The steps leading up to the temple. There are 33 steps... a sacred number representing the 33 different buddhist "heavens"...
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This is a blog of my trip to Korea. I'm here right now teaching english for a private Hagwon (school) named Brighton. I hope you enjoy my blog! Edit: I *was* teaching for Brighton, but have since moved to a different number of schools. This blog is now only an archive of my past adventures, but feel free to check out some of my newer blogs.
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- Ben Norris
- If I had to describe myself in 1200 words or less... I don't think I would.
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- This is a picture unrelated to Korea. It was a pic...
- Yes, that sign DOES say "Danger, Mine Zone". And I...
- Me sitting in one of the trenches (I'm guessing). ...
- Some days at school leave me feeling like this... ...
- Leslie has gone back to Canada and has now been ac...
- Another one of my artsy-fartsy pictures. I liked t...
- Last week, the school went on a field trip to the ...
- Here's Heracles class. Look out! That train is goi...
- Jo and I headed out to Kyeongju this past weekend....
- Bamboo forest on the right of the trail.
- A pond at Puguksa temple.
- At the entrance to Pulguksa temple, there is an ar...
- The other side, where two more sky gods guard the ...
- This is the south section of the main temple. The ...
- The steps leading up to the temple. There are 33 s...
- The northern side of the main temple complex.
- Korean bells are really everywhere. They're distin...
- A passageway to another part of the massive temple...
- A pagoda at Bulguksa temple. You'll see a replica ...
- The overhang of one of the temples.
- This picture is a little dark and didn't turn out ...
- A nifty shrine that we saw. I forget what it was d...
- Prayer stones.
- Prayer stones set up around a particular inner te...
- A pond area at Bulguksa.
- If you look closely, you can see a temple at the t...
- This is the mountain that Bulguksa temple is situa...
- Looking down.
- Looking down from the mountain.
- A giant bell near the top of the grotto at Seokkur...
- A beautiful tree that hadn't dropped any of its le...
- This is my favorite picture of the bunch. It was h...
- This is a Korean tomb. Remember the pictures of t...
- These tombs are really big. Bigger than trees...
- This fruit, which looks like the love child of a t...
- A rice factory... er, mill... er, processing plant...
- The rice stored in huge orange bags...
- This is how the Korean rice farmers dry the grain...
- A kam tree.
- Another tomb. It was like... at least the size of ...
- This is a Chumsungdae. It was an observatory of th...
- Me in front of the Chumsungdae. Note the stylin' h...
- There was this huge grass on a hike we went on. St...
- I like grass pictures...
- Jo in the grass.
- Jo... in jail. She was pissing me off, so I threw ...
- This tree was really attractive... it's hard to ma...
- Jo and I went to a museum of Shilla history. Orig...
- A three-storied pagoda with the sun behind it.
- Jo.
- Jo in front of the pagoda.
- A three-storied pagoda with the setting sun in the...
- A replica of the pagoda we saw at the Seokkuram s...
- A picture of one of the museum's buildings.
- At the museum, looking out at the mountains. The s...
- This is called Kamja-tang. It's potato stew... wi...
- Ewwww. Yes, this is actually pig bones from the sp...
- On the way back to Bundang at the train station.
- Charlie and I went shopping for Halloween costumes...
- The school got totally decked out for Halloween. F...
- Here's Charlie. Check out the cool mask he has on....
- Rob and Brendan. A terrorist and a boxer... good ...
- Cindy on the left and Vicky on the right. Aren't t...
- Here is the long cavalcade of kids dressed up for ...
- Myself, Lois, and Cupid class on the Halloween par...
- Here is Lois, Myself, and Heracles class. Jessie i...
- Here is Erika and I. Erika was a gypsy / fortune t...
- Brian and Me. How he disarmed me, is beyond my com...
- Here's the whole crew... well not really, but ther...
- Mundane Things
- A while ago, we went as a school on a fieldtrip to...
- A waterwheel at the park that we visited.
- *Sigh* Ahhhhh....
- Such a good image of Korea - struggling to maintai...
- Charlie, giving a thumbs-up at a really big Jeongja.
- A trip to the park with the school.
- At the park.
- This pic didn't turn out as well as I would have l...
- This my main man, John. Homeboy...
- The kids are ANIMALS! It's true... some days they ...
- Coming out of school, you can see these beautiful ...
- A pretty picture reminding me that it's now fall.
- A picture of my oldest students, minus Lora. They'...
- Don't walk.... unless you wanna be a spot of greas...
- On my way to my private lesson, there is a small p...
- No photoshop here - this is my camera's red mode. ...
- The same picture... in Technicolor!
- These spiders are really big. Like, the size of yo...
- Ahhhh! Attack of the spiders! This nest was crazy....
- A grave. I was told that often Korean families wil...
- A really interesting looking bee / wasp in Yuldong...
- I love the feeling of crossing a river by way of s...
- Yuldong park.
- Here are a couple of graves in Yuldong park. You c...
- When we went hiking through the mountains, we foun...
- I like to call this piece of art "Cups and Candle"...
- Jeff. Notice how it's pretty much obligatory to ho...
- This is Jessie, on the bus on the way to the potat...
- Jo teacher fascinated by her hand phone on the way...
- Soo, fascinated by something outside the window.
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