Oregon Zoo VS Korean Zoo (Seoul Zoo)

     By Erik (JunSug Park), Daniel (ByungYoon Heo)

      As you know, zoos can be very interesting and exciting places. It is home to countless number of animals, including giraffes, elephants, and butterflies. Portland has a zoo called the Oregon Zoo. It boasts hundreds of species and many special featured programs, such as Zoolala, which is

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Arts and Craft

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Intro

     Arts  and Crafts  are common all around the world, and are very important for a happy life. Especially, Portland is famous for many  kinds  of  arts, However, there are differences  every where .   By that point, arts  and

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Neighborhood - NE Mississippi

2010.7.19

We arrived at Portland airport. We’re here to find a criminal escaped from Korea. We know that the criminal stays in NE Mississippi. We went to bus stop to get there but we’re not sure how to go there. Fortunately, at the bus stop, we met a kind lady, Meera, and she promised to help

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Community Center: Multnomah Village vs. Ulsan Kate, James, Jim

Community Center: Multnomah Village vs. Ulsan
I. Multnomah Arts Center
Multnomah Village is a small and very beautiful town to visit. We went to Multnomah Arts Center. Multnomah Arts Center is place where you can register for many art, music, dance, and acting class. It used to be Multnomah School, but after the school closed up there

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Neighborhood Exploration

Neighborhood Exploration Activity

Group B

Destination : NE Broadway/ Irvington

Students : Hyolim Jeong, DukJin Bae, JunSug Park

How we get to out destination ‘NE Broadway/Irvington’?

 We first walked to SW 6th&Mill.  After  about 5 minutes waiting, we took a bus #8-Jackson Park/NE 15th towards Middlefield Rd to Jubitz and we got off at NE 15th&Broadway. It took just 20

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Cultural Anthropology to Hillsdale

  

    On July 19th, Ho seung, Hyung seok, Sung gee and Ryan, PSU guide student had neighbor exploring program. We had a short trip to the Hillsdale, which was near from Portland downtown.  Hillsdale is suburb area; in daytime, there are not many people on the streets. Regardless of hard situation, we focused on exploring public place

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Neighborhood Exploring to Lake Oswego

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Cultural anthropology to Lake Oswego

     Lake Oswego is a region that is known for rich village. First, to go to Lake Oswego, we took the bus 35, and took off the bus at bus stop in front of Safeway.

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Cultural Anthropological Study About Our Neighborhood - Hawthorne

Cultural Anthropological Study About Our Neighborhood – Hawthorne

Intro

For neighborhood exploring, our group went to Hawthorne, Portland.

It was famous as shopping district which has a lot of shops that are not expensive. The streets were full of young and active people.

We explored around and especially we focused on the shops of Hawthorne. There were a lot

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Go Everywhere with Transportation~

Hello~ I will introduce the ‘Public transportation’ in Portland, Oregon. As you can see on the street, there are MAX, StreetCar and Bus.

First, I will explain Max. It just looks like subway in Korea. But, the difference is that MAX goes on the ground, while subway usually goes under the ground. In

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Once Upon A Time in Oregon

 Once upon a time, there were a lot of volcanic eruption in this area. That eruptions made the almost mountains in Oregon, such as Mt.Hood - as you know, it is a sleeping volcano – and Mt.Saint Helen. Then there came the Ice age, which made the rivers of Oregon.

 Many native american tribes lived in this area though the

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Aesthetic!

1. Intro

As both sister cities of Portland and Ulsan are beautiful themselves, it seems that flourishing of the art is natural phenomenon there. In fact, Portland and Ulsan allow many chances for the citizens to enjoy aesthetic life in the city. There are many institutions like art galleries and art centers in both cities. There also are many artists who get

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Walking Down the Streets of PSU-Jacob

One of the factors that makes people who visit the place excited is a nice scene of surroundings. If you are imagining the typical images of USA, PSU (Portland State University) is just what you expected. What makes PSU  look  just like United States?

1. Streets

Streets around PSU are just the typical of US.

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Simply Seattle! – by DongHwan

I and my host family went to Seattle like a short trip on July 19th, Saturday and spent the day their and slept at John’s cousin’s house and came back at July 20th, Sunday. We went to see the MLB (Seattle Mariners VS Cleveland Indians) which was on Sunday so we left at about 10a.m.

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Saturday Market by HyeMin Lee

Last sunday, I, SunHye, Noel, Noel’s friend Jennifer and my host mother went to Saturday Market. Although it was too hot, many people came to the Market. I had never seen the homeless. However, I could see homeless in the market. It was somewhat novel to me. I think America would be very very developing

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Cannon!~.~ with Langfus Family~(I’m Kim, ChanJu)

In Sunday, I went to Cannon beach with my host family and Josh’s girl friend.

It took 3 hours for going to beach, over the mountain. Thus, I slept while going cannon.

When got off in beach town, I feel cold. Though it is summer, it was very cold. With cold, we went to beach. First,

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Have you ever been to garage sale? by Hanna

  Last Saturday, we went to garage sale. In Korea, there is no garage sale. Maybe there could be but I’ve never seen it. My host mom Kari said, in USA, second hand stuff is more popular than Korea. So in downtown we can some secondhand shops.

 The weather was so hot, so at that time many

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Sliver Falls State Park by Youngju

 Last Sunday, I and my host father Mitch went to the Silver Falls State Park. This area is famous for its wonderful 10 falls, scenic walks in the shade of trees and nice stream. I was really surprised at the fact that 10 falls is in same area.

 When we get there, I can see a

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Choose one! beer or soccer? – PGE Park by JaeHyeon

I went to the PGE park with A-Ram and Josh(My host Grandson). PGE park was built to play baseball. However soccer match are often held in the place. I went to there to see the soccer match between Portland Timbers and Puerto Rico.
First thing that made me surprised was food stores in the stadium. There

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Multnomah Waterfall by SeRom Yun

I went to Multnomah waterfall on Sunday with my host family. It was very beautiful water fall in the wood. There was bridge but we didn’t went there because we was so tired. We went Hood river before waterfall so it makes us tired.

In the waterfall, there was a log fell from the upside

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Seaside Beach by SeungHun, Kim

Last Saturday, I went to seaside coast with my host family, Sandy and Shelly(Sol-i and Ji-Min) Because they live in Beckie’s grandmother’s house.(the mother of Beckie’s mother) Beckie’s another grandmother(the mother of Beckie’s father) lives near the seaside coast. Therefore we went grandmother’s house first. She was so kind. In addition, There was Beckie’s father, Steve.

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SEASIDE Touring * by Sol i Kim

  Last Saturday, I went to seaside with Ji Min, Seung Hun, Beckie ( I introduced her to you guys at last post), and her husband Triston. Actually, we went to NIKE outlet before going to the beach, and we bought many clothes. It was a lot of fun !

  While driving in Beckie’s car,

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Nordstrom Rack – A Treasure Ship in The Deep Ocean – by DongHwan

My friends and I went to the downtown for shopping and sightseeing on Monday. We went through the Pioneer Square and finally arrived at Nordstrom Rack. There was a real Nordstrom mall which wasn’t much far, but we went to the Nordstrom Rack to buy things cheap. Nordstrom Rack sells clothes, shoes, bags that weren’t

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Movie Theater~~^^(the only visited place)

Have you ever been to the movie theater in America? Maybe, you don’t want to go there because there is no Korean subtitles!!
At last Friday, July 11, I went to the American movie theater. When I heard that I had to go there, I was little afraid how I can understand the movie without Korean

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Family Fun Center! – by YeonJu Lee

 Last Sunday, I went to the Family Fun Center with my host family and JiYoon. My host mother Naomi recommended this site and we agree with her. In this center, there are so many game machines and so many people who play the game. At first, I wanted to play ‘miniature golf’, but Naomi

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Pittock Mansion / by DaeKwang KIM

We’ve been to Pittock mansion last Friday (07/11/08).

The Pittock Mansion was home to Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. After they lived, other family bought it for private. However,  the City of Portland bought it again 1964 for $225,000. So it has been a community landmark ever since. It was interesting that

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