember leading a rather pleasant childhood where birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day and so forth were basically children's day as we got special treats, meals, presents, and generally had a good time. The thing that makes me really crazy with regards to children's day is that once you graduate elementary school (grade 6) you are no longer allowed ...

What rocks about the ROK

A travel blog entry by jille86

... look around Korea, just about every car has a GPS, heated seats, tinted windows (ok, those aren't really techie, but they look cool), and a variety of other doodads and whatchamacallits, that I don't even know how to work. Everybody has a cell phone, on which they are taking pictures and videos, watching TV, or listening to music. My cell phone, an Optimus 1 (I have to know this information as people regularily ask, 'What's your phone's name?' 'Uhhh...Jill's ...