Heading off to Taiwan
Bridge Players at Taipei Airport, Taiwan.
Can you believe that Carmel Murphy, Bridge Class tutor gave her pupils home work while on holidays?
Left to right: Mary Kyne, Mary Howley, Kathleen Dunne and Eileen Mulkerins.
Left to right: Mary Kyne, Mary Howley, Kathleen Dunne and Eileen Mulkerins.
Teachers on the Move - South Korea
I was always fascinated as a child when I
received my Christmas presents to invariably see stamped on the bottom of the
toy “ Made in Korea”, “Made in Taiwan”.
I vowed that one day I would go and see these two industrious nations. I
visited South Korea in July with my teacher friends. Korea has 50 million
people and is about the size of Britain. Seoul its capital has eleven million.
Arriving from Seoul airport by road some of the
first sights to greet you are its high mountains and residential tower blocks
beside the Hangang River. Depending on when they were erected, the buildings
have 5 floors, 15 floors and more recent apartments have 30 floors. The names
of the corporation that built them – Hansin, Hyundai, Samsung etc are painted
in huge letters on their external walls. Residential areas are spread
throughout the capital but the business district is concentrated in the center
of Seoul where office buildings up to 120 floors tower over former Royal
Palaces. Some of these buildings display audacious architecture, which offsets
the monotony of the apartment complexes. Underneath this complex of buildings
there is a huge shopping mall.
I was amazed to see huge colourful bill boards,
flashing neon lights and huge advertisements advertising the newest modern
conveniences adorn so many buildings, people dressed in smart fashionable
business suits galloping along at break neck speed towards some unseen
destinations along tree lined avenues to the cacophony of thousands of cicadas
(grasshopper like creatures) in the upper branches.
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