School is now closed until after the Mar 1 national holiday. The first week of january we have a five day winter camp. We have 4 classes in the morning lasting until 12.30. Officially we have to then stay in an empty school till 4.20 but I have been going home after lunch. There are two visiting english teachers from two other schools. One is British and one South African, to divide the four classes between the 60 students. In the past camp was 10 days long, whic...

My flight back to Busan was a strange time of 2.30am saturday morning, which meant I had to get to the airport by friday midnite for check in. Luckily the hostel had let me leave my backpack all day after I checked out in the morning instead of carrying it all day.I started chatting to kill some more time as it was only 7pm. There was a nice filipino lady telling me how she was worked here for 17 years. I told her I have many filipino friends in Toronto. Then I l...

Koreans like to celebrate new years in their own unique way. A popular event is to goto the eastern coast to watch the first sunrise. There are many sunrise festivals taking place along the eastern coast http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/ SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=1437741An interesting one is on the coastal city of Pohang. This city is famous for building a giant hand in the sea open upwards towards the sky. At the right moment it can be seen to be grasping the sun ...

I have been selected for a second year as a contributing writer for TheKoreaBlog http://blog.korea.net/?p=6587 There will be 20 renewing bloggers and 30 new bloggers. The bloggers are both in korea and overseas writing about korean culture and lifestyle. Visit My Page on Facebook Departures1

I first went to Hong Kong in 2008 during which a massive typhoon hit. This caused everything to shut down for a day and a half and I was unable to goto Macau. Now I have 30,000 OneWorld air miles expiring with Cathay/American Airlines, so I cashed them for a return flight Busan to Hong Kong as all the Cathay flights goto their hub in Hong Kong.Cathay uses local regional airline Dragonair for flights from Busan. As I was using airmiles dates were blocked off for n...