Woo Sung Hot Spring Hotel Changwon

... shoes that are dazzling to the eye, kind of like of bombs raining down on you in the night sky. that is to say, they are so terrifying you cannot look away. another phenomenon here is when boyfriends and girlfriends wear matching clothes. and i'm not talking about like how brad pitt's look seems to morph into whatever girl he's dating, that kind of thing is subtle and usually tasteful in it's own way. i'm talking flat out ...

... a car and drive a few hours into the mountains, and to come back talking of faith and devotion and prayer - concepts I have barely encountered since coming to Korea. Whether or not a God chooses to again make his residence on earth, and whether or not he chooses to do so in Korea is all finally irrelevant. The truly inspiring thing about the Cheonghakdong vision is that it doesn't belong only to this valley. The dream of these people doesn't ...

... train or bus. On Friday night I pull in to some great and monstrous city or other, and meet my company for the weekend. From this moment the weekend disappears impossibly fast, as I try to play friend and guest, shopper and food connoisseur, tour guide and tourist, event organiser and flaneur all at once. It is an exhausting exercise, but an endlessly rewarding one. Seoul is so close and full of friends that it is almost a second home now. It is a backup plan ...

Hmmm...shall I get that normal 16 hour ferry that goes to South Korea or shall I get that shiny new, super cool, really really really fast 'Beetle' hydrofoil ferry... tough decision.... Man, this is like that time I had to choose between 'Easy squeezy peas' or 'Easy squeezy cheezy peas'.....hell I'm gonna go for the Beetle, 16 hours? this bad-boy does it in 3! So all aboard, everything was fine and dandy. Seats were big ass leather recliners, TV next to ...

... from Philadelphia (who sort of resembled Anthony Michael Hall). The Danish couple were amazing. They were traveling for ten months around the world. They had just come from South America, before spending three weeks in Japan. The only catch was, they had almost no money. They hitchhiked everywhere and either found people to stay with or slept in a one person tent. Anthony Michael Hall's story was even weirder. He was stationed in Japan for two ...

... out what to wear. I put off costume duties until the last minute mostly because I've been busy but also because it just doesn't feel like the end of October here. I'm still walking around in t-shirts! Furthermore, seeing as most people here don't celebrate or dress up, the stores were depressingly lacking in variety of spooky props. However, out of adversity comes creativity; I decided against being the Devil again and to simply be a ...

... of the mountains that surrounds our city, so I'm able to go for walks during the day. There are also beds in the teachers lounge to take a nap and and a coffee machine that only costs 10 cents. That's right, I can sleep at my job. It's really nice. I can teach the students whatever I want to as there is no curriculum for me to follow. It makes it a little hard to know sometimes what level the students are ...

I wanted to visit a fortune teller on my birthday, but apparently they don't need your money... so it took Jenny nearly 2 weeks to find one that would have us. When we finally went, it was very anticlimatic... no flair for the dramatic at all. It's just a typical looking ajumma (older woman) that you might see cutting into line at E-mart in a dirty little room in her dirty little house. As much as I like getting past the ********, it ...

The city was decorated with lanterns for a week or so leading up to Buddha's Birthday which was celebrated on May 5th. Also, "Children's Day" happened to fall on the same day... remember when you were younger and on Mother's Day or Father's Day you'd ask your parents "When is kids' day?" and they'd tell you "EVERYDAY IS KIDS' DAY ...

I accompanied Matt and Julia to a Body Works Exhibition part of the world renowned "The Universe Within" traveling freak-show of a science exhibit wherein human and animal bodies are preserved by plastic in various poses in such a way that one can actually see all the parts that make the 'body work'. Morbid ...