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carters' travels: Seoul 5
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View my complete profile. Friday, November 9, 2007. Well, we are at the airport waiting for our flight home. We've really had a wonderful time on this trip. Here are a couple of more things we learned before I get to a summary of today:. People's ages are measured differently here. When a child is born, he/she is already one year old. They count the age including the time of prenatal development, so when an American child is one, a Korean child with the same birth date is two.
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carters' travels: Chiang Mai 2
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View my complete profile. Saturday, November 3, 2007. I've just read this over. It is ridiculously long. I don't really expect anyone to read it. It's just my journal so I can remember. There will be pictures when we get to Korea. I know that is the best part. Sorry for all of this. So, we finally got to the temple. It was magnificent - so much gold, so many statue of Buddha in different poses. The most common are walking Buddha, meditating Buddha, and protecting Buddha. You can tell the Budd...More tidb...
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carters' travels: Chiang Mai
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View my complete profile. Friday, November 2, 2007. Yesterday was a travel day. We flew from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. We have just a few things of interest to report that we learned from our new guide on our way to the hotel from the airport. We passed some rice paddies and learned that you can't tell what kind of rice is growing there from just looking. You have to feel the top. If it is short and fat then it is sticky rice. If it is long grained then it is white rice. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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carters' travels: October 2007
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. We then walked through a many-blocks -long flower/vegetable/fruit market. It was incredible. So many of the flowers and really other things are geared toward the Buddhist religion. The flowers are used for offerings. There were tons of yellow flowers which the color for the gods taken from the Hindu tradition which has been mixed with their Buddhist beliefs. So- the Jim Thompson house.he came to Thailand near the end of World War II with the Army...
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carters' travels: Seoul 3
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, November 7, 2007. I spent yesterday morning catching the blog up - this is a career in itself! In the afternoon, I went with two other women to see the Seoul Tower which overlooks this huge city. I asked the concierge how much a taxi would cost and he said 25,000 won. It actually cost 28,000. The interesting thing is that the taxi we hailed ourselves to bring us back cost 12,500 won. Hmmm. Some collusion do you think? They led us all the way there! We had a wonderful ...
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Soxs on Heels: The summer of ThomCarter: A Review
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008. The summer of ThomCarter: A Review. I am not sure if everyone is aware but my brother dubbed this the Summer of ThomCarter. Because he turned 30, because he went to a lot of baseball games and because, well, he is Thom! So, seeing that today was the first day of classes for me, I will give a review of my summer.Sam's Summer of ThomCarter. 2)On May 12th my internship began and I worked and worked and worked! Unfortunately, work made it so Jeff could not come.it is never the s...
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Soxs on Heels: August 2008
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008. The summer of ThomCarter: A Review. I am not sure if everyone is aware but my brother dubbed this the Summer of ThomCarter. Because he turned 30, because he went to a lot of baseball games and because, well, he is Thom! So, seeing that today was the first day of classes for me, I will give a review of my summer.Sam's Summer of ThomCarter. 2)On May 12th my internship began and I worked and worked and worked! Unfortunately, work made it so Jeff could not come.it is never the s...
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carters' travels: Seoul 4
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View my complete profile. Thursday, November 8, 2007. When you enter, there is an area of totem poles which are to protect the village. There really are number of things that are similar between the American Indian culture and the Korean. We saw a Korean cow. They are not used for milk but, rather, for farming. Their meat is very superior to regular cow, in fact, it costs 3 times as much. I tried some rice candy which was quite good. We're bringing some back. We saw how they would do their ironing. T...
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carters' travels: Seoul 2
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, November 6, 2007. At this site, there is also a monument honoring 18 South Korean diplomats and soldiers who were killed at Rangoon in Burma by a North Korean terrorist. There is also an Altar for Longing for Home where South Korean families come to make offerings for their family members in North Korea whom they think may be dead. The bus ride back was long mostly because Seoul is huge - 10 million people - and the traffic was awful. November 7, 2007 at 7:57 AM. Subscr...
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carters' travels: Seoul
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View my complete profile. Monday, November 5, 2007. We arrived at our hotel in Seoul after the group who had come ahead had left for the tour. We called them, and they came back to get us - giving us 20 minutes to shower and get ready. There was a mural behind the king representing the five elements: sun and moon, water, fire, earth, and metal. It represented long life and alway went with the king wherever he was. People always stood in a kowtowing position - bowing before the king. The palace was last l...