Tag Archives: Travel Korea
Welcome to Vo-Pulayya.com!
Welcome to our new web site! We couldn’t possibly stop blogging because we’re leaving Korea, so we decided to make a more permanent web site – also because we’re engaged and all. It just didn’t make sense to have “ourkoreanteapot” if we weren’t in Korea. However, ourkoreanteapot.com will still be live, but we will use Vo-Pulayya.com to write and show the world our travels from here on. Though, you’ll see that the current posts are linked back to ourkoreanteapot. So, please be sure to subscribe to both, because we were selected for an interview with Agrafood in Korea. The interview will be published in the October issue!
With that said, we’ve had a wonderful experience in Korea. It’s bittersweet. We’ve made some wonderful friends, foreign and Korean and have had a chance to travel Korea and other parts of Asia. But, we are looking forward to our next adventure, which will be in Vietnam! We’re taking a one-way flight to Hanoi tomorrow! We’ll be traveling down the country until we reach Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) where we hope to find a teaching position at an International School. It’s exciting yet scary to think that we don’t have jobs yet and we’ll be homeless for a few weeks. However, we’ll be experiencing so much in a beautiful country full of history.
So, please join us again on this remarkable opportunity of a lifetime – TRAVEL.
Sports and Past Times
Red shirts + Red devils = Korea wins!
June 17, 2010 | Author: Shauna Vo
Korea dominated Greece in their first match of the world cup in South Africa! The country’s spirit and pride finally appeared. I always knew that Koreans are prideful, but it was different seeing it with sports. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
School Sports – Jump Rope, Dance, Soccer and Archery
June 16, 2010 | Author: Shauna Vo
It seems that middle schools and high schools in Korea aren’t involved in organized sports. Students are always studying and hardly have time for outside sports unless they have P.E. class, where they learn all types of sports, but never focus on one. But, schools have random sports days or dancing contests. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Screen Golf
May 28, 2010 | Author: Shauna Vo
Golf, the rich man’s sport, is definitely for wealthy people in Korea. To play a 9-holf golf course in Korea costs about $100, plus the club membership. But, there is an alternative that exists on every block, screen golf. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Hiking Munsu Mountain
June 8, 2010 | Author: Randy Pulayya
We needed to start our preparation for hiking Mt. Fuji and what better place to start than in Korea where almost 70 percent of the country consists of mountains. Our first mountain to climb to train for hiking Mount Fuji was Munsu Mountain, which is located in Ulsan. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Hiking as a Pastime
December 9, 2009 | Author: Randy Pulayya
The food is only one part of the equation on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The geography of Korea is 70 percent mountainous. What do people do when their country is covered with mountains? They go hiking! Because hiking is such a popular sport, Korea has many hiking clubs that offer weekly group outings for its members. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Teaching in Korea
English Winter Camp 2010
February 11, 2010 | Author: Shauna Vo
Winter Camp started immediately after we returned from Beijing. We were not ready for it! Although, we were aware of how many hours we would work and how long the days were going to be, we still needed a vacation after vacation. Instead, we were overwhelmed with three weeks of 12-hour days and what we thought would be chaos. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Celebrity Status
November 5, 2009 | Author: Shauna Vo
We are like superstars in Korea! Well, Randy is more of a celebrity than I am because I look like everyone here. He gets the stares and the random “I love you” from strangers. When we are walking together, you can imagine what people are thinking. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Getting Settled and Discovering Korea
October 14, 2009 | Author: Randy Pulayya
It has been almost two months since we arrived to Korea and we are finally getting adjusted to the Korean culture and way of life. One of the biggest things that we noticed is how much emphasis that the Korean government focuses on learning English. English is a main subject in Korean schools, along with the regular subjects such as science, math and social studies. A typical middle school student starts his or her day at 7am and ends by 4pm. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Wol-pyung Middle School
September 18, 2009 | Author: Shauna Vo
Although it is my third week of school, I want to give you a brief synopsis of what teaching has been like in South Korea. As everyone has told us, Korea is dynamic. We had a glimpse of that slogan at orientation, but have now had a gulp of Korea’s dynamics. On my first day of school, Claire Root, the teacher I replaced, came to school with me to show me around and to show me how things operate in the school. Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
Beginning in a Bubble
August 25, 2009 | Author: Shauna Vo
As we got off of the 13-hour flight from one of the best airlines (Korean Air), one of the first things we saw was a Dunkin’ Donuts! But, it definitely felt like we were in Korea because everything else was in Korean. We were starving after we got our luggage and after meeting some fellow English teachers, so we stopped by a convenience store to get a bite to eat. A small meal with stir-fry pork, rice and kimchi cost only 1,800 KRW, which is equal to about $1.50!!! Click here to read more on ourkoreanteapot.com.
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