Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day All. Yes the Koreans do celebrate many of the same holidays as we do back in the States. However, there are some differences, for example: generally only the men receive gifts on Valentine’s Day. And yes, I did receive quite a lot of candy from my female students. It was very nice. Don’t worry ladies; you have a day as well, its called White Day. This is the day that women receive gifts from men. Also, we can’t forget about those of us that are single, we celebrate Black Day. Basically, this is where we go home by ourselves and eat 5 gallons of ice cream while sitting on our couches, but, if it happens to fall on a weekend it's usually one of the biggest bar nights of the year. Everything is still going well and I hope to get outside of Seoul a little this weekend. Talk to you soon.

I'm Really Here in Seoul, South Korea

I am having a great time, so far. Seoul is a beautiful city, I love the food and the job is ok aswell. I finally got all my furniture moved in my apartment and the internet hooked up, I am ready to go. My job is pretty sweet, the cirriculum and lessons plans are already done, all I do is teach and grade. Most of the teachers I work with are Americans, we have a great group of people who watch out for each other. I will be posting as much as I can, but for the most part I won't be leaving Seoul often. Whenever I have new pictures I will post them. Here are some pics so you can get a feel of Seoul. I was hoping for a little more English, but I will just have to get use to Korean. Enjoy!


This is on my walk to work. This is looking at a National Park to the south of Seoul.

This is the inside of a mall in Seoul called Techno Mart, it is 10 floors full of electronics.

This is looking out the subway over the Han River at some interesting architecture.

This is the inside of my apartment, kinda small, but it works for me. It also has a porch where I keep the laundry machine and all my cloths.

This is a picture of the youngest class I teach right now. They are 10 & 11 and very smart!

Istanbul, Turkey, February 12 - June 12 2006

Last Post

My last day in Istanbul. Due to not spending frugally I have no more money and now must return home earlier than I had foreseen. However, I have had a wonderful experience in Istanbul and regret nothing. Here are a couple of pictures for my last post. See you all soon.

Dinner with Turkish friends

Scimits - the breakfast of Turkish champions, I will certainly miss

Wondeful view on the walk to class.

Playing backgammon and drinking tea

View of the Blue Mosque from a small cafe

Greece

We had a fantastic time in Greece. I would recommend all to visit this beautiful part of the world. Ryan and I met in Athens took an over night ferry to Crete spent two nights, then went to the island of Santorini, the island of Ios and spent the last two nights back in Athens. The atmoshpere was great. We had a fun-filled, but relaxing time.

Iraklio, Crete the 5th largest city in Athens, this is the port area

Knossos, Crete where the legandary King Minos, the Minotaur and labyrinth were said to exist

Island of Santorini, an ancient volcanic island that had black sand (seen here), red sand and white sand beaches.

Main city of Phira in Santorini, extremely beautiful.

Island of Ios, a view of the beach area from just outside our hotel

Chiros, Ios the main city on the island, full of night-life

The legandary Parthenon

I spent the day in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki traveling back to Istanbul, this is a 3rd century church in the middle of town