The coolest thing happened a few weeks ago when I was at school in the morning sending an email to my friend Ken in NY. He emailed me back on his Blackberry saying that he was having dinner at a Korean restaurant in NYC at the very moment I emailed him (9am for me is 8pm in NY). I immediately replied back with several useful Korean phrases to say while in the restaurant. Things like: "mul juseyo" (water please)
"mek ju juseyo" (beer please) "ma shi sa yo" (delicious) Thank you, good bye, etc. He emailed me back thanking him for the quick crash course in Korean phrases, and I just smiled thinking how wonderfully amazing and great the world in which we live in is now due to technology & the internet. Especially the internet. My top favorite sites have become: www.wikipedia.org the most amazing online encyclopedia where you can look up virtually anything and get a quick, thorough, historical, and factual overview. Everything from the story of Jesus and how Christianity was formed to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, info on books, movies, actors. The Korean War, countries, biographies, etc. I love the way it's laid out in a succinct, biographical, report-like manner. I also love www.dictionary.com which helps me learn many new words that I come across from doing the crosswords in the book that Flo gave me. The internet (google) also helps "assist" me in looking up certain clues that I'm stuck on. Like this one "Best Picture of 1970" starts with a "P". I was helpless here, so I looked it up and discovered it was......anybody care to guess??? (6 letters)............PATTON. I love the fun investigative process I'm using to look up facts, figures, people, movies, music, words, etc. on the internet. The other most favorite site of mine nowadays is: www.youtube.com You can watch virtually any music video of any song ever made; watch clips from movies, TV shows, funny bloopers, cartoons, inspirational and touching speeches, etc. Just go to this site and type in any thing you have a desire to see, watch, or listen to. Simply amazing.
I've really been enjoying Korea here lately. Because of the nice, beautiful spring like weather, I've been able to ride my bike to school in the mornings each day which takes me about 10-15 min. often times I find myself passing the slow moving cars & buses that are stuck in traffic on the main road that runs through town. Dan (my neighbor from UK) also rides his bike to school as well.
I had a fun, random occurrence this past Sunday in Busan.....
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