Park Hotel Daegu

... nice to see some smiling faces after all the staring (but now i do the same to foreigners as there are few and far between). Also of course celebrated Halloween at school...which due to swine flu our street party got cancelled but celebrated and decorated in school, with costumes and candy, and pizza and ghost stories...etc! And then two days ago went to the Seomun Market, the big traditional market here which was dirty, stinky and overcrowded but i loved ...

... explained that Harlem was a neighborhood in NY. We went onto the second listening passage. After we listened to it, I asked what the topic was. No one knew. Keep in mind, the topic is always the same. If it is different, it usually adds a word to the first topic. I even said it was the same as the last exercises topic. Finally someone said "Harlem". I went through ever listening exercise with them--the lifeless people. At the end of class, a girl asked me ...

... lunch with Rachel, the teacher who I'm taking over the classes when she leaves, and she was telling me how crazy the manager was. She said she went through a phase where she only hired beautiful people, but then realized that they were sometimes stupid. That makes me sort of nervous because when she met me the first thing she said "You don't look like you do in your picture." Which could mean one of many things. I don't want to know. She's very fashion conscious so I have ...

... I noticed was the dance floor. It was PACKED. When I’m hammered I love to dance. I don’t know were it comes from but I attempt to get down. If I am sort of drunk, no way. If I am sober, no ****ing way. Well over the weekend I definitely was on a good one but my urge had to be sustained. The dance floor was probably 500 jam packed Koreans and a few ...

... and then a subway ride back to Dongdagu Station to purchase train tickets for Sunday as we are going to a historic park and also purchased our tickets to Changwon City for next Saturday. Beth's Korean language and sense of direction have improved immensely as she was been communicating her way around the area both in talking and walking as well as finding which subway to go on, where to transfer, etc. After lunch at ...

... grow up to be the angry biting passive-aggressive "Co-Teachers" I despise who tell me I'm not doing my job properly because I want to play a game with a group of clearly burned out 10 year olds instead of doing another dry grammar lesson... I don't have all the answers and I'm not going to win any teacher of the year awards but is there a need to carry a willow switch to control a class?

... or another! So we played for a while, he beat me as always! Then I was getting ready to go. 'Ok lets go for some food, we have to eat now we've played!', I was never going to make yoga! So I went for food with Mr. Lee, which was amazing! I love spending time with him! He then drove me home and I ran to yoga! I LOVE that school. I love the teachers, the students, the location! It was so lovely to go back, and the reception I got was just lovely. What a great day!

... nami nami. Onneks oli niita lisukkeita :) Se Daegusta ja kalansilmista, matka jatkuu.. N Next it was Daegu we headed to. The same situation with the street vendors and markets. And we noticed, not just here, but so far everywhere in Korea people speak better English than in Japan. Well, they didnt speack English in Japan so.. :) Nevertheless I keep getting wrong portions at restaurants in here...And the Korean men, help me ...

... It wasn't until the next day that the full panorama hit me - I was in an awesome location. Sangin is nestled in the Southwestern corner of Daegu; a city surrounded by mountains. My initial fear of having no escape from the traffic and towering buildings seemed a little less overwhelming. The following hike took place along a set of mountains no more than five minutes from my apartment! Not a bad first impression... I think I'm going to like it here.

... to visit. Their sister school is from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They came to visit my school for 1 week, then spent the following week touring Korea. Whilst they were here I took every opportunity to miss school and go on tours with them. I went to Hainsa (Hain temple) and also to a local university where we re-enacted a traditional wedding ceremony and then made paper dolls. They look so easy and simple but actually are very difficult to make. Of course I made mine with a ...