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Gyeongju New Years

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We started to realize that we will have a limited number of breaks during our contract, making it more important to seize those two and three day weekends and explore. Fortunately we had a five day break for New Years (Thursday through Monday) so we had a trip to plan ☺ ..And since it has been so frigid cold in Korea, we decided that we should try to find someplace south that might be a little warmer. Anyway, for the quick version, here is the video we put together for our trip. We hope you enjoy ☺ Gyeongju is located on the southeastern side of Korea, not quite on the coast but close to it. We had a few options to get there: bus, train, or KTX train. The option that brought us right into the city was the bus, so we decided to go with that. Bus tickets here are like general admission(?) meaning that they don't have a time or seat number or anything, so we just had to figure out the bus schedule to know when we needed to show up. Unfortunately the bus was thirty

January Update - Weather, Holidays, and Daejeon

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Hey everyone! Sorry about the long delay in posting.. to be honest, blogging fell out of our routine and our days got filled up with other things. But we are back at it and we have a lot of updates and pictures to share with you guys. First off--happy new year! We hope everyone is having a great start to 2018. Here are our updates: Weather and Air Since we last posted it has become extremely cold here in Korea. There was a week in December where our Korean co-workers told us there was a cold-front coming from Siberia. It's hard to find news sources in English, but the Chosunilbo reported that the current weather is due to a "cold continental anticyclone." Which sounds both epic and terrifying. But all it really means is that cold air is being pushed here clockwise from the northern to the southern hemisphere. Our apartment building--snowy week We've had some fun times running in the snow this winter At least the bus stop is covered--this snow was