Wow, it's been quite a while since I last updated this thing.
Let's see....
I moved into my own room last week. Single person accommodation so I wasn't expecting anything huge. It's pretty cute though. I can see the football field much better from this room than from the one upstairs, though I already miss the view of the churches going up to the mountains.
This is the football field. To get to it I have to go around the block and up a hill to the middle school.
On the weekend I went to the Museum of Photography (http://www.photomuseum.or.kr). No english site available yet so I had an interesting time working out how to get there. Anyway, once I worked that out I got off at the right station and saw this...
...and I thought how cute. Then I saw this at the Olympic Park
This gateway was probably built for the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Bloody huge. I kept walking and I pass a cafe called "Cafe Mix and Bake". They were playing some pretty cool (and unexpected) jazz music so I made a note to go back there after I was done at the museum. Because I was curious and it looked like there was some sort of festival I decided to walk to the end of the block. There I saw what must be the biggest Methodist church in existence.
Seriously blew my mind. Though, there are very few 'traditional' churches that I have seen. Some very innovative designs here.
Going back to the museum, I watched a very moving documentary about Korea during the Japanese Occupation. On the whole it was more concerned with the traditional Korea becoming lost during the process of modernisation Japan-style. Though the narrator did mention a certain chinese set phrase about heaven which I will not repeat here.
I must have spent a good two hours in the museum because I didn't realise that it was already 1600. Remembering the cafe, I went there to see why it was so popular.
Firstly, it was big. Much bigger than you would expect a cafe to be. And it was a western styled cafe with a big emphasis on sandwhiches and other breads. Lots of imported beers too. When I ordered my latte (I ordered in Korean!!! Though I didn't know what 'dine-in or takeaway?' was so she started speaking english) the music had changed to lounge.
As you can see, a very big orange theme here. The latte was decent in size and flavour, but not worth the 4000won that they sell it for. Zen coffee is still the best. And there were people with those toy dogs everywhere!! Like those dogs that you see Paris Hilton carrying around! Guys had them too!
Hmmm, this one is too long...
Let's see....
I moved into my own room last week. Single person accommodation so I wasn't expecting anything huge. It's pretty cute though. I can see the football field much better from this room than from the one upstairs, though I already miss the view of the churches going up to the mountains.
This is the football field. To get to it I have to go around the block and up a hill to the middle school.
On the weekend I went to the Museum of Photography (http://www.photomuseum.or.kr). No english site available yet so I had an interesting time working out how to get there. Anyway, once I worked that out I got off at the right station and saw this...
...and I thought how cute. Then I saw this at the Olympic Park
This gateway was probably built for the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Bloody huge. I kept walking and I pass a cafe called "Cafe Mix and Bake". They were playing some pretty cool (and unexpected) jazz music so I made a note to go back there after I was done at the museum. Because I was curious and it looked like there was some sort of festival I decided to walk to the end of the block. There I saw what must be the biggest Methodist church in existence.
Seriously blew my mind. Though, there are very few 'traditional' churches that I have seen. Some very innovative designs here.
Going back to the museum, I watched a very moving documentary about Korea during the Japanese Occupation. On the whole it was more concerned with the traditional Korea becoming lost during the process of modernisation Japan-style. Though the narrator did mention a certain chinese set phrase about heaven which I will not repeat here.
I must have spent a good two hours in the museum because I didn't realise that it was already 1600. Remembering the cafe, I went there to see why it was so popular.
Firstly, it was big. Much bigger than you would expect a cafe to be. And it was a western styled cafe with a big emphasis on sandwhiches and other breads. Lots of imported beers too. When I ordered my latte (I ordered in Korean!!! Though I didn't know what 'dine-in or takeaway?' was so she started speaking english) the music had changed to lounge.
As you can see, a very big orange theme here. The latte was decent in size and flavour, but not worth the 4000won that they sell it for. Zen coffee is still the best. And there were people with those toy dogs everywhere!! Like those dogs that you see Paris Hilton carrying around! Guys had them too!
Hmmm, this one is too long...
posted by georgesilver at Tuesday, October 03, 2006
1 Comments:
Interesting photos.
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