[found on www.wallcoo.net]Sunday, July 16, 2006
Spain - Running of the Nudes
Check out this event... interesting. All for a good cause.
Kara... looks like you missed out on this one.
Kara... looks like you missed out on this one.
I'm all for eating meat... it's the torturing of animals that I disagree with.Just two days before the first bull run, more than 1,000 activists, most wearing little more than a red scarf and horns, ran through the streets of Pamplona for the annual “Running of the Nudes.” Compassionate and fun-loving people from around the world met in Pamplona for the run to show the city that it doesn’t need to torture animals for tourism.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Public Toilet
I was just looking around on the net and found this.... not sure I'd like it. I like people watching and seeing what is going on around,
but not THAT much.
An art exhibit of a usable toilet enclosed in a cube of one-way glass is seen across the road from London's Tate Britain Museum. The person inside the outhouse can see passersby while remaining invisible to them.[Jennifer Carlile / MSNBC.com]
This one is apparently a public toilet somewhere in Switzerland.
The outside:
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Raining cats and dogs... and then some!!!
It is the rainy season in Korea... which means a lot of rain. AFN (American Forces Network) often has a warning saying to be careful during the rainy season in Korea, because in Korea, "when it rains, it pours." So true. The rain is wreaking havoc all over the country. Goyang City, where I lived my last time in Korea, seems to be getting the worst of it. Some people are even missing after having been washed away by flash floods. From some of the local English newspapers:
Throughout Seoul, streets and bridges were closed, causing huge backups in the already bumper to bumper traffic (rush hour traffic here is TERRIBLE to begin with).
That picture isn't even where the subway platform is... that is at the top of the stairs.Heavy Rains Hit Central Region
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Goyang received 397 millimeters of rain as of 8 p.m., the largest ever in the region since the meteorological observation office opened in 1993.
...A subway station in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, is flooded as heavy rains hit central parts of the country yesterday. [The Korea Herald]
A subway station in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, is flooded as heavy rains hit central parts of the country yesterday. [The Korea Herald]
Throughout Seoul, streets and bridges were closed, causing huge backups in the already bumper to bumper traffic (rush hour traffic here is TERRIBLE to begin with).
Downpour to Trouble Commuters
Heavy rainfall brought flooding and disruption to Seoul and nearby metropolitan areas Wednesday, bringing the city to a halt in the midst of chaos.
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Seoul City closed six major roads for most of Wednesday, including sections of the Nambu Circular Road and Tongbu Expressway, both of which parallel the Han River. ...
[The Korea Times]
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
One of my classes at LCC
Lucas (a trouble maker), Celina, Christy, Joy, Mark, BillyThere seems to be an over-abundance of twins in Korea. I always see twins where ever I go, and I teach several sets at the kindy and one at my hagwon (LCC). And, yes, the twins here are always dressed the same. Doesn't help when trying to figure out which is which.
The view from Wooil's stairwell
My kindy school (Wooil Yu-Chi-Won) is right beside a long park way. There is a walking path on the other side of the way. Along the edge of the parkway, there are little gardens. I am assuming that various families that live in the area rent the little plots. It is usually little grandmothers that I see working in them, though.
My kindy has a little garden area along the back of the building, with many different kinds of plants, including eggplant plants, which are growing HUGE eggplants. I had never actually seen an eggplant plant before. They are quite nice looking. The leaves are a purplish green.
Beyong the park strip, the buildings you see are all apartment buildings. As I mentioned before, Seoul is almost all apartment villages, made up of any number of apartment buildings, all of which are built at the same time.
My kindy has a little garden area along the back of the building, with many different kinds of plants, including eggplant plants, which are growing HUGE eggplants. I had never actually seen an eggplant plant before. They are quite nice looking. The leaves are a purplish green.
Beyong the park strip, the buildings you see are all apartment buildings. As I mentioned before, Seoul is almost all apartment villages, made up of any number of apartment buildings, all of which are built at the same time.
The Dong Jip...
Dong is Korean for dung, or poo, or what ever else you want to call it. If you haven't heard before, Koreans seem to be obsessed with bodily functions. They have dong stickers and dong cartoon characters. They have dong/dong pot/barrel shaped ash trays/trinket boxes. They even have a Dong Jip. Jip means house. The Dong Jip is a Hof/Soju bar in Seoul (Gangnam area? Samsung area?). They serve soju in kettles, and some kinds of food that Koreans normally eat while drinking. I like how the Korean "Dong" (in the circle... it is actually backwards) is an upside down little man.
This picture is from my last year in Korea. I haven't yet been back to the Dong Jip, but if I can find it (and if it is still there), I will go again. For some reason, (well, because of the Korean obsession with dong, I assume) I am often reminded of the place.
This picture is from my last year in Korea. I haven't yet been back to the Dong Jip, but if I can find it (and if it is still there), I will go again. For some reason, (well, because of the Korean obsession with dong, I assume) I am often reminded of the place.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
ordering out in Korea
Tonight I finally decided to order food. I'm a bit sick and didn't want to make anything. I wanted Tang-bok-bap. I have the numbers for two 'Chinese' restaurants. Ordering was a bit of a hassle. The first place I phoned, there was a recorded message saying sorry (in Korean, of course) and a bunch of stuff that I didn't understand. The other place hung up on me. My co-worker Kelly phoned me to see if I was okay, and she offered to order for me. She called me back when she was finished. My meal would arrive in about 10 minutes. I guess the first place I tried was closed just for the day.
Anyway, I got my Tang-bok-bap: tangsu-yuk (sweet and sour pork) in one side and (jjajjang)bokum bap (fried rice with fried egg and jjajjang sauce - yummy black bean sauce) in the other. It comes with the standard side dishes of soup (unfortunately it is yucky fishy soup), kimchi (of course), Korean pickles, and raw onions.
Korea is great for ordering food. Delivery is free, even if you only order one dish, even if you only spend 3500won. My meal was 6000, and it was enough for two people. Also, the food arrives in dishes. After you eat, you put the dishes outside your door and they come and pick them up later. I guess in a country this small with this size population, you need to find some way to reduce the waste.
Anyway, I got my Tang-bok-bap: tangsu-yuk (sweet and sour pork) in one side and (jjajjang)bokum bap (fried rice with fried egg and jjajjang sauce - yummy black bean sauce) in the other. It comes with the standard side dishes of soup (unfortunately it is yucky fishy soup), kimchi (of course), Korean pickles, and raw onions.
Korea is great for ordering food. Delivery is free, even if you only order one dish, even if you only spend 3500won. My meal was 6000, and it was enough for two people. Also, the food arrives in dishes. After you eat, you put the dishes outside your door and they come and pick them up later. I guess in a country this small with this size population, you need to find some way to reduce the waste.
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