Dongtan Questions

If you have sent me an email asking about Dongtan or Korea in general, sorry for the late replies. I still have at least 3 more emails to answer. I have been in the middle of redesigning the blog and planning a vacation. At a later date I do plan on having a post with information all about Dongtan. I do seem to answer the same questions over and over and probably will end up just publishing the email that I write here on the blog.

Dongtan

I came across the photos while doing some research on Dongtan. I found them at Skyscraper City and they were posted by user Korea 2002. The first was taken about a year ago. I can't believe how much it has grown. I should have been taking pictures myself.

Lately

I just read that my last post was from a week ago Sunday. I have been trying to hit the books lately. I have finally moved on past the 1A book of the Sogang series. I still am having a little trouble with the formal polite style{(스) ㅂ 니다} that is used for news reporting and speeches and other formal situations. I really should practice on this a few more days before moving on to 1B, but I have been stuck on that last chapter of 1A for two weeks now and if I don't move on I am going to be stuck for awhile.

I have been trying to go biking a bit more too. I am trying to lose a little extra weight that I have put on. Saturday's weather was unbelievable great and everyone else in Dongtan must have thought so too. I nearly ran over a bunch of children trying to make my way through Central Park.

Sunday, Jaeyoun and I made our way to Seoul to pick up some Kimchi from her sister.(Welcome to my world...hahaha) We did make a stop at Burger King and Kyobo Book Store on the way back. My backpack was filled with bags of Kimchi and I kept wondering if at any minute was my bag going to give way and spread 100lbs of Kimchi all over the bookstore floor. Surly this happened before.

My brother and his new wife should be returning back to Mississippi after a week in Rome. I guess somebody had to take the Pope's place while he was in the States.

I have also been trying to work on some logistics for my parents visit this July. They are coming in a couple days before my vacation starts. We will have to work on flight plans soon. Jaeyoun and I are both excited about them coming and we will be heading down to Jeju for a couple of days to stay with her parents during my parents visit. This should not only be very interesting, but very entertaining to say the least. I think both of our parents will be fine and I am sure there will be some cultural misunderstandings, but it will sure be interesting.

Have you watched the Jason Beghe videos? Jason got out of the grips of Scientology about 1 year ago and has just completed a series of interviews with Mark Bunker. Very Interesting Stuff. If you follow these kind of things, you will recognize Mark Bunker or as he has been tagged by Anonymous, Wise Beard Man."His words are wise, his face beard" I have been reading about Anonymous's protest of Scientology for a couple of months now and the videos on you tube are great. You can search for any of the above words and find what I am talking about!

Dongtan

I have been living in Dongtan for over a month now and this city is really growing. I have seen new businesses and restaurants pouring into the area. They are currently constructing a ton of new apartments and everywhere you look there are real estate offices. There is a great park "Central Park" near my house. They are still working on it, but it appears to have tennis courts, basketball courts, and a pitch and put par 3 course. I am very interesting to see what it looks like this summer with all the water features. There are a couple of places that look like they have built canals( stone ditches) through the sitting area of the park. There are also a couple places where they have man-made waterfalls. It will be interesting to see how these turn out. I really like this are, but it is a little farther away from most of the places where I normally hang out. The bus system here is the same as everywhere in Korea and you can get anywhere very efficiently.

The pictures were taken near my apartment and actually don't show where I work. I will try and upload some photos of the business areas of Dongtan in the next week or so.