Posted in South Korea, museums & galleries, tagged anguk, bukchon hanok village, gahoe museum, seoul museum of chicken art on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Determined that I should see more of Seoul, I took the subway to Anguk and wandered into the Bukchon Hanok village. Hanok is traditional Korean house, and the Bukchon village is an area in the centre of Seoul where the traditional architecture has been preserved and integrated with modern buildings.
It’s full of museums and galleries, [...]
Posted in South Korea, teaching, tagged imagination on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My students have amazing imaginations. They’ll leap to conclusions if they so much as see a male and female teacher talking together.
This was in fact written by Younes, not Jason (I think she was trying to get him in trouble).
Ok, so I may have encouraged this fantasy, just a little bit, when I told my [...]
Posted in Outdoors, tagged chiang mai, flight of the gibbon, imovie on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by the rather impressive results of Jon teacher at work (who made a wonderful pseudo-documentary with sneakily filmed footage), I decided to try and use iMovie. Here is my Thailand Jungle Adventure:
Posted in South Korea, museums & galleries, tagged national museum of korea on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finally, after 9 months, I have made it back to the National Museum of Korea. When I went the first time I spent the whole day in the archaeology section (yes, I am that big a geek!) but this time my plan was to see the five other sections plus the special exhibition. A tall [...]
Posted in South Korea, miscellaneous, tagged lotteworld on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No, that’s not the Disney castle, it’s the Lotteworld castle. What a surprise that two theme parks should have such similar logos!
But this being Korea, it took unreality to a whole new level. Starting in the subway station, with a very detailed replica of the Trevi Fountain….
…up to the world’s largest indoor theme park (I’m [...]
