tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29072131461442599652024-03-13T21:31:56.388-07:00A Letter for YouTo bring to life the adventures...and stories of the day...and share the exploration of another cultureRecipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-44618999527551072392015-04-28T23:35:00.002-07:002015-10-04T22:34:52.671-07:00School lunchDear Mom and Dad,<br />
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I'm sure you've heard in the news about the whole national school lunch debate etc, etc. Well, I thought I'd add my 2 cents and show some pictures of my school lunches here. I eat my lunch at school and I will say it is quite good. At least, if you like Korean food or trying new things, which I do. Maybe it's not for everyone and that's fine, but the lunches here are filling and satisfying. You don't go hungry, if you eat. And, at least in elementary school, you can get seconds. In middle school you serve yourself most things and so you take what you want the first time. Although there are some who definitely head back when their favorites are served. ^^<br />
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That being said, there is this one observation. The amount of food that is thrown away really is staggering. Students, usually in the middle school, (and teachers) who take (or are served) massive amounts of food and can't finish it, or (because of certain expectations) take food that they really don't want just to avoid comment, cause an enormous amount of waste. However, there is never any complaint about not getting enough to eat. And the majority of the food is cooked on site, or purchased fresh/freshly made. Also, most of the rice is not just plain rice but often has other grains mixed in. Black or brown rice, beans, barley and other grains are most common.<br />
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All lunches consist of rice, soup, and kimchi of some kind, plus three or four 반찬- banchan, or side dishes. Delish!! Ok, here goes some pictures!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">top left clw: spicy pork, spinach with seaweed, kimchi, apple,samgyetang (chicken and ginger soup) and rice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">top left clw: samgyup (pork belly) spicy eggplant, kimchi, soy sauce boiled potatoes, spicy radish and bean sprout soup, rice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">top left clw: spicy stewed fish with radish, smoked duck, kimchi, sugared tomato, squash leaf and tofu soup, rice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">top left clw: galbi (pork rib) spicy steamed broccoli, kimchi, boiled potato, spicy nakji (octopus) and radish soup, rice</td></tr>
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<br />Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-62073136645495852302015-04-28T22:18:00.000-07:002015-04-28T23:09:37.259-07:00Spring and Cherry blossoms!Dear Mom and Dad!<br />
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Spring is here! At last! It's been a cold winter here, although I know it doesn't compare to the winter that you guys had. But still, cold is cold and I'm not a fan! So when the cherry blossoms (벚꽃 ~ bot kote) and and plum flowers (매화 ~ maehwa), pears (배 ~ bae) and apples (사과 ~ sagwa) start blooming, I'm a happy camper. And I have a wonderful Korean friend who feels the same way. She visits my city on the weekends and we'll jump in her car and go for a drive through the country side to check out the flowers in spring time. When we started it was a little too early, but we've gone every week since and have gotten to see some really fantastic views all over the south western half of Korea. It even seemed that on some days we could actually <i>see</i> the flowers blooming throughout the day! <br />
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And pictures too! Lots and lots of pictures. It seems that all of Korea comes out to see the flowers at their height and impromptu festivals pop up in towns all over the country following the blooming season as it creeps north. Traffic jams for flowers! I can think of no better reason for a traffic jam! We had great times; some days overcast, some sunny, some cool and windy, some rather warm, but they were all fun! And even better with great company along the way. We would pack a picnic lunch and stop along the way, enjoying the fresh air and chatting about anything and everything. And as the plums faded, then came the cherries; and as the cherries faded then came the azaleas. This time of year for a little over a month, Korea is splashed with color from delicate white and pink, to vibrant rose and fuchsia, with dots of yellow forsythia all over. I love spring! It's almost as if Mother Nature is apologizing for her bad behavior and promising she'll behave for a while. At least until summertime!! Here are some of the pictures we've taken this spring! Enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">forsythia and cherry blossoms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Azaleas outside my school</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">impromptu cherry blossom festival</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad, </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shinjuku Koen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello Kitty!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">In December we
had two weeks of vacation time over Christmas and New Years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my friend Olivia and I decided (way back
in September) that we wanted to go to Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We definitely both wanted a travel companion as we were a little nervous
just travelling on our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Crazy,
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both made it to Korea, and
LIVE here, all on our own)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a week
vacation needed a travel companion, lol!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway, that makes trips that much more fun, so we planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided that it would be fun to visit
Disneyland while we were in Tokyo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Olivia had been to the one in CA, but I have never been at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Disney from a Japanese perspective might
be kinda interesting!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We were only
going for 5 days (4.5 really), so we just wanted to relax for most of our trip,
and since we were both sick with head colds that was a good idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our flight from Incheon to Tokyo was shorter
than our bus ride from our town to Incheon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it still strangely took us all day to get to Japan. Nine hours of travelling and waiting for a 2 hour flight... it was a snowing quite a bit when we left, but our bus driver was steady and we made good time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We flew into
Narita airport in the evening and we knew from talking with our hotel that we
would have to take the shuttle to the neighborhood next to our hotel’s neighbor
hood then take the subway one stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
sounds easy enough, but we were both nervous and tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Korea we are usually okay (now) to get
where we need to go since we are familiar with the system and can speak a
little Korean to get by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japan, no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And it is really intimidating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We finally found
the counter for the shuttle tickets and discovered (much to our joy) that we could
purchase 3 day subway passes for half price!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One worry down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bus didn’t
leave for almost an hour so we sat and tried to figure out our pocket
wi-fi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Japan has pretty
decent wi-fi and it is everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it’s not free public wi-fi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to
sign in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which typically requires a
Japanese ID number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tourists are
generally out of luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hotels will
sometimes have free wi-fi for their guests but if you are wandering around, and
get lost, good luck accessing online maps or translators.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We sorta figured
it out before the bus came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we
were waiting, (we discovered the Japanese love to queue) we met a Japanese man
returning for a home visit from the States and chatted for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I realized that was a little unusual,
but he had been in the States for some time, and recognized that we were
Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We got on the
bus and knew that we would be first off, but that the ride would be about 45
minutes. I tried to stay awake to see the sites, and I did see some, but it was
dark by then and not much showed beyond the headlights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we ended up dozing, until our stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got off and promptly headed to the subway
station.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odaiba at sunset</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gundam- Odaiba</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Or so we thought…!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found the covered stairway near a sign
that said subway and we walked down the stairs, thinking that the automatic
rail ramp thingy in the ground along the side was a little odd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw one or two people coming up the other
side and realized that it was an escalator for bikes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There weren’t a whole lot of people which
seemed strange for a subway station but we got to the bottom, struggling with
our luggage the whole way (stairs remember) and realized… it was an underground
bicycle garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(later we learned they
are called bicycle forests).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up we went,
thoroughly confused, but we finally found the subway, which in our neighborhood
wasn’t actually a subway but an elevated rail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US">We finally got
to our neighborhood and proceeded to look for our hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently neither of us were very good at
reading maps in Japanese because it seemed every turn we took, took us in a
different direction according to our map tracker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought we were heading in the correct
direction, but we were heading in somewhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not even in circles; that we could have
fixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we found the hotel and
checked in (turns out we came from the totally opposite direction that we
started from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How, we still haven’t
figured out.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By then it was
after 9PM and we were hungry so we left the hotel to a mart we remembered
passing around the corner from the hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tokyo skyline from Odaiba- yes, I got on a ferris wheel!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh. Yuuu~umm! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas lights in Odaiba</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Grocery shopping
is tons of fun in another country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
one of the funnest (is that even a word?) things you can do actually, to learn
about your new location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our flight
we had both watched a documentary on the Japanese entrepreneur who developed
instant ramen and cup noodles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we
snagged ourselves some cup noodles and some other snacks and some soft drinks
and headed back to the hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where we
were in heaven taking a REAL bath!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
super hot water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tub was almost full
size (I was not expecting that considering the size of the room) and DEEP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This became our routine almost every night we were there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cup noodles, snacks and a hot, hot bath!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ferris wheel Odaiba</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next day we
decided we wanted to go on the Ferris Wheel we had seen on the bus. So we pulled
out our subway map and figured out how to get there .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were heading to Odaiba, with the highest
ferris wheel with a view of Mount Fuji (which I had a fantastic sunset view of
on the plane!), the rainbow bridge, fantastic shopping and other fun things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But first we had to get there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow bridge -Odaiba</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Tokyo subway
is interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a little complex at
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes from subway in the city
center to elevated rail in the outlying neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also learned that the Tokyo subway system
does not just look like a bowl of ramen on a map, but it’s convoluted like one
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are actually three companies
(and the 3 corresponding rail lines) running the subway systems in Tokyo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Tokyo Metro, the Toei Line and the JR
lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these lines shared stations
but not all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if you only had a Metro
card you could only ride the Metro and not the Toei or JR lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All a little confusing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it means that the subways are a jumble of
swiping cards in and out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transferring
lines gets a little rough with all the card swiping. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swipe to enter, swipe to leave, swipe to enter
again, and swipe again to leave. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But our
card was good for Tokyo Metro and Toei, which were the main lines within the
city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JR lines were mostly just outside
the city.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odaiba at night</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Which we
promptly needed to use on Tuesday, our first full day in the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were heading to Odaiba and to get there we
had to take both the Tokyo Metro line and the Toei line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then transfer to the JR line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Metro and Toei ~ fine, no problem our card
took care of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JR line we had to get
new one time tickets for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After much
much confusion and not much help from the information folks, we finally realized
that we had to use the vending machine (that are everywhere, for everything).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just had to figure out which one and how
far we were going etc. etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily we
had made a promise to each other, that we had no time schedule and therefore we
were not in any hurry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could take our
time to figure things out without getting too frustrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise that could have been pretty panic
inducing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got our tickets (the
machine spit out 2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went through the
gate, Olivia went through the gate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
got on our train and got off our train at the correct stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did a little shopping then left the
station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we went out, I went through
first, and the Olivia went through directly after me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The machine door levers slammed shut behind
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had no idea what happened, but
it kept her ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hadn’t kept
mine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were confused but the station
people seemed more amused that irritated so we left, not really understanding
what had happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Can you tell we aren’t
used to subway systems?) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We had a
fantastic day in Odaiba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked
through the shopping center, which was more like a shopping mall in the States,
than the shopping centers in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything was decorated for Christmas, which seemed strange for a
Country that is less than 1% Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But they love Christmas (it’s a dating holiday, although not a day off)
even more than in Korea, which is almost 50% Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither is bad, certainly not the
materialistic commercialism in the West (another story, not for here,
lol).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odaiba</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cosplay at Don Quixote-these are for men</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the meantime,
one of the first stores we saw was guess what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hello Kitty!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of cool stores,
were we found green tea Kitkats (and bought some!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then gathered up the courage to stop for
lunch at a restaurant in the mall (which was PACKED) with people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was delicious but we had to eat quickly as
there was not much room in the restaurant and people were moving through
quickly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We headed to the Ferris Wheel called
Daikanransha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wandered along the way
trying to find it, and discovered a Toyota Car Museum attached to the Ferris
Wheel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got in line and although I was
nervous (terrified more like) I got on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was supposed to be 15 minutes around, but I think it was more like 7
or 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It felt like forever though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were fantastic views of the city and
Tokyo Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could see Mount Fuji
also,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but just barely through the clouds
and it just doesn’t appear in photos at all (bummer)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We watched the
sunset from across the water along the Bridge of Dreams and then headed toward
the Rainbow Bridge for night viewing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Along the way we wanted to stop at the Cup Noodle museum (because, you
know, cup noodles!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for some reason
we couldn’t find it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we stopped for
dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sushi!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wooa..ahh! No comparison and it wasn't even high end</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">It wasn’t high
quality sushi, at least not for Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I know we are not sushi connoisseurs, and have no idea of the
appropriate culture and habits for sushi, but we didn’t really care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was still the best sushi we ever had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not too cheap, not too expensive and oh so
delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for the most expensive
piece on the plate…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of us really
liked that one, but I suppose we aren’t “sushi cultured” enough to understand
its qualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wandered along to the
Rainbow Bridge and enjoyed the light shows on the buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Coming back was
when we learned what had happened to Olivia’s train ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we went to exit the JR line Olivia went
first and I followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olivia got through
but I was just too slow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The machine
kept my ticket but I was stuck on the other side of the machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The station guy came over to retrieve my
ticket and was trying to tell me that it wasn’t the right ticket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of us understood and I felt very
foolish and a little panicky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
eventually, we understood that what I had just put through and what Olivia had
put through (but the machine was too slow to catch) was the ticket information
stub, not the actual ticket<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(wow, real </span>바보<span lang="EN-US"> moment there).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily I
still had the actual ticket in my purse and I didn’t even have to fumble for
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front of the ticket stub and the
information stub were identical except that the back of one was black!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Wednesday we had a quieter day, since we
were both feeling a little rough from our colds. So we ate lunch in the
neighborhood at a small udon restaurant and explored the area before heading to
the other side of the city for the Wednesday night meeting at the Ohmoris. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had bdinner before hand with one of the
workers and then walked to the meeting home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was about a 15 minute walk and we never would have found it by
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I discovered quite a few
common connections with the family, as they have a son in Pittsburgh and have
visited there frequently!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small world!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disney at night</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thursday, we went to
Disney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We almost didn’t get a ride on
the free hotel shuttle as we didn’t reserve until Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we got on the last shuttle at 9:30Am
coming back at 11PM, which worked out great for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disney was awesome!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though everything was in Japanese, it
was a blast!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little weird to
see the America flag flying in the wild west park, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it was Christmas day (=dating day)
there were couples everywhere besides the usual families, so it was really
crowded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Couples in Asia like to wear
matching clothes, so everywhere you looked there were matching outfits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We of course had to buy Minnie Ears, because,
you know, it’s Disney!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a problem
though because we both liked the same Minnie Ears, lol!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we at least bought different colors!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disney twins!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mickey! At Disney Tokyo</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">At the end of the day we still hadn’t
ridden Space Mountain and we made a mistake getting fast passes for that ride so
we ended up waiting almost 2 hours to get on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By then it was freezing so we broke out our hot hand packs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was so cold that all the heat wicked
away unless it was in our pockets, but then it would get so hot that it
burned!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It even snowed a little
bit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only time we were there that it
snowed!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disney Tokyo- Christmas Day</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shinjuku at night</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Friday we were tired, and maybe a little
cranky from walking all day the day before, so we decided to have a lie in that
morning then head out for Shinjuku and Ginza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We thought about Roppongi but we didn’t think we’d have enough
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were also concerned about
subway rush hour in Shinjuku, the most massive of subway station in Tokyo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of really wanted to see, let alone
meet a subway pusher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and judging by
the subway crowds on a Friday night they would have been in force.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The masses of people between at rush hour
were incredible above ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we had
a leisurely afternoon, but we didn’t really have much of a goal other than to
explore the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started by heading
to Shinjuku Koen, an amazing garden park that had been at one time part of the
imperial properties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stopping at Don
Quixote which I had heard of before but didn’t really know what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently it is primarily a cosplay store…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had a late lunch in the park, ordered by vending machine and delivered by a
very sweet elderly woman who helped us figure out the vending machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was cold and bare, but the park was
beautiful even in winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were
even paperwhites blooming!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Later we found a coffee shop, which was
difficult to come across in Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve
been used to Korea which has coffee shops on every corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(My small neighborhood alone probably has 15
or 20)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rested as we had had some trouble
getting out of Shinjuku station and headed in the direction we wanted to
go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why was it so difficult?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We couldn’t figure it out either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The station was massive and connected to a
shopping center with rail lines in every direction</span></div>
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thinking that we might see some good street lights along the way and find some
dinner, but we lucked out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we
were getting tired and not really seeing anything interesting anymore (although
we did do some shopping!!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we looked
for a place to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted to sit
down and rest, but Shinjuku is not really the area for that, but we did find a
little curry restaurant that was quite good and cozy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then we headed to Ginza</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can find everything in a vending machine. This was for ordering lunch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginza at night</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our idea was to see Ginza at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew it was a shopping center but we
thought it would be more interesting to see at night with all the lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But by the time we got there, everything was
closing down and we discovered it was mostly all high end shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Armani Gucci, that sort of thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pretty, with some street lights but
not much happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we wandered
through the streets and came to some kind of massive convention center and
museum that looked like it might have been cool (if it was open, lol)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but they were having some street performances
that looked and sounded pretty awesome, so we stayed and watched for a while
before heading back to the station. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our next stop was Tokyo station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided that while we were in Tokyo, we
should go to “Tokyo” and do something like have coffee to say “We were in Tokyo”.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silly, but fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we wandered back to the station and found
ourselves on our way to Tokyo station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was only one stop, but it felt like a fairly good distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we came out of the station into this
amazing and beautiful old 1920’s style brick building that housed not just the
subway but the Shinkansen trains as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were some tall buildings around but not much else so we wandered
down the street. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hadn’t seen anything
that remotely looked like a cafe and everything was shutting down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we were strolling along casually for about
a kilometer before we came to this intersection. It looked vaguely familiar but
I didn’t pick up on it until Olivia stopped and looked at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lolita goth in a Shinjuku store window</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">“We’ve been here
before.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“What?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“This is the
building we just left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the dancers?”
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, we had just done a circle from Ginza to
Tokyo and back to Ginza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was to be the
story of our day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the station in the
morning, where we couldn’t figure out how to leave, to wandering around after
leaving the garden to Ginza and Tokyo, and even later when we got back to our
hotel that evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile we
looked for a café in a promising building but everything was closed and so we
headed to the basement to the station there and headed back to the hotel.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We got to our
station headed straight out from the entrance and made a left…and there was our
hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All week, we had taken a
different route each time we left or came back… and it was so close the whole
time!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tempura~ again, sooo yummy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soba! Yuu~uum. juapanese food is sooo good!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year of the sheep</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shinjuku Park</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next day was
our last day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had an easy morning and
then about 10:30 or 11:00 we decided that we would go check out the bus to the
airport and get tickets, then do some shopping if there was time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got to the next station over and realized
that there is no bus station. No person to buy tickets from, just two men who
were loading and unloading the airport busses when they came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked them for some help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we determined that there were two
ways of doing things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could reserve a
bus ticket at the convenience store (which for the life of us we could not
find), but only the day before we wanted to leave (which was no good, we were
leaving that day).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was to wait
and hope there was space on the bus we wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well there were only two more busses leaving before we absolutely HAD to
be at the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had time so we
went back to get our things and wait for the first bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather was fine so waiting wasn’t a
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made it onto the bus and got
to the airport, checked in returned our wi-fi, then palled around the
airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did some shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we both had checked in our luggage and
we had no carry on bags we both bought a Tokyo bag and did some more shopping
to fill up our new carry on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found
the wasabi kitkats Olivia had been looking for all week as well as a few more
unusual flavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought some too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a leisurely dinner or soba noodles and
tempura before making our way to the gate and back home!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than being sick for the whole trip,
our Japan trip was a success!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now
that we understand the subway system, (lol) there are dreams of going back
again someday!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
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long and heavy reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, sorry ‘bout
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So today I thought I’d write
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able to use chopsticks for many years, it’s never been a constant in my eating
habits and I would occasionally have to re-learn how to use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, living in Korea for 2 years, I use
chopsticks everyday and I think I actually prefer them for some things that I
never would have considered before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
before I continue on that line, I just want to say that Korea is different from
its neighbors, in that place settings here include a long handled spoon that is
used for both rice and soup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This helps
many-a ham handed chopstick individual. Also the chopsticks are thin and
metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Metal complicates things a bit,
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your chopsticks at someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s kinda
like pointing at someone with your finger, it’s just plain rude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And number two, (all that I’m going to get
into today) don’t hold your spoon and chopsticks in the same hand at the same
time. How you can be talented enough to do this without making a tremendous mess,
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noodles, spaghetti and other pastas, salads (this makes fantastic sense!) including
individual lettuce leaves, fruit, cake, and squirming octopus legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can now debone a fish with the average of
them and I can cut a pork cutlet with just a pair of chopsticks in one
hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can spear tiny quail eggs and
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</span>전<span lang="EN-US"> from a distance and chew my way around a bone in the </span>고기,<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> but jello, still not happening!</span></div>
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한번 먹어보세요<span lang="EN-US">!</span></div>
Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-22666661263912815862014-10-24T00:27:00.002-07:002014-12-07T23:06:15.162-08:00Vietnam 2014<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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vacation I had the chance to go to Vietnam for two weeks with my good friend
Natalie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had decided on Vietnam late
last winter, so we were plenty excited by the time summer rolled around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sent off our passports early in June for
our Vietnam visas which took about 2 or 3 weeks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can get tourist visas at the airport, but
you have to wait in line, and you aren’t always guaranteed a visa right
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had other friends on the same
flight as us, and that’s what they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They didn’t have any problems, but we didn’t want the hassle of getting
it done at the airport. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had planned our hotels and flights
separately, but neither were extremely expensive for a two weeks stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our flight was more than our two weeks of
hotels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stayed in Hanoi for 5 days
and Ho Chi Minh for 7. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hotel was
about $15 per person per night, and it was a very nice place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ho Chi Minh was a little more expensive $30
per person per night, but it was a 4 star boutique hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty sweet.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shop in the Old Quarter</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">So we had a
total of three flights to plan for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
flew Vietnam Air, of which I think I am not a complete fan, but the flights
were uneventful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad for
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flight from Incheon to Vietnam
is about 4 hours and for all four hours we either had static or the flight map on
the TV monitors and no working cabin lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or rather they worked, they just flickered every few seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The domestic flight was fine though.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8Hpll244wwCS_wgk5Q5pPdqEPhICAt6C-ApnM0D8pozgFc8Rg2dbKCJIxuNEFaLjl67kMRsEt1r0XHH480GB9zq7y8vNg_VYiqTO2MBADJMSSDx7tGBKXmRxLLPFcfHjOWeQwYiXmYqd/s1600/1908031_10153222476380400_7534157304978806210_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8Hpll244wwCS_wgk5Q5pPdqEPhICAt6C-ApnM0D8pozgFc8Rg2dbKCJIxuNEFaLjl67kMRsEt1r0XHH480GB9zq7y8vNg_VYiqTO2MBADJMSSDx7tGBKXmRxLLPFcfHjOWeQwYiXmYqd/s1600/1908031_10153222476380400_7534157304978806210_n.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a><span lang="EN-US">In Hanoi we
stayed in a pleasant hotel in the Old Quarter right in the center of Hanoi’s
market district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was certainly an
adjustment from Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traffic is totally
different and although Korea had scooter ajjussis who are death on wheels,
Vietnam is an entire country full of scooters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, they are not daredevils when they drive, they just never
stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless there’s a red light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a lot of places just have massive traffic
circles and you have to figure out how to cross it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trick is, and we learned this quickly,
although it always felt wrong, is to not stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we felt like we were always moving, when we were there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is very little space in the cities, so scooters are parked mostly on the sidewalks and people walk in the
street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means you watch for
traffic around you and you might never walk in a straight line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are walking in a straight line you are
probably crossing the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple of Literature</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Because we were
in the market district, we of course, did a ton of shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most things had a price but it was expected
that you could haggle the price a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not that anything was majorly outrageously priced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, most things were actually well under
$10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many things were less than $5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tipping staff was not necessarily expected,
but was good manners and very appreciated, so usually we tipped about VD50,000
= $2.50.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that was still pretty
generous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water puppets! -Hanoi</td></tr>
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Hanoi we tried to get to at least one major tourist spot a day, and the rest of
the time we spent in coffee shops writing post cards, lazing away the afternoon
over Vietnamese coffee and fruit juices galore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or we went shopping…!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first day
we went to the Hanoi water puppet theater!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amazing!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for the woman from the Bronx behind us
that just had to ask “*Debbie*! There’s actually water!?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people should NOT travel…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay rant over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think…*Name was changed cuz, I didn’t
bother to remember it in the first place :) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanoi Hilton</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t get to Halong Bay while we were
there, although that is on the list of major things to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a typhoon that tempted us to stay
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, our flight to Vietnam was
delayed because of it..</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Over the next
few days we went to a couple of temples, one of which was called the temple of
Literature, a very fascinating visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
And lastly, to the Hanoi Hilton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"> Ironically, most of the prison has been destroyed, and in it's place stands a luxury hotel. Even so, for what was left, </span><span lang="EN-US">I wasn’t
sure what I expected there, but it was much harder to go through that place
than even I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to sit for
awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t rest comfortably on
the mind, but it was important to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Photography was allowed but I could only get a picture of the front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t feel right to me. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">dragonfruit juice</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">I did get to see
a monkey in the Old Quarter among other many delightful sights!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course we spent a lot of our time in
restaurants trying out the cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
a major fan!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like we were constantly
eating piles and piles of food, but most of it was actually fruits and vegetables
and salads of various kinds (amazingly fresh and delish!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t get enough of the fruit
juices!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Korea, unfortunately, does not
have nearly the variety of drinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
either coffee, soda or alcohol in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I love the coffee, but since I rarely drink soda anymore my choices here
are limited. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had lemon juice, coconut
juice (in the coconut), dragonfruit juice, passionfruit juice, kiwi juice,
strawberry juice, mango juice, watermelon juice, orange juice, apple juice, if
you can make juice from fruit you can probably find it there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vietnamese milk coffee</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring rolls -fresh and fried</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thursday we made
our way by plane from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Our flight was 2 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We checked driving travel time = 25 hours…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glad we flew, even if the wait time for
luggage was awful.</span></div>
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did more of the same that we did in Hanoi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We visited some pagodas and wandered the city, just relaxing and going wherever
we felt like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hotel was excellent
about helping us get reliable taxis and information; pretty much anything we
needed, they were on the ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
morning we took a cooking class that was absolutely a blast!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t mind doing something like that
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learned to make fresh spring
rolls, green mango salad, lotus leaf fried rice. It was soooo good! Who needs
lunch?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chef and I</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first fried rice</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">While in Ho Chi
Minh I got to meet some friends for a meeting on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a special meeting and I was so lucky
to get their contact information from a very good friend whose family lives in
the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got to meet many friends
from there as well as some who were visiting from other places, a young couple
from the Philippines and some visitors from China, Cambodia, and Japan as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people could speak English and so it was
my first meeting in at least partial English since our convention in May.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One lady invited me to dinner on Wednesday,
before we met some other friends in the area that evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One other visitor was there from Pakistan,
and so we had a very pleasant but very quiet evening.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sugar cane snacks</td></tr>
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interesting, although there were some bits, like the markets and crossing major
streets that I don’t think I would be fully comfortable with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was strangely easy for me to get lost and
turned around, although Vietnamese used an easily (to Western eyes) recognizable alphabet (even if I can’t
say “Thank you” correctly).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did experience
this one day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were looking for the
post office that was designed by Gustav Eiffel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We even mailed some postcards in a post box <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on the street</i> where this building was supposed to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wandered around following our various
maps, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never found it!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, on our last day we wandered by, looked up
and lo and behold, there it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right
behind the mailbox we mailed our letters from…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Apart from that
I could easily get used to the inexpensive foot and back massages, the coffee,
juices, meals, although the rainy season was pretty rough…. Never leave without
your umbrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes though, the umbrella
just wasn’t worth it, and you run through the drops!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">48 hour incence</td></tr>
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there we finally crossed off one very strange and somewhat sad objective that I
started a very long time ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finally
found McDonald’s two days before we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought I could get out of it, since we didn’t see any McDonald’s
during our entire trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
unfortunately we found one just before we left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Right across the park from our hotel…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we stopped and got some fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So now I have been to a McDonald’s in every country I’ve visited so far…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Japan, can I please escape this horrible
self-inflicted torment??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please??)</span></div>
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사랑해<span lang="EN-US">!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am woefully behind in keeping things up
to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ll try to work on it this
week, so if you are bombarded by posts, that’s why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is an embarrassing lack of posts,
well I can only say that I am ultimately slacking in my duties… I have the time
this coming week, so I really should get caught up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This week is Chuseok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
three day holiday that is looked forward to with the same mixture of excitement
and dread as the American Thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chuseok actually follows the Lunar calendar and so the date changes
every year, but the celebrations are the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Families return to their ancestral family homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually children return to their parents or grandparent’s
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they have a ceremony that pays
respect to their ancestors as well as celebrates the harvest season. Most of the family looks forward to it, in that there's a variety of delicious foods, some of which are only prepared during Chuseok. Daughter-in-laws and mothers dread it. There's a ton of work to be done in preparing said foods.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is actually only one day, but nationally Korea gives three days and
makes it a “sandwich” holiday so that families can travel a little more
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More, easily, is actually a
misnomer for this holiday season, because there is no easy about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trains and buses are fully booked often
months in advance in preparation for going to and coming back from family
homes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are traveling by car to
or from one of the bigger cities, well, good luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody, and I mean, everybody, is
traveling on those days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is why I’m
staying in Iksan, visiting friends here around town and generally just relaxing
during my days off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are actually
given an extra day off this year, because the actual holiday fell on a Monday
and people didn’t get their full three days off of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kinda nice!</span></div>
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</span>Our school served songpyeon today, which is a traditional treat for
Chuseok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is half moon shaped rice cakes
that some in pink, white, green, and yellow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Inside is a paste of slightly sweet sesame, or honey, sometimes red
beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like it, but not everyone likes rice
cake as it can be very dense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regular
rice cakes come in a variety of flavors … well not so much flavors as
ingredients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes its just rice
cake, other times it is drowned with varieties of beans and jujubes and mashed
sweet potato.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> My schedule has been getting busier this
fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was finally brave enough to sign
up for piano lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Korean, no
less!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must be crazy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going three times a week, for an hour
each time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my teacher is very kind
and helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t speak much
English but she carefully shows me what she wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’m slowly learning more Korean, and have
been able to have very small, very short, very elementary conversations with
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is excited to have me there and
the kids are always stunned when I come in the door!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children have this cute habit where they are
happily playing and then something intrudes on their consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They suddenly become very watchful and
interested, but their little bodies are still moving as if they are still
playing, but they just don’t remember that they are!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them are braver than others and offer
a shy hello.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then as soon as I’m out of
sight (not out of sound though!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
start arguing over whether they should say hello, or hi instead! Once in a while I have a little audience. A tiny head will pop into view through the doorway of my practice room and then quickly duck back out!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">School, of course, is a full day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually leave a little before 8 and get to
school about 8:15 or 8:20 to get settled in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>School ends at 4:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which gives
me about an hour before piano lessons begin to study Korean in a coffee shop
somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my middle school
English teachers has offered to help me with my Korean, so three times a week
we meet and I attempt to learn Korean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My Korean class should start again in a couple of weeks, but we will be
down to one lesson a week 8:00 PM on Thursday evenings, since our Tuesday class
is no longer available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But my classmates are considering doing private exercises together in place of our lost class. </span>Plus I may be
beginning a language exchange with an elementary teacher from Jeonju, who is
teaching here in Iksan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An hour of
English, for an hour of Korean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
will do that I don’t know!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once a week some of the foreign public
school teachers here in Iksan meet for our Diner’s Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every Tuesday evening 4 or 5 of us (depending
on who’s in town and available) will meet for dinner around 7:30 -8:00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our only rule is that we can’t eat at the
same place twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This week we are
celebrating our 100<sup>th</sup> week!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think for all of us, it’s just about our favorite night of the week!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only once, (that I know of) have we had to
resort to plan B – McDonald’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a
story for another post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll talk more
about Diner’s club another time!</span></div>
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This last week I've barely had to cook or buy dinner at all! I had two retirement dinners and a welcome dinner in one week for an elementary teach, my middle school principal and vice-principal, and a welcoming dinner for the new principal and vice principal. I met with a co-teacher for dinner another evening and had dinner with a friend the next night. When I finally get an evening to cook, I ended up buying microwave rice and packaged kim for a lazy dinner. After all that food during the week, I hardly needed another big dinner!</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For now this will be all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to collect my thoughts on my recent
trip to Vietnam!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s so much to tell
there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as a few other posts that
are floating around the back of my mind!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Love you all!</span></div>
Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-26746841530960243832014-05-20T23:30:00.001-07:002015-04-29T00:04:47.363-07:00DMZ - Part 2 of 2<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sign reads Happy Paju - Paju is in S. Korea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Encapsuling the hopes for reunification</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Back to our
tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We traveled by bus to the site of
the Third Infiltration Tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
called this simply because it is the third one to be discovered by the
South.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3rd Tunnel Reunification sculpture</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tunnel number 1
was found November 20, 1974, when some soldiers from the south noticed steam
rising from the ground. This tunnel is about a kilometer long, but was big
enough to allow about 2,000 North Korean troops to pass through in about an
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the tunnels were, actually.
Well, long story short there, eventually gunfire was exchanged and several
solders from the South and the U.S. were killed by explosives after the North’s
retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Number 2 tunnel
was found a year later, just west of the first, and under similar conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number three was discovered three years
later, in 1978. This one extends almost two kilometers into South Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember the demarcation line is only 2
kilometers from the actual border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
this one almost made it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More about this
one later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Number four
tunnel wasn’t discovered until 12 years later, in 1990.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is located to the east of the first
three, nearly on the other side of the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With all that empty space between the first three and the last one,
there are quite a few suspicions that these four are probably not the only ones
attempted or planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is believed
that there may be up to 17 of these tunnels throughout the DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So where do they
all head?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Directly to Seoul.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only direction out</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Third
Infiltration Tunnel was discovered, not by accident but from an informant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A military engineer from the North defected
to the South and during the course of his retraining and interrogation, he
provided intelligence about this third tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Location and planning, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
order to pinpoint the exact location, the south dug water-filled pipes every 2
meters (about 6 feet) and waited for the blasting to reveal location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took two years before the tunnel was
detected, and two more years for the south to dig their counter tunnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The North was not happy about being detected,
and in the course of their retreat, painted the walls of the tunnel black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was their attempt to convince the south
that they were coal miners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, “mining
for coal in the DMZ”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether they honestly expected the South to
fall for that or not, that was their story and they were sticking to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia and I at the 3rd Tunnel</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, the result
was the South prevented them from finishing it and claimed the tunnel on the
South’s side of the border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They closed
it off and when they began tours to the DMZ this was one of the sites to
visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also the closest you can
get to the border without going to the JSA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are actually standing on the border and looking into North Korea
from a meter away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just, it’s all
underground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tunnel is long and
narrow and accessed by a sloping shaft that is about 300 meters long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tunnel in the south is about 1 km and is
only wide enough for two people at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One column of people going to see the end of the tunnel and one column
returning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, it was big enough
that, again, about 2,000 North Korean troops could have passed through in about
an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or a spy, much quicker.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To get into the
tunnel, we had to go through security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
phones, no cameras, no electronics, no metal or coins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yes, the suggested hardhats were
necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even for me! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On a side note,
when the North discovered that the South was making money from the tunnel as a
tourist site, they demanded a portion of the profits… on the claims that since
they built it, they should get the money from it…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorasan Observatory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking out over North Korea</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Next we went to
Dorasan Observatory (-san means mountain).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here there were no photographs allowed beyond the marked yellow line
behind the neck-high wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were told that if we tried, the soldiers
on duty (who spoke multiple languages- and fluently) would erase ALL photos on
our cameras or phones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, there
were some who still tried…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not many, and
I wonder if they were truly paying attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, the soldiers usually gave a warning first, and then if you
persisted they would take the device and return it to you when you were ready
to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately
for us, the weather was not cooperating that day and it was foggy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So any pictures we could get (behind the
yellow line) were pretty much white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought I had one that had something…Until I realized that I had a foggy shot
of the wall…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but, you can pay \100 (10
cents) to look through binoculars into the North.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty surreal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorasan Observatory</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">From there, we
headed to Dora Station, that last station in the South, on a long-hoped for
rail line directly to Pyeongyang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
used only briefly in the early 2000’s when North-South relations were at their height.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The claim to fame here (besides being in the
DMZ, etc. ) is that they have the cleanest bathroom, anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, they were pretty clean.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You could also
purchase a souvenir ticket and go out to the rail line and look around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Korean MP guarded the rail line, but
they were more than glad to take pictures with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t entirely comfortable with that, but
in the end I was convinced.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Throughout our
short trips to each site, we heard about two villages in the DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are only two villages allowed in the
DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is in the North and one in the
South.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The village in the South is
called TaeSungdong, the village in the North is Kijongdong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the DMZ was formed there were people
still living there, and so these two villages were created for them to stay if
they wished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, because they live
under certain rules and there are definite disadvantages to living in the DMZ,
the South Korean government compensated them for living there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No mandatory military service, no taxes, and
a yearly allowance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, that has
recently changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the land hasn’t
been touched, except by these few farmers, and they do not use chemicals on
their crops, their crops are deemed organic, AND they are highly prized for
quality, farmers in the DMZ were earning almost three times the amount as other
farmers and with all the government help, they were becoming fairly affluent,
they now have to pay taxes and join the military.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The village in
the North… Oooh, this is interesting!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
South believes that no one actually lives there. After all, why would the North
encourage people to live THAT close to the border?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are buildings that represent houses,
hospitals, businesses, schools, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are lights in the buildings that go on by timers and crews of
people are bussed in daily to represent villagers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the buildings are empty shells, and the
village empties at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one stays
there. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorasan Station platform</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The distances are not that far</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, the South built a flagpole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, the North built a taller one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the South built a taller one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the North built a taller one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the South built a taller one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the North built a taller one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was the third largest flagpole in
the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The South said, “Eh,
whatever.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This became known as the
Battle of the Flagpoles.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_ryGMFYMmuhkuOeqHY2-wvVwkJxcwDiFWc_G3EOr2OlEriI9Pm0f0ErYRqBiJn1O-OwCUuTdynm2EvbONFepXrSh52K-zYJyuihuANsL_hegkB5iN5N4kYqQiKZSYAo_OTrPGx0smKNH/s1600/11206007_10153860035110400_1175300036424890242_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_ryGMFYMmuhkuOeqHY2-wvVwkJxcwDiFWc_G3EOr2OlEriI9Pm0f0ErYRqBiJn1O-OwCUuTdynm2EvbONFepXrSh52K-zYJyuihuANsL_hegkB5iN5N4kYqQiKZSYAo_OTrPGx0smKNH/s1600/11206007_10153860035110400_1175300036424890242_n.jpg" height="200" width="110" /></a><span lang="EN-US">Kaeseong is the
industrial complex in the North that is owned and managed by the South.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They employ over 50,000 people and is one of
the largest employers outside of the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They produce mostly clothing and household goods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The employees’ wages are about \150,000 a
month (about $150), half of which goes to their government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they make about $75 to take home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is actually quite a bit for the North,
but still not a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the South gave
them a monthly bonus of 1 Choco Pie, which would sell on the black market for
about \10,000 ($10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, then
eventually, the Northern employees wanted a raise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The South didn’t want to give them more money
that would go directly to the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So they gave them 5-6 Choco Pies a month (an extra $50-$60).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Choco Pies cost about \120 (12 cents) in the
South…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A section of the fence. Notice the U-turn bridge lined with concertina wire</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From nothing 60 years ago to bustling modern metropolis</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The DMZ itself
has been pretty much untouched since the 1950’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very few people are actually allowed inside
the DMZ except in designated areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>South Korea, and to an even greater degree North Korea, was devastated
by the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who had literally
nothing, had to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both during the
war and at the beginning of recovery, this meant “anything that moves or grows
is food.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a tough existence for
the people and a tougher existence for the wildlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Large game pretty much disappeared from the
mainland, and even from many of the outlying islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon the creation of the DMZ however, a “safe
zone” for wildlife was accidentally created as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the landmines aside, many types of
animals found refuge inside the DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
of the animal species that were decimated for survival outside, and not just in
Korea but in many areas of Asia, are not only surviving, but thriving
inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The DMZ provides a 150 mile long-2.5
mile wide relatively untouched nature refuge, and a home to some rare species,
and to larger animal species as well.</span></div>
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Dear Mom and Dad,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Okay, this time. I will talk
about my personal trip, and then I will talk about some of the stories we heard
along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll also try to include
some other information that I’ve come across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll try not to be quite so heavy this time around. Promise!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olivia in the Ladies only lounge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas lights outside the hotel</td></tr>
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My trip to the DMZ was an
exercise in contrasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went with my
very dear friend Olivia for a two day, one night trip to Seoul and the DMZ over
Christmas break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of us had made
any concrete plans to be away for the 1 week break and so since neither of us
had been to the DMZ, we started planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We wanted to do the full trip, including the trip into the JSA (Joint
Security Area) to Panmunjeom, which gives you the opportunity to get to the
actual border in the center of the DMZ, and if you are brave enough, you can
cross the border into North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
are inside a building built on the border for the purpose of diplomatic talks
between north and south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One side of the
table is in South Korea and the other side is in North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside the building on one side of the
building (looking in) are North Korean soldiers, on the other side are South Korean
soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No cameras, with a VERY strict
dress code, and neither of us were quite sure we were properly prepared for the
dress code, which was fine, since it turned out that the JSA tour was fully
booked until January 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which we couldn’t
do.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seoul at night from Lotte hotel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Complementary cake -blueberry cheesecake</td></tr>
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So we did the day tour, ( you can
only visit the DMZ by organized tour – for obvious reasons) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>but
since we were booking this ourselves and apparently had no clue what we were
doing or how things worked with the tour, we decided to make things easy on
ourselves (not on our bank accounts though).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tour bus, the tour groups website said, would pick you up at Lotte
Hotel in Seoul, or at your hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well,
Seoul is big… and we had no idea what hotels were acceptable to be picked up
at, since you had to apply to be picked up, and we took the easy route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stayed the night at Lotte Hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cocktail hour</td></tr>
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Lotte Hotel is an extremely
famous, extremely swanky, extremely expensive 5-star hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One room ran about W400,000 per night
($400).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No dinner, no access to amenities, etc. So we
were hic-cupping and gulping over price, when we stumbled onto a sweeter
package deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For 3 people (we were only
2- but, whatever - we split the costs) we could book a girl’s night party
package, for only $100 more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we
weren’t going anywhere for the break anyway, hey why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pamper ourselves once in a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d been saving for a long time and this
seemed like a nice little girls’ night trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">our room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">complementary with our package</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Afternoon tea</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Room Service!!</td></tr>
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SO what did we get?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ladies only
floor, club lounge access, afternoon tea (ohh yuuu-uuu-uu-mmmm! Cookies and
cakes and teas and coffee and nibbles and bits - Imagine a happy dance wiggle
there). </div>
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Access to the swimming pool, fitness center, sauna facilities, free
complimentary wine and flowers, along with a polaroid camera and free film (fun
pics!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cocktail hour - ooohhh the smoked
salmon!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Melt - in - your - mouth!! And
the shrimp and fruit and more nibbles and bits! Three course meal – room service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In room Jacuzzi bath, awesome shower (we were
really clean the next day), complementary full breakfast – with real sausage and
bacon and scones, and croissants, and pastries and - ooohhhh- the happy dance
wiggles! Oh, and did I mention the free $40 cake?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention great, great, great service
(it’s 5 star, they’d better have great service).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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off your luggage to the bellhop who holds it hostage for you and helps you to
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free of charge for the day – after we had to check out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AND- they booked the tour for us.</div>
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NOT a place you “just go to”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes
planning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not everyone can go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most tourists can go, but most Koreans cannot
actually go to the DMZ, at least not on the full JSA tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They need special approval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also need authorized identification: passport,
or in our case our ARC (which was actually better, because it’s issued by
Korea)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> and contains our visa status.</span></div>
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We piled onto the bus and off we went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an hour to the first stop along the
trip. Imjingak is an old park in Paju that is used for people whose home towns
and families are still in the north for certain celebrations and festivities
that require a return trip to your traditional home town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that happens to be in the North, well
obviously you can’t just hop across the border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s the closest you can get to the DMZ without actually being in the
DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are remains of an old railway
used during the war, a memorial ribbon fence and various other memorials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But most telling, is the Freedom Bridge,
across which about 12,000 South Korean POWs were marched during a prisoner
exchange with the North.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a foot
bridge that was built to cross the Imjin river, because the DMZ is so heavily
land mined that it is virtually impossible to walk across (there have been
exceptions…). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prisoners were driven
to the bridge and walked across to the south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At this area, there is also an observation platform where you can look out
across the DMZ and see just a tantalizing bit into North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you know what you’re looking at is
North Korea?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No trees…<br />
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here that just this last fall, (2013) South Korean soldiers shot and killed a
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We climbed back on the bus and ventured through the
checkpoint into the South Korean side of the DMZ (just inside, not to the
actual border). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were told that all of
the bridges in the DMZ and the nearby areas outside the DMZ are all rigged with
explosives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In case of invasion by the
North, the South will detonate the bridges and over/under passes to slow the
North’s military equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is where we had our passports checked by
South Korean soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>South Koreans
spend a mandatory 18 months in the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To serve on the DMZ, soldiers must speak both Korean (obviously) and
English, and/or either Japanese or Chinese (or another language).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My co-teacher said he spend a good part of
his tour of duty on the DMZ, but farther to the east, in the mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was an officer during the late 70’s or
early 80’s.</div>
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They must be (now) also a minimum of 180 cm (5’11”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And our tour guide claimed, “handsome”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, the soldier was somewhat friendly,
young, and claimed he had 2 out of 3, which wasn’t bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the checkpoint we were told to put away
our cameras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No pictures of the
checkpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although we were told at
this area, that we could use our discretion, no cameras, no pictures, unless
you could get away with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weeeeeell,
ok, then….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure about that.</div>
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Then we crossed the Peace Bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This bridge was built and funded by the
original founder and owner of Hyundai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was actually a refugee from the north! As a very young man, his story
goes, he stole his father’s only cow and escaped to the south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All his life he felt guilty about stealing
that cow and even though he never saw his father again, he always thought about
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SO when he made it big in business
(and boy, did he!) He decided he would send cows to North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was no way to get it there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so he offered to build the bridge as a
gift for the South Korean government (which they were happy to do so).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well he arranged for a cattle drive of 1,001
cows (that last one was “for his father” I think).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, when they got to the bridge, they
discovered that all of the cows were pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And so the Peace Bridge is also called the cow bridge. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking into the DMZ</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bridge is quite
wide and lined with Jersey barriers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s no straight route across the bridge, and so the bus swerves and
weaves around the barriers to the other side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is still an active war zone after all… Which makes me question my
sanity sometimes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We passed into the
South Korean side of the DMZ and we were “told” about the 800,000 land mines
still “in existence” throughout the DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s down from the original 1,000,000 land mines. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even so, It is still the most heavily mined
area in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mines are planned
so that there is no direct clear route across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However… 2012, an 18 year boy from the North crossed the DMZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were told that at 18 years old, this boy
has three jobs already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number 1: he is
a student in high school (Korean age is 1-2 years older than international age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the west he would be 16-17.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is a farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to be to
survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What little the ground will
produce, goes on the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose table,
though, that’s another matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Number 3,
and most frightening for him: he is a soldier. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rail memorial-</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The North
Korean military has one of the largest militaries in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is ranked 5<sup>th</sup> or 6th, in terms
of manpower, firepower, equipment, etc. after China, Russia and the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone signs up for the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For everyone, men and women, it is mandatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the shortest enlistment term is 10
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many, if not most people, remain
in the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are over 1
million active soldiers and up to 10 million reserve forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which, in retrospect is almost half the
population of the country (24 million).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, it is the most stable form of employment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even that is not much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many soldiers have to scavenge for their own
food and other supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
perks: officers are given a house for retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is not grand either.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A DMZ checkpoint</td></tr>
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Back to the boy soldier. He
walked – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">walked</i> – across the DMZ – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at night</i> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unnoticed</i> and knocked on the door of a South Korean barracks asking
for asylum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His reason?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d just killed two of his commanding
officers, for excessive bullying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
North Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can only imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, actually, I can’t.</div>
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Next
up:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excursion Tunnels, Dorasan
observatory and station, Propaganda village, Kaeseong industrial complex,
flagpole battle, life in the DMZ</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It has been awhile since I’ve sat down to
write, and I’m sorry it has taken me so long to write this particular
piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since going to the DMZ, I
realized I had a lot to think about and process from that visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as time went by (and kept going by…) this
account got harder and harder to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not because of memory, although I admit, that has a habit of failing me.
Sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No, it’s more of
the idea “Where to start?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I
wrote about the history that brought us to the formation of the 38th parallel,
but seriously?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where to start? It’s a
dividing line, and it’s not objects we’re talking about, but people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living, breathing people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We often say we
don’t understand what “they” can be thinking on the other side of the line, but
actually in a way, yes, we can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ARE
all human, so yes, that could be us on the other side of that 4 kilometer
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yes, that could be, and is, us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are a product of our environments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ours” happens to be drastically different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But “we” are not different.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What would you
do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take away the typical western
automatic individualistic reply, “I’d do blah, blah, blah and get away and blah,
blah, blah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I’d: blah, blah,
blah.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But reality doesn’t work that
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s delusional to think that we
would be the same person as we are now, if we were there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The environment is different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ideas are different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ideas are typically hard to shake. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, (not related to the DMZ): “Where
do trees get their size from?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask a
large sample of random average people this question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very few can give the correct answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even fewer know how to find the correct
answer, (very few actually care to find the answer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when you tell them the answer, most will
look at you cross-eyed and say “You are nuts. Who cares?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you explain the reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you change that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You give them the tools to discover the
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And have them prove it for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even then there are some who will stubbornly
dismiss the evidence and continue on their way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The answer is at the bottom </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "맑은 고딕"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US"> )</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The same goes
for ideology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is a humanly devastating
ideology across that little border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
all its secrecy, North Korea has been provoking a lot of global interest, which
may be both the country’s purpose and its annoyance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ok, number one
thing to remember when dealing with any information dealing with North Korea:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all about the “Dear Leader”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three Kims have been and are still the
Dear Leader (yes, I know two of them are dead now but still…Dear Leader).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically it is a socialist republic and
elections are held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BUT, in reality it
is a totalitarian dictatorship, in every sense of the term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even more so than most of the extreme dictatorships
we’ve come across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people revere the
Dear Leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Dear Leader:
Who created an ideology of “self-reliance” called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">juche</i>, but is often called kimilsungism (conveniently coined by Kim
Jung Il-his son).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kim Il Sung, remember,
is the general appointed by the Soviets to head the northern troops after WW2
and before the Korean War. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then
became the first president of North Korea and basically created the country we
know today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His ideology basically, was
that the people are the “masters of their country’s development” and “military-first”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It stresses the idea of the Korean nation as being
number one, and although it had its roots in Marxism, it evolved into a more
nationalistic and stringent entity that found its own unique solutions to the
problems in Marxism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marxism was
materialistic at its center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kimilsungism
claims to have people as its center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Kim Il Sung was at the center of the people. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That’s the theory
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole philosophy was that
General Kim Il Sung ruled by force of personality and that evolved into the let’s
worship him as a deity, endowing him with the title Eternal Leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the only one of the three North Korean Presidents
with this title Eternal Leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
three are Dear Leader, but only the first was Eternal Leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Eternal Leader was worshipped as a deity,
although North Korea has adopted the Marxist ideology of state atheism, which
oddly enough, contradicts the ideas of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juche</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juche</i>
encourages the education and preservation of Korean history and culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Koreans have a millennia old tradition of
shamanism, Buddhism, and ancestor worship…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The main party
(the ONLY party) is the Worker’s Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There have been four offices to the Worker’s Party over time:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chairman of the Central Committee (1946-1966),
General Secretary of the Central Committee(1966-1994), General Secretary of the
Worker’s Party of Korea(1994-2011), and First Secretary of the Worker’s Party
of Korea (2011-).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically to be a
member of these offices you were elected into the positions. Technically. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is a delegated list of preapproved
candidates. And the head of the Office is the Party leader.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That wasn’t
always the case, though. Let’s just say that at some point in time, when the original
Chairman of the Central Committee died, Kim Il Sung replaced him… and then the
office was switched to the General Secretary of the Central Committee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Kim Jong Il (#1’s son) took over, he
became the General Secretary of the Worker’s Party and #3 Kim Jong Un (see the
trend in the family names?) took over as the First Secretary of the Worker’s
Party. Yes, it’s all rather complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And at this point I encourage you to do your own study…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My head is exploding!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The answer:
Air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trees get their size (mass) from
air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Photosynthesis, anyone?</span></div>
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Dear Mom and Dad,</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Korean
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where to start…</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
supposed what most people at home would be interested in is the modern history,
although that should in no way dismiss the thousands of years of fascinating history
of the Korean peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I
understand that what most people outside of Korea know anything about, is a mere
spattering of its modern history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly,
we in the West often dismiss history that is not directly related to the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why sadly?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I guess that is a personal opinion, because I am fascinated with history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The life and times of people are not really
so drastically different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all eat,
sleep, love, marry, have children, work, live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rest of living, while it identifies us as unique cultures, is in
reality superficial- surface differences, but that is what we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see</i> first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is what we, with all of our superficial
human nature, take exception to when we are searching for division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But enough of the personal philosophy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woo-hoo, heavy!!</div>
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Back to history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Korean peninsula/people have a long (I mean looong) history and so traditions
and culture identity runs very deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,000
years deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because of its unique
positioning, it is often caught smack-dab in the middle of several major
powerful enemies/neutrals/tense-allies at any given time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has learned to be wary of its
neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve paid that price over
and over and over… Over 1,000 times have they been attacked or invaded by
surrounding countries or large marauding bands of pirates etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which works out to be about once every five
years or so, if you go by straight statistics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Obviously, there were times that the invasion lasted longer, and there
were long stretches of peace and prosperity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But there has always been an expectation of “Where’s it coming from
next?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So then comes modern day Korea, which we will say for sake
of understanding begins at the end of the 1890s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The previous Chosun dynasty lasted from the
1300’s to 1897.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the period of
unification for the Korean peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, yes, division in Korea is not new or unprecedented, it has just
become virtually impossible to move between the states now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During prior divisions, there was still trade
and travel, etc. but the Chosun dynasty was kind of the Golden Era for the
Korean peninsula. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least it may have
been in the beginning of that era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Korean alphabet, hangul, was created by
King Sejong ( a HUGE source of patriotic pride) effectively eliminating illiteracy
(and enraging the aristocracy, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything enrages them).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crops
produced almost more than people could consume and with very little
effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pictures of restaurants show
heaping bowls of rice and side dishes for one person that would feed entire
families today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then 1910 rolled
around.</div>
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Remember the 1,000 invasions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, China and even Russia were sometimes
the cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But usually it was Japan in
some form or other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previously just
before the abrupt end of the Chosun dynasty, there was infighting between Korean
peasants and some of the ruling yangban (aristocracy) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which led to Qing (Chinese) intervention,
which angered the Japanese ( not necessarily <i>just </i>because of that) and led to the first Sino-Japanese war, between
China and Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of which was
fought in Korea…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, a real big
mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long after the Japanese assassinated
the Korean Empress, the Qing admitted defeat giving Korea independence from the
Chinese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except, Japan gained control of
the peninsula, which was both good and bad, since the Russians were being a
bother and the Japanese fought them off too in 1905, 7 years after the Chosun
dynasty changed its name. Technically it was still the Chosun dynasty but no
one called it that any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bad
came at the same time and of course later as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whew - complicted, eh?</div>
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When are we getting to the part about the 38<sup>th</sup>
parallel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, I promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll get there. </div>
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Meanwhile, a lot of ‘stuff’ happened, including the assassination
of the Japanese Prince Ito, Japan’s Resident-General of Korea, in 1909 which
Japan took exception to and then eventually annexed Korea to Japan in 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A lot of other stuff happened too. </div>
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Now, Korea and Japan have long had serious tensions and
animosity over the centuries, and with some very good reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we in the West look at it a little
lightly, simply because we don’t really know the history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just not our history, so it doesn’t
impact us and some might think it’s funny, that intense dislike and distrust, especially
since they are allies now (of a sort).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But here is a little sample of the most recent animosity that lives on very
vividly in the memories of the elders here and passed on to their children and
grand-children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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1910, Japan took full control of Korea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, little more than 100 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, they slowly began to create a mini
Japan within Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Korean children went
to Japanese school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They learned
Japanese in school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could be
punished for speaking Korean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Korean
adults were pressed into serving the Japanese in homes and even (sometimes)
forced into Japanese military service, and foreign affairs, to forward the
policies of Japanese rule in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Koreans were often forced to give up their own Korean names and take on
Japanese names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then there were the
Comfort Women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although there is some
debate between various nations over this issue, nevertheless, it remains a
serious issue. A huge, make no mistake, a HUGE source of Korean anger and
hatred toward the Japanese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially
in more recent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For 35 years,
Korean people had to ‘become’ Japanese without ever becoming Japanese, without
ever being treated as fully human to their occupiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The backlash today:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>old Japanese infrastructure is totally
abandoned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese style/supplied
housing sits empty and untouched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old
Japanese bridges are closed off and in disrepair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That, of course, is not all.</span></div>
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Then there was World War II, and V-J day (Victory over Japan
day) after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the signing of Japan’s surrender on
September 2, 1945.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is when the US and
its allies first drew a division line at the 38<sup>th</sup> parallel, where
the US held the southern half and the Soviet Union took over the northern half of
the peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wikipedia- Seoul street combat</td></tr>
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1948, Korea failed to hold their free elections between the
north and the south (slightly different at that time period. It was not yet
North and South).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The north, under the
dictates of the Soviet Union established a communist government with General
Kim Il-Sung as the leader and the south a democratic (of sorts) government with
Syngman Rhee under the protection of the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also important to note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Russians pulled out in 1948 and the US
pulled out in 1949. China was still fighting its own civil war in China, Stalin
didn’t want to engage the US in war while it was cleaning up from the German
invasion and Eastern Europe occupation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This left the 2 fledgling Koreas, still not entirely separated, on their own.
Meanwhile, during this period, the whole peninsula was seeing massive widespread
poverty.</div>
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Reunification efforts continued for the next couple of years
and intensified even just months before the Korean War broke out in June of
1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, negotiations ultimately
failed, when Kim Il-Sung ordered his troops to move south and attack the south
after convincing China to commit Korean ethnic troops and eventually supplies
to support the north regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 25 the
north attacked, while the south technically knew that something was happening,
but dismissed the possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The south
was badly outnumbered, outgunned, out-tanked, out-supplied, out-planed, and over-all
just badly under-prepared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And within
the first few days they were badly beaten, and unfortunately made some
disastrous decisions that led to the abandoning of several military units and killing
thousands of civilians along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
south had 95,000 troops before the war started, and within the first few days
of battle, they had less 22,000. Eventually, the US joined in the battle in
July, using the logic that Japan was in danger and was a key protectorate in
the East and could not be put in danger by the encroaching communist forces.</div>
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Long, long story a wee bit shorter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After severe fighting on both sides of the 38<sup>th</sup>
parallel and three years of civil war and near defeat for the South and the US several
times, along with Chinese forces entering soon after the US entered the fight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually the battle front stabilized just
around the 38<sup>th</sup> parallel, about an hour’s car ride north of Seoul,
the capital city, which had changed hands at least twice during the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only area of Korea that had not seen
northern occupation during the war was the area immediately surrounding the
port city of Busan, nearest major city to Japan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the front stabilized the war was pretty much
at a stalemate, neither side gaining or loosing much territory and neither
really giving ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Korean_war_1950-1953.gif/170px-Korean_war_1950-1953.gif" height="400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="226" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wikipedia - Orange northern troops movements, Green southern troops</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually an armistice agreement, cease
fire, was agreed upon, and the 38<sup>th</sup> parallel became the new dividing
line by UN Treaty Council.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now, this
is when it officially became North Korea and South Korea. It was to be a
demilitarized zone; troops were to be pulled back 2 kilometers on either side of
the border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the UN Treaty Council
outlined exactly what and who were allowed inside, and when and how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there was no peace treaty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also effectively trapped people on both
sides of the demarcation line who had family or just plain wanted to be on the
other side, whichever side they happened to be on. More on all that later.</div>
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For now that brings us up to 1953 on general modern Korean history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must admit that I had to do a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">little</i> bit of research to find out all
this information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And unfortunately for
expediency’s sake I resorted to Wikipedia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know, not the best source of information, but readily available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also included some anecdotal information as well from friends and teachers and other sources<span id="goog_1810537257"></span><span id="goog_1810537258"></span> here. If you are interested in anything, I highly
recommend doing your own personal study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It really is very fascinating!! </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really!!</div>
Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-13149448932832000632013-12-19T05:02:00.002-08:002013-12-19T05:02:55.014-08:00Cakes!!!!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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To my sister,</div>
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I promised you some pictures of cakes in the bakery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cakes here are fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just mere sheet cakes with miles of icing
and blue or yellow roses, the cakes here have fruit, candies, and characters
imbedded in the cakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They come in many
shapes and sizes and sometimes they not only have characters on them, sometimes
they ARE characters. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the
overwhelming cuteness and prettiness of the cakes, there is not a whole lot of
variety in flavors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually you will
find just chocolate, vanilla, or tiramisu. Sometimes there is a marble cake or
even a green tea or nut cake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these
are less decorative and usually come as cake logs or cake rolls with a light
cream rolled in the layers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are
pretty good, not too sweet, but with good flavor.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The only other common flavor of cake is the cheesecake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly every pie-shaped cake is a cheese cake
of some kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since cheese here is
an import, it is not of the best quality or taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, cheese of any kind, tends to be bland and
plastic-y tasting, almost like eating glue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is good cream cheese here, but it is very expensive and is more of
a treat than a staple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And many cheesecakes
try to be fancy and use things like gorgonzola or gouda, but the cheese is not
great quality and when paired with a bland and flour-y cake batter, it leaves
something to be desired.</div>
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The tiramisu cakes though, are great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had one for my birthday (thanks guys!) and
was given the leftovers to take home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
didn’t last long. </div>
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But whatever your opinion on cake is, these are pretty fun
to look at!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check it out!</div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSa2RDZYcdzkr0j6NR1XkdnZCkPtDf56ZEGwmq4CoOvfb4cS6WJrSf0ddTbfPthWo0oIRZsYZFajrarewsPKwFaDNJhKbfszqzA9fINbfHsUOjnG_g6hl7ZNoU9LA4Vbj7aZZv7B2MVyb/s320/DSCN1746.JPG" style="cursor: move; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="240" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those cupcakes are literal. Cake in a cup.</td></tr>
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Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-47673294990993202442013-12-16T17:59:00.003-08:002013-12-16T18:13:13.294-08:00A lesson in humility. Or humor.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, more for mom and less for dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry dad, this may be a topic you are not
very interested in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s more for the
ladies…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I love going shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I live in a town that is fortunate
enough (read: big enough) to have one of every major department store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just one is enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t need to remember neighborhoods when
asking for Home Plus, or getting confused about which Lotte Mart someone wants
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the land of the helpful sales clerk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are two main types of sales clerks, when facing foreigners. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first and most common is the shy “I see
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</span>They usually smile and keep standing there until you approach them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually these tend to be younger women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The older women sales clerks, which are closer
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in a “This is my way, so it’s going to be your way, too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once bought a roll of paper towels because an
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</span>I’m not sure why, she was selling mini packaged sausages…</span></div>
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language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily most products have
some kind of picture on them and you can figure things out from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is some trial and error involved in
that, like the one time I thought I was buying travel tissue…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first visit to a restroom without toilet
paper proved me wrong. "Ooooh-hhooo, Nooo!</span></div>
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personal favorite for buying the occasional western food brands that are
marginally less expensive than other conveniently nearby options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t like traveling long distances for
groceries, especially without a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can’t cook Korean food very well, and from some of my practice results,
probably shouldn’t try until I take some lessons!</span></div>
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when the store is busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time there
were not one, not two, but three clerks in the aisle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first one was the shy one, the third one
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<span lang="EN-US">Sales clerk approaches, and in Korean says
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studying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reached over to a
handy-dandy visual guide to products and brands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a large card were actual samples of
products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Kinda handy! </span>The first set of cards was of the
normal kinds you find in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
are usually very thin and practically useless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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sincerely handed me from where I have no idea.</span></div>
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object placed before me and with such concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe, it was because I was expecting the next card to be a logical
upgrade; slightly thicker, but still the same product. The ‘enormity’ of the
situation was perplexing, and although I understand the need for such products
and it is a serious thing for some people, the products she handed me were not
for that particular serious condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was completely a woman’s product.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the American nickel glued to the first one, I could not understand
the purpose of at all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nickel wasn’t
used to compare anything; there was nothing it COULD be compared to. It was
just there... </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There was no logical size gradient, just
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<br /></div>
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could reach that looked similar to my normal brand, and left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I finally opened it, there was a seriously suspicious whiff of curry, before I had a truly vivid flashback
to my travel tissue issue…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ohhh-hhhoooo,
Nooooo!!!!” </span></div>
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Dear Mom and Dad, </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little while ago,
my middle schoolers had their sports day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were no classes all day that Tuesday, so it was a good thing my
first set of classes had a movie day, the day before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t like having my classes on different
lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we meet only once a week,
its next to impossible to get them back on the same schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially, since my Tuesday classes seem to
miss the most.</div>
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quite a spectacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were excited to
have that ‘free’ day although none of them would admit it, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically it wasn’t really a free day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bit like the Presidential fitness
test back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were being tested
on certain fitness aspects, but the rest of the time it was treated as a sports
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of the contests were treated
as a class event, meaning that the entire class participated, and then were
scored based on ranking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did win
some kind of classroom prize at the end of the day.</div>
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</span>There was the class-wide rope pulling contests. There was the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>100 meter dash, the 600 meter relay (boys,
girls, and boys and girls). There were the three legged races, three-legged
relays, jump roping, chin-ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Class
dodge ball and badminton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each grade
competed with their grade level, and each class had a ‘costume’ of sorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just check some of the pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were ‘police officers’ ‘buggy clowns’
stars, polka dots, camo jackets etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a fun day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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outside watching them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids were
surprised to see me watching them and some got a little shy to know that I was
watching, but they were giggling anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The afternoon, I had some work to do in my office, so I spent about an
hour or so upstairs, then came down for the final part of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked the next week, the kids
complained that they were sore the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“It’s not fun, teacher!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
they were fibbing a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just check out
the pictures!</div>
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<br />Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-62246345141112748192013-11-28T23:32:00.001-08:002013-11-30T06:43:02.135-08:00Happy Thanksgiving!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Quick note home since it is the holidays. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s funny,
but time travels differently here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
goes really fast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But as always, I miss you all very much,
even more so, now that it is Thanksgiving. (or the day after in this case!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m lucky to
have some amazing friends (and awesome cooks) here that are not afraid to go
all out for the Thanksgiving holiday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve been very lucky where ever I go to find a handful of very
precious and wonderful friends, but here</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s where it gets sappy, ya</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ll! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mom and dad, and the family back home, you
are the most precious of all and I do miss you today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanksgiving day, we Skyped and talked, and
while you weren</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t anywhere close to eating
your turkey and stuffing, I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m sure I could smell it
through the screen. But that</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s not the point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is, I think I must be the luckiest
person right now, to have you as my parents, and my family as my family, and my
friends as my friends. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t deserve any of you, but I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m so very
thankful for you all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, this time of
year is hard on many of us ex-pats away from family, but I know I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve got people here, there, and everywhere, and for that I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m thankful. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Even though you weren</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t eating your dinner yet and I was munching on my microwave-able rice, </span>김<span lang="EN-US">, and </span>고추장<span lang="EN-US">. (which I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve probably spelled wrong, sorry </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US">bout that.) my Thanksgiving day was a great one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Thanksgiving dinner, with turkey and
stuffing and all the works is coming up and it will be fantastically delicious
I know, but I enjoyed my rice bowl and seaweed shared online with you just as
much! </span><br />
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<br /><span lang="EN-US">Happy Thanksgiving and lots of love, as always!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, and there were pies!!!!!!!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dinner crew</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely centerpiece lighting</td></tr>
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Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-26003349309045205502013-11-18T05:02:00.002-08:002013-11-18T05:11:21.818-08:00How It All Got Started<!--[if !mso]>
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Dear Mom and Dad<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting a new adventure, the first step's the hardest!</td></tr>
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<br />
I found an old letter. One that I wrote just before I left, nearly a year ago. Wow! Time really flies! Last year at this time (November) I was panicking because I still hadn't heard any definite news, and I had just filled out my third application... I had spent so much on getting the proper documentation, and in two weeks you were about to be woken by a call from the US State Department. Remember that one?! The day after Thanksgiving? 7:00 in the morning?<br />
<br />
Anyway this letter describes the process of planning, documentation, and mental hamster wheeling for the 6 months before jumping on a plane and heading over the big blue yonder!<br />
<br />
Here it is...<br />
<br />
So Korea bound. Yep, if the final details work out, I'll be in Korea
in about a month. A month! Wow, that's not a lot of time...<br />
<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0a2VwDVmguk/UPsnuRrPQ3I/AAAAAAAAANE/Ff77rFOIKgo/s1600/Korean_flag.jpg"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"></span></span></a> September rolled around
this year, and I've been getting restless. I love my home town, but it
was getting restrictive. Taking stock, I realized that I had the perfect
opportunity to try something I had been thinking in some form for more than ten
years. It was an idea that had been bubbling in the back of my mind, but
I had never really had the opportunity to <i>actually</i> try it.<br />
<br />
I love traveling, I love teaching, so what would be better than combining
the two? I had originally considered the Peace Corps. It was a
tempting idea, but not really as good a fit for me as I had thought. So I
went back to my original idea. Teaching English overseas.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">meeting new people, making new friends</td></tr>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U90TwivyhEc/UPsoRugMzGI/AAAAAAAAANM/qRq0fxH-QHA/s1600/images.jpg"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"></span></span></a> There are a lot of
places to teach English, but how to get started? I did some online
research. But I am a very real chicken (and that's probably not bad) when
it comes to blindly trusting what I see. I need a trusted, <i>personal</i>
recommendation. So, I knew a few people who had done this very thing,
some still currently teaching, nearly all in Korea, but a couple had been in
Japan, and one or two in China. I knew that I didn't want to teach in
China. And while I like the idea of going to Japan, there are still some
very serious concerns about living in certain areas of Japan, and there is no
real way of controlling where you ultimately end up. For all its other
ills, Facebook is a wonderful tool for contacting the far flung. I got my
personal recommendation and a whole list of advice. Here's how it went.<br />
<br />
I was recommended to the placement agency <a href="http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/">Footprints</a>. I applied
through them, indicating my interest in teaching in Korea and got an email
right away. Footprints is the largest teacher placement agency in Korea
and for many other countries. There is no money charged to applicants
from the agency (no legitimate agency will charge an applicant) They
collect their fees from the schools after successfully placing a teacher in
that position. Or at least that's the deal.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OeLEBbkTRBc/UPso94hS6aI/AAAAAAAAANU/sQJK8vqk2MM/s1600/computerimages1.jpg"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"></span></span></a> Ok so this was
September. Looking at the list of documents I needed just to begin to
apply was daunting, and the amount of time to get documents returned seemed
pretty tight. Before even hitting submit on my application to the agency,
I got the documents that were easily accessible. Copies of my college
transcripts, two recommendation letters less than two years old, and began the
search for a law enforcement agency that would still make fingerprint
cards. I hit apply, got accepted, went through my initial agency
interview via Skype and went off to search for fingerprints.<br />
<br />
Ok fingerprints. This was the first problem. We live in the
digital age, right? Well the FBI biometrics unit wants a physical
fingerprint card. Not digital. I called the FBI fingerprint unit at
the local IU. Nope, didn't do cards. In fact had no idea of what the
document I needed it for even <i>was</i>. Call the local police. Nope.
Call the state police. Nope, just digital and that was done out at the
jail, but they might be able to help you. Called the jail. Well, he
knew there was a way to do it on the machine, but he only ever processed
criminal prints. Well, the last thing I want is to come up as a criminal
in my record check... Where else? Where? Ah, the local
sheriff department. "Uhhh, I think we have some old cards that we
can pull out. Come in at 10 AM and we'll have a deputy help you for
$10." After some practice by both myself and the deputy ( how often
do you get "hugged" by a tall, well-built, young,seriously handsome
deputy, in uniform no less, whoowhee!) I had my fingerprint card.<br />
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Time to send it to the FBI. Now I have had <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/background-checks/submitting-an-identification-record-request-to-the-fbi">FBI
record checks</a> done before. However, those gave me an
"unofficial" copy of my record check, saying my background was
clean. That is for school use in the U.S. Not good enough for going
international. These things have to be apostilled. New word of the
year. An apostille is a government-issued document for a
government-issued document that needs to be used in a foreign country. An
apostille certifies that the government-issued document is in fact a
government-issued document. As best as I can figure out...<br />
<br />
The record check takes 6-8 weeks, and don't call the FBI before 5 weeks have
passed. $18 + $36 for Express Mail both ways. Oh, and there is a customer
service number for the FBI. Pretty cool, and not much of a recording
either. For a government agency, they were fairly helpful.
Especially when you call them once a week, starting from week 4. (It
Works! I got mine back at week 5 1/2!)<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">don't be afraid to try new things, sometimes they're super delicious!</td></tr>
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Meanwhile, back in September, I got accepted to the agency (which isn't exactly difficult to do) and had to fill
out my EPIK (English Program in Korea) application form. EPIK is the
major English teacher hiring group with the Korean government. Public
school teachers are considered government officials in Korea (there are also
private schools - hagwons - that are supplementary to public schools. They sometimes have
better salaries, but can be a bit riskier as they are privately owned and there
is <i>much </i>less government oversight). Well my first disappointment
came. I didn't get accepted through EPIK. No reason given, but it
is a first come-first serve situation and it seemed that EPIK was trying to
push me towards teaching in primarily Seoul and Busan. Both MOEs
(Metropolitan Office of Education vs. POE- Province/Provincial Office of
Education or as near as I can figure out) are highly competitive for
placement and not that many positions.<br />
<br />
Footprints emailed, not to worry, we have several other places in
Korea and we really like your application. Not sure what that meant, but
it was vaguely reassuring. I think they told everyone that.<br />
I sent back applications for two more provinces and a third was
forthcoming. One of these required a YouTube video introduction of
myself. That didn't go well... Six hours to make a three minute
webcam video. I am NOT doing that again!<br />
<br />
As an aside, I had to get my <a href="http://travel.state.gov/passport/fees/fees_837.html">passport</a>, and I
had to get it in a hurry, for that pesky little passport number.
That number is essential in the process of obtaining a visa. I've had a
passport before, so I dug it out and sent it in. Getting my passport
expedited meant I got my passport in about 2-3 weeks, but it cost. $170
for the passport, and $18 for Express Mail. Express Mail gets documents
mailed in 1-2 business days rather than 4-5. Expensive and it adds up
fast, but so does time.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Catching the sites, taking everything in</td></tr>
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FBI record check came in, now it was time to send it the the <a href="http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/index.htm">U.S. Department of State</a> to
be apostilled and to take my certified copy of my degree to be apostilled at
the <a href="http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/06_5_authentication_of_a_notarized_document/12630/how_do_i_obtain_an_apostille_or_certification_/572569">PA
Department of State</a>. Ok, here was another mistake that cost me time
and money, because I mis-read my information packet. I thought I had to
get a certified copy of both my degree and the official FBI record check. $5 a
piece, at the local notary. I traveled to the PA State Department to get
my degree apostilled. What I thought would take forever took less than 10
minutes (I went first thing in the morning and no one else was there) $15 in
person. I sent my certified copy of my record check to the U.S. State
Authentications office at the US State Department. (The Pa State Dept.
apostilles state-issued documents only, and the U.S. State Dept does
federal-issued documents only) $8 +$36 for Express Mail.<br />
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It got sent back. Undone. Phone calls out the wazoo to the
US State Department. Three times. Twice I was told I would be
called back that day. Twice it didn't happen. They also have
strange phone hours. Something in the range of 9:30 AM to 11:00 and
2:00-3:30 and only one number actually reaches a person. Third time I
stayed on the line and I got my answer. It couldn't be notarized.
It had to be the original (that doesn't feel good, sending off an original that
takes <i>forever </i>to get) This was the Wednesday before
Thanksgiving. 7:00AM on Black Friday morning I received a phone call from
the U.S. State Department, returning my call, whether it was from either Monday
or Tuesday, I was too muddled to find out. Turns out it is "technically
illegal to photocopy the original FBI record check." I wonder how
they get around the fact that I have to have at least four "copies"
made in order to accept my position? Once again $8 +$36 for Express
Mail. They destroyed my first check. A week later, I got my apostille.<br />
<br />
Third application got sent out, and finally a fourth application for a
region called Jeolla. I didn't actually have to fill out an application
for that one. They used the same form as the very first one I'd filled
out. A week later I got e-mailed by my coordinator to see if I wanted to
accept an interview for Jeolla POE (JPOE) through EPIK (which I hadn't been accepted into previously, for the metropolitan areas). I said, yes!!!!!!!<br />
<br />
My interview time was set up for 9:00 PM Wednesday, on one early December
evening, on Skype. I was house-sitting at my sister's, so I got
everything arranged, checked my lighting and sound, etc., and
waited. Putzing around on the internet around 7:30 PM I decided to check
my e-mail. A very frantic couple of emails from my coordinator said that
the interviewers' Skype was down and that they'd call on my home phone, please
email us back!!! Run home, check voice mail, email my coordinator, then
panic if they actually get their Skype working, where will I set it up?
My parents were out and I needed to set up a sign for them that there was an
interview in process, etc, etc... I don't deal well with interviews;
there is an interview butterfly that sets up residence somewhere around my
diaphragm. Its relatives set up residence in the vicinity of my heart and
throat. A couple of them lodge between my ears...<br />
<br />
The interview went by quickly. Fifteen-twenty minutes.
Another reason to panic afterwards. It felt fine, but too short
maybe? If it's by phone instead will it affect me? Again etc.
etc. A week went by. I passed!!!<br />
<br />
Now to mail my documents and wait for an answer. The documents got
couriered by UPS (not USPS, it doesn't translate well between postal
services) $120 + photocopying fees $5. Wait for the answer.<br />
<br />
And at the moment, my final documents are on their way!! Next up is applying
for my E2 visa at the <a href="http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/visa-information-to-teach-in-korea/134-e2-visas-americans">Korean
consulate</a>, then finalizing flight details and a few other minor
things. Of course all the personal paperwork that goes into being out of
the country for an extended period of time! (This was the easiest part! The Korean consulate was the most helpful agency I dealt with. Except that I couldn't contact the consulate in DC, but that didn'<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> peacefulness</td></tr>
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<br />
<br />
<br />
t matter. I had to use the one in NY anyway)<br />
<br />
If the final details in paperwork work out like it's supposed to, it looks
like Korea's where I'll be in a month. Five months ago at my lowest moment, when I made the
decision to apply, while wrapping silverware at Perkins, it seemed like this
day was so far away. Now it's looming closer and closer. The
whole process has been incredibly educational. And not just for
procedures!<br />
<br />
<br />
Let's see. Total cost of documents and postage. Not everyone
will need a new passport, and some fees might change. And some were
unnecessary. I won't list those! <br />
<br />
<br />
<b><u>Documents</u></b><br />
Fingerprint card $10<br />
FBI Check $18<br />
Notary
$5<br />
Apostille (PA) $15<br />
Apostille (US) $8<br />
Visa projected $45 <br />
Total
<u>= $101</u><br />
+ Photocopy <u> $5</u><br />
Total
= $106<br />
<br />
<b><u>Passport</u> </b> Only necessary if your passport is expired
or has less than 6 months left before departure<br />
Passport $110 <br />
+ Expedite <u> $ 60</u><br />
Total
= $170<br />
<br />
<b><u>Postage</u></b><br />
Express Mail 2-way $36 x 2 = 72<br />
Express Mail 1-way $18<br />
UPS
Courier
<u>$120</u> UPS World Express Plus<br />
Total
=$210 <br />
<br />
Total = $316 not including passport.Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-15096025103454281622013-11-18T03:32:00.000-08:002013-11-19T00:58:50.690-08:00Chrysanthemum festival<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Dear Mom and Dad,</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought I should tell you about a local festival that happened a
couple of weekends ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My town had a
flower festival in the main park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
friend Sarah from England called me up to see if I wanted to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the week of my open/recorded class
and I had a cold, but I was also very stressed out about the class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So of course I said, sure I’ll go!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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We left about 6 PM and found our way to the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our driver along the way held a
long and drawn out conversation with us that took all three of us the entire
drive to figure out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had something to
do with subways, London pickpockets, and Manchester United Football Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LED fountain</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor Sarah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She doesn’t like football all that much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Football being soccer in 99% of rest of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the foot actually touches the ball - semantics-wise,
it just makes sense. But, “I’m English.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>brings the response “Ah! Manchester United!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good! David Beckham –handsome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Park Ji Sung – Korean!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But still it’s conversation. Conversations
are great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soccer is big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“I’m American” Gets the response – “Oh!
New York!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LA Dodgers?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*Sigh* <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t help you there!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piggy tail!</td></tr>
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When we got to the park, we
immediately got all excited to see the streets around the park lined with food
and game tents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went past a dart balloon
tent and of course had to try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We split
six darts and managed between the two of us, to hit not a single one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we wandered on, and came to the colored
fountain which was on full display for the festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ‘Ooohed’ and ‘Ahhed’ and got a few
obligatory pictures before moving on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We came to the flower displays and
the park was covered in different designs and colors of chrysanthemums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night it was especially beautiful with all
of the lights strung throughout the flowers and the park itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a large cartoon-y pig statue,
with the cutest little curly –q tail, and a baby piglet on its back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">had</i>
to rub the tail for good luck, you know!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was what we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">said</i>
anyway!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in the LED tunnel</td></tr>
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Wandering on we came to a tent that
had these really cool LED lights in the entrance tunnel, all lit up and
pretty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we got inside and it was a
vendor tent selling industrial LED lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yeah, we turned around and scurried out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it was so small and open spaced we couldn’t do it gracefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We weren’t the only ones doing that though,
so that was better. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">handkerchief dance</td></tr>
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We found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a concert in the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple girl groups were dancing routines to
popular songs, before a couple of belly dancers came on stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The audience was enjoying the performances,
but the men in the audience really became lively at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could see a few wives/girlfriends getting
a little huffy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The male/female
proportions became a little skewed for about 10 minutes or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw
one young gentleman practicing in the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His girlfriend was not impressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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After that a traditional Korean handkerchief
dancer came on, and that moment was over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We left just as a Korean Oldies singer came on stage, and the audience,
which was made up of mostly gentlemen and their wives in their 50’s and 60’s, began
singing along. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We headed out to the stalls along the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they were mostly closing by
now, though we came across a couple still open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some stalls were selling flowers; I bought some dried Chrysanthemums for
tea, Sarah got some handmade soap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had
a discussion about some dried herbs we saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A young Korean man was almost
appalled when we got excited about seeing cloves and said that we use it in
food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For smell! Don’t eat!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah tried to explain “Christmas ham!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chimed in “Pumpkin Pie, Apple Pie!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laughed, but still said “No, only smell!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe they treated it with something, that
couldn’t be eaten?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We continued to wander and found
the game booths again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried our hand
at the balloon darts for a second time and between us got 2 balloons this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forget what prize we got, if we got
anything at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we came to the air
gun booth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_FIuI2PYKtxytgORRubasaKe6qugzMypgwvCdzVQkKl4A3Ah68Y5ja3P2rFIg2sM9ckFb2M_Wq_tEHZruy9YyoCLRDRqQvnDkrGf7zEkLsFDYzrIx_LVm_dvo9qVglRKIudMnGw6PvLW/s1600/DSCN1761.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_FIuI2PYKtxytgORRubasaKe6qugzMypgwvCdzVQkKl4A3Ah68Y5ja3P2rFIg2sM9ckFb2M_Wq_tEHZruy9YyoCLRDRqQvnDkrGf7zEkLsFDYzrIx_LVm_dvo9qVglRKIudMnGw6PvLW/s200/DSCN1761.JPG" width="150" /></a>Sarah got the bright idea, “You’re
American, right?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never shot a gun
before in my life, so of course we had to try it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first round, I got two bulls-eyes and
three in the next ring!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other one was
still on the target but not as good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course the target isn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> far
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won an arm/neck massager/clacker
thingy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a Korean man who was
watching wanted to teach me how to shoot the air gun his way, so I did another
round. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All men in Korea must serve in
their military, or by giving some kind of service to the country, so of course,
they all think they know guns quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And here was a foreigner trying out a game, and it was a woman shooting,
at that! </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLj7mcygieojN1xUw_J704hHFWE1OBVquM50AfNASBcw8PqLq88Mfp3tlx8wWyIhi6Wc2FlMyJdHtl_1Z4N8E8uJyuFyofP3K40_yJ00qJwewEGlA3W4DmG7Sesnu5N7qdoY1FXWbDiCE/s1600/DSCN1762.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLj7mcygieojN1xUw_J704hHFWE1OBVquM50AfNASBcw8PqLq88Mfp3tlx8wWyIhi6Wc2FlMyJdHtl_1Z4N8E8uJyuFyofP3K40_yJ00qJwewEGlA3W4DmG7Sesnu5N7qdoY1FXWbDiCE/s200/DSCN1762.JPG" width="150" /></a>It was one of those moments where
we got ‘taken –in –hand” and taught by the entire crowd that quickly formed to
watch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a few minutes we were THE
entertainment of the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone had advice, none of which apparently matched,
and some good natured discussion went on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I, of course, understood none of it, and just continued to do what I was
doing in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Sarah thought
it was hilarious to see an American taught how to use a gun by a Korean
man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When they heard I was American,
they of course thought it was funny too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perceptions are tricky things, you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Either way, I did better before my ‘instructions’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still managed to do well enough to get a
prize, even though my ‘teacher’ was arguing with the vendor that I got three
bulls-eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t, but I have NO idea
how to say I didn’t get a bulls-eye.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
got three just around the center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
rest were scattered around the target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think my ajussi ‘teacher’ wanted to teach me some more, but the crowd had
gotten too big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time to go!</div>
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Moving on, we went to get something
to eat at one of the lesser populated tents, and along the way a couple of
younger guys came up to us to give us another prize from the air gun tent that
they won. (It was a stuffed puppy finger puppet)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah did a quick exchange and gave them the
rubber ducky that we got.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they
really didn’t want <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We certainly didn’t!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the flowers are lit up!</td></tr>
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Kimchi pancakes and jook (soup)hit
the spot on a chilly night and then it was time for ho-dak. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
sat and munched on our sweets and chatted for a long time, sitting on the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great thing that two girls can safely sit
and talk on the sidewalk at night, and not be disturbed, other than passers-by
asking where we were from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night was chilly, and the ho-dak was hot enough
to burn fingers, but it fit the festival mood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All in all we had a great evening, just wandering, low-key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> You were worried about my birthday, if I
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</span>Well, here is the answer! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> So, my birthday was a couple of Fridays ago
(already, whoops!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day started off
like any other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I woke up and went to
school, but since it was my birthday, the school called off all classes for the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, yep that’s right!! I’m so
special that school is cancelled for my birthday!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha ha, not really, I’m just reveling in
idealism, lol! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Actually there were no classes Thursday or
Friday, since the kids had their talent show on Friday afternoon for their
parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were showcasing their
afterschool club activities for their talent show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all performed as a class, most at least
once, some were in a couple of acts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
could tell which group was performing what act, since they were in costumes and
the costumes and costume themes were recycled from group to group. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was dancing, skits, magic, ocarinas, a
guitar performance, traditional Korean drum performance, performance
jump-roping, and ballet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids were
absolutely thrilled to see that I came to watch them and as they passed by me
in the back, the little ones would greet me with a wave of the hand that shook
themselves all the way to their toes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The older ones did a good impression of an excited fish with a fin in an
electric outlet. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
couple of the parents greeted me as they passed by on one of their many trips
through the back to get pictures of their kids outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids would pose as a group outside the
gym right after their act and the parents would all rush outside to get
pictures and hand out bouquets of flowers and lollie-pops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids did a really good job and they were
cute in their costumes and so excited to perform, there really weren’t any
overly shy ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids all seem well
adjusted to being on stage and performing in front of a crowd, especially the
MC kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all they did a great
job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least I thought so. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*Proud teacher grinning in the back.*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Since there were no classes on Thursday or
Friday, it worked out really good for me, since I had to re-do my lesson plan
and materials for my open/recorded class this last Friday (for the following
week).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had made up all the materials
and detailed lesson plan was written up for my one co-teacher’s class, who had
originally agreed to hold the class with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until I got in to school on Wednesday that week, that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly she was too busy to help me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was strange to me, since we would be
teaching together the next week anyway and I was doing all the work for it as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, oh well, it’s kind of a
roll-with-the-punches situation at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I had to re-do everything before Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was another headache, but also another
story…!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, some of my 6th grade boys
heard it was my birthday, and just as I was about to yell at them for getting
into my desk and on my computer, they pulled up the “Happy Birthday” song
(K-pop version, of course, lol) on the computer and promptly got shy and ran
out</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous Korean painting by my friend Lee</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Well, that evening I had Korean lessons and
my friend Olivia had asked earlier in the week if she could take me out to
dinner afterwards for my birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
almost forgotten about it by then, but class went well and afterward we caught
a cab back to my neighborhood and walked along the street. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiramisu birthday cake! My favorite!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I
didn’t know where we were going until we got there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were going to our Diner’s Club’s favorite
restaurant in Iksan, a small Italian restaurant called Puritani, a sweet 7
table restaurant that has the best steaks in Iksan, and maybe in just about
anywhere. It’s a three course meal with salad, pasta/pizza, and steak, with
your choice of cola, juice, or house </span>wine that is all part of the meal set.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is topped off by Korean style dessert,
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<span lang="EN-US"> But that was not the extent of the surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked in, Olivia making me go first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as I turned the corner, there they
were!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the closest friends I’ve
made here, waiting to surprise me! Balloons, champagne, cake, and some of the
most thoughtful and delightfully special gifts a person could ask for!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being so far from home, these wonderful
people made my day!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gang all together</td></tr>
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Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-20201838702926311862013-11-04T23:26:00.001-08:002013-11-05T08:01:11.100-08:00Jeonju Bibimbap Festival at Hanok Village<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
a couple of weekends ago, Natalie, Olivia, Lee and I braved the Jeonju Bibimbap
Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or rather, maybe the festival
braved us!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Jeonju Bibimpab"</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We met up at the Iksan bus
terminal, which because of meeting being in Jeonju, I have gotten rather
familiar with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I confused my ticket
lady, because she did a little double take to see me going into Jeonju on
Saturday, instead of Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway she
sees me coming on Sunday mornings and I can tell she’s getting my ticket ready!
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well we met and went to get on the bus around
10 AM and realized that a lot of Iksanites were doing the same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The line to the bus was a bit long, so we
ended up catching the second bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
this was the </span>시외버스 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">shiwae beoseu</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> (coach bus between local
cities) we didn’t need to get new tickets, just hop on the next one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They come every 15 minutes for the closer
cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well we got to Jeonju and
grabbed a cab to the </span>하녹마을<span lang="EN-US">- the Hanok Village, which is
a folk village that encourages residents to preserve traditional
architecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a very quaint and
comforting feel to it and is definitely a tourist destination/attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one of my favorite places in Korea, though,
even though I don’t get there very often.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chef-Artisans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">enjoying festival food</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
got to the festival and one of the first things we say was a big tent and a
long line, and it looked like something was going on, but it didn’t make much
sense and didn’t seem all that interesting so we by-passed it all
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out it was an exhibit
about ‘The Gastronomy of Jeonju”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Me-thinks I’m glad we passed by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next we came to a long table lined with what at first I thought were
chefs displaying winning dishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as
I passed, I saw that it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except the
dishes were the plastic version of the real thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were what we call artisan-chefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They design plastic foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plastic food is a somewhat odd-at-first-glance,
but thriving niche industry here in Asia, but beyond its strangeness it has
come in handy more than a few times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Restaurants will display plastic food dishes to advertise what they
have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the occasional dust collection
along with the food, it is quite common to see plastic foods, especially in
museums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we wandered around and
saw the street lined with food stalls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not a great many, as this festival seems more about just getting out and
enjoying the day in the Folk village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
that was our destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, it’s
FOOD!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fried bibimbap in vietnamese wrappers</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anyway,
a little on </span>비빔밥, <span lang="EN-US">bibimbap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bibimbap is one of my favorite Korean dishes.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are as many versions of bibimbap
as there are restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bibimbap means
mixed rice and consists of rice and shoe-stringed vegetables of various kinds, with fern brake and dried seaweed,
sometimes including meat or seafood, and an egg. the egg can be fried, cut omelet, or even raw
– raw eggs are usually served with bibimbap that is served in a superheated
stone bowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street entertainment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">coffee shop stop</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This festival we came across
bibimbap in unusual forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
bibim ssam </span>비빔쌈 <span lang="EN-US">– bibim wraps- wrapped in Vietnamese rice
wrappers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fried bibimbap in Vietnamese
wrappers, bibimballs served in a clever two layer cup served with mojitos-
technically just lemonade with mint leaves, and a bibimbap waffle served with
sweet/sour sauce and mayonnaise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
tried pretty much everything, which is the point of this festival, since each vendor
was about </span>천원<span lang="EN-US">- 1,000\ per item, which is about a
dollar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Eventually we
wandered out of the food zone and into the street seller zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was on the same street that Natalie’s
hanji teacher is on, so we stopped to pay a visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her teachers place is quite a nice shop where
she sells her hanji and other hand-crafted items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(some not hand crafted, but touristy trinkets
too)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also runs a workshop, usually
for children and was busy with a couple of children when we walked in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children were quite impressed that their
hanji teacher had a foreign student.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch time! with Lee and Olivia</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wandering
around some more we decided we were hungry for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hanok Village is the place for lunch in
Jeonju.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think there is a bad restaurant
in the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most restaurants however
have bibimbap, bulgogi, samgyeoptang or Italian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We chose Italian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think because it was the closest, and we’d
had enough bibimbap for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must
say, good choice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a
ssssssscccruumtious crab pasta, with real crab…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shopping! Cowgirl Natalie</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
then headed over to Natalie’s favorite hanji shop and all of us found some
shopping to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even I came away with
some pretty nice hanji.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I just need
to design a project or two…or three…!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, we
wandered around a bit more and headed home, tired, full, and pleasantly happy
from a low-key, but great day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pictures
to follow!</span></div>
Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-4710993829340455132013-11-03T22:55:00.000-08:002013-11-04T01:07:58.770-08:00Icheon Ceramics Festival- A Weekend of Fun!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chicken laid an egg...</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Ok, this is a long one! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">A few weeks ago, I had the chance
to tag along with some friends to the Icheon Ceramics Festival with a side trip
the next day into Yeosu for Hanji, more ceramics, and a phone museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie perusing the wares</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">But first a little bit about
festivals in Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every decent sized
town/city has one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on what the
town is ‘famous’ for that is the festival that that city hosts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are tons of festivals in the spring,
and even more in the fall season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
festivals can last for several weeks and our plans to visit this particular one
had been in the works for several months! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends Natalie and her husband Jason have
a car of their own, but they also had weekend access to a fairly new sedan through
a hagwon owner friend of theirs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we
borrowed, and went!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day started out
beautifully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A perfect autumn day, clear
deep blue skies, cool and slightly crisp morning air and a breakfast at the
only place truly open for breakfast…McDonald’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It also happens to be a convenient meeting place, as it is the only
McDonald’s in Iksan …for now.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Once again I had a bit too much
coffee. Coffee’s everywhere here, and I do mean everywhere. My neighborhood of almost
2 city blocks has nearly 15 coffee shops and those are just the ones I can
think of offhand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are just the
ones on the ground floor; I don’t look up too often. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Icheon Ceramics festival dude</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that gave us the opportunity to stop at
the travel station along the way. Travel stations along the highways here
are fantastic as far as travel stops go. Not just a mere restroom and
perhaps a small rushed restaurant like you might find on a turnpike at
home. But give the turnpike rest stops steroids and this is what you
get. A really sweet restroom, usually, (not extremely fancy, but shiny
granite) very well maintained, clean, and bright; at least one convenience
store, a restaurant or two, and various vendor stalls selling food and drinks,
coffee shops and gift stores. The most famous item that people get at
rest stops, which are heavily used by bus travelers as well, are these bite sized,
steaming hot, walnut pastries. The dough is slightly sweet, slightly
crispy and the inside has crushed walnuts and sweetened red bean paste.
The smell is outta this world fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These pastries are always piping hot and fresh. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, really good! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Well we had an absolutely
beautiful autumn morning for our trip. (Thank you Jason for driving!)
We made it into Icheon around 10:30 and found our way to the festival
site. Icheon is not too far from Seoul and is very famous for its
ceramics and its shiny rice. Its ceramics are internationally known and
draw visitors from all over. We got to the festival and wandered around
the different pavilions that held dozens of vendors and amazing ceramics.
I got a little drooly and hoped I brought enough money to purchase at least one
little thing!</span></div>
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my biggest problem, but rather my lack of hands. I must give a great big
thank you to Natalie, her husband Jason, and Lee for providing another 6 hands…
Of course they got their own things as well, and by the end of the day
everything was all mixed up. Eventually I ended up with a set of Natalie</span><span style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">’<span lang="EN-US">s teacups which, strangely, she didn’t want to part
with. Not that I blame her of course!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I got some gorgeous vases in Korean style, and a traditional Korean tea
set complete with tea pot, sugar bowl, 5 cups, and tea whisk bowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also got a couple of fantastic crystalline
glazed porcelain mugs.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">During our day at the festival,
we had various experiences that I might mention. After looking through
the vendors (before our major purchases) we stopped to have lunch in one of the
food tents sent up inside the festival site. As I was leaving, I was
approached by a very well dressed middle aged Korean man, in the center of a
large group of other men, some with cameras. Thinking I was about to
fumble with my very limited and poor Korean, I began to panic slightly
inside. And as the only immediately accessible foreigner in the tent (The
others were still clustered around the table gathering their things) I knew
that I was the target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was inevitable,
and yes, I was right! But, this man spoke very good English, and welcomed me to
the festival, gave me his business card (very nicely done in Korean, English,
and Braille) and asked how I was enjoying my day at the festival and my stay in
Korea. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Food on sticks is a must!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Turns out I had just met the very
influential and quite well-known, governor of Gyeonggi-do, the province just
south of Seoul, and where Icheon and Yeosu are located.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his entourage, along with reporters and
various photographers ensuring that this encounter was preserved for posterity
sake and probably plastered all over the evening news and nest year’s campaign
posters, was the mayor of Icheon, who also presented me with his card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time the others had joined me and
(thank you, Jason!) Jason with his excellent Korean was able to converse and
impress the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to slip
through to the back and breathe again, and was shortly joined by Lee and
Natalie.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my purchases!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Eventually after our many (many,
many) purchases, we made our way to the wood fired kiln display.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jason was quite fascinated as were we, but
for different reasons!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we roasted,
a ‘band’ group began to sing John Denver’s “Country Road, Take me Home’. And of
course we began to sing along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
loudly, but with good cheer and humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hereby note that, the sight of 4 foreigners singing an English song is
entertaining and bemusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it
attracts attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drunken elderly
kind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">A man dressed nattily all in
black sat at a table to the side of the kiln and called us over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under the impression that he was the kiln ‘master,’
we complied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting closer we realized
that no, no this guy is not the ‘kiln master’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He’s not even the master of himself at the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kiln</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Quite enthusiastically, and to
the dramatic dismay of both his companions and ourselves, he began to offer us
great swigs of makoeli (rice wine) in previously used cut-off water bottles and
our choice of sweet tteok (rice cakes), tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes), and/or smoked
pig snout, fresh from the pig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
sitting in a convenience store bag next to the table…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No was not an option, and he kept calling us ‘eonni’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now this was the strange part. “Eonni” is a Korean
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">woman’s</i> term to call a close, slightly
older woman. He should have been using the term ‘noona’ which is the men’s term
to call a slightly older female.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except
of course, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he</i> was the elder! By a
lot!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Well, we moved on from there and
went to invade the children’s craft area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We foreigners have fun doing this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few younger adults do too, but these tents are mostly for young
children to learn about various crafts and traditional arts, etc, usually
related to whatever festival you happen to be at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some though, that pop up at nearly
every festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time Natalie and Lee
painted mugs, and Jason and I tried the potters wheel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gentleman ‘helping’ us, of course, didn’t
like whatever design we had made and would ‘help’ us to make the one he
approved of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically we just got to
play with clay for a few minutes before being sent off to decorate ‘our’ pots.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lee, Natalie and lamb skewers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My hotel room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My 'own' pot</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was nearly the end of the first day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the evening consisted of remotely
admonishing a toddler for licking the window and door at a coffee shop while
his young mother took selfies on her camera, hunting down a slightly less seedy
‘hotel’, going for dinner at a tiny five table Chinese restaurant, before which Natalie made a new drunken 'acquaintance'
who thought her shoulder made a good resting place scaring her into screaming, a nearly broken
toe, and amazing Chinese manduu and lamb skewers on a really cool skewer rotator
thingy.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie's new phone!!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The next day we were off to the
phone museum which we were convinced we’d never find after a wild trek into the
wilderness. Ok, not quite, but it was way up the side of this mountain and down
these two way roads built for half a car. This was the only museum devoted
entirely to the cell phone, and had an awesome display of early phones as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The curator took through the museum
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The types of cells phones and the time span
of all the ‘firsts’ was impressive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Off
to lunch at a baek ban restaurant (literal translation = 100 banchan – side dishes, but not really 100, just a lot, lol!) that
was serve yourself (unusual) and delicious. The Hanji workshop was closed and
the Yeosu Ceramics Festival was a let-down after the awesome one from the day
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeosu was more for families with
children and the merchandise was all commercially made rather than hand thrown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">World's 1st Smartphone</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">So we hopped into the car and made our way
back to Iksan, where we stopped for Chinese for dinner,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (a different kind!) </span>A very
full weekend, and a ton of fun!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great
memories with great friends!</span></div>
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Dear Mom and Dad,<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL6Lc1aI_vG1ftQk8_LFnrcNia4XcxHcGi_K76bH2PdgMioiWgPX9vGwz9G3sEm9nbGQCJsUR79BquRXGg9pIUVtm4WLGiNyMmjysoBxdbKfBW3RLYJAM-bfwRAYkKRjIgwWCFPssFM690/s1600/DSCN1515.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL6Lc1aI_vG1ftQk8_LFnrcNia4XcxHcGi_K76bH2PdgMioiWgPX9vGwz9G3sEm9nbGQCJsUR79BquRXGg9pIUVtm4WLGiNyMmjysoBxdbKfBW3RLYJAM-bfwRAYkKRjIgwWCFPssFM690/s320/DSCN1515.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's a stag beetle!!</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Have you ever had one of those days, where when you
stop to look back on it, you just sort of go, “Huh?” “Did I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> just experience that!?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As if you couldn’t guess already, yes, I had one of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">those</i> days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started out normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I woke up.</div>
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From there the day just
started to spiral into something that resembles one of my weirder surrealistic
dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I didn’t know better, I would
have thought that I was actually stuck in the land of Nod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I wake
up. Get ready for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
normal, so far. There is a typhoon expected today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of rain, lots of wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grab my taxi, while holding my umbrella
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It likes to flip in the wind.)</i> </div>
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I get
to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids have exams, no biggie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I scrambled to find my coordinating teacher
to get <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my proctoring schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shows up five minutes before the first
bell rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile I have just gotten
the schedule from the only other slightly English speaking teacher in the
teachers’ room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have an exam to assist
in proctoring first period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I race to
the classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a first year class
that I haven’t been to yet. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students see me come in and there is a
collective, “Whoa!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a few
courageous “Hello! Hello!” ‘s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And one
or two “Hello, how are you, I’m fine thank you” ’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a couple of “Nice to meet you!” ‘s before
the exam starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly I just stand in
the back of the room and pretend to watch for cheating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly I’m just daydreaming about when I can
sit down and catch my breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once in a
while, I get to replace a student’s test card and pretend that I’m actually
doing something useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with 36
students on a class, this doesn’t happen as often as you’d think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or as you’d like, if you’re bored…</div>
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Second
period I have a break, then third and fourth period I have first years and
third years to help proctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again,
I have been in neither of these classes, and know pretty much none of the
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the first years kept
repeating “Hello, teacher.” “Hello, hello, hello.” It was, well, not
irritating, but a little exasperating after the second “Hello”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I was passing out tests at the time, I
mostly ignored it since I wasn’t all that close to the kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it annoyed the co-teacher enough that
she snapped at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Gulim","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">그</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">만</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">!”</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stop
that!</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of the boys kept
turning around before they got their test cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the third years: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the boy in the front, (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and by in the front, he was close enough to almost touch the board</i>)
kept peering up at me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
distracting enough that I didn’t really notice if others were, or not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why I stand in the back of the
classroom during exams…</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Even still, all of this is not so unusual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the day before, I got conned by my
co-teacher into joining in on a “field trip for the second years.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking that I had to join my second year
students on a field trip, I was not exactly looking forward to this trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were supposed to leave at 1:00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But 1:00 comes and I’m surrounded by a group
of teachers and all of the students have left the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exams days are half days…</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">It slowly dawns on me; it is a field trip all right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not for the second year students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a field trip for the second year <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teachers</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And on top of that the bus was an hour
late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I am standing in a group of
teachers just going with the flow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
anticipation is running high in my co-workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>High spirits and a couple of goofballs, from what I can tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comedians here are called gagmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am taught this word in connection with one
co-worker in particular later in the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was already rather apparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was also armed with a camera… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should have been a clue.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Finally the bus arrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might I mention that there is a typhoon this
day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are headed to a place a little
over an hour away, called Boryeong Dam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was under the initial impression from the previous day that we would
be heading to a coal museum in that area (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">oh,
joy. But ok!</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That didn’t happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We headed to Boryeong Dam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An hour later loaded with more snacks than I
eat in a month, and one smart phone conversation with the art teacher later (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I did manage to get an invite to her
housewarming party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it’s finally
built.</i>) we made it to Boryeong Dam, and as we round the corner to a rather
impressive view of a medium size dam, and the rock stairs built into the hill
side across the river, we pass a large sign that says “No Photography”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Well, the bus climbs the hill to the top of the
dam and we all pile out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few head to
the bathrooms, and the rest of us amble over check out the view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But our appreciation of the scenery is cut
short, by a coordinated attempt at gathering everyone together in front of the
carved rock sign that says in Korean “Boryeong Dam” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I could actually read it, yay!</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We quickly had our pictures taken, without umbrellas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">May I
say once again, there was a typhoon??</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, we spend less<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than five
minutes (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I checked.</i>) before we pile
right back onto the bus…</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Seriously!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought we were going to spend at least a few more minutes there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove an hour and fifteen minutes to get
to the dam and we took one picture and that was it!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were there for so short of a time, that I
didn’t even have a chance to dig out my camera…</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Well, then we head off and eventually pull into
a strange little museum parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lots of rock carvings, and baby deer on leashes;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a few carvings of the blushful sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a continuation of the theme in the
main lobby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a grand total of
three rooms in the museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spend most
of my time in the side room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course
the somewhat riske artwork was in the entrance, and again we have to get our
pictures taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In front the riske-est
of them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the only foreigner in
the group, I am <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>given special attention
throughout the entire trip, especially in the joining of photo groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No hiding in the back for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Gulim","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: KO;">영어선생</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">님</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">come up front please.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yeongeo sungseangnim –English teacher</i>)
We were there less than ten minutes.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Following the-well not leader, but the next best thing</td></tr>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Again, this was not the highlight of the day,
yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pile back into the bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And drive 100 meters across the parking lot.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">We pile back out. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s still a typhoon…</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And visit an indoor garden park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But not in a leisurely stroll type of fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh no! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We march through that park as if we were being
chased by rabid dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time, I
have finally gotten to my camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try
taking some pictures, but we were going so quickly many of them were a blur…
Sorry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We march right back out (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after having been attacked by a neck swiping
herbalist along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever it was,
it was cold and smelled like Eucalyptus.</i>)We get to the entrance and there I
see a rather interesting truck shaped like a hippy stag beetle that quickly drives
off before I can get a really good picture of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again the theme of my photos is “The
Blur.”</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A picture that's not blurry!</td></tr>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Well, whatever it is that we raced through the
garden for, apparently isn’t ready so we head back in for another 20
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time, I am so tired of
going through the garden that I just wait at the entrance with a group of the
younger teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All along this trip I
just follow in the wake of whatever teacher I recognize and pretend like I know
what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really don’t…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still figuring it out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>/(o ^~^o)</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Apparently, by the time the rest of the
teachers get back from their second speedy perusal of the gardens, and after I
am cheerfully required to give the names of such things as “bleeding hearts”, “carp
and catfish”, “tangerine tree” ,“Rosemary, mint, and geranium”, we are finally
ready to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad to get back on
the bus.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hippy stage beetle. Better springs and it will actually be cute!</td></tr>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">But wait!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re not getting on the bus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re
getting on that strange little vehicle that drove off earlier before I could
get a good picture of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, I fail
to get a good picture of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is
because I am suddenly on this green hippy stag beetle truck with 24 co-teachers
and a small group of elderly men with their caretaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abruptly, I find myself bouncing on a dirt
road, through a statuary park, in a typhoon, in a hippy stag beetle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, yeah!</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Luckily, most of the statuary this time is of
the rather ordinary kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is only
so must riske-ness I can take in the presence of co-workers that I really don’t
know well (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or even if I do</i>. ) This
time, the statuary is mostly Korean quotes, and carvings of preserved Korean cultural
songs. </span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and
then there was the random ancient Chinese military obstacle course and the two
ostriches and the non-responsive pony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By then my mental faculties were shutting down.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dinner # 1.</td></tr>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Eventually, we find ourselves back at the bus,
although this time I am escorted to one of the teacher’s cars and driven to the
restaurant reserved for all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have tofu (</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Gulim","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Gulim; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">두</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="KO" style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">부</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">-dubu) with octopus, crab legs, mushrooms and clams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We eat quickly, and apparently we are
actually on a schedule because my one co-teacher tries to round everyone up
before they have actually finished eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We find ourselves back on the bus-again- and on our way back to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">This is when they broke out the norae-bang features
of the bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They turn off the lights and
turn on the colored lights, passing the microphone around and begin to
sing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a variety of songs and
some of the most dignified of teachers broke out in enthusiastic song and dance…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carefully declined the offer at the
very beginning, and nobody missed my singing at all.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bus norae-bang</td></tr>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually we make it back a little after 7:30
in the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am actually supposed
to have dinner at 7:30 with friends for Diner’s Club across town, so I have to
decline the offer of a ride home by my co-teacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grab a cab at 7:45 and the trip that is supposed
to take 20 minutes takes a little less than 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I must have grabbed the fasted taxi in town *sigh*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I get there before 8:00!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wander in- and I must have frightened my
poor friends. </span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What’s
wrong!?!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you ok!?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO;">“~~~Yeeaa~~haha….I think so…~~~”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is samgyeopsal, one of my favorites, but I
can’t eat much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was already too full!</span></span></div>
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<br />Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-19101650580229371682013-10-04T02:15:00.002-07:002013-10-04T08:14:04.987-07:00TAXI!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Dear Mom and Dad,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I missed the bus
this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I had to take a taxi
this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taxis are</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span><span lang="EN-US">fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span><span lang="EN-US">interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then there
are the drivers!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You know, when I
think about it, I don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t think I ever rode in a
taxi at home in the states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did in Scotland and London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, at least, when I had enough spare change to share a cab with
someone else</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, yes, taxis are interesting and my ride
this morning was fairly mild compared to some rides I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And some
drivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ooh, I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m getting ahead of myself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
driver this morning had a mild case of jackrabbit-itus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">m not sure
why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But instead of steadily engaging
the accelerator, there was this vrrm-erch, vrrm-erch for the entire 10 minute
ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t an extreme vrrm-erch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was no whiplash involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My street. I guess I could ask for the police station too!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">I actually don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t mind taking taxis here, now that I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve figured out the system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think the most important breakthrough I had in my taxi-taking experience was
learning the word for post office </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">–</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>우체곡<span lang="EN-US">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because my apartment is right across the
alley from the only post office in my neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So all I have to say to the taxi driver is </span>신동오체국요<span lang="EN-US">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which basically, means **
post office, please."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve learned a few other key landmarks to tell the taxi driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, my schools, but also a few major
shopping department stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily I
live in a town in which there are only one of every major department store, or
I would be slightly out of luck</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oh, yes, that</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s another thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Road signs
exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But apparently they don</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t mean much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve tried giving my street address, and it doesn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t exist even in the GPS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Landmarks are the way to get around, so **
post office works on every taxi driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They all know the post offices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>** Middle school, or ** elementary school, are great to navigate by as
well. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">taxi stand outside Lotte Mart</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My neighborhood-university district</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to be careful though, with English names
that have been Koreanized or as it</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s said
here, my Konglish. (<i>No, I</i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><i>m not joking</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a blend of Korean and English in the
Korean language to come up with words that are English in origin, but said with
Korean pronunciation. </span>마트<span lang="EN-US"> is ma-teu or mart, </span>버스<span lang="EN-US"> is beo-seu, or bus. </span>터미날<span lang="EN-US"> is teo-mi-nal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leave that one up to you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a store here called Lotte Mart (<i>as
is </i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">low-tay mart</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span></i><span lang="EN-US">) but if I say </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">mart</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> the taxi driver doesn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t
understand and gets frustrated and may even say he doesn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t know and he might not actually take you, or even ask you to find a
different driver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s if he</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s having a bad day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you must say it properly in Konglish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Low-tay
ma-teu yo.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> (<i>Yo is the polite ending,
definitely add this to the ends of most basic sentences, especially when
speaking to elders or strangers.</i>)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To navigate, the
cities are divided up into neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So if there is more than one of a certain type of landmark, post offices
for example, you must say the neighborhood first, then the landmark, and then </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">–</span><span lang="EN-US">yo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless your word already
ends in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">–</span><span lang="EN-US">yo, then you add a Ka
chuseyo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which means, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Please, take me to</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…”</span><span lang="EN-US"> or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Please, go to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well back to taxi drivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually taxi drivers are men, mostly older
men, which for some strange reason, never match their ID photos</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span><span lang="EN-US">photoshop maybe? Most photos are at least 20 years younger, with a
rather fuller head of hair, and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span><span lang="EN-US">wait the photo has
glasses??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best was a photo of a
younger man in his forties, but my driver must have had a serious identity
crisis, because she didn</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">t look anything like the
photo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some times the
cabs are more fascinating than the driver, or even the scenery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knew that pink and purple and disco balls
went together outside of Disney??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
all of the evening dramas, documentaries, and news programs on the GPS? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep, it all contributes to the taxi driver
ajussi being the second most dangerous vehicle on the road, closely following the
scooter ajussi (<i>ajussi means something like Mr. and pronounced ah-jew-she</i>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most taxis that I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">ve been in have a hidden present left behind from me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fingernail indents!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My experience
with the taxi driver ajussi has been a very quiet drive (<i>except for the music
or TV playing in the front dash</i>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once
in a while, there is a talkative one, whose curiosity about the foreigner in
the backseat overcomes his reluctance to start a conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s like
playing Russian roulette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ah,
Russian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a question that taxi
driver ajussis (<i>and regular ajussis, sometimes too</i>) like to ask. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>"Are you Russian?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a question best answered with a
resounding </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">No!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sorry for the poor
Russian foreigners here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately,
Russian women do not have a good reputation here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I had one driver
ask this, and when I said </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span>아니요<span lang="EN-US">! </span>미국사람입니다<span lang="EN-US">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which means, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">No! I am an American.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became very animated in his conversation
that consisted of a stream of Korean of which I understood only a small handful
of words in no particular order or context, and body language which included
the miming of a gun and a hand clasp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
I concluded from the very long conversation was that he was saying something
along the lines of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">“</span><span lang="EN-US">Good, Russia and Korea
fight (<i>brr-brr-brr</i>) America
and Korea
friends!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">”</span><span lang="EN-US"> (<i>clasp</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile we were speeding through three
lanes of stop and go traffic, and he was spending more time looking at me than
at the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An additional road hazard
is the right lane that doubles as the parking lane, bus lane, and intermediate
lane between the road and sidewalk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: 바탕;">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s another story.</span></div>
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<![endif]--><br />Recipes 4 Tomorrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12528079111723031700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907213146144259965.post-59357226561054582672013-10-01T06:57:00.001-07:002013-10-04T02:16:29.226-07:00Eating! Food is always good!<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1896" lang="EN-US"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1895"> Dear Mom and Dad,</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wanju Wild Food Festival 2013-bamboo steamed samgyeopsal</td></tr>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1896" lang="EN-US"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1895"> </span>Emily Post
would have a heart attack teaching me etiquette. Seriously, a different fork for every
course? Not to mention all the extra
spoons, plates, bowls, and all the blah, blah?
All I can say is that she must not do her own dishes! And the whole “tear your toast into pieces
before buttering”? Really?? I hate bread crumbs in my butter.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_2008"> </span>I can’t stand having anything except butter
in my butter. As for all the crumbs all
over the table,that’s definitely not my cup of tea! </span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1897" lang="EN-US"> There have to be some
rules, right? Because without some sort of order there
would be chaos and nothing would be accomplished by anyone. Left is right. Fork on the left, spoon and knife on the right. Don’t double dip. Don’t lean your elbows on the table. No slurping your food. Eat with your mouth closed. Don’t talk with your mouth full. Sit up straight. Mom, I'm hearing your voice in my head as I
type…^-^</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1897" lang="EN-US"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_1982" lang="EN-US"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_2001"> </span>As with
everything else here in Korea, I’m learning a new way of dining. My first meal was with the elder of my
meeting and his wife and our workers. We
had bulgogi at a very good restaurant in Jeonju at the Hanok Village.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_1984"> </span>I had to demonstrate my skill and dexterity
with chopsticks. I can use
chopsticks. Not with as great of dexterity
as a lifelong user, but I will not starve. Noodles and long slippery foods are tricky and
provide my dining companions with great hilarity at times, but again, I will
not go hungry. Learning to use my rice
spoon with my left hand to hold the noodles - now that takes practice! Well my first meal, I learned that there is
no “left is right”, no precise placement (at least for everyday meals) of spoon
and chopstick. Everything else is “Let’s
eat!” and the older the average age of the table is, it becomes "Don't get in my way!"</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Natalie and I enjoying duck and banchan in Gwangju</td></tr>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_1985" lang="EN-US"> There is some
passing of dishes…If you know the name of it…
Generally it is “eat a bit of this, then a bit of that, then a scoop of
this and snag that before it’s gone.”
Most restaurant meals consist of the central dish surrounded by small
dishes of very small servings of “banchan”.
Banchan are side dishes. Side
dishes are very, very important in Korean dining. Many meals can consist almost entirely of
banchan and they must be limitless at a restaurant. If you want some more of something, just say “Yogi-yo!”,
which means “(Come) Here, please” and hold the dish you want replaced. Oh, and there usually are no plates. Or if there are, they are very small, about
the same size as the banchan dishes: imagine a tea saucer. Everything is shared.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_1987" lang="EN-US"> By shared, I
mean double dipping with your chopsticks is…wait for it…OK! Using your own spoon to eat of the communal soup
bowl is…OK. Flipping meat or garlic on
the grill is…well not really ok, but just because the spitting juices kinda
hurt that close.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380634372630_2000"> </span>But grabbing it off the
grill is…ok! Using your hands to wrap
your meat in a lettuce leaf is…great!
Popping the whole thing in your mouth in one bite is …fantastic!</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1906" lang="EN-US"> Slurping and
the eating with open mouth thing is mostly ok too. I was told one time by one of my </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1906" lang="EN-US">Korean
co-workers, a very elegant and professional looking woman, that I didn’t make
sounds when I ate. We were eating
neang-myeong – cold ice water noodles, which are fantastic during summer
time. But they are long, very long
noodles and it is very soupy. I think
she was worried that I didn't like it. My co-teacher explained to her that it was
rude to make sounds during eating in Western culture and that I was just being
polite. She was satisfied with that.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1907" lang="EN-US"> Sit up straight
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating spicy nakji in Seoul (octopus)</td></tr>
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restaurants will have
sections (or maybe the whole restaurant will be that way) were there is floor
seating. The tables are about a foot
high, often with a grill set in the middle.
The restaurant provides seat cushions for a little comfort and you may
sit with your legs crossed, stretched out in front, to the side, one propped
up. (Almost) Anything goes for seating
style.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1909" lang="EN-US"> And, finally
tearing things apart, well, there’s not much bread served here. Really not even in the Italian restaurants
and Western style restaurants I’ve been in.
Except at Outback Steakhouse.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_2000">
</span>Mmmm…steaks… Ah!! Sorry!! Back on
track! So the whole cutting your food
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shabu-shabu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shabu-shabu meat and veggies </td></tr>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1909" lang="EN-US">etiquette is different. Mostly because
most food here is already bite sized – or rather chopstick sized. Or steamed to the point where you can cut it with your chopsticks. Which is why steak makes me salivate just
hearing the word... </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nokcha (green tea) jjajjangmyeon</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2907213146144259965" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1909" lang="EN-US"> So, I told you about
the very long noodles, right? There’s a
very handy solution to that here. It’s a
little known secret called –use a pair of scissors…<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_1911"> </span>No! Really!! Just grab your kitchen scissors
and cut your noodles in half or thirds or quarters or however many times you
need to. Sometimes those scissors are
used for really long kimchi leaves and when ever long strips of meat come out
for the grill (remember the middles of restaurant tables often come with
grills) as the long strips of meat grills ever so nicely; when it is almost
done, start cutting the long piece into short bite sized pieces to be wrapped
into your lettuce leaves.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380622235442_2010"> </span>And again, it’s
all because of the handy dandy, ever-so-useful scissors! They're for more than just paper and cloth now!</span><br />
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Love you and have a great day!<br />
ME ^_^!!!<br />
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