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New Year Celebrations in Korea
Koreans like to celebrate new years in their own unique way. A popular event is to goto the eastern coast to watch the first sunrise. There are many sunrise festivals taking place along the eastern coast http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/ SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=1437741
An interesting one is on the coastal city of Pohang. This city is ...
Teachers Dinner Again and School Lunches
At school the head dinner lady is known as the nutritionist. She has her own office and is responsible for planning the cafeteria lunches and in charge of the dinner ladies serving the lunches. When I first came the lunches were well balanced.
I dont eat the meat items or pork as I follow a Muslim Halal diet but there were usually vegetable dishes, soup, boiled rice, fish or seafood options each day. Usually I ate ok. On rare days I was reduced to just ...
Bunny times
Daegu, South Korea - My slow train from Seoul finally makes it to Daegu. Tickets are not checked in South Korea, they just trust that you have one!
My couchsurfer Suze met me at the station, she is from Hayling Island in the South of England and is 26 years old. Within minutes we are rabbiting away! We chat at her place for a while before making it out to a Nepalese curry house for some delicious food! Suze is great, ...
Pepero Day
... seen this before. Pepero is banned in the school to avoid lots of garbage and wrappers. Three teachers rushed over to the class to see if I was ok when students started throwing garbage in at me. It was all a bit of well intentioned fun that got a bit out of hand.
Thursday was high school national exams for the third graders (grade 12) writing entrance exams to goto university. High school students get the day off except for the ones writing ...
Haeinsa Millennial Tripitaka
... as hindi, mongol, and again no photography was allowed of this room.
After this I needed to eat. Fortunately this time in the food tent they had large pictures next to the menu items so I was able to order a giant plate of shrimp vegetable rice for 8000w ($7.50). You could also watch them making fresh noodles.
The next pavillion The World Citizen Hall had mostly childrens artwork depicting religious scenes. Next to that ...


