Provista Seoul

... for pointing and I had accidentally left my phrasebook in the room (oops). Speaking of noodles, we saw a guy in another shop window tossing noodles the way New York Italians toss pizza crusts. It was wonderfully entertaining!

After our traditional (it seems) first-night-in-Asia Sleven stop for ice cream, we are totally crashing out. Looking forward to some cultural/historical sites tomorrow and learning more Korean language besides "hello" and "thank you."

... what we were expecting in a city of 12 million people on a national holiday. It felt good here, and we settled for about an hour to enjoy the view and have some lunch. We climbed a little further up to another rock once we were done, and got a glimpse of 'skeleton rock', another eroded stone that looked quite strange and out of place, not to mention a touch frightening! From here we continued down, and jumped back on a metro.

Ania was keen to show me a part ...

... Canada and how much space there is. She told me how lucky I am to live there. Words to never be forgotten. After the concert I went to a wake for a Korean supervisor from CIS. I was instructed the proper bowing technique for showing respect and then the small group of teachers I was with had some Soju and food in the friends room. According to a group of young Korean men Jordan is like Justin Timberlake and I Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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... going to put it on my back pack.
When we got back to DMC Ville, I went for a lap swim in the pool and then sat and caught up on the news for a while reading the international newspaper.  Then we had dinner.
Later on in the evening some friends and I took a taxi into the city to check out the nightlife on our last night in Seoul.  The streets were lit up brightly and we went shopping.  I found two really cute shirts that I bought- spending all my cash- they were ...

When I was living here before, I studied Korean like crazy. Sometimes 14+ hours a week. After teaching full-time, that was a lot! I also went to these free classes every Saturday at the church I went to (Onnuri). So, of course, I developed some friendships and just connection to the free classes.

I arrived early. A good thing was that there were some other foreigners there waiting for ...

... pouvant aller jusqu'à 70-80h (c'est-à-dire pas de week-ends) !

De Seoul nous n'étions pas qu'à quelques dizaines de kms de la frontiere militaire avec la Corée du Nord. Une partie peut se visiter (uniquement en tour organisé avec guide). Une surface de 2 kms de part et d'autre de la frontiere est démilitarisée (appelée DMZ, demilitarized zone) et est truffée de mines afin d'éviter tout incident pouvant relancer les hostilités entre les 2 pays. Bien entendu ...

I'm still stuck in the love motel. It still sucks. On Friday I taught three classes. The teacher that I am replacing, Jeannie, was in the room with me. I gotta say that it was fun but hard. The kids are just wild. In the evening a group of us all went out to a farewell dinner. The restaurant pre-cooks chicken in a huge pan then ...

... us if the smell was going to bother us. As much as I didn't want to eat that stuff, I was really enjoying the fact that other people take such delight in it! If we were slightly bothered by just the smell then I can only imagine the strength of the actual taste! Ha! So, we stayed...... for the experience. Immediately we were served green tea and a pajeon,a green onion pancake served with a little bowl of ...

... for training. I've had a rush of work lately and every day is really hectic with full flights and lots of issues, I just can't wait to get home and not have a mobile phone constantly ringing (take note I will be having a mobile phone free day or two when I get back - I'm positively green with all the radiation from the phone I have here!) Stay well all and I hope you all had a great Australia Day!

... rightfully, that if I really hurt myself, I would be totally screwed, being alone and unable to ask for help unless somebody nearby spoke English. Anyway, we struck up a conversation and in the end it was him who ended up falling butt-first in some mud, but I was nonetheless touched by their concern, which was genuine. So, when we got to the bottom and they asked me if I wanted to go for something to eat and drink with them, I threw my usual "Don't mess with me!" lone woman ...