The first time I arrived in Seoul Sept during Chuseuk week it was in the middle of a torrential downpour. All the streets were flooded, I couldnt walk, and had to wade over ankle high to a taxi as the only means of transport. This time I kept checking the forecast for my arrival on Saturday and it kept saying heavy rain again, anywhere from 12mm to 20mm. I had the same string of bad luck whenever I went to Ottawa in the middle of an all day downpour.I decided to ...

This weekend five of us took the bus down to Busan Gwangalli Beach for their Fishermans Festival. The forecast kept predicting heavy rain for the weekend, but fortunately that moved to Friday so Saturday was perfectly clear and sunny. This was my first trip back to Busan since I came for four days in Febuary. I thought the bus ticket was $7, which is what it said on the website, but at the terminal they charged us $9!.In Busan we got a Metro Day pass for $3 and h...

Wednesdays I have no classes after 11am, so after lunch I was sitting in the teachers room killing time on the internet. The Vice Principal had somebody ask me if I wanted to goto 'the conference' at mount palgong. I didnt know what she was talking about and told the person translating I didnt know anything about it. She asked if I was doing anything this evening and that I could go.I asked my teacher when it was, how long and who was going? He said all the teach...

I found out about the bullfighting festival last year perusing some of my travel materials and became immediately excited. The dates ranged from March-April so wasnt sure when it would be held. I read a few peoples blogs from last year and was anxious to find the dates for this year. From about Febuary I was checking to see if an event website was up for this year but it kept showing dates from 2010.Finally, dates were posted for March 2011 and I continued to wai...

Tuesday nite was the first day of my Korean classes at the ymca. I was supposed to pay 120,000w for the class plus 25,000w for the books. Also, I wanted to goto Daegu Station to buy the train tickets ahead of time for saturdays bullfighting festival. When I got downtown I went to an ATM machine from my bank but they were all out of order. I went down a few blocks to another branch, same error message on all the machines. I went to a third larger branch and all th...