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Jordan2210
Joined: 01 Feb 2006
Location: Uijongbu, South Korea
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 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: Summer Vacation |
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| Hey, can anyone tell me when the Korean school's summer vacation is? I'm looking for as exact of an anwer as possible. Thanks anyone that answers. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| it will vary from one school to the next but should be roughly 5 weeks from the last week of July to end of August |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I was told it will probably start July 17th! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| If you're working at a public school the amount of time you actually get off could be anywhere from one to six weeks, and if it's only one or two weeks you may have no idea when it will be until the last minute. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Summer vacation..its time to start planning;) Man, I love vacations. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| If you're working at a public school the amount of time you actually get off could be anywhere from one to six weeks, and if it's only one or two weeks you may have no idea when it will be until the last minute. |
Yes, your principal will probably give you two days notice... just enough time to make plans and book tickets for that two-week trip to Thailand and Cambodia.  |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| I am wondering if it is worth going to Cambodia in the summer. Does it rain a lot in Cambodia in August? |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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Summer is monsoon season.
It rains so much between May and October the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers flow backwards because the delta cannot handle the shere volume of water. The Khmer barays (artificial lakes) were not built for irrigation purposes, but for flood control. The Khmer Rouge were mistaken when they thought otherwise and decided to rebuild the glory of Angkor Wat temple 'complex' baised on a rice-growing economy (and consequently irrigation).
If you go, go in winter or spring; and heed the signs reading - Caution Land Mines. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| cruisemonkey wrote: |
Summer is monsoon season.
It rains so much between May and October the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers flow backwards because the delta cannot handle the shere volume of water. The Khmer barays (artificial lakes) were not built for irrigation purposes, but for flood control. The Khmer Rouge were mistaken when they thought otherwise and decided to rebuild the glory of Angkor Wat temple 'complex' baised on a rice-growing economy (and consequently irrigation).
If you go, go in winter or spring; and heed the signs reading - Caution Land Mines. |
Evidently you are familiar with the place, but a small correction: The Khmer Rouge played little or no part in the excavation of Angkor Wat; it was a team of French archaeologists who uncovered those magnificent ruins. Therein lies a tale, as they say; an early exercise in bad ecology. The place outgrew its capacity to sustain itself, and was abandoned (not unlike Easter Island). The locals lost the recipe, and are now reduced to selling tours around the place. Ironically, the twelve-year-old kids who sell the books and souvenirs there speak better English than the university students here. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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I did not say the Khmer Rouge played any part in the excavations in the Siem Reap (Ankor Wat) area... but that Pol Pot and his 'gang' - the Khmer Rouge - thought the barays of the ancient Khmer civilization were built for irrigation purposes. They were not. They were built for flood control.
The Khmer Rouge were too busy executing babies and people with books to do any archaeology.  |
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