The day rainy season began (29 June 2009), in the early morning when we arrived in Seoul Incheon International Airport by Air France from Paris. Perhaps, one could say we brought the rain, thunderstorm or whatelse from Europe!! The photograph shows the student team having coffee at London Heathrow Airport before departure to Paris on 28th June.
Today is a heated day (from British standards and not by any means from East Asian regularities). Though now when I write this to the Blog, cool breeze comes through the temple window of a ground floor room in Jeong Hye Sa temple of Venerable Dr. Chongdok Sunim who has kindly agreed to support me by providing temple accommodation. I already got the beauty (or 'worth' in capitalist terms!) of staying in a temple when I had a communal meal in a circular table with four monks. This is also a modern temple built in 1998 in Ilsan area of Seoul. Hope to bring a lot of news on this temple very soon again perhaps with pictures (though sadly I decided deliberately to give some rest to my Canon Powershot G7 which is inevitably essential for this Blog posting).
The students who came with me are now with host families (perhaps in sleep now recovering from long jet ride via Paris); Though not sure 100%, perhaps, their first day in life, with long lasting memories, living for a month in a non-British Asian family. Rather than putting forwarding my ideosyncratic predictions, let us wait what they come up it in the coming weeks. To all those who supported us this year, thanks and greetings from Seoul from one without a 'soul.'
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