Today is another one of the many Korean holidays to celebrate the love between couples. Though my students admit that it is a manufactured holiday thought up by the candy companies they still enjoy it. This day is kind of yang of the yin which is Valentine's Day. On Valentine's Day, women give chocolate to men... no expectations are had of the ( Read more... )

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I've finally gotten around to updating my photo space and have added my photos from Thailand. I played around with my camera a lot so that's why there's sometimes a lot of pictures of the same thing. Learning how to use the thing finally. Anyways, I miss being there.. Had quite a good time. Even Bangkok for 10 hours was fun. I really got into ( Read more... )

I really wish I could upload pictures, but it's going to have to wait till I get back. Today I decided to leave the quiet serenity of Ton Sai, and headed to the "main land". I wanted to go to Tiger Cave Temple, and while I was looking around for a bus there, a guy offers me a motorbike for $5 for 24 hours. I'm like hmm.... transport there and ( Read more... )

The climbing here is amazing!!! So far this morning I was out with Richard from South Africa, and we made it up 3 routes, all of which were on the upper end of what I conceive as being my ability, but I've been feeling fairly strong. Maybe it's all the Thai massage :) At this point I don't want to leave and go back to cold Korea. (Cold ( Read more... )

It's now the morning of December 26th. In less than an hour it will be 1 year after the Tsunami hit in Thailand. Last night I met a Canadian that was caught in the 2nd wave and pulled out to sea. He was pulled into a boat a minute before the biggest wave hit. I've noticed that fewer people are going out kayaking today, and currently I don't see ( Read more... )

It is currently, Midnight +10 minutes in Thailand, on Christmas day, so I am here to wish all a Merry Christmas. It was a bit of an effort to finally get here, but I am now in Krabi, and will be heading out to the beach tomorrow, in a place only accessible by boat, with no cars. This will give me a chance to chill out from the things that have ( Read more... )

So after 3 months and 11 days in Korea, I've finally been struck by a bit of homesickness. Many people say it happens to most people after around 3 months when the newness wears off and you fall into a routine but.... I blame it on beer personally. I got a small group of people to head down to Gwangju, 1.5 hour train ride away, to the nearest ( Read more... )

"November is known as Pepero Day, because "11/11" looks like four sticks ( Read more... )

This past weekend I went down to Seununsan which is a provincial park on the south western part of the province I'm in, Jeollabuk-do. I was certainly impressed with the colors of fall, as I think we were there during the peak, as my photos should demonstrate. Anyways it was a bit of a foreign climbers gettogether, and I went down with my friend ( Read more... )