2010년 6월 30일 수요일

Day 13 계획된 수영 경로

화순해수욕장에서 하모해수욕장, 12 kilometers.

( 총 수영 거리 : 137 kilometers )

열세번째 날 : 8월 12일(목), 11:15 a.m -  5:29 p.m.

Day 12 계획된 수영 경로


중문해수욕장에서 화순해수욕장까지, 10 kilometers.

( 총 수영거리 : 125 kilometers )

열두번째 날 : 8월 11일(수), 10:28 a.m. - 4:46 p.m.

Day 11 계획된 수영 경로


강정에서 중문 해수욕장까지, 6 kilometers.

(여기까지 총 수영거리 : 115 kilometers )

열한번째 날 : 8월 10일(화) ,

수영시간 : 9:30 a.m. -  3:50 p.m.

Win one for the environment

Living in Korea the past 2 years, my belief in thinking optimism is just false hope cements itself firmer in my mind every day. It's rare I can believe what people tell me anymore. I just believe after the deed has been done and a person talks about it, rather than believing a person will do something before it's done, just a dream.




I was sitting at lunch one seat opposite of the principal at Sehwa High School a few weeks ago, and I had to ask who all these blue-collar dressed, middle-aged people were joining us at the lunch tables. I had no idea, a strange site. One of the females sat with her tray directly in front of me.



I finally asked, and they were about 25 or so parents who were planting 50 trees around the grounds. I was elated. Even better, the mother opposite started talking in English to me and said she and a few others had seen me at Samyang Beach a few days earlier. These are honest, global citizens, able to act and talk freely. With all the other nonsense I have to put up with, events like this are fulfilling enough to keep me on Jeju (and hopefully Sehwa High School) for my last and final year in South Korea.



-Steve

2010년 6월 23일 수요일

Day 10 계획된 수영 경로


서귀포항에서 강정, 10 kilometers.


( 여기까지 총 수영거리 : 109 kilometers )

열번째 날 : 8월 9일(월), 8:42 a.m., and 3:04 p.m.,

Day 9 계획된 수영 경로


위미리에서 서귀포항,  12 kilometers.


( 여기까지 총 수영 거리 : 99 kilometers  )

아홉번째 날 : 8월 8일(일),  2:16 p.m.

Day 8 계획된 수영 경로


토산리에서 위미리, 14 kilometers.


( 여기까지 총 수영거리 87 kilometers )

여덟째 날 :  8월 7일(토)  1:22 to 8:19 p.m.