Hi!
In 1.5 hours we'll be heading out in a two car caravan to Pearson International Airport, Toronto. One car with Beth and her parents, Jim and Judi, and the other car carrying myself (Gavin), Jamie McDonald and my Mom (Margaret).
For those of you who don't know, Beth and I are heading out on a 24-hour long series of flights that will land us in Busan, South Korea (http://maps.google.ca/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=busan+south+korea&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x3568eb6de823cd35:0x35d8cb74247108a7,Busan,+South+Korea&gl=ca&ei=4F84Tp2WONLCsQKS4O0_&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ8gEwAQ).
(Question: does anyone know how to make links smaller? Like maybe just turn the words 'South Korea' into a hyperlink?)
We fly from Toronto to Vancouver, Vancouver to Beijing (google the Peking international airport, it's sweet), then Beijing to Busan. Neither of us has ever been to Asia, so be prepared to read our confusions made public for the first bit of this blog.
We've signed up for a year teach a bunch of Korean kids English at COREM English school. It's not their regular school, but something called a 'cram school'. There are also math and music cram schools that kids attend in addition their public schools in order to get ahead of the pack, although we get the impression that a sizeable chunk of the pack go to cram schools too.
I'll just add that I (Beth) hope people find the blog entertaining and informative- we've gotten most of our info about life in S. Korea from other people's blogs over the course of planning this trip.
I promise to have my camera at the ready for when crazy/hilarious/beautiful photo ops arise so I can share them with you. We'll get an internet connection up and running as soon as we can.
So anyway, there's obviously not much to report yet but we're in for a crazy few days and I'm sure we'll be eager to fill you in when we get to our new home.
That's all for now...down to 45 minutes! eep.
You should be able to insert html into your posts for links, like this:
ReplyDelete<a href="http://www.example.com">South Korea</a>
To make the link open as a new tab or page, add target="new" after the quotes containing the url.
You can also use services like tinyurl to make physically shorter urls.
Oh yeah, one more thing: have a good trip to Korea.
thanks. i will try to figure out what that means and use it next time. so, are you going to go to hong kong?
ReplyDeleteWhen you're composing a post, above the main box where you would type, there are a bunch of icons, one of them says "Link". It's directly to the left of the "insert image" button. Just click that, a box will appear, it's pretty self-explanatory after that :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome that you guys are blogging about your trip!!!
Thanks! and thanks for checking out our updates.
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