Constant Rain

Guess who's got internet???? I got internet!!!

It's been raining for a good couple days now and is apparently supposed to rain for the rest of the week which is just lovely. But I did manage to get out to Beomosa temple on Saturday with Mike. It was surprisingly beautiful. Very traditional asian - except for all the carts and trinkets being sold outside the front entrance.

The temple is located in the mountains in the north part of Busan. When you enter the temple you go through this room and it's very dark - on both sides are huge painted wooden statues portraying four gods. You wouldn't think that in this day and age something like that could be awe-inspiring, but it was. It made you want to whisper standing in front of them. Going through that room you came into the main temple complex. Bamboo shoots up all over the place and their are buddhist symbols on all of the structures. If you keep walking through you can find a path that goes up the mountain at the back of the complex. Mike and I both thought it was pretty hard going, so we were pretty stoked when we got to the top and there was an archway leading to the peak. We got through and on the other side was......

a huge amount of people.... a Biker, and a freakin' CAR. Talk about anti-climactic. However we did see a suspension bridge on one of the higher peaks close to ours, so that is our eventual goal. We figure that cars can't get up to suspension bridges on rocky crags.

I'll post a ton of pictures from it on facebook fairly soon!

Resuming of Blog Shinanigans

I'm back!

I know, I suck at this.....like really badly - but the internet isn't the most reliable at my place and laziness often conquers.
I will be getting the internet this week! Mike is calling about it today (if he remembers) so by Tuesday everything should be set up and I can actually Skype with all of you folks who I haven't been able to get a hold of.

Just got back from my first "camping" trip in Korea. I don't know if I would go as far as to call it camping. We set up the tent on a wooden platform along with a group of other wooden platforms and no one was up for any hiking or swimming or camping type activities, so although the company was nice, it was a bit of a dud.

Absolutely beautiful area though. A place called Jirisan in the southwest part of Korea. Looked like something out of a National Geographic photo. Completely surreal. Did get a chance to swim in a mountain stream underneath a waterfall. It was all very Leonardo DiCaprio "Beach". I also did get out for a bit of a hike by myself. Will post the pictures soon. I can only manage to get about a half hour out into the woods alone though, after that my imagination starts conjuring up images and scenarios from every horror movie I've ever seen. Even a dog would help things.

Of course when I got back my Ipod promptly died. Wonderful technology. Breaks down at the most financially inconvenient moment.... and I loves me my music.

Anyways, going to end this as I am at work and have yet to figure out what I'm going to do for my next class. Maybe I will have my kids teach it for me.