How far would you say is the peak from my vantage point in the below picture?
Well, the sign thinks it's a little more than 300m. The signs are totally useless when I go hiking, because they only tell you how far something is if you were getting there by way of helicopter. Sometimes it takes me an hour to go 0.5k because it's all just twists and turns and stairs and rocks to climb.
My part of town (it's a big city, and you can only see about a quarter of it here on account of the pollution). For Victoria readers, each one of the apartments in this photo is about the size of View Towers on Fort Street (that giant grey monstrosity, you know the one).
When people move into condos, they don't bother with the elevators. All the buildings are pretty much the same, with large deck doors, so there is a huge market for these lift companies that run around town all day helping people move in and out of their apartments. Believe it or not, the service is only about 50 bucks, for one condo's worth of boxes/furniture.
Ty and I took everyone else out to get some boshintang; i.e. dog soup. Here are the inagural moments for Jordan, and Caitlin (from Halifax):
Korean-style dessert: sweet rice cake with beans. It's okay.
I ran into a student and her friend (my student is photo-shy) while waiting for Jordan in town, so we all went for dinner.
My plant. It had all of 2 leaves when I inherited it from a couple of Canadian friends two months ago. Their job was so terrible, their boss so bad, that they just up and left one day with absolutely no notice, money be damned. Word was the small academy they worked for had to close, at least temporarily. Anyway, I've nursed the plant into good health and it's been growing steadily.
Summer camp is almost finished here at the school. All in all it's been fairly unfun as it's focused heavily on just teaching more english.Frankly, the whole work atmosphere has been a downer lately; all our manager can seem to do it make things more complicated than they need to be, and dole out negative comments and useless criticisms. Nobody in the English department likes their job... I'm not sure I can last until the end of December, and what makes it worse is that if I were to try to quit earlier, my company would screw me around to no end.
But there are good times. Today we all went to the zoo.
A Bengal tiger. Right after this photo, the tiger got up and started doing the female tiger nearby. The looks on the kids' faces were priceless.
The number of documented arachnid species is somewhere around 100,000.
And here's the award for most depressing picture of the day:
For some reason they made the chimp cage a lot more like a maximum security prison than the other cages. Hell, even the tigers didn't have a fence; just a wide trench and walls on the side. This is because the chimp is immensely more intelligent than the other animals. It'd figure its way out of anything other than this sort of cage. What a miserable-looking creature.
And amid the fully-enclosed bird exhibit, something stands out...
That's right, a plain old seagull. It's zoo-worthy here in Seoul.
Well, the sign thinks it's a little more than 300m. The signs are totally useless when I go hiking, because they only tell you how far something is if you were getting there by way of helicopter. Sometimes it takes me an hour to go 0.5k because it's all just twists and turns and stairs and rocks to climb. 
My part of town (it's a big city, and you can only see about a quarter of it here on account of the pollution). For Victoria readers, each one of the apartments in this photo is about the size of View Towers on Fort Street (that giant grey monstrosity, you know the one).
When people move into condos, they don't bother with the elevators. All the buildings are pretty much the same, with large deck doors, so there is a huge market for these lift companies that run around town all day helping people move in and out of their apartments. Believe it or not, the service is only about 50 bucks, for one condo's worth of boxes/furniture.
Ty and I took everyone else out to get some boshintang; i.e. dog soup. Here are the inagural moments for Jordan, and Caitlin (from Halifax):
Korean-style dessert: sweet rice cake with beans. It's okay.
I ran into a student and her friend (my student is photo-shy) while waiting for Jordan in town, so we all went for dinner.
My plant. It had all of 2 leaves when I inherited it from a couple of Canadian friends two months ago. Their job was so terrible, their boss so bad, that they just up and left one day with absolutely no notice, money be damned. Word was the small academy they worked for had to close, at least temporarily. Anyway, I've nursed the plant into good health and it's been growing steadily.
Summer camp is almost finished here at the school. All in all it's been fairly unfun as it's focused heavily on just teaching more english.Frankly, the whole work atmosphere has been a downer lately; all our manager can seem to do it make things more complicated than they need to be, and dole out negative comments and useless criticisms. Nobody in the English department likes their job... I'm not sure I can last until the end of December, and what makes it worse is that if I were to try to quit earlier, my company would screw me around to no end.But there are good times. Today we all went to the zoo.
A Bengal tiger. Right after this photo, the tiger got up and started doing the female tiger nearby. The looks on the kids' faces were priceless.
The number of documented arachnid species is somewhere around 100,000.
And here's the award for most depressing picture of the day:
For some reason they made the chimp cage a lot more like a maximum security prison than the other cages. Hell, even the tigers didn't have a fence; just a wide trench and walls on the side. This is because the chimp is immensely more intelligent than the other animals. It'd figure its way out of anything other than this sort of cage. What a miserable-looking creature.
And amid the fully-enclosed bird exhibit, something stands out...
That's right, a plain old seagull. It's zoo-worthy here in Seoul.
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