Thursday, March 27, 2008

Halla-san!

Last Monday was a beautiful sunny day, so we thought we'd take the time I had between classes (9-4, split shifts like whoa!) to go up Mount Halla, the volcanic center of Jeju Island. We took the Yeongsil course, which is the shortest and perhaps the most beautiful. Here's the Yeongsil rocks between trees:



The path up the mountain (and you can almost see the ocean in the distance...):



There were ice crystals on the vegetation as we climbed to higher altitudes:



Me at the top! This course doesn't lead up to the very top of the mountain (it's closed off), so this is as far as you can get. And there's the peak, just taunting you:



Oh - and here's one from last week, frog's eggs and tiny tadpoles in a local stream. I've never seen anything like this before!



Even though these past couple of weeks have been great, I've been missing home a lot lately. Thinking of you guys!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

scuba diving video!

After a bit of tinkering I edited together a few bits of the scuba diving video my class received at the end of our Open Water Certificate dives. That's me doing the peace sign by the camera in the beginning ... yup. That's me. :) Enjoy!

Saturday, March 08, 2008

back from Thailand!

Well, I'm back in Korea! We arrived last Sunday night and collapsed at our local pub and ordered a big pot of bu-dae-chigae, a kimchi soup with all kinds of things like dumplings and sausages mixed in, and chilled out after about 24 hours of flights and waiting. Wow, I'm realizing as I re-read what I just wrote that it might not seem to appealing to you, but believe me, that soup is AMAZING.

But before there was the weariness of returning from a long trip there was ... THAILAND!!





Suzanne came down from Chiang Mai and hung out for a few days on the beach in Koh Phangan and played frisbee with us. Oh yeah, and we got some killer beachside massages.



Then we headed north on the ferry to a little island called Koh Tao, which has one of the best reputations for scuba diving schools in the world. Plus - beautiful sunsets.



Here's one of me right before suiting up for a dive! They gave us a DVD to take home with footage from one of our dives, I'll try and edit it and put some clips on Youtube a little later. The waters were crystal clear, I couldn't believe the colors of the coral and anenomes down there.



Back in Bangkok on our way out, we made friends with one of the ladies running the street food carts. Those three piles of food in the background are different types of noodles - Thai and Chinese. Man, I really love food. That's all for now, more to come! The school year just started here and I've been busy making lesson plans - I'm teaching my first credit classes this semester! Wish me luck ...

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." ~ Joseph Campbell

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