Mount Wolchlsan (808 metres)This time, (thanks to Coach Krista who navigated the goats trail as our fearless leader), Lizzie, Camino, Shanda and I all conquored Wolchulsan!
These amazing photos were taken by Shanda Suggitt.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Jeju Island for the Chuseok Holiday
A four hour ferry ride from Mokpo to Jeju-do , an island province due south of the Korean penninsula.
A four hour ferry ride from Mokpo to Jeju-do , an island province due south of the Korean penninsula.
Junum Beach was practically deserted except for foreigners. The ocean swimming was fantastic.
Seogwipo
Lunch at the Hyatt
Here's Krista and I on a rented scooter. Ian and Justin rented a motorcycle.
The first day we toured the SE coast of the island - climbed down to a cave on a lava cliff and up to the basin of a 5000 year old volcanic crater. 
The Sunbeach hotel was nicely located overlooking the harbour and walking distance to two waterfalls.
(Photos by Justin Schlossberg, Krista Farley and Ian Heaslip)
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Friday, September 07, 2007
My school picture - officially a teacher (how did this happen!?)
Link to our school website.
This is my co-teacher, Jee Hyung Gee. She is becoming a great friend and is teaching me korean.
This is a picture of a typical class. Together, Jee Hyung and I teach 20 different classes per week, consisting of grades 4,5 and 6. With 36 kids per class, that's 720 kids we see each week.
National museum in Gwanju
This beautiful picture was stolen from the Net, since I am the only person who does not own a digital camera.
One of the great things about our orientation was the feild trips. We went to the National museum in Gwanju, where we were treated to a live demonstration of tradional music and took an introductory lesson in several instruments including the janggu hourglass shaped drum and the kkwaenggwari bronze gong.
We also attended an art workshop where we each made a print by rubbing a carved artifact and getting the releif image on soft paper. This nows adorns the wall in my apartment, a nivce souvenier of a fun day.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Learning Korean
It's going to be inevitable...I will have to learn some Korean My strategy is to learn the alphabet and how to read hangul, while learning vocabulary at the rate of one word per day. This doesn't seem too daunting, because some words just seem to be more memorable than others.
So, with the help of the lonely planet phrasebook and this wbesite, so far learning has been quite painless.
I need to know how to count before mny next taekwondo lesson.
Learning to count:
1 hanah 2 dool 3 set 4 net 5 dasot 6 yasot 7 ilgop 8 yadol 9 ahop 10 yool
Wish me luck!
http://iteslj.org/v/k/
It's going to be inevitable...I will have to learn some Korean My strategy is to learn the alphabet and how to read hangul, while learning vocabulary at the rate of one word per day. This doesn't seem too daunting, because some words just seem to be more memorable than others.
So, with the help of the lonely planet phrasebook and this wbesite, so far learning has been quite painless.
I need to know how to count before mny next taekwondo lesson.
Learning to count:
1 hanah 2 dool 3 set 4 net 5 dasot 6 yasot 7 ilgop 8 yadol 9 ahop 10 yool
Wish me luck!
http://iteslj.org/v/k/
Figuring it all out.
Living somewhere you don't know the language can be challenging.
The most important thing is to be able to eat of course. You can get a bag of some different kinds of chips or cookies at the 7-11 or ant\y of the other small "marts" found virtually everywhere, along with a charming array of drinks such as aloe juice or pomegranite juice. But for a real meal you will just have to have to be brave and go somewhere and order. Luckily for Krista and I, we met Christa, also from Canada, who has been here for a year already. So we were directed to a snack restauarant where you can order from pictures and everything is only around 2 or 3 thousand won. Like many foreigners, we figured we could live happily on chum chee kimbap and guk (soup) while we got our culinary bearings.
Fianlly figured out my address today in such a way that someone from home can mail something to me (I knew how to say it to a cabbie)
전남 목포시 산정동 산체스오피스텔 708호 Mokpo City San Jong Dong San Chess Officetel 708 South Korea
Yet to figure out:
How to get my aps film developed here - I think it's impossible.
How to make a long distance call back to Canada.
The phone cards I bought in Canada don't work, and the word on the street is that Islam Star are the ones to buy here. Have'nt found them yet...
Living somewhere you don't know the language can be challenging.
The most important thing is to be able to eat of course. You can get a bag of some different kinds of chips or cookies at the 7-11 or ant\y of the other small "marts" found virtually everywhere, along with a charming array of drinks such as aloe juice or pomegranite juice. But for a real meal you will just have to have to be brave and go somewhere and order. Luckily for Krista and I, we met Christa, also from Canada, who has been here for a year already. So we were directed to a snack restauarant where you can order from pictures and everything is only around 2 or 3 thousand won. Like many foreigners, we figured we could live happily on chum chee kimbap and guk (soup) while we got our culinary bearings.
Fianlly figured out my address today in such a way that someone from home can mail something to me (I knew how to say it to a cabbie)
전남 목포시 산정동 산체스오피스텔 708호 Mokpo City San Jong Dong San Chess Officetel 708 South Korea
Yet to figure out:
How to get my aps film developed here - I think it's impossible.
How to make a long distance call back to Canada.
The phone cards I bought in Canada don't work, and the word on the street is that Islam Star are the ones to buy here. Have'nt found them yet...
more mokpo pics
Mokpo!
What a city of contrasts! Modern and ancient co-exist in a tangled up jumble of winding streets and crooked back alleys, flashing with neon and punctuated by horns and ciccadas.
More than anything, Mokpo is colourful and full of life.
The Mokpo city website has some more good pics:
It's hard to capture on film becuase it is the jumble of things all together that make it unique.
It has been really fun exploring the city, sometimes by cab but mostly walking, hours and hours of walking! I'd always want to find a shortcut, and Krista would say "we don't have time!" since the process of finding shortcuts inevitably meant getting all turned around the first few times we tried.
Mokpo!What a city of contrasts! Modern and ancient co-exist in a tangled up jumble of winding streets and crooked back alleys, flashing with neon and punctuated by horns and ciccadas.
More than anything, Mokpo is colourful and full of life.
The Mokpo city website has some more good pics:
It's hard to capture on film becuase it is the jumble of things all together that make it unique.
It has been really fun exploring the city, sometimes by cab but mostly walking, hours and hours of walking! I'd always want to find a shortcut, and Krista would say "we don't have time!" since the process of finding shortcuts inevitably meant getting all turned around the first few times we tried.
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