Mikayla, It's SOUTH Korea!

I am here. Mikayla asked me which Korea that I am in. Believe me, it is South. I am in Seoul. My hotel is the Holiday Inn Seongbuk. It doesn't look anything like the Holiday Inns back home! The Korea Society does not go economy on their fellowship participants! If you want to see the hotel go to http://www.holiday.co.kr/

When you post a question to me it will come to my email. You won't see your comment until I read it and post it. If I have a lot of the same questions then I might only post that question one time, so don't worry if your question isn't showing up on my Blog. Posting a comment won't make it show up immediately, so be patient! I have to read your messages first. I will read what you write and make sure that I get a response back to you.

Mikayla, you got me thinking when you asked me which Korea that I am in; so I will ask all of my readers these questions: Why are there two Koreas, North and South? What two countries made the boundary dividing this country into North and South? Which parallel is the border located on? Now it just so happens that I have been reading up on this information, so I know. If you are too curious to wait for me to talk about this, then get busy and look it up online. If you are waxing lugubrious since it is summer, then just sip your lemonade and check in each day. I will be explaining about the above in the entries that I make.

I am here in Korea with 19 other teachers. Out of the 19 at least 14 are Social Studies teachers or Geography teachers. There is one other art teacher here, a Literature teacher, and two U.S. History teachers. They are a wonderful group of people, I am honored to be able to spend the next 3 weeks with them.

Because I have had a very long day, I will not make this a long entry. I'm going to go to bed now. I really look forward to hearing from each of you. As I learn things I can share them with you!