by bbeckel | Apr 5, 2014 | Jeju, Korea, Travel
Each spring, KIS students spend one week learning “without walls”. The elementary students (gr 1-5) spend time taking field trips around Jeju island. Grade 6 spent the week in Seoul and Sokcho – both in the northern part of South Korea. Older...
by bbeckel | Apr 2, 2014 | Jeju, Korea, Travel
Thanks for sticking with us, and apologies for the long break. I’m trying to go back and cover some highlights from the time we’ve been traveling and oh, so busy. For example, Patrick and I left our little apartment on March 13 and didn’t return...
by bbeckel | Mar 30, 2014 | Jeju, Korea, Travel
Korea celebrates lunar (Chinese) New Year, so at the end of January, we got a 5 day weekend. (We’ll also get to celebrate Buddha’s birthday in May, so that’s pretty cool.) We wanted to get out, but needed an “easier” trip, so decided to...
by bbeckel | Feb 26, 2014 | Jeju, Korea, Travel
After their time on Jeju, Allison and Kate wanted to explore Seoul. Patrick and I decided to go with them and finally see the big city everyone keeps talking about! Despite living here more than 6 months, we’ve never seen Seoul. Here’s some quick stories...
by bbeckel | Feb 20, 2014 | Jeju, Korea, Travel
More visitors! Last week we had an awesome visit from two of my best canoe-base friends – Allison and Kate. They were able to match up their work schedules to travel together and spent a week with us on Jeju and in Seoul before exploring on their own on the...
by bbeckel | Feb 17, 2014 | Korea, Travel
We finished our trip with two quick days in Bangkok. We were pretty tired by this point, but still in awe of the amazing history, markets, and thriving center of population. We were pretty tired in Bangkok. After a couple temples, we were beat and headed to the mall...
