Hotel Riviera Daejeon

... good teacher. when applying for a job they might ask for a photo, don’t worry that is normal. if they wont hire you because you don’t have blond hair and blue eyes then screw them, they are the ones missing out. as i said there are lots of jobs out there so don’t worry. they will also want to have a phone "interview" with you. they might ask stupid questions, or not even be able to speak the best english - they just want to hear what ...

... terrain. The hills are steep but not forbidding, wooded but not void of civilization. We pass a stunning blue-green mountain lake and then round a corner to find the monastery which consists of 3 ornate temple buildings each having tiled gable hip roofs with corners traditionally swept upward and outward. The monastery is quant and the people friendly. Established by a Korean Zen master made famous by his efforts to introduce his Jogye style to Western civilization, I am not ...

... to go to Songnisan National Park for the weekend for some peace and quiet, so again I woke up nice and early, but this time I made my way to the Dong-Seoul Bus Terminal. Buses are so cheap over here, so I envisage using them a lot more than trains, even though it may mean less encounters with friendly ajummas... Once again it was blue sky when I eventually arrived in the small township of Songnisan, so I wasted no time in heading to the ...

... teachers who did remain here will help us collectively get through the 5 camps we still have to run (3 of them are only 4 day camps) and the three currently underway, the 3 red-sweater wearing camps Meg is in charge of. Sorry to bore you all... again. "I knew them when" I told you all in the last entry how Travelpod are going to display one of our pictures from this trip on the front page ...

... new, question-laden teachers who will be arriving. The OT we've just completed seemed to go well, apart from all the questions it generated. We're assuming the 14 teachers who sat through the 2 OT sessions (a.k.a. the question setters) are informed enough to help ensure that tomorrows events/tasks go smoothly (if they don't it certainly won't be for lack of effort on our part). But of course getting over one days tasks just ...

... yet we've heard it is finished. We've also heard it's "okay", the Korean equivalent of 'rubbish', 11 minutes & 42 seconds of rubbish. We hear they like our 'Star Wars' scene the best. That figures - it's the one where I had to wear a mask and didn't have any lines. Aggh well, if anything it'll be a memento of our 'crazy days' traveling. It'll be released to the public soon, so we'll let them be the final judge. We're not ...

... it through the weekend. Yep, the cafeteria was open today. So much for the line that it wouldn't be open until Monday. It was, emm, Korean food. But that was okay as we got our first taste of the much-hyped Korea University cafeteria food, and we have to say we were impressed. We're still eating various 'things' (that's about as descriptive as I feel like being right now) off white trays (just like in all our other camps) but the quality of the 'things', even ...

... so it is possible to do whatever you want. If traffic has 5 lanes and you are in the far left lane, it is not uncommon to watch someone from the extreme right lane cross the other 4 and cut you off. However, the most annoying thing about an accident is that people simply leave their car wherever it stops - for a couple of hours. If two cars have a head on collision in the middle of the intersection, they leave the cars where they crashed and all the debris lying around ...

... were studying the test. You could purchase the test early and answer all the questions using a book and then memorize the test. This is exactly the way the middle schoolers study for their tests. For the exams students would come to our academy where we had the test printed out and memorize the answers we told them. Luckily this was all done with the Korean teachers because I found it outrageous. I don't understand how an entire country can be taught ...

I have been taking Hapkido lessons since last May. To shed a little more light into the sport I had to do some research. I am not fluent in Korean and my Master isn't fluent in English...so I learned most of this by talking to other foreigners and the internet. <br><br>All Korean words are written by syllables, so the word hapkido is three sets HAP-KI-and-DO. Hap means coordination, Ki is your inner strength/energy or Chi in Chinese, and Do which means the way in Japanese. The way ...