Plaza Pusan Busan

... Father) who grew up only with their Mother. Their Father is an alocoholic and the split was a painful one for both parties. The Father frequently comes knocking on the door (usually inebriated) and the Mother has to call for her brother to come and deal with the situation. Sylvie Testud delivers a tour-de-force performance as the awkward 'black sheep'- in this case, blonde haired- child of the family.

... dunks a net and catches it for you. they then filet it right then and there, the good parts go onto a sashimi appetizer and the rest gets thrown into a soup for your dinner...fish head and all. one of busan's specialties is live octopus. the tentacles arrive to your table all chopped up and still squirming and wiggling! d loved it and would pick out the most active ones but i just couldn't stomach it. especially ...

... though the waves are no more than 3 feet), and it just feels more like a beach town than anywhere else. Growing up in SoCal may make me a little opinionated as to what makes a good beach town, but I do have to say that this beach feels more like home.



My friend Matt, and owner of another popular bar in Busan, jumped on a chance to rent a space right on the beach for his new bar, Blowfish. I painted his ...

... on the E*st co*st, *nd w*rmer. It's on the be*ch. And it's huge. Like millions *nd millions of people. On my w*y home, *nd before going to work *t 1600 th*t Frid*y, it occurs to me th*t I might be out kind of l*te th*t evening bec*use Kolin w*nts to go to A-Town. Hmmm... C*n I m*ke th*t 0730 bus? I h*ve to. I've *lre*dy *greed to P*t. So, I m*ke * ment*l note to not be out th*t l*te. I should h*ve known better... We go out *nd h*ve * good time ...

... m a resourceful gal, but sometimes I felt like I was doing this blind. THIS YEAR, though, I have SOO many options, and everything has already gotten the juices flowing. Now that I have this new room, I feel like I have a place. I've been really excited about implementing some new program ideas as well. Like a movie club, a reading club, and an English lab. Yeah, it means more work for me--and it's not required, but I'm really thrilled right now to get the ...

... on it, then eating it. I'm not sure how well Snickers Bars and apples tasted with ham.... I had to MAKE some of them try everything. Some were looking at the green beans like they were alive.... These gals eat baby octopus in their soup with out flinching!! ...not to mention all other kinds of strange vegetables.... But they've never had green beans. Craziness...



Pork is EVERYWHERE here, but a leg of ...

... and the surrounding areas. One girl I chatted with is heading to Africa to climb Kilimanjaro. On the way out we chatted with the owner of the hot dog stand, a cool Korean who slipped me some of his special hot as hell chilli sauce. Back at the hotel the Matt's and I passed out and unconsciously tried to out do each other in a symphony of snoring. James arrived later and upon hearing the multiple pigs that were being killed in the room he headed ...

... put to work the morning after we got here, and have been working ever since....we don't need an orientation now... Sigh... We just don't want to go this weekend....

Anyway, I just wanted to post a few pics of what I see on my way to school every day. It's really pretty right now because the cherry trees are in bloom. Nothing too special, but I thought I'd share :) I'm going to try and take some pictures at school soon as well.

... shown more hospitality in the form of food, a night's accommodation and a days sightseeing. We even had the obligatory late night dash around the supermarket to stock up on the staple western breakfast goods of bread (for toast), bananas, cereal and yoghurt. Yep, it was just like last weekend in Gyenonju, Gyeongsan and Deagu, except on a smaller scale. And when it was all said and done we found ourselves ...

... chatting to us and managed to convince us to give the caves a skip ("only good for dark days") and instead head to the nearby seaside resort of Chu'am Beach. He even hailed a cab for us and gave the driver instructions to find accommodation once we arrived there. His parting shot to us was "if you have any problems, just call the station". And so, 20 minutes later, we found ourselves checking into a Minbak - a very basic room, with no beds and shared facilities. We ...