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Cherry Blossoms came and went May 19, 2013 - 6:44pm

The Cherry Blossom season came and went again. I actually went to the exact same places and did the exact same things as last year. It doesn't really bother me. It was a nice way to reflect on all the things I had done since then, and all the things that have changed. I bet you thought I was about to go into some detail about that, but I wasn't.

We actually went a week prior to the actual festival, which means we couldn't get into the naval academy and some things weren't set up. But for whatever reason the actual cherry blossom festival occurred basically after they had all fallen down already. So it was better to go when we went. Everyone else seemed to have the same information, was difficult to get a picture without other people in it. Here's me trying... ...

Category: Traveling Tags: jinhae cherry blossoms

Myrna Logan via Facebook

Some beautiful cheery blossoms - good thing you went before the festival when no one was there LOL

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Badly belated New Year April 27, 2013 - 11:30pm

Yep. I'm writing about the New Year. Now contrary to what you might initially think, I'm not THAT late. Korean New Year was around roughly February 24th this year. But yeah, basically no excuse. So from what my friend had told me, during Korean new year it's tradition to participate in the burning of the Moon's house. I didn't ever get a real explanation but essentially they build a huge stack of trees and wood, put their wishes in there (along with some big community-wide wishes), and burn the thing to the ground. ...

Category: Life in Korea Tags: changwon

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Seoul II April 14, 2013 - 9:33pm

So, I really wanted to visit Japan. We had a long weekend so my friend and I decided we would take the three days and try to go. Of course we had no plan, no tickets or reservations. So when we went to Busan the first thing the lady told us was that we would have to go on the waiting list. So I decided that was good enough, we waited for 40 minutes, only to be told that there was no space and that if we wanted to go at 3:00pm we could (it was 11am at that time). So we decided not to do any of that and just change our plan and go to Seoul. We walked back to the subway and was attacked by a Jehova's Witness. I don't mean attacked in the traditional sense but you get the gist. ...