Trip to Korea

[Dylan the Canadian]

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

You wear a lot of late 60’s and early 70’s band’s concert shirts.

Yes I do… gotta wear my heart on my sleeve… or my chest rather. I do own other ones though… such as my Detroit Red Wings shirts. But you are a Canucks fan aren’t you?

Yeah I like the Canucks.

[LHoffman]

@Dylan:

Yeah I like the Canucks.

I was rooting for them for a while in the playoffs… unfortunately they got taken down a notch. But if you are going to get beat, it might as well be by the to-be champions. No shame in that.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

I lay flowers at the foot of the US section of graves. No US war dead are buried at the cemetary; those that are buried there had made it their wish to be buried there after their deaths. This still occurs. Many are accompanied by their wives.

High rise apartments in Busan. I cannot stress enough how many high-rise apartment buildings there are in S. Korea. They do not end. There are thousands. 50+ million people have to live somewhere… and extreme few live in what Westerners would call houses. The economy there is ever increasing and construction on new buildings is taking place all of the time. But the high-rise apartment buildings are endless. It was quite a spectacle by itself.

Back in Seoul… a bike ride for peace. The official name of the program was Peace Camp for Youth 2010… Grandchildren of Korean War vets from all the nations who fought with the UN were invited, so it was very much an international event… like nothing I have ever experienced. The white balloons were doves which we let go into the air.

Do you want to be buried there when you die?

[LHoffman]

@calvinhobbesliker:

Do you want to be buried there when you die?

Is this a serious question Calvin?

First of all I couldn’t be buried there because I did not fight in the War.

I like Korea a lot, it is a beautiful place with wonderful people, but the United States is my country… if anywhere, I’d be buried here.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

Do you want to be buried there when you die?

Is this a serious question Calvin?

First of all I couldn’t be buried there because I did not fight in the War.

I like Korea a lot, it is a beautiful place with wonderful people, but the United States is my country… if anywhere, I’d be buried here.

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

[LHoffman]

@calvinhobbesliker:

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Oh, I see. Sorry for the confusion.

Yeah, You have to have served in the War, in some capacity, to be buried at the UN Cemetary. Therefore, I could not be buried there. It was a very nice place though. Still… Even if I had the option, I’d rather be buried in the US.

Having my body ejected into space seems kind of cool too…

[Dylan the Canadian]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

Do you want to be buried there when you die?

Is this a serious question Calvin?

First of all I couldn’t be buried there because I did not fight in the War.

I like Korea a lot, it is a beautiful place with wonderful people, but the United States is my country… if anywhere, I’d be buried here.

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Where have you been lately.

[LHoffman]

@Dylan:

@calvinhobbesliker:

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Where have you been lately.

Yeah, literally… Have you been out of the country again or something? It seems like you were not posting as much as normal.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

@calvinhobbesliker:

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Where have you been lately.

Yeah, literally… Have you been out of the country again or something? It seems like you were not posting as much as normal.

I haven’t had net acces for a while. The places in India we visit usually don’t have internet

[Dylan the Canadian]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

@calvinhobbesliker:

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Where have you been lately.

Yeah, literally… Have you been out of the country again or something? It seems like you were not posting as much as normal.

I haven’t had net acces for a while. The places in India we visit usually don’t have internet

Your in India? Make a thread called

“Trip to India” Or what the hell post on this board who cares?

[calvinhobbesliker]

@Dylan:

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

@calvinhobbesliker:

I misunderstood when you said “no US war dead are buried here.” You said those that wish to be buried here are. I didn’t realize that mean only veterans

Where have you been lately.

Yeah, literally… Have you been out of the country again or something? It seems like you were not posting as much as normal.

I haven’t had net acces for a while. The places in India we visit usually don’t have internet

Your in India? Make a thread called

“Trip to India” Or what the hell post on this board who cares?

Yeah, but in 24 hours, I’ll be on a flight to Heathrow which connects to a flight to San Fran.

I’d like to post photos, but I don’t know how. I’m not sure if we brought the tech equipment to upload photos.

[LHoffman]

@Dylan:

Your in India? Make a thread called

“Trip to India” Or what the hell post on this board who cares?

Yeah, sounds good to me. I wouldn’t care if you posted here, or make your own.

If you have a digital camera all you’d need is an accompanying USB cable to upload the pictures. At this point it might be easier to wait until you get home though.

[calvinhobbesliker]

Sure. I actually don’t have that many of India. We did tourism in Europe but India is just to visit family. The conditions are unbearable here.  The power goes out frequently, and I have to sleep in a bed with 3-4 people and sit in 5-seater cars that have 6-8 people. I never get any privacy. In addition, it’s really hot and I get a lot of mosquito bites. I wonder how the Brits survived here for over 200 years…

I spent 4 days in London, 1 in Paris. The last day in London was not used for sightseeing; just packing. On the 2nd day, we forgot to charge the camera battery, so we have no pics of the Greenwich Observatory or the Imperial War Museum. In Paris, we missed our train back to London so we had to sleep in a 2-star hotel near the train station. Here is what I saw:

1st day in London: Big Ben/Parliament(How many people know that these are connected?), Trafalgar Square(that was hard to find, and I mistook a statue of the Duke of Wellington for Nelson’s column).

2nd day: Tower of London, cruise on the Thames, Greenwich Observatory, Imperial War Museum(there, I found a German propaganda leaflet from post-Dunkirk which said, “your fleet is crippled.” I laughed at that.)

Paris: Arc de Triomphe, Louvre Museum(boring to me. I accidently told my dad it was 1 hour later than it actually was so we left early), Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower(2 of us went to the very top, the other 2 stayed on the 2nd floor. We went straight down, they stayed on the 2nd floor. This wasted an hour of time, making us miss our train). I never had to use my high-school French(except for saying ‘douze’ when the ticket lady couldn’t understand twelve); everyone spoke enough English to understand us. All around Paris there were Indian guys selling hundreds of differently-sized Eiffel Towers.

3rd day in London: Changing of the Guard, British Museum, London Eye, back to Parliament/Big Ben to take night photos.

London was a very diverse city. I saw whites, blacks, Asians, and Indians there. If you google “London world in one city,” you get a blog where 2 Londeners find citizens from 189 of the 192 UN recognized countries living in London.

[calvinhobbesliker]

I forgot to mention: being a patriotic Indian, my Dad was furious at me for buying a British flag, and even more so when I wanted to wear a tee-shirt with the British flag on it in India.

[LHoffman]

@calvinhobbesliker:

I forgot to mention: being a patriotic Indian, my Dad was furious at me for buying a British flag, and even more so when I wanted to wear a tee-shirt with the British flag on it in India.

Aw… that ain’t cool. I think the British flag is pretty cool.

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

I forgot to mention: being a patriotic Indian, my Dad was furious at me for buying a British flag, and even more so when I wanted to wear a tee-shirt with the British flag on it in India.

Aw… that ain’t cool. I think the British flag is pretty cool.

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

I am fully Indian, but I am an anglophile.

[LHoffman]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

I am fully Indian, but I am an anglophile.

Anglophile? … As in, lover of all things British?

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

I am fully Indian, but I am an anglophile.

Anglophile? … As in, lover of all things British?

I though it meant lover of Britain…

[LHoffman]

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

I am fully Indian, but I am an anglophile.

Anglophile? … As in, lover of all things British?

I though it meant lover of Britain…

Well it very well may… I had never heard the term before, so I was trying to interpret its nearest meaning.

I made friends with a lot of British kids on my trip to Korea, and one girl from India. She was very nice. Apparently she goes to school in the US though.

[calvinhobbesliker]

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

@calvinhobbesliker:

@LHoffman:

Are you part Indian… or of British lineage? Though I suppose you could be both too.

I am fully Indian, but I am an anglophile.

Anglophile? … As in, lover of all things British?

I though it meant lover of Britain…

Well it very well may… I had never heard the term before, so I was trying to interpret its nearest meaning.

I made friends with a lot of British kids on my trip to Korea, and one girl from India. She was very nice. Apparently she goes to school in the US though.

Well, it means many things. It could be lover of British culture, present and past, British history, British Empire, etc.