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Halloween and a Kitten
This is the latest addition to our household, a 2 month old kitten. Her Korean name is 삼순이, but her English name is Cat Farrand-Ngo.
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Chungju International Performance Art Festival, Korea
On Wednesday, September 12, I travelled to Chungju City to take part in the Chungju International Performance Art Festival.
 The venue was a traditional old Korean building and there were many schoolchildren in attendance as there was also an art competition for the students to paint or draw the performance artists. |
Gwangali Fire Flower FestivalIn case you haven't noticed, Korea is a very food-orientated society. While I was eating out maybe twice a week or so in Australia, over here I eat out pretty much everyday. The food in simple diners like Kim-bap Cheon-guk (that literally translates to 'seaweed-rice heaven') is about the same price you'd pay if you were to buy the ingredients yourself and cook it at home. They'll deliver it to your house for free and then come back later and collect your dirty dishes. You can even ask them to pick up some beer from a convenience store along the way. |
Odds and EndsWe just arrived back from Jeju Island yesterday (Sunday) and had a good time there. I'll upload those photos and share them with you when I have some spare time. This post is a little shorter and covers the week before we left.
Unfortunately for that particular weekend I left my camera at the hagwon, which was a little silly of me. So half of these photos were taken by friends and associates who I've tracked down on Facebook. |
Jinhae Cherry BlossomsEvery year for about 2 weeks in the spring, a cherry blossom festival is held in Jinhae, a town about 1.5 hours out of Busan. You may remember that we went to Jinhae about a year ago, when Skipper took us to have a look around. I was keen to go back, as it's one of the nicest seaside towns in Korea.
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Birthdays and Another AquariumWhen our branch first opened 8 months ago, there were 3 teachers and 5 administration staff. We've been expanding steadily since then and now have 11 teachers and 6 admin. Our enrolments have settled to around 300 students, but we're aiming for 350.
 Recently we had a staff dinner to celebrate our expansion. Seated here are all of the current Saha staff, minus me who took the photo. Dinners like these are always a good time to spin a yarn or two. |
Muju Ski Resort
Life remains busy. I spend the week traveling across town, from Korean language classes to work. In the diminishing gaps of spare time unevenly dispersed throughout the week I wedge language exchanges, CCTV viewing, haircuts, university applications and private tutoring.
There's plenty of time to rest when you're dead. |
Beijing Part III - The Great WallGetting to the Great Wall was a little difficult because our handy guidebook to Beijing (written in Korean) had guided us to a particular bus stop. At that bus stop were some hawkish vendors who were offering to take us to the wall at bargain prices in their own vans. Most of the regular bus drivers were too preoccupied to help us out.
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Beijing Part II - Sights, Sounds and FoodWe declined to take a full tour-guided package because we wanted to do things in our own time. Heather lived in China before and speaks fluent Chinese, so we were free to make our own choices for the whole time we were there. If you get to travel with someone who knows the local language, it's infinitely more convenient.
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Beijing Part I - A City of SkyscrapersI had been wanting to visit China for a long time and the chance finally arrived when we had a long weekend last week. We toured at our own pace and enjoyed it a lot. Although we were only there for 3 nights, we fit a lot of things in and came back feeling very good about it.
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