Pusan International Film Fest 2006

Last year I missed my chance to get tickets to this world class event. I had no idea tickets would be sold out so quickly. So I waited all year for another chance to go. This year tickets sold out so quickly, a month before the show started, I thought I missed it again. But, by a stroke of luck a friend of mine was giving away some tickets to "Paris je t'aime." A french movie made up of shorts by at least a dozen different directors. Many of the directors came to the screening (none present that I recognized or heard of) and the ambassador to France also made a speech. It was an interesting experience to see all these different cultures mixing together. The movie I saw was screend at an outdoor theatre near the water. I loved this event, and the movie was pretty good too.



Here are the rest of the pictures. (note+++photo galleries are now fixed)

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This is unrelated but funny. I just noticed that my picture is on the website for the New Brunswick Film Festival back in Canada. I used to be a member of the NB film co-op. See if you can find me in the picture.

Sports day at Sesan Elementary

We had a fun day of cultural events, dancing, food, and games at my school. The kids did a dance with umbrellas, and performed a Korean druming show for parents and teachers. I really have to get a video with sound of the kids doing the drum thing. It's really impressive. For now, here are some pics of the sports day.

Here are a few video clips of their umbrella dance.

Seoul

During my summer vacation I also had time to go see Seoul again. This time I got to check out more tourist stuff and wander out to some interesting night spots.

Here I am at Gyeongbokgung Fortress, the largest and most important fortress of the Joseon Dynasty. Read more about the history of the Fortress here.

The fortress has some really nice ancient looking structures and temples to see. At one time the royal family lived on these grounds.

I enjoyed some tea in a traditional tea shop.

Here is the famous "63 building".

Here is the photo gallery! <----------------------------Click that way!

Korea from space

A little busy these days, but all is well. Chusok, Korean thanksgiving, is this week. That means this country is gridlocked with traffic. But, I get a few days off, so it should give me some time to relax and put some more pictures up here soon.

Until then, here is something cool. Google Map let's you see some pretty good detailed maps of Korea. Here is a view of Busan, Korea from space. You can zoom in and out to look around the city.
Here is a shot of my apartment. To find it, start at the bottom leftcorner of the huge square parking lot. Go left one block. Go down, there is a row of 6 buildings on the left side of the street. Mine is the 3rd from the top, a little bit lighter color then the other ones.
Here is my school. It's the building with the green and orange roof. If you zoom out you can really see how far out of the city my school is. But, it only takes a about 20 minutes to get there by bus since I live on the edge of town.
Here is all of Korea. At the bottom you can see an island. That's Jeju-do where I went on vacation a few weeks ago. You can really tell it's a volcano when you see it from space.

Anyway, please post here to show me your locations as seen from space.