Saturday, March 27, 2010

Unit 4: Now, show us YOUR world!

I think of Halifax, Canada as my hometown. It's a quiet, clean city with low population, very little traffic, and low air pollution. I wasn't born there, but it's the place that feels most like 'home' to me. In Halifax, I lived in a traditional "row house" that was over 100 years old. My neighborhood in Halifax is called the "North End" because it's in the northern part of the city. My house was across from a large park. My neighborhood was also next to the ocean. Here's a picture, taken as a screen shot from Google Earth's "street view". My house is the blue one.



Here's where that house is on the map. You can see that my neighborhood is next to the Atlantic Ocean!



When I moved to Korea, my own idea of what was 'local' changed. I really enjoy living in Shinchang (really!). The transportation is quite convenient - so I can live in the countryside, but still get to Seoul quickly and cheaply. A lot of my neighbors are very friendly, too.


Pretty flowers on the Kyunghee Apt. hill in May!


Surprise! It's a campus rainbow!

This week, we talked a little bit about neighborhoods, and we talked about different conditions in different cities around the world. Now, please share a little about what life is like in your hometown. Use the expressions we practiced in class this week.

You may also post a link to a picture that you think represents your hometown well. Let's see where you're from!

Please make your post at least 75 words.

5 comments:

  1. 20093454 허광범March 28, 2010 at 7:37 PM

    I live in ilsan. Ilsan is very clean city. Air is fresh and no factory in here. Ilsan also have lakepark! But not good at transportation. We have only bus, taxi and subway. Population is low. So very quiet city.

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  2. 20093442 이현명March 28, 2010 at 8:08 PM

    i from live in Anyang, let's me introduce Anyang. Anyang city boasts its transportation network that runs in all directions such as two routes of subway. Anyang symbol is The flower of the city:Forsythia, The tree of the city:The Gingko tree, The bird of the city:Eagle.

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  3. Park Choong Bae 20093441March 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM

    I live in bang-bae dong, seo-cho gu, Seoul so called Kang nam.. my hometown is most expensive house price in Korea. so my hometown has very very convinient transportation system and very very convinient for live. also my hometown is beautiful city. My hometown has Han-river park, Central city, Mont-mar-tre park and so on... but there is so many people.. so traffic is very often, and I am very angry when i`m in traffic. this is my hometown :)

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  4. 20093453 김선태March 30, 2010 at 3:48 AM

    I live in seoul. gangdonggu, shunhwadong. this plce is very busy place. trrafic is very hard. environment is very dirty. but seoul have many company. technical is very developement.

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  5. 20093447 문양현March 30, 2010 at 3:59 AM

    I live in ilsan, paju. paju is good at transportation. bus, taxi and subway. also paju have 자유로 road. paju is low level pollution. population is high. paju has many building so population is incresing. paju is good place to l ive i think.

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