Galaxy Motel Busan

... emphasis on not letting down/embarrassing themselves in front of their superiors. It is for this reason that I am concious of the fact that our refusal to work every Saturday may come back to haunt us, as I've no doubt our head teacher 'lost face' with the Director because she failed to sweet talk us into accepting.

Anyway, with my weekends now free, I was able to resume my exploration of Korea - afterall, I only have a few months left, and I don ...

... de mise en route !
Nous avons donc le temps de nous promener dans Busan (2e ville coreenne) qui, pour nous, est un melange entre la Chine (au niveau de l'architecture de grande ville) et du Japon (technologies et respect)... Notre 1er repas ne sera pas une reussite (soupe de choux au gout de poisson pourri), mais nous aurons le temps de nous rattraper. Nous decouvrons de nouveaux fruits de mer au marche du poisson (ca ressemble a des concombres et ...

... I'm will to give up to make a long term relationship work out. That doesn't mean however that I'm going to stop being childish or immature or that I'm going to stop saying wildly inappropriate things at inopportune times it just means I'm more aware that I'm doing so. Korea for me consisted of amazing ups like following my good friend on the moped through shimmering green rice paddies. Followed by amazing ...

... salads, mussels, rice, soup, beef ribs... he was a very pleasant guy who laughed a lot; taught us the reciprocal, Korean way to drink Soju; after a couple rounds, he got pretty drunk; with unbelievable generosity, he paid for all of us; just as we were thinking that the party was over, he took us to a bar next door to drink gigantic bottles of Hite, a local brand of beer; he introduced the middle-aged bar owner to us as Mrs ...

Hello everybody, I have arrived in Busan after more than 5 weeks of travelling throughout South Korea. My next stop will be Japan, but I will first give an update on what happened the last few weeks. The last entry was written in Mokpo so I will start from there. The following morning I took the ferry to the holiday island of Jejudo. It is the most tropical place in South Korea and a long time favourite with honeymooners. After I arrived in Jeju-si, the main city I immediately went to ...

I posted this story on MySpace, so some of you may have read it before, but I thought I'd share it with everyone else too...



So I go to one of the many Outback Steak Houses here in Busan with some friends.... It's a little pricey, but really the only place you can go for a really good steak or burger--Australian beef--not American--fear of Mad Cow Disease and all....(and yes that is a REAL fear here...all ...

So today I did what thought I'd never do....Eat raw, pickled octopus you say??? Nope, did that last week :) No, this week I did what I didn't think I was going to do, and I gave my after-school class English names.... I really didn't want to because I feel strongly about not westernizing these kids too much. It's SOOO in their face ALL the time anyway, and as a culture, the Koreans think it's great! That's why there's so many English teachers ...

... number of cell phone stores. A great example of the western consumerism that has driven Korea's economy to one of the strongest in the world. This is where we also stumbled across Kenny Roger's music house. A little out of place but humurous nonetheless. (Later on that night they were actually showing a 2 hour documentary on TV about Kenny Rogers. Not sure if it was just a coincidence or they just have some weird sort of infatuation with him and ...

... megmondtam a magamét! Ők nem győzködtek bocsánatot kérni, meg szóltak a portásoknak is! Ezután irány Jay, aki mondta, hogy igen, szombatig maradhatunk a szobában, utána meg egy másik szobát kapunk. Erre pénteken, aug 31.-én, a névnapomon felhívtam szüleimet, hogy végre halljam a hangukat, mert se internetem nem volt (mert az előfizetésem a másik szobában maradt, de ez már "no comment"), meg ők is sátoroztak. Mikor először hallottam anyukám hangját ...

... It was a huge plot of land in the middle of Busan, with spectacular landscaping. Upon entering the cemetery, we saw the plaque which outlined the number of people, from each country, that were buried here. The U.S. had very few compared with British (800 people). We later found out that most Americans were shipped home to be buried. The few that were buried here had died after the war, and wished to have Busan as their final resting place. A ...