Ramada Songdo Hotel Incheon

... Backpacks went flying and bodies were thrown to the stoop. We gave up! It was now 5:30 P.M. We were an hour and a half late for the temple stay and 30 minutes late for dinner with no idea where we were! A man came out through the school gate. We tried one more time to reach the temple and.....they answered! The Korean man from the school spoke for us. He hung up the phone and asked us to wait for five minutes. Ummm, sure. It felt like we had all the time in the world at ...

... panostettu: valojen käyttö, vaatetus, musiikki, esiintyjien ilmeet ja kaikki muut osatekijät sopivat saumattomasti yhteen. Harmi, että yhtään valokuvaa ei näistä esityksistä ole tullut otettua joko kuvauskiellon tai liian hämärän valaistuksen vuoksi.<br><br>Jos aika antaa myöten ennen Pariisiin paluuta, tarkoituksena olisi vierailla myös Soulissa ja ehkä Korean pohjoisnaapurin rajavyöhykkeellä. Jos minusta ei kuulu mitään ensi viikon loppuun mennessä, lähettäkää Bill Clinton perään.

... plot into a sculpture park. The acre of lawn is filled with tiny to giant size sculptures. We were a bit surprised that this seems to be a popular Sunday family hide out with parents photographing their children riding on smaller sculptures. <br><br>The weekend was over and it was time to board the ferry again. I returned my borrowed bike with a big "komapsimida", meaning thank you, before returning to our home in Goyang city, north of the bigger Seoul in South Korea.

... mushrooms to which I politely said no thanks knowing full well the wares he was offering. No worries for him though as business was good over the night as I ran into a few folks on a trip. I chatted with this young kid in the line for a drink and he asked what I was drinking. I said jack and coke to which he hollered "I'm on shrooms." He bought me a drink and we said our good byes.<br>Characters. I danced, talked, and had a great time over all. There were many ...

... Ha! So weird! Okay, four stops later, we arrived at Seoul Grand Park! This park is soooo much more than a park! It is in the middle of some kind of forest reserve so it was beautiful! Vendors lined the sidewalks selling food, toys, and balloons. I was soo close to buying a bubble gun! Eeewwww, and there were ajummas selling silk worm larvae!!!! They have these huge boiling vats of silk worm larvae! The smell of these little bugs ...

... we are in Seoul and ready to make our first stop, Gyeong Bok Gung Palace. It is the Korean National Palace and is part of the national identity of the country. As such it is guarded by a military guard that maintains the identity of the military guard that has protected the palace for centuries. We arrive and hurry to our assigned advantage point; because the daily changing of the palace guard is about to take place and we have timed out tour to be here just in time. As we ...

Today was another irritating day! First, last week (after two days and 60 speaking tests) the directors at the school decided I was not grading tough enough and I wasn't putting enough emphasis on grammar. So they pulled me into a conference and told me that I was doing about a thousand other things incorrectly! Well, if you wanted it done a special way, then you probably should have told me at the beginning!!!! So now, I had to test all those kids AGAIN with a ...

... carrying an old lady's bag up an entire set of steps at one subway station, as she was clearly struggling. Once an English gentleman, always an English gentleman! I had a stroll to Gyeongbokgung in the afternoon, an impressive palace that seemed to have a changing of the guard ceremony every hour. It was a pretty colourful event and one which I will see many times in the future, but I didn't hang around too long as I wanted to call at Dongdaemun Market on ...

... with dead water buffaloes. Although these days this balance seems to be more and more disrupted as our greed as over active monkeys wrecks havoc on the scales that mother nature has placed us on. Tomorrow I'm going for a late evening hike with Julia. The trail will be lit this time so no worries of falling off a cliff at the worst and a sprained ankle at the least. It's late and I should go to bed. -Thanks for reading.

For the past almost three weeks, the five of us have moved and traveled as almost a symbiotic unit. Now, after traveling through remote (and not so remote) parts of the world, we have gone our semi-separate ways. Most of us will meet again in Southern California while Katherine makes her way back east to her dogs she has been missing (and who have also been missing her, I'm sure). Vicki and I had nine long hours to spend in the airport in Korea. It'd be great if ...