Photo-post #1

I go to Seoul alot. It seems like almost every weekend I find myself there. Well I'm gonna have a hard time slowing down when I get to take pictuers like this.



This was in the most trendy area of Seoul Myeong-dong, there are shops with western sized clothes and it's really upscale. Those are 2 things I never thought I'd say. I mean I don't particularly care for clothes or what I'm wearing, until I get into a class full of children then I want to dress like the Pope for some reason. So I may end up back there this weekend but only to buy a winter coat. Or a Pea coat to be more percise, why I don't know I saw one that I liked in a store, I'm going to go to Daejeon tomorrow first cause there is a store there that I'll check. Also while in Seoul and in Myeong-dong I found this.



It was just as glorious as back home and I'm afraid that this alone may drag me back to Seoul. It was in the bottom of the Lotte Hotel and Department store which is this grand and opulent, and beautiful for that matter, building mostly because it has this.

I was also in Itawon, the hole in Seoul that is the foreigner district. I don't mean to be so down but the other places in Seoul really are nicer. But I havent seen a DVD selection as varied as this since I moved out of my Wolf Vilage apartment.





Anyway being here no is cool but it makes me appriciate Thanksgiving even more than ever. Not for missing family and friends, but for missing the frame that it provides for the Holiday Season. It has already begun here. So I'll leave on this kind of a downer note before some Christmas light pictures. My co-teacher, Hyunsuk, is sick. She's an absolute angel but she has basically been barely able to come to work for going on a week now. If she does come in she makes it up to the class room for maybe 2 lessons(to make sure I'm covering the right material) then she goes back down stairs to the office and leaves. There is really nothing you can do I just thought I'd tell someone cause it sure as hell gets me down. So now, happy pictures.

Th 10:30 Post #13: The one I thought I wouldn't write in time

What up you?!?! This is a pleasant surprise for me cause I had no plans of waking up before 10:30 this morning to write because when I woke up to take my Mom to work I didn't think I'd make it back from her job awake. But here I am woke up at 10 so I can beat the imaginary deadline that I put in my head.

Anyway here is what I came to post about today, Photography. I kind of have a background in photography except for me it's the moving type so really I have none. But I doubt I'm gonna buy a really nice video camera and make short movies especially when they would mostly be of the landscape. So I'll try to save up a couple of paychecks and boom get a decent to nice digital camera while I'm there to take awesome pictures and share with you all.

Happy August!

Super In!!!!

HAHAHA!!! Yes There is nothing in the way but time now. I got a note from the Post Office yesterday after work that said they had tried to deliver my Passport yesterday but no one was here (I had to take the bus in so I left around 10:50am 40 minutes before they came by). So I went to the Post Office this morning at 8:30 and picked it u. There was still a bit of apprehension but I ripped the envelope open and there it was on page 9 my Visa from the Consulate. What did I do after that? Went out and spent $715 on a plane ticket to Korea. I go from Greensboro to Washington D.C. to Tokyo to Seoul. I was a little shaky about taking this because I wasn't quite sure what kind of plane I was going to be on for the first leg but I looked it up and it isn't a turbo prop or anything super old so I felt better. Other than that big planes and long flights at least the middle part. I would much rather have the one really long segment to take me all the way to Asia then having to cross the continent then cross the Pacific Ocean then stop in someplace not Seoul. I guess what I'm trying to say is two stops is better than three.