In the realm of random but cool things on TV. The 2007 Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships. Totally a cool sport.

I've climbed Mt. Fuji

I've ridden in the back of a S. Korean Army Jeep

I was once randomly given 2 eggplants by a Japanese man

Send me your guesses and I'll let you know the what's real and what's not.

Okay, so I never met the people in question, although they used to work where I live/work now. Anyway, enjoy the video and be prepared to smile.

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When you're living in your native homeland, finding everyday items is easy. So easy, that we tend to take their ready availability for granted ( Read more... )

Dude Looks Like a Lady
Dance, Magic Dance (from Labrynth)
Danny and the Dinosaur (audio book)
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands

Like I said before, this is a strange, strange place.

We ventured into the nearest suburb of Seoul today, Ilsan to look around and basically check the place out. It's where people from EV go to hang out, eat dinner, go drinking etc. It's a lot like a Ichibancho for Sendai people. The video iPods made the hour ish bus trip not nearly so bad (for the record, the EV shuttle takes 20 minutes, but only ( Read more... )

1) Today is the last day of the Two Week Program. We've got the weekend off, and then we start the normal One Week Program. We'll be working an odd schedule of Friday-Tuesday, and a mix of days and evenings ( Read more... )

Today marked our second day on the job, and actually had us doing work (or at least pretending to). We found out our schedules and the content areas we'll be teaching. Brian's doing Science and I'm in World Discovery. Should be interesting. We're working the 1-9 shift M-F for the next couple of weeks, and then we'll be doing evenings and ( Read more... )

We've arrived safely at our new apartment in S. Korea. All's well, but we're tired, stinky and hungry... so we'll post more later!

Today's the day. We're finishing off breakfast and stuffing last minute things into luggage. We'll be heading off to Dulles soon, leaving at about 1:30, landing about 5pm on Sunday (Korea time).

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in the last week.

If you skype, we can be found at Wavybend.