This weekend was a holiday with monday off so we had a three day weekend. There was a big sand festival going on at Busan's Haeundae beach so I organized a group of about a dozen of us to head over for saturday, and island cruising the following sunday. However, big mistake to be learnt for a holiday weekend is book all your tickets ahead of time.I planned on taking a slower train to Busan at 11am as the high speed KTX was $14 vs $7 on the slower train. When I wa...

This weekend four of us headed to the Ulsan Whale Festival. Ulsan is on the coast just north of Busan and east of Gyeongju. They have opened a new high speed KTX station in Uslan which would have got us there in 45 mins instead of the 90 min bus. Originally I planned on taking the train until I found out the station is well outside town.The Ulsan Tourist info office (052-1330) advised there were free shuttle buses from the bus terminal and if we came by train we ...

On Wednesday classes were cancelled, again, this time for Sports Day. The last sports day was last term in October. For this school year they were holding it this week. I thought this meant one sports day per term but a teacher told me it was for this year, it just happened to a be a few months after the last one.The students had made cariciatures of the staff and had been on display outside the staffroom. I looked and didnt see one of me. Then I was told there w...

The last two weekends have been lying low trying to save money and slow period in the festival season. There is a childrens orphanage several expats active in their church volunteer at sometimes. A friend hasnt been able to come to several of my weekend trips as he was volunteering so I said when I had a quiet weekend I'd like to come along also.The orphanage was at the end of the subway line and there were two other american volunteers from the same church. The ...

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