Having reached the end of our adventure in Russia and South Korea, we can look back fondly on this amazing study tour. The amount of memories that we have built up in only four weeks is staggering: we have travelled through two countries that are completely different from the Netherlands and each other in nearly […]
And there it was, the last day of the study tour. It was going to be a long day full of traveling. We got up early in order to have enough time for checking in to our flight. In the end, there was not much time left before boarding after we arrived at the gate. […]
Dear diary, T: My day started early at the hostel, because I had planned to go windsurfing together with Anton, Rick and Dirk. Unfortunately no other participants that were members from our windsurf association wanted to join us for windsurfing in Jeju 🙁 After showering and a short break for breakfast we went to find […]
Today we had one of the coolest excursions of our trip: An excursion to the Jeju thermal power plant. This relatively small power plant is operated by Komipo (Korea Midland Power Company) and is one of two power plants on Jeju island. The power plant houses several units: Two 40MW internal combustion units, a 55MW […]
This morning we woke up in the new hostel. We had some fried eggs on bread with orange juice for breakfast. Then we got in the bus for a tour around the beautiful places on the island. The guide on our bus told us what we were going to see, together with some info about […]
After the presentation of the Teach North Korea Refugees a part of the group decided to visit the meerkats café and to join an excursion to the Dutch embassy in Korea in our last free afternoon in Seoul. After we entered the café we were stunned with the cuteness of meerkats, baby kangaroos and cats. […]
Today we took the metro to hear stories from North Korean Refugees which were helped by the organisation Teach North Korean Refugees. This organisation helps North Korean defectors adjust to their new lives in South Korea, and helps them learn English and public speaking. We arrived at the location where the presentations started at 10 […]
The first of August started early, but luckily not as early as the temple stay. Some had bought instant noodles breakfast yesterday as breakfast, while some others waited for the Paris Baguette shop to open around seven zero zero hour. This all was for a visit to the best guarded nature reserve of the […]
Today, it’s Monday july 31st, day 21 of our SPARK study tour. I woke up at 07:15h in the hostel in Seoul. The dresscode was “casual, but representative”, so I put on jean shorts and a T-shirt. After getting ready, Sebastiaan, Stefan and I went to the “French bakery” around the corner to get some […]
We were woken up at 4 o’clock in the morning, the same time when some of us had gotten back from the pub 24 hours earlier. This time however, it was not by noisy roommates or a multitude of alarms but by the abbot making his morning round, hitting his Mokta, a wooden drum-like instrument […]