A little bit of Comic reality

The International Gaelic Football Tournament weekend.

"Never let the fear of striking, keep you from playing the game"

This weekend it was time for some Gaelic Football. Teams from Shanghai, Busan and Daegu joined up with the team from Seoul at a beautiful statium in Seoul. I was asked to help out this weekend with keeping score of all the games at the tounrament. And I was actually quite excited to do this since I have this new app on my ipad that I really needed to try out. An excel app. But as with any weekend in Seoul it doesn't always provide a drama free weekend. I would like to concentrate on the positive but I have to share this story with you. 

Witch Doctor

"Great times always come unplanned" 

I'm feeling a little under the weather after having a really great night out last night. First we went for games night at a cupcake shop with some other expats that's been in Korea far too long. Some of them have been here for about 11 years which is ridiculous. They work at an international school so I guess things are a little different than in my school especially when it comes to admin and communication.

Keep Moving

"When everything feels like an uphill struggle just think of the view from the top."

This weekend I agreed to do yet another mountain with my awesome buddies. This time it was a little closer to home. Still had to take a bus and a train but the journey there was quick quick  or quick as far as public transport goes. The journey didn't start until I got there and met up with my friends and we started to walk towards the mountain. 

It's a Climb - Ganghwa

"Determination is when you know you cannot do something but you have the will to try anyway"

One Up

Belts. Yellow Belts. Ok, Yellow belt

I finally received my yellow belt in Hapkido. I'm feeling awesome. 

BANG BANG BANG

"A moment of impact"

When I came to South Korea everyone asked me if I'm scared because of the tension between North and South Korea and I said "NO". Today I could say that I'm a little confused about how to answer that very same question. 

Back in the Bu

- Lazy and a whole lot of crazy- 

After having Friday afternoon off, making this weekend a long weekend, I headed to Uijeongbu for the weekend to visit some friends. But first I met up with my darling friend, Reberta (South Africa), for lunch, catch up and solutions to South Africa's problems. We came to the conclusion that we have to build 10 more Universities each with a different language t-option, thus a Zulu-English, Xhosa-English etc. We also came to the conclusion that we should reinstate the rule that all men (and woman) should go to the army for at least 2 years after school. No 18 year old kid knows what they want to do with their life and putting them in the army would give them the time to figure it out whilst being productive and ultimately it would create jobs. Productive conversation right? 

Alone and extravagant or together and memorable.

Life can give you lemons, strawberries or even chocolate cheesecake but if you don't have someone to share it with you are pretty much only going to enjoy it for that few minutes of eating it. You see, people ( or animals actually) are social species and we attach meaning to everything we do but even more so if we do it with somebody we know or care about.

Korea at its best

Meeting and greeting people with the same mindset as you, to travel the world, creates some interesting stories and insights.

After Thailand my mother joined me in Korea for the rest of the week. First, we sat on a luxury bus for about an hour before reaching Uijeongbu. We got off the bus and was surprised with a lady handing each of us a bottle of water. She obviously saw we were extremely hot and tired after our flight to Korea.