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What Would You Miss?

Fri, 01/23/2015 - 06:24 — maijaj2

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Heading to the other side

When you live on the other side of the world you definitely miss some random things from home! Try to imagine what it would be like to step on a plane in your home country, sit there for at least a fourteen hour flight, and arrive in a land where you understand nothing, can’t read any of the signs, and have no idea how to ask for a thing.

Big News!

Wed, 01/21/2015 - 08:47 — magyarn

Picky Eaters Can’t Be Choosers

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 11:06 — magyarn

Leaving Korea: Was it just a dream?

Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13:29 — maijaj2

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It’s funny, half way through the year it felt like the longest six months of my life and now here we are back in Canada with Korea appearing as a dream like memory. Were we really there? Did all that actually happen? It seemed never ending at the time and now it seems like it didn’t occur at all!

Were we really in Nampo?

English Camp in Korea IS Vacation (so I’m told)

Sun, 12/28/2014 - 15:53 — tgates209

It’s that time of the semester.

English camp time.

The 2 weeks following the end of both the spring and fall semesters is English Camp. It’s also when all the teachers in the school begin their vacations.

That’s right; for the two weeks that I’ll be conducting English camp, everyone else will be at home with family, traveling somewhere, or drunk. Maybe all three.

The days following the end of English camp are what comprise our “vacation” time as EPIK/public school NETs. It comes out to 8 days in the winter and 10 in the summer.

Conscious Streams of Consciousness on a 13-Hour Flight

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 20:57 — JPD does ROK

I am in Seat 41A on United Airlines flight 88 to Newark Liberty International Airport. I am about four hours into a 13-hour marathon from Beijing, which began in Incheon. Before that, a 42-minute express train from Seoul. Before that, a two-hour, 50-minute KTX from Busan Station. Before that, an 11-stop subway ride from Hadan. Before that, my friends’ apartment, graciously donated to me for the night.

The coffee I drink to keep me awake–as my body and mind attempt to adjust to the endless night across the East Siberian Sea–is measurably worse than the coffee I could be drinking at home, ground from beans from Costco in Centum City. It’s even far worse than the Americanos I have the luxury to complain about from time to time. But it tastes considerably better than the mysteries I chose to leave to imagination when I quit on Korea years ago.

Have Yourself a Korean Little Christmas

Sun, 12/14/2014 - 13:39 — magyarn

Merry Christmas from Korea! Besides a few twinkling roundabout decorations and lights hanging from windows of major shopping malls, Ulsan unfortunately doesn’t offer much in the way of holiday spirit. However, Busan is a whole different story!

Namhae, September 6-9, 2014

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 09:30 — fishstick

We decided to go camping in Namhae for the vacation time during the Chuseok holiday. Namhae is a quaint beach town a 2-1/2 hour bus ride from Busan.

From the Busan West Bus Terminal (부산서부시외버스터미), it costs 11,900₩ to take the bus to Namhae (남해 시외버스 터미널). I recommend camping at Sangju Beach (상주은모래비치). There isn’t much to do or eat there, but it has facilities for camping (including bathrooms and showers in the summer). I highly suggest bringing food, but there are many marts around that sell drinks and instant ramen, etc..

A Korean Winter Mystery

Mon, 12/08/2014 - 10:02 — Kathryn Godfrey

The past couple of weeks have seen the temperature drastically drop to below freezing- winter, along with a hefty lot of snow, has officially arrived. As such, the coats are back out, everyone is dressed up in their warming, winter gear. But there is one big difference between Koreans and foreigners and how they wear their winter clothes, and it’s something which puzzled me last year and has remained a mystery until now: why do (99% 0f) Koreans wear their coats inside?

My Winter Survival Kit

Wed, 12/03/2014 - 11:14 — Kathryn Godfrey

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