Seoul Train

Another week of work has flown by greatly aided by this past Monday being a holiday. I've finally started back at the gym and will be there on a full time basis once the Stanley Cup Finals are over. My boss took a bunch of us out to lunch this past Wednesday at a place called Angela's at the Galleria Department store which has a great buffett and a wide variety of food. I also found out that I should finally be able to get my ARC this coming week.

I have gotten a couple of new classes at work so my two hour work day on Tuesday is now three hours and my two and a half hour Thursday is now three and a half hours . I have to start Tuesday an hour earlier now at the ungodly hour of 4:40pm and Thursday I finish at 7:50 pm instead of 6:20 pm. I also have to start going to the weekly teacher's meetings on Wednesdays now and am supposed to go to Seoul in the next week or two for a 90 minute seminar about the books we teach.

On Saturday I went to Hyeonchungsa in Asan which is a shrine to Admiral Yi Sun-sin who is credited with the creation of the "turtle ship" which led to naval victories over the Japanese. If you want more information about the turtle ship or Admiral Yi you can just google them. As a child in his younger years Asan is where Admiral Yi grew up. The rest of the pictures of Hyeonchungsa are on facebook but I'll put some pictures here as well as a replica of a turtle ship.

Today(Sunday) I went to Seoul to Itaewon more specifically to pick up some deodorant at one of the black market stores. I was very happy that I only had to pay about six dollars each for deodorant as opposed to the eight or nine dollars you usually have to pay in Daegu. I also went to What The Book bookstore and picked up Amy Chua's new book Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother about her own cultural clash between Chinese parenting and American parenting and what we can perhaps learn from each one. I saw her on Real Time With Bill Maher a few weeks ago and was intrigued by her interview. I'm looking forward to start reading it probably tomorrow.

Since I was already in Seoul I decided to go to Seoul Zoo today at Seoul Grand Park since I had to pass by it anyway on the subway ride back to Choenan. You can check out the rest of the pictures from Seoul Zoo on Facebook.

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