Lianne's Blog Spot

Getting there

2011-09-30T13:15:00.002+09:00

Man I finally am getting ready to go back to Korea. I started the process beginning of April and now in October I finally will begin my journey. I am extremly excited to start my new adventure and see what God has in store for me. I added some links to see Pictures and history of Korea and see the school I'll be at and the city I'll be in. Thanks to everyone for being so supportive.

In Your Arms

2008-03-05T03:09:00.002+09:00

I can't help but cry on this. I know that God will keep me safe. This shows how much parents love their children. I can't help but think how god watched Jesus grow up and protected him. I cry when I think of how God had to watch his baby grow up and always know what was to come. I wonder if he wanted to protect him on the cross but couldn't.

My new 2004 Olds Alero

2007-10-21T13:01:00.001+09:00

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Chusok

2007-10-06T10:33:00.000+09:00

Kimberley, Me and Emily Bacon
Front left is Daniel, William,Julia,Alex and Matilda
Back left Me, Young-Jae, Andy, Jin,Sophie and Yona

Aquarium Field trip

2007-08-29T22:12:00.001+09:00

Vacation to China

2007-08-04T12:23:00.000+09:00

002-010: Tiananmen Square
Pictures of Annie, Me and Lucia, another teacher down south in Chusan, and other guy is Travis from GDA Seocho Campus. Just so happened he was told to use the same travel agent and we got on the same tour.

012-050: Forbidden City
First set of pictures is of the outer wall of the Forbidden City. Second set shows the inner wall where the officials and other workers lived. The third set is where the Emperor and Empress lived along with the concubines and other wives. The buildings with the green around them were being touched up for the Olympics next year. The one in the middle is the Emperor's room.

059-077: Temple of Heaven
Temple of Heaven is where they sacrificed oxen to bring rain and get good weather. The green oven looking thing is the altar and the big bowls were where they burned the skins of the oxen. The center you will see three rows of circular stairs surrounding the heaven stone where you were supposedly closest to heaven and can hear your voice louder. We got a good picture of us standing on it. Next pic is the second gate to the temple and can see the temple of heaven in the distance. Good pics of the inside where the monks prayed etc. You can tell it's been repainted.

112-138: The Great Wall
The highlight of the entire tour was the Great Wall. Unfortunately for everyone at home, it was a very smoggy and humid day so most of the pics are not that clear. I had a different idea of what the Great Wall would be like. I did not expect to have to walk up tons of steep stairs. I survived and actually got to the top of this section of wall. I wanted to kill the tour guide though because he kept pushing us to climb quicker and was not happy when we wanted to stop and take pictures. I did it though and felt like I sweat off 15 pounds. I was wet head to toe and looked hideous when I reached the top but hey, I did it! The stairs were brutal. They varied in size and they were steep. I have no clue how the soldiers walked that every day in armor no less. The invading army had to work to take the wall. We joked that they had to take a breather before they could even think about fighting.

Banging pans are so annoying

2007-08-01T21:24:00.001+09:00

Chinese Opera

2007-08-01T21:02:00.001+09:00

This is a the same guy that you will see fighting the inn keeper. I was not expecting this. Our tour guide said it would not be good and we could leave when we wanted we lasted 30 minutes.

Most annoying commercial ever made.

2007-06-30T22:12:00.001+09:00

close up of pictures

2007-06-30T15:30:00.000+09:00

bigger pics just click on the pics and they'll get bigger.

My Returne 1.4 class

2007-06-30T15:20:00.000+09:00

This is a picture of my Returnee 1.4 class they are all 8 years old. You will recongnize Richard from my first Ik Class. I love that I got to have him again he is such a special little boy. Always happy, friendly, helpful and has excellent mannars. He is very mature for his age and is smart as well. I'll definately will miss this class. We have in Front left Paul, Ryan,Richard, Kevin and Philip. In the back left is Kelly and Michelle. Michelle's mom is the one that nit picks everything thing I do to death. She does the same to her daugher and her daughter is very scared about doing bad on anything or messing up.

More Pics

2007-06-30T15:11:00.000+09:00

We had Courtney, another partner teacher, along and I was very thankful for her help in keeping track of my kiddos. She did well on leading us wear to go and helped pick up the stragglers. I took a picture of them at the monkey cage and in the elephant truck. I also have a pic of Anita zonked out on the bus. It was too darn cute not to take a picture.

Zoo Trip

2007-06-30T15:06:00.000+09:00

We went to the Seoul Zoo last Wednesday and it was not all that fun. It was very hot and humid and the kids got to see the petting zoo not the actual zoo. We saw tons of goats, pigs, deer and monkeys but no giraffes, elephants, polar bears etc. That Zoo was in another location where we would have had to take the kids on ski lifts to another section and we didn't have enough teachers to go with each chair. The kids were kinda excited but dissapointed and manly just hot and tired.

Five things I love about Jesus

2007-06-24T09:39:00.000+09:00

1. Jesus helped make the word and fulfilled the word
2. He is the way, the truth, and the life.
3. Jesus loves everyone and does not pick popular and unpopular sides. He excepts who we are. He is always there and will never turn his back on anyone who asks for his help
4. He doesn't care what others think he tells the truth, even when it is painful. 5. He was separated from his father so I could join with his father.

Had a blast this weekend

2007-06-17T23:09:00.000+09:00

Hey all just wanted to share what I did this weekend. Annie came over from Japan to visit but mostly shop. We went to Kangnam,Yongsang, and Itewon. We both bought some nice shirts, dvd's and a nice set of travel speakers for me to use with my laptop so I don't blow out my speakers. it is lightweight, flat and small and sounds better than I expected. I also got to go see Shrek 3 and Pirates this week. I went to Shrek on Monday with Emily and went to Pirates with Annie yesterday. I liked them both alot and found it not so strange to see the Korean subtitles. I thought it might be dubbed with English titles but nope. I noticed that I laughed harder at both movies then my fellow Korean viewers. Bless their heart they don't get sarcasm and playing on words so lots of the jokes and innuendos went right over their heads. It was fun though and I got an aerosol can of green lime deodorant and two bobble heads of Shrek and Donkey. They had a deal two get two cokes a big box of salty popcorn and the bobble heads, didn't really want the deordorant though. But hey I got a baseball hat when I ate at an Indian resturatant. I went through the same travel agent that set up our Thailand trip and their is a four day three night package deal for 860 won to Beijing. It comes with tickets to and from Beijing, private transportation, 4 star hotel, english guided tours and all meals. The itenerary is great wall, Teana Men Square, Forbidden City, a market, Chinese opera and a Chinese circus. Sounds good to me. I have to pay 80 bucks for the tourist visa, it would have had been 40 if I was not from America. Annie has the same time off as well and may join me on this tour. I really hope she can. gottat go
luv ya

Another Transportation Adventure

2007-06-03T08:39:00.000+09:00

Rita and I had fun yesterday seeing another part of Korea. We were headed to Yongsan and decided to take the 1005-5 bus there. We got on at the regular bus stop near us and realized we should have gotten on on the other side of the street. We decided to see where it would go so we stayed on. We went to another couple of towns outside Bundang and actually saw the real Korea. It had run down streets and businesses and rice fields. We then headed up to Everland which is an amusement park like Six Flags in Denver. We were then told to get off. We got off and were like okay now what. We figured buses had to go back so we walked around until we found the bus stop where we waited a half hour for out bust driver to take a break. When we got back on the bus driver gave us a big smile and a I know you got on the wrong bus laugh. We then rode back through Bundang and into Seoul which took another 45 minutes. We spent 21/2 hours on a bus but I think it was worth it. I got to see more of the very beautiful mountains and more of Korea that I didn't see before. Sometimes the side trips are better than the destination. We then went shopping and Rita got a psp player and three games and I bought five dvd's one set I was very happy to find it had My Fair Lady and Wait till Night Comes which is a suspenseful murder mystery with Audry Hepburn. I also got Chronicles of Narnia, DOA and Life is Beautiful. I was surprised to find these in Korea. We also went to Dos Tacos and stuffed our face with nacho fries, chicken chimicangas,cheese quesidillas and a beef and avacodo burrito. Man its so goooooood. Sour cream ahhhhhhh! We were tempted to ask if we could just order sour cream to go hahaha.

Tons of people and cacktail napkins

2007-05-24T17:34:00.000+09:00

Buddist Temple

2007-05-24T17:31:00.000+09:00

Don't you love it

2007-05-24T17:18:00.001+09:00

dig my new haircut

Lotus Lantern Festival

2007-05-24T17:06:00.000+09:00

Hey all just wanted to share what the parade was like. It was very cool and I was happy I decided to go. We got to see a temple service at a Buddist Monestary, look at buetiful lanterns and experience the culture of Korea. Emily and I went in the late afternoon so we missed making traditional art and seeing some dances but just walking around Illsadong and seeing another part of Seoul was cool. Emily and I then went to Subway wich I've only had twice since being in Korea and man it was good. I actually had real ham and turkey that was not sour or sweet. I wolfed it down with glee. We also noticed some of the boxes and the misspelled word that made us laugh ourselves silly. We both took pics of it. Emily and I also had an adventure getting back home. We couldn't take the bus because the roads were blocked so we took the subway. I thought we had found line that was pretty direct to the Bundang Line, what I didn't know is that that particular line ended three stops down and then came back to Illsadong. We were very confused because we couldn't understand why we backtracked. We got off and tried to go the other direction but the conductor guy said no go back onto that train. We then went on it went to the last stop and came right back from where we started. By that time both of us were very angry. We luckily found an English speaking ticket guy who told us to get off at the last stop and get on another train. We eventually got home but it was 12:30 at night and we had been on the subway for 21/2 hours. Well, at least I know now how to get back to Bundang from Illsadong.

Traditional dancers

2007-05-24T17:03:00.001+09:00

Lotus Princess Dance

2007-05-24T16:54:00.001+09:00

Children's Muesum Field Trip

2007-05-01T21:21:00.000+09:00

Too many cute pics but these are my favorites. Kids are Danial, Julia,Andy, Alex,Young-Jae,Yona,Jin, Sophie and Anita and Will are hiding. You will see Anita at the balls and Will in other pics.

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Graduation

2007-03-03T14:53:00.000+09:00

Graduation went very well and I was so proud of all of them. They read there speeches about jobs and read All the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss. The parents were very proud and I'm glad they all worked so hard. I'm soooo glad that is done and over with. Here is a picture of them using there posters to read All the Places. I also took a picture of the four bouques I got.

Graduation Hellos

2007-03-03T14:51:00.001+09:00

Almost done

2007-02-26T20:09:00.000+09:00

Hello all,

I have acomplished a lot in the last couple of weeks. I have turned in all of my report cards. Got the kids to write and edit there essays three times. Copied, enlarged and had the kids color all of their posters for All the Places You'll go by Dr. Seuss. Created three lesson plans made a solar system and hung it on the ceiling, made five mini bulletin boards and had the kids make art or projects for social studies, science, grammar, writing and phonics. All that is left is to make the graduation programs for the parents. Individual blurbs about every student I have and get the Jeoperdy game done and have kids practice questions tomorrow.

I have not been working all the time, I went with Annie last weekend to Youngson and bought some books and a wireles mouse. I then had fun playing Myst V and Sims and cleaning my apartment. Last Saturday after going to an all day training session on the new curriculum for next year GDA took us all to the Ritz Carlton Hotel and fed us. We had red wine and a buffet that had rack of lamb, crab, salmon, shrimp, steak red chile shrimp, sweet and sour pork, sushi, seshimi(raw fish), salad, desserts of every kind and a chocolate fountain to dip dak( rice ball that is filled with honey and sesame seeds), marshmellows, strawberries, grapes, bananas, pineapples, and cream puffs. Needless to say I stuffed my face and had a blast.
Well, my brain is fried and I'm tired.
Luv you all and I only have 61/2 months to go.

silly stuff

2007-01-29T20:55:00.001+09:00

I have this stuck in my head and I wanted it to effect yours(whaahaahaa)

Some cute pictures of my students

2007-01-27T13:48:00.000+09:00

I know this is an old picture but it's so darn cute. I was lucky and caught Chris jumping in the air.
I loved this picture as well
Rita's (she is in the pic of staff lounge) my partner teacher's class and mine messing around before we perform our Christmas play. The kids cosutmes are traditional Korean School uniforms with some glitz. Don't they look so cute.
front left are Min-Kyo, Hyun-Woo, Michelle, and Jenninfer. Little girls just behind Min-Kyo are Julie, my favorite, and Yena who is not smiling.
Back left Brian, Jenny, Richard, Hyun-Jun, Joshua, Erica and Christopher

Walk to school

2007-01-27T13:36:00.000+09:00

Bottom} The hill that is kinda of a pain when your tired or bringing back two 2 liter bottles of water, an apple pie, a pumpkin pie, tuna and a mop from a Cosco run where the driver doesn't want to drop you off near your house.

top picture of the heading right at the corner headed for work packed full of good stores. There is the dry cleaning place, karoke bar, seamstress, hairdresser, real estate agent, chicken place, drugstore and two toystores. Believe it they can fit all of that into two blocks the stores are tiny and they are hard to walk around into.

Staff lounge

2007-01-27T13:25:00.000+09:00

Rita in our staff lounge, we have lots of resources and room on our desks. I have to clean up my desk everyday,but I do it.

Googing around

2007-01-27T13:02:00.000+09:00

Hello all,
I just decided to blog here. I am relaxing before i have to start the mad dash to get my lesson plans done and get my report cards in. It is snowing and they are the big puffy ones. It started to snow last night and the kids were very excited. We also had to walk in it on the way from eating gombe/i (I don't know) with most of the faculty. It was Russel's 35th birthday dinner and we had lots of fun. I really love the place we went to it was the fancy restaurant named Korean Restaurant. We had five orders of really good marinated beef, rice, Cinnamon tea and coke. We then had to walk home because the restaurant is not near any major roads that we could have caught a taxi or bus. It was a fun walk and was very refreshing. It was snowing but not all that cold especially if you walked very quickly. I then came home and crashed. Not much else is happening here I'm just reading everyones blog pages and loving looking at my beautiful nieces and nephews.

Life Church

2007-01-21T21:29:00.000+09:00

Hello all,
I just visited Life Church here in Bundang. It only took a bus ride and two stops on the subway to get there and that's pretty close. The people there are very nice and I liked the community feel of it. It is about the size of Prairie Home just a little bit more . They sang Breathe, Holy, Holy, Holy, Let Everything That has breath praise the Lord. What was really cool is they sang the songs in English than in Korean and I kinda sang along. I know I butchered the pronunciation but with practice I hope to learn more . The pastor Jack is talking about taking authority through what Christ has let us do and how we need to be using what God has given us and take authority over our lives. He also had a great visual as in how Jesus is both a son of man and Son of God and showed how they could stay in the same body. He compared it to having a aquarium that is split in half, one side is yellow the other side is blue. Then the Crucifixion the divider was taken out and the two halves combined into one. A perfect balance of Godliness and humanness. He also brought to the front that Jesus was human like us and that it is a good thing to have someone who can understand us fighting for us. I really liked this church and am going to bring Emily many Rita next week.

My apartment

2007-01-16T21:54:00.001+09:00


Shows what my apartment looks like

More Pictures

2007-01-14T21:28:00.000+09:00

School lunch at GDA I don't know exactly what all of it is. You also get to see the flat Stanley sent to me from Lexi from Hill City Grade School.
Picture taken on our boat trip to Phi-Phi Island. This is where they filmed the Beach.
Emily and I posing on the beach after completing a lovely meal and snorkeling. We are do the Korean friendship pose arms in the shape of a heart. Can do with your arms or hands. This also is what couples do to show there lovey dovey. My kids do this all the time when I take pictures of them together.

I have a new laptop!

2007-01-14T16:32:00.000+09:00

Hey all I am st writing to say that I have joined the wired club. I finally got a laptop yesterday. It was not very expensive for all the bells and whistles that I got with it. I got it for 900 dollars. it is a Hewart packard it has 1.6ghz drive, a 215mb and 120 gb. It also has a dvd player and dvd/cd burner, one year waranty and had office and norton antriviris on it. I don't know whatmost of the means but a three computer nerds were with me and said for what I paid for it it was a good computer. I watched Lady in the Water last night and am getting ready to watch Eragon and House season two. I got the dvds from my friends Annie and Rita.

captions

2007-01-11T12:58:00.000+09:00

Lianne might post more about the slide show and her recent trip to Thailand, but for now if you want to have a basic idea of where the photos were taken, go here and look at the filenames of the photos. They show Bankok, temples, the Emerald Palace, tigers, an elephant ride, the Bridge over the River Kwai, and the memorial and cemetery. (Click on the plus, minus, or pause buttons to speed up or slow down the slide show.)

Happy New Year fromThailand

2007-01-06T00:22:00.000+09:00

(from an email Lianne sent)

I am writing from the airport in Bangkok killing time before we board the plane for Korea. I'm a little excited about sleeping in my own bed but am very sad to leave Phuket. I love it there it is very beautiful and warm. It looks alot like Costa Rica and has the same weather. I have packed a heck of a lot of stuff into 7 days. We went on a boat ride around Bangkok visited three temples, went on an elephant tour, walked on the bridge over the River Kwai and visited the mueseum there. I also got to pet one tiger and partially lay on two more tigers. I also got to take a boat trip to Phi Phi Island and saw where the Island was filmed. The one with Dicaprio. We then snorkeled and ate lunch on the beach. The rest of the time was laying on the beautiful beach and getting partially burned. I got my backside pretty toasted. I fell asleep. Well, I have to run my internet time is running out. I will be celebrating New Year's on the Plane. I hope all of you have a great one.

love your tired and tanned traveler,

Lianne

photos

2006-12-13T01:52:00.000+09:00

Samsung Plaza

Sports Day at Olympic Stadium in Seoul

a sampling of Korean cuisine

Lianne in a traditional Hanbok

Shopping and other things

2006-12-05T14:40:00.000+09:00

Hey everybody,
I'm sorry I haven't written much in the last couple of weeks. I have been pretty busy and finally have some down time to write. I have had fun the last two weekends shopping for Christmas gifts. Two weekends ago, I went to Iteawon and had fun buying a great winter jacket lined with fur and a nice brownish green color. It is down filled and very warm. I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to get it back to the states. I also had fun getting some gifts for my family. The place where I went to get my gifts was called the Rainbow souvenir shop and the lady who worked there was very nice. Emily was coughing the whole time and she asked us if we wanted some ginseng tea. After, a while she asked if we liked it and when we said yes she went and got two boxes of it and gave one to each of us. She said it was an early Christmas Present. I definitely will be going back there to get more stuff. I also had fun going to my first Korean Wedding this Saturday and all I can say is it went very fast. They have there wedding is a wedding hall and the preacher, flowers and caterer are all provided for the wedding. They give you 30 minutes then move the next couple in. I had fun trying many different Korean dishes ant the dinner afterwards and found most of it quite good. I didn't know acutely what all I was eating but I didn't get sick later so that's a good thing. I then went shopping at Samsung this Sunday and found neat stuff for everyone at a reasonable price. I then spent the rest of Sunday wrapping presents until 12:00 at night. I have had fun working out in the gym next door and have great partners from work to help me stay motivated. It's getting harder to do it though because its getting very cold and I hate walking home afterwards. I am getting very excited about my trip to Thailand and wish the days would speed up so it will be time already. I think it will be very fun celebrating New Year's on the plane coming back. I will send pictures as soon as I can of my trip. I gave Annie my memory card from my camera and she says she is downloading them onto a disk for me its just taking awhile. Hopefully it will be done by the time I leave. I wish I could just down load it onto the school computers but alas I can't. I miss all of you and only have 9 more months here.

I learned how to read Korean!

2006-11-13T19:19:00.000+09:00

This Saturday was very exciting. Ms. Lee our IK Supervisor and Korean speaker held a mini training session for reading Korean. She taught us the Korean Alphabet and gave us some worksheets to work on. I learned how to spell my name and actually read some Korean words. This is a great ability to have since most of the Korean products are spelled in English but written in Korean. Shopping should be much easier now. I thought I could show you it on the blog spot but the yahoo keeps changing it back to English. I then spent the rest of the weekend sleeping because I have a crappy cold. I went to the pharmacist and they gave me some cough medicine and some kind of brown stuff you drink for the rest. It tastes like crap but boy it works. I asked for some Nyquil but I would have to go to item to get some, so I made due with what is here. I just got a letter from Mrs. Kerbaugh that she wants to send me a flat Stanley. I said yes and can't wait to start working on it.

2006-11-07T19:19:00.000+09:00

Here some pictures of my kids during Chusok. I was happy to wear the traditional dress of Korea, the Hanbok. It was hotter then heck though because it was polyester and a hot day. We walked across the street to the park to take these pictures and had lots of fun doing it.

Trip to Thailand and Church

2006-10-19T16:12:00.000+09:00

Hey everyone,

I have had fun the last couple of days because Emily and I have been planning a trip to Thailand for Christmas and met a nice Christian Korean girl who invited us to church. Emily and i have booked reservations to fly to Bangok for three days then we will go to a smaller village down is South Thailand called Pucket where we we stay for another three days then fly home. The air fare for all that is 700 dollars can you believe it. The hotels there range from 50 down to 30 depending on how exctavagent you want. We are thinking of going to a hostil maybe they would be 10 -20 we are still looking at hotels. We asked the teachers here if the travel agent we picked was good and everyone says they are reputable and the man we are talking to is great.

Saturday we are supposed to meet Minshyun at the subway at Ohmn station at 11:50 and she will show us how to get to the church then we will have lunch at the church and meet some people there. It is a Assembly of God so i'm happy and she said they have lots of foreigners there. Other than that I have just been busy planning for the Halloween party and end of the session tests. Then I have to plan for next month.

I love and miss you lots

Hanging Out in Seoul

2006-10-06T00:09:00.000+09:00

Well, I am sitting in a internet/gaming cafe at midnight and it is the bomb. I just got done eating at a restaurant where you picked out your meat and veggies and fried them up on a grill at the table like all the others I've been to. This one was diffrent in that you could eat as much as you wanted. You had free refills on pop and any kind of liquour you wanted. Ice cream, cookies, fruit , bread etc. I ate lots of beef, some bacon and fresh shrimp I had to clean and peel. I hung out with Jodie, Emily and the rest of the teachers from Jodies English Village. Then Emily and I decided to walk around and check out the stores. We saw a booth that had people try and break so many plastic tiles to win stuffed animals. It was fun wacthing people try and break them. I also had fun taking the subway for the very first time today and liked it. It''s cheap and was clean the only drawback is that it takes awhile. We spent two hours just to get to our location of coarse we are pretty far into Seoul.

Pictures

2006-09-23T16:42:00.000+09:00

Sorry folks had a mix up on software for my camera. I grabbed my mp3 player software not my cameras software. I am working on downloading it and then burning it so it may take a while to do so. Please be patient with miss forgetful. I will post pictures when I can.

Last day before teaching

2006-09-22T09:29:00.000+09:00

Today is official the last day of observations and I get to start planning and setting up my classes. I have observed my class for two days and already love them. The teacher who I am replacing had a terrific structure and schedule already set up and the kids are very well behaved. I have the same teaching style as him and the transistion should go very smoothly. I talked to my academic Supervisor, Bronte, and she is very nice and knows what she's doing.
I have October already planned out by Scott the teacher I am replacing so it should be easy to get into the schedule. I will teach for a week and then have four days off because of Korea's form of Thanksgiving. They dress up in their traditional dress and pay respect to all of their ancestors by bringing them gifts and having feasts in their honor. Some families will go to the graves of that ancestor to have the feast. Next Friday we will have the kids dress up and have a big celebration and I am looking forward to planning some activities for it. I will post some pictures this weekend so please bare with me I can only post pictures on Saturday because I'm really only supposed to email during the week when I am not in school.

Finally Arrived

2006-09-16T13:04:00.000+09:00

Well, I am in Bundang and am at GDA using the teachers lounge which is quite nice. I have tons of resources here. I got off to a rocky start. Our plane in Denver had something wrong with the Radar and they had to take off the nose put in a new one then run the engines to make sure everything was fine. The problem was that the engines are to noisy to be around all the other planes so the plane had to go to the deicer pad thing to test. My plane was delayed by half and hour. Then when we arrive in San Francisco I had to make a mad dash to the next plane. I had to take a shuttle and just got to the gate as they called for final call for boarding. Praise the Lord I did not have to get my checked luggage. They had already transferred it to the other plane. The plane was a 757 and pretty big. I had a window seat and the seat next to me was empty. I only had to fly 14hours and 50 minutes. I got to my apartment around 8:00 and man it is small but in two weeks I'll be moved into another bigger apartment. I had five teachers help me last night get some essentials for the night and Christina took me around today to show me where some things are here. I won't go hungry or be bored with the tons of markets and grocery stores pretty much on every corner. Well, jet lag is setting in and I'm pretty bushed.

farewell party

2006-09-15T12:50:00.000+09:00

The time has finally come

2006-09-14T08:00:00.000+09:00

Well, tomorrow is the day! Yikes time flies so fast it kind of snuck up on me. I have been with spending time with Karin and Shauna and my nieces and have had a blast. Tonight we will have my going away dinner at the Trail dust with Mom, dad, Shauna, Ben, Isabelle, Jemma, Karin, Laurin, Laina, Ethan, Malea, Tom and maybe Kyle and Riley. I am really excited and afraid at the same time and just want to get there so I have some clue as to what it will be like. I know I will be fine but I still have little doubts running through my head.

Yipee I have my working visa and plane ticket

2006-09-07T00:52:00.000+09:00

Yeah,
I finally have my working visa and plane ticket. I was worried I wouldn't get it in time. I have had fun trying to get all the necassary paper work in and sent. I had to wait to get my a week to get my Visa Issuance number and mail it along with an application, passport photo, and passport to the nearest Korean Consulate in United State. Well, I thought we had to go in person and so I looked up Korean Consulates and they said they had one in Denver when I called to set up an appointment I was told it was closed and i had to use the one in Chicago. Needless to say I kind of paniced but luckly my contact in Korea sent me an email saying I could mail it and that would be fine. He even gave me a cheat sheet on how to fill out an application. Well, I got the application from the link provided and it was way to small to get anything written let alone typed. I called the Chicago angency and they sent me the application( just to prove my Visa Isuance number was valid) which took three hours. Then we all got in the car and went to Hays to get my passport photo and get it overnighted. Finally after five days got my Visa stamped in my passport and just today received my e-ticket. Man its been a rollercoaster for a couple weeks waiting on pins and needles for all this to go through. I also had an allteration in time schecule I will be leaving on a Thur. the 14th not Fri. the 15th.

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2006-09-07T00:51:00.000+09:00

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Dynamic Korea

2006-08-30T23:27:00.000+09:00

Dynamic Korea offers a wealth of information, videos, photos, and goodies about Korea and its culture. Be sure to have a look!

Korean language

2006-08-30T23:13:00.000+09:00

Let's Speak Korean is an online video mini-course in Korean. It looks kind of cheesy but helpful.

2006-08-09T00:27:00.000+09:00

Hello All,

I'm just messing around to figure out how to do this blog thing. I hope this will be a fun sight so you can join in on my exciting adventure. You will have to forgive some stuff as I will be learning how to do this along the way.