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To: Thursday, 10 October 2013
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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Quick Update: Travel - 40 days left



Travelling is on my mind. I have about 40 days before I embark on the adventure of a lifetime.


Thursday, April 15, 2010

Magoksa Temple Stay with Adventure Korea



I decided that I wanted the experience of staying at a temple before I left Korea. Many companies organize temple stays, but I decided to do one with Adventure Korea . (I went on April 10, 2010 - and since I was the only Karamel colored person on the trip I've probably just given away my pseudo-anonymity) It was pretty easy to sign up for the trip, and then you have to make sure you pay* before all the seats are taken.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Snow Boarding Korea

photo credit: visitkorea.or.kr

I went snowboarding for the first time in my life in Korea. I went with a meetup group and my friend J. We headed out early from Jamsil station so I crashed at her house the night before.

Now keep in mind I had never been snowboarding. One thing that sucked was that I couldn't take any classes in English but luckily my friend was there to help me out. The ski resort, Sung-woo, was pretty cool.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Quick Weekend Getaway (Hong Kong and Macau)


I was getting a little bit stressed out by work in general, so my friend and I decided I needed a break. We tried to think of a place where is would be easy to explore most of it in just a few days, and came up with Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. I wanted to stay away from Singapore because it will eventually be on my south east Asia backpacking extravaganza.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving)


My school didn't really give a chuseok holiday because it fell on a Saturday. That had a lot of kids cranky and ruined any plans of taking any fun and exciting trips outside the country. Instead I planned to meet up with my girls a little bit later the next day. Unfortunately when I got off work that Friday, we went drinking so I was a little hung over the next day.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Another Day in Paradise




I had a chance to go to the Philippines, and it was tons of fun, while I hated Manila, I absolutely love Boracay.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Lets Get DIRRTY: Boryeong Mudfestival



The Boryeong Mud Festival is a festival that grew out of a need to sell pharmaceautical products made of mud. Well, there is more to it but I will let the web and this video tell you more about it.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

6 months gone: still loving life in Seoul


accurate depiction

6 months have gone by so quickly and suddenly its time to start thinking that in maybe another 6 months I will either be out of here or staying on for another year. I don't want to think too much into it but I have to start planning. You think you have so much time, but one year is not enough to experience anything properly. Especially when you've fallen in love...

Friday, June 19, 2009

New Term begins... sort of


We all went in to work, but got sent home

Quarantine: Just when you think you have it all figured out, something new happens. This time it was a very surprising and unexpected suspension of the start of the term due to Swine flu.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Welcome to the Good Life


It feels like Atlanta, it feels like NY, summertime Chi, ...and Seoul.

I am having a great time here. I can't believe I almost didn't come and for the most asinine reasons. I realize its been a long time since I wrote, so I am going to try to catch you up...