Spapia Hotel Daejeon

Today Mike, Hank, and I took a little trip outside of town to the Daejeon Graveyard and to some of the mountains near town. Daejeon is located in a valley. It's surrounded on all four sides by mountains which look more like large hills to me, but I'll take what I can get. It was pretty hot so little Hankers had a pretty rough time getting around. He's really only worthwhile in weather above 65 and below 75. Little buddy struggled but it was fun.

... suspect that they were sneekily watching on CCTV, but regardless, I was told in no uncertain terms to treat my class as an "editorial meeting," with the emphasis on the students discussing eachother's work. It came as no surprise when she announced that she'd be observing my class the following week... With me travelling on weekends, I hadn't seen Eun ju for a while, and so we met up a couple of times during the week. I particularly enjoyed ...

... had time off. I slept for most of the afternoon (that had more to do with last nights end of camp #2 celebrations than my newfound freedom) and here I am now waxing on about how great it is to have some time off. Sorry to bore you all. 2 of 10 2 of the 10 camps we're entrusted with presiding over are done and dusted. Camp #2, the important orange sweater camp that I managed ...

... it. Tired working and tired answering questions. And camp hasn't even started. The first one (of 10, yikes) officially begins tomorrow. That means there will be big increase in noise levels around here, an increase that will be attributed to 150 Korean kids enjoying their time away from home. It'll be worse next week when the full complement of camp kids (460+) and teachers (46) are here. I guess that means the questions will ...

... standard of our acting and the amount of retakes it, our acting, necessitated the poor director to reshoot (yep, we even had a director, but no makeup artist). If I had a € for each and every time I was asked to smile more or heard the line "David! Try not to be so ... so... stiff," or, "Okay, so maybe just, eh, one more take? Just in case we get a better one," I'd have no need to worry myself with all these CK ...

... got each night, a 10-12 hours that, if we're lucky, has now been slashed to 7-8 hours. But don't fret folks.... we assure you all that we'll get through this latest crisis. · Coming soon to a screen near you This is the big break we were looking for! We were told toady we have to 'star' in a CK video showing people around the CK facilities here in Korea University. The video will be posted on the CK website for the students who are coming to camp to view. Sort of ...

... no rules and that is what works best. Simply think about your safety and keep driving full on ahead. This is how the country is motivated. Progress is the only focus of everything. The goal is to accomplish everything and don't think about the consequences behind or to the sides of you. I have heard that in the driver's license test if you look in your mirrors or in your blind spots you fail the test.

I had to take a test with all the Koreans to receive my ...

... to also have the same or better shiny new car. Plus it has to be Korean made to support all of your country men. Rarely do people drive import cars because the taxes are exorbitant on them. After reaching the first major intersection, your life will have passed before your eyes twice. But after driving for another couple of days this death flashing phenomenon will pass and it will all just be run of the mill driving. Basically the rule of the road is ...

... around this time of year. Children who are going into middle school or high school receive $500 or more! However they have to buy their school uniforms with that money and it costs about $150 per uniform. But in my rich neighborhood the 8 year olds even said they would get $50. The nun gave me $3 and I thought that was very kind, considering the circumstances. Then everyone went up in sets of 3 to a different altar where there was fruit, rice, and dok ...

... and preparation for one day. But the students here do find it unusual. In one of my more advanced classes I started asking them about their Christmas traditions. Here are my questions and the typical answers: Q: What are you doing for Christmas? A: watching TV (10 students), playing computer games(15 students), doing homework (10 students), going to church (2 students), going to an orphanage (1 student which was bombarded with questions from the rest of ...