Seoul Plaza Hotel

... the crowd went completely mad, and after the first song we had to get out of there if we wanted to see anything. The locals got over their excitement quite quickly though, and things were a little more mellow, at least from the crowds perspective for the rest of the set. The Prodigy were, well, as I expected. Good to watch, banging out all the old favourites, but a bit tiring after an hour and a half.

After chilling out for a little we then moved around to the ...

Well, I made it to Korea! After a LOT of deliberating I finally managed to get myself on the plane to South Korea about 9 days ago, and today I took my first two classes!

It's been a long week and a bit, and feels as if I've been away for months. I had to think long and hard today about the side of the road that we drive on at home when asked by a Kiwi!

Any ESOL teachers reading this will be familiar with the journey that it takes to ...

... is what you call a good recipe, you got it.  But, I personally, don't call it a good recipe, haha!!  I am not sure how much time I will have to write and upload photos for the next couple of days, so we will see.
I am having a great time and I had no idea that this trip was such a big deal, especially for the people hear in South Korea.  There was a photo and an article about us in the main newspaper in Seoul and there are HUGE banners all over the city about us!
Love,
Lauren

... were able to practice some of what we learned re: dinning etiquette. I sat at a table with Professor Hyuk Rae Kim, Ron Eisenman (VT) and Ben DeLeon (CA). Besides getting to know each other we discussed Korean traditional foods and international economics of the beef trade.

Professor Kim presented a lecture “Korean Society: Dynamics and Prospects”. He is an economist and a Professor, Graduate School of International Studies ...

... John Hamilton once told me that the prime minister even has bad days. Today there was certain danger at work such as a student sprinting down the hall to collide with one and bump his face and cause a chain reaction to hit another student in the mouth. He ran right past me into the others and as I had my back to him there was not much I could do in the way of running intervention. Some tears flowed but there was not much ...

... by Oasis, which was apparently her party piece. I always enjoy a good bout of noraebang action, but part of me craves the karaokes of Japan which are far superior in terms of choice and price, not to mention they organise songs by Artist order as opposed to Song Title order... Later on in the weekend, I met up with Julia, a Scottish girl that I'd kept in touch with ever since rejecting my first job offer back in September. She works at the school I turned down, but was ...

... I read his work the Freud in me tried hard to psychoanalyze if the student was harboring any latent anger toward his teacher. Then a bit of concern that this kid might have some sort of prophetic insight into my future and even if it is 1/3 as strong as some of my prophetic dreams there might be cause for alarm. Enough to keep me out of the ocean, not really. Now I'm going to go off on a tangent here but I met this really cool chick ...

... reallly nice lines and form to it. The buildings are all one story, but beautiful, colorful and having a very calm presence. After that we went to a traditional village (a pretend one in the city), and we received a free private tour from a lovely Korean volunteer woman. We learned about traditional households. Then we went to the Namsum tower (probably not spelled right) for dinner and we went ...

... between Japan & Taiwan in terms of manic-ness, and how close the cars brush by pedestrians. Since my visit here was so brief, I was pleased to still get a taste of this very unique culture. Korea's destiny seems always to have been blown between the two bigger powers close on either side. My book mentions periods of history when arts & poetry were embraced and military thinking was discouraged. Makes for gorgeous traditional music, clothing ...