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Trips planned!
I've spent most of the afternoon plotting out my trip to New Zealand. I ended up having to switch the dates of my two proposed trips while I'm here in Korea. I'd wanted to go to New Zealand in early December but since I was booking the flight with miles, I wasn't able to find a flight back that didn't cost an arm and a leg. So instead, I switched ( Read more... ) -
Cold
Going up to SNU everyday to read site reports in their museum library has had the inevitable consequence - I caught a cold from the students. I thus went out only once today and had the longest conversation in my life in Korean with a pharmacist about my symptoms (everything is behind the counter here so you have to talk to the pharmacist), then I ( Read more... ) -
How to satisfy wanderlust
Flight to India in December and New Zealand in January now booked! -
Dream
Dreamt I was an ancient werewolf who had originally been a pale furred wolf at the dawn of time. I was consulted in the modern day on the possibility of creating more/better werewolves but kept to myself that I thought they were going about it all wrong since I had been there when werewolves were created (complete with awesome flashback to how it ( Read more... ) -
Hapkido and life
Gave up finding a place to train in hapkido on my own and emailed the head of the Korean Hapkido Federation in very polite Korean. He writes back in English that my Korean is 'near perfect', and I feel sorry for him when he finally meets me and discovers that my spoken Korean sucks. Then I call him today because he asked me to and he's more shocked ( Read more... ) -
Accidentally climbing a mountain
Today I went looking for a folklore museum which was supposed to be near Namsan park in the center of Seoul (at the center of which is a mountain and on top of the mountain is Seoul tower fyi). So I got off the subway at Seoul Station and decided to walk to the park since it was only another subway stop away and it would take just as much walking ( Read more... ) -
Gwangjang Market
Today, I went to gwagjang market which is surprisingly easy to get to from where I live. I'd been there before last year to have some mung bean pancakes, but this time around I wanted to visit the shops. I started out on the opposite side of the street/river from the marketplace since I'd found a blog mentioning that that was where all the knitting ( Read more... ) -
Dragon Hill jjimjilbang
Yesterday, I took a friend to Dragon Hill jjimjilbang. She'd lived in Japan before so she was used to Japanese onsen, but I figured I'd introduce her to the Korean version. She lives pretty close to the place too. Lucky. Anyway, she was shocked how many pools there were in Dragon Hill and it really is a good deal considering it was $11, and I paid ( Read more... ) -
Postcards
Was there anyone who I promised postcards to from Korea who I'm forgetting? Speak up if I did. And even if I didn't feel free to comment and ask for one (though you'll need to email me your current address). -
Research and bath houses
Well, my scanner arrived yesterday evening. Unfortunately, despite it looking like it had a brick for converting power, the AC adapter gave out a puff of smoke after being plugged in for half an hour and I was left spending all of Saturday trying to find a replacement AC adapter. Two which might work are on their way to me but it is yet another ( Read more... )