Anjung.

Population 30k.

It u sed to be a very small town, but then they tacked on huge plantations of soviet-style apartment buildings.

We were lucky to live on the edge of town, looking out onto a rice field.

Sarah got excited about documenting the growth of rice kernels.

Livid yellowish green, a day or two before harvest.

Yep. That's some good rice.

At the end of the rice field, looking back towards the vast oceans of ugly apartments.

Our apartment is the fourth from the left. This stream is full of frogs and cranes all summer.

Again, we are fourth from the left.

Beautiful apatuh 101, in the Neulpurun subdivision.

Kitchen.

Bedroom.

Living room.

Matt found an easy chair in the dumpster area. After it dried out, it was a perfect sit-in-the-sun location.

The view from our apartment.

The whole time we lived in Anjung, they were slowly building a high school outside our window..

Summer.

Winter.

Summer.

Between the old original village, and the huge apartment complexes, there grew a junky mishmash of houses and garden plots.

Ksan was a co-worker of Sarah's, but she has moved to Seoul to be a professor.

One of the better middle-O-town gardens.

Family Mart is originally Japanese, but Koreans don't like to hear that.

Some shelves in the Family Mart are identical to their 7-11 counterparts in the States.

Other shelves are full of mysterious Korean style convenience foods.

Local open-air market stall.

That is all garlic.

Michelle is almost six feet tall. This tower of garlic has been on sale for a while, so it's not even at full height.

A half hour's walk from our apartment, there was a hill trail that passed by a number of shrines.

This is a common shape for ancestor shrines. One or two lumps, with a curved berm surrounding it. As far as we could tell, these shrines don't point in any particular direction.

Here's a one-bump shrine.

The trail eventually leads behind a Buddhist temple.

This Buddha is probably 30 feet high.

Main temple building.

More temple.

This kind of obelisk I have never seen outside of Korea.

Temple courtyard.

Big Buddha.

This was Sarah's first homeroom class at GIFLE.

Lisa, Suzy, Sarah, sporting their traditional Hambok.

Lisa and Sarah are making the Photo Op Heart, while Suzy is nailing the mandatory Photo Op V Sign.

Keith Hackett, international man about town, and co-worker at GIFLE.

Sarah did a couple workshops for the province, during the orientation for new native-English speaker teachers.

Sarah is wearing her airline stewardess dress.