Japan

Here are the dates
August 22 - August 27
my vacation, after one month of working as a teacher for YesYoungdo
so my first day of vacation consisted of me lugging a suitcase from suwon to migeum to help emiel move. and for those of you wondering what that is like: take a large suite case, and take a subway with about 40 people in car about 10 minutes then take a bus from London to waterloo, and then walk about 10 minutes through rush hour traffic in Toronto. That's what I did late Tuesday night. I helped emiel pack and had a good night sleep, we woke up early the next day to do the same thing, but through Korean rush hour, which is insane, but this time we had two large suit cases, and two backpacks, full and heavy. an adventure I would like to forget, but at the end it was worth it. emiel moved successfully from one end of Seoul to the other.

so know our vacation begins. we used three forms of transportation. KTX bullet train, hydrofoil - boat and of course a bus. great times. we made it to Japan in about 7 hours total, we did spend a night in Busan, which was nice we visited the beach and a closed surf shop. we took a few pictures but nothing to special, I just tried to figure out how to use my new camera. anyway we found the beach and a nice little local restraunt to eat at. we thought we were being dragged down a dark alley way, which we were, but to our surprise it was a great little place.
to sleep, 5 of us crambed into a hotel room and slept well for about 30 each.
so up in the morning emiel and I left early to catch the hydrofoil first thing, we met a very friendly American girl who spoke with a very American accent, the brunt of a few jokes after she left our presence later the next day. but we made it to the Korean consulate in Fukuoka, Japan and had a good trip despite being separated from the rest of our group for the first part of the day.
from there we ventured further in Fukuoka and found a nice hotel for a reasonable price, about 41 each, again we crambed into one room. so that night we found hookerville Fukuoka by pure accident so we stopped at a liquor store bought some tequila and made our own bar on a small bridge close to our hotel and chatted the night away.
the next day we found our way to the beach in Mitoma, it was a beautiful beach with no one on it. emiel and I spent most of the day trying to buy surf boards while the girls spent there time enjoying the heat and the water, but after a few hours of debating we realized the boards were to small for us and moved on and enjoyed the beach a little more. I have an amazing sunset pic.
so that night we had another enjoyable time and debated if we should hit up another beach or go to Hiroshima, being young and tired, we chose the beach in Nagasaki. so three hours on a bus we are in Nagasaki. our hotel was traditional Japanese style, amazing experience. we went to the island Io. it was nice and quiet exactly what I wanted to do. we ended up at a nice beach on the pacific and swam and enjoyed this quiet little nook in the south end of Japan.
so over all, we basically headed back to Korea over the next day. so yes I spent four days in Japan, no Tokyo, Hiroshima or did I eat sushi, I did have sake, and it was good, made me a little hyper. but it was a good trip for all of us. good time, no souvenirs because I didn't have a million dollars, Japan = money.

enjoy the pics.