Of course, we’re always doing things around Andong. As in Nebraska, fall is my favorite time of year here. So we’ve been trying to get outside more, but due to random scheduling problems and an epically rainy summer/fall, we haven’t got out as much as we’d like. But even small walks and excursions can be [...]
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Around Town
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Andong Mask Dance Festival 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The International Mask Dance Festival is the biggest event in Andong each year. I had a cold for much of the festival this year, but still got out to some cool things. I saw dances from 5-6 countries, but by far the most interesting was Israel: Ann almost got sucked up an teleported or something [...]
Summer Vacations
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The core of my summer vacation was a trip to Hawaii to meet my family. There were lots of stops before and after but there’s nothing like family. And nowhere like Hawaii. We stayed on the west end of Maui, Napili Bay, just a couple of minutes from a beautiful beach and ocean. The picture [...]
Hong Kong
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I had kind of a last minute vacation last week and so I snuck off to Hong Kong for four days. Mostly I just walked around the city soaking it up, had some good food and drinks, and went to a few tourist locations. I’ll let the pics do the talking! I did the audio [...]
South Korea? South Korea!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
An issue with moving to Korea, and then living here for an extended period of time is that lots of people ask you (or you can tell they are thinking it) Why Korea? What’s in Korea? There are, of course, lots of great reasons to live in Korea. Friendly people, beautiful country, excellent food, tremendous [...]
Spring
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Korea is full of flowering trees on full display in spring. The cherry blossoms are the most famous, but there’s all kinds of different blossoms all over the country. I’m really disappointed because despite my best efforts I couldn’t get my camera to capture the vibrancy and beauty of the trees. Yesterday we walked across [...]
Campus
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the view of campus from my office balcony. In the foreground of the picture, you see three people walking up the path? Just to the left of those people there is a shady clearing and on really nice days the students have a picnic and drink beer, soju, and makgeolli. In the background, [...]
New Digs
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Lots of changes this last month. We finished our one year contract at Avalon and moved across town to teach at the local university. Instead of starting my first class around 3:15 pm with 5 year olds, I now start at 7:40 am with 18-20 year olds. The best things about the new job are [...]
Korean gas stations and convenience stores
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Korean gas stations aren’t much like American ones at all, and there’s far fewer of them around. The biggest thing is that people don’t get out of their car during the trip. They don’t even open the door. You pull up in your car to a pump, and a gas attendant hops out of his [...]
Free Korean Gyms
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There’s lots of little parks in our neighborhood, and most of the parks have workout equipment side by side with kid’s playground stuff. This park is just down the street from our apartment and has four exercise machines. Notice the apartment complex in the background? 80%+ of Koreans live in buildings like those. I don’t [...]
