Today, I visited a library near DaDaePo Beach. It had a pretty good English section for children’s books – from the Jungle Book, the Secret Garden and White Fang on down to younger ages.
It also had the Korea Herald available. I haven’t seen the herald in print in years and haven’t visited the site in a few months, since Safari recognizes it as a malware site. Is it okay to visit? Anyway, I took a few photos of things that caught my interest. Click to embiggen if you want to read them.
i’m going to south korea this weekend. i’ll be living there until the end of next july, living in the major port city of busan and teaching english to kids, ages 5-13. i leave saturday morning from san francisco, and until then, i’m frolicking in santa cruz with one of my best friends from college, boda. i’ll get to the california adventures in a moment. but first, some ground rules.
Korea Tourism.org has a variety of contests going on right now. There is a tourism photo contest with the deadline of July 13th and an essay (photo essay? – they require 3 or more photos in the essay). The essay contest is in honour of the Visit Korea year 2010-2012 but I don’t think essays mocking the chronology will win. I can’t find a direct link to it but on the main page, upper left, is a button describing special promotions.
The word Upcycle means to convert waste materials or useless products into new products of better quality or value. For example, instead of recycling plastic bottles by melting them down and reforming new ones (which creates waste in the process), upcycling would involve converting the plastic bottle into something of higher value, like a pot for plants.
With the up in visits recently I'm starting to feel the nudge of obligation to post up a little more often.
However, I don't want things to become spectacularly boring for the readers (whoever you are. I mean feel free to leave a comment or something, stranger.)
This photo doesn't really have anything to do with this post, although it is VERY Korean, just like this coffee shop. I am also pretty sure this man does ads for nearly every Western brand of everything out here..
Camellia sinensis is the about as close to a holy object both my wife and I can appreciate. My wife once remarked at a tea ceremony that the Korean Way of Tea was the one religion she could follow.
My first crush struck in the fourth grade, in Miss Vanderee’s class, on a boy called Steven Costa. He wasn’t the smartest or the funniest or the most charismatic; I think his part in the class play consisted of doling out props to the lead roles. But he had dark hair and dark eyes and exuded a quiet sort of energy, in that intriguing makes-you-wonder-what-goes-on-in-his-head kind of way.
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