Image via Wikipedia We are well into spring here, and as a consequence, there are some interesting things to see. Last Saturday was the Buddha’s Birthday ( 2545 years ago!), and here in Korea, it is an official government holiday (even though it occurred on a Saturday). Something else that I found to be a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘strange’
Another potpourri post…
Posted in Korea, School, tagged Korea, picture, strange on May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
April fool’s day (in Korea: “lie day”)
Posted in Korea, tagged links, strange, video on April 4, 2009 |
In the classes I teach, this week I used the idea of April fool’s day, it turns out that April fool’s day is a well known concept to most of my students, except that they call if “Lie Day”, which in a strange way is sort of pragmatic. So to celebrate this ‘International day of [...]
Yellow Dust finally arrives!
Posted in Korea, tagged Korea, links, picture, strange on March 17, 2009 |
Image via Wikipedia My friend Andrew beat me to the punch blogging about the growing ‘yellow dust’ here in South Korea. I guess this means that both I and my next door neighbor Andrew will be doing a lot of coughing. I can also see the possibility of my getting one of the hospital type [...]
Strange foods here…
Posted in Food, Korea, tagged Food, links, picture, strange on February 20, 2009 |
Since coming to Jeonju I have had a number of opportunities to try out a variety of what I consider to be strange foods. To help me explain some of these experiences I’ve added a few links to some other web sites… This is a great site covering Korean food here in Korea for non-natives: [...]
So far I have seen only one American car while I’ve been living in Korea. Several weeks ago I saw a pretty beat looking Pontiac Grand AM (about a 1999 model in red). I don’t know how this relates to the current debacle in Detroit (the potential bankruptcy of any of the big three auto [...]
College Entrance Exam day
Posted in Korea, tagged Korea, picture, School, strange on November 15, 2008 |
This is yet another of the many small differences in life here in Korea (at least for an American). College entrance exam day is a sort of national holiday. I teach at a middle school and got the day off because all of the classes I would be teaching were canceled for the day (!). [...]
Being tall here…
Posted in Korea, tagged Gimje, Korea, picture, School, strange on November 15, 2008 |
This post is an answer to a question one of my readers asked me. Since I am quite tall (about two meters), he asked if I were the tallest man in Korea. Well, I haven’t met every Korean, but I can say that I am as tall as anyone I’ve met here. More importantly for [...]
To start giving you an idea of the foods I eat here in Korea, I decided to describe my weekly menu at lunch here at school. Yes, I eat ‘hot lunch’ here at school. For the teachers, lunch is provided (we pay up at the end of each month). While the students go through a [...]
About shoes…
Posted in Korea, School, tagged Gimje, Korea, School, strange, video on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shoes can be an interesting topic for many westerners living in Korea. As you may have seen from one of my earlier posts, Koreans take off their shoes when entering their homes. They also take off their shoes when entering a school. Where I work, at Gimje Middle School, I was given some slippers to [...]
More of some of the little things…
Posted in Korea, my apartment, tagged Jeonju, Korea, neighborhood, picture, strange on November 2, 2008 |
Here are some more small details if life here in Jeonju. First I have a few more views of some of my local streets. This picture was taken at the regional terminal for the Express Bus Terminal (I use the local terminal…). This is just a random shot across the street. This rather busy shot [...]
