Halloween

So, one year ago today (well, yesterday for me… today for you) I asked Althea to marry me. I rushed to ask her before the 31st so it wouldn’t be on Halloween. And I was anxious to show her the ring that I picked. Hard to believe that it was only a [...]

I Should Be Doing Report Cards

But I’m not.
On Friday night, the inevitable happened and we accidentally locked ourselves out of the bedroom. Each door in our apartment has a lock. The apartment also came with about 27 keys… none of which seemed to work with the lock to the bedroom door. Anyway, one of us (me probably) [...]

Neato

I found the site of an artist who employs an interesting medium: a single white sheet of letter-sized paper. Check it out.

Spiders and the Splits

These things are all over the wooded areas of Korea. I thought I was over being afraid of spiders but the thought of walking into the web of this guy makes me shudder.
We tried to quit Tae Kwon Do on Wednesday but the Grandmaster wouldn’t let us. He told us, with broken English [...]

Gyeongbokgung Palace

This is the palace we visited back on Thursday.
On Sunday, Thea and I both had our hair cut.  Thea looks like a movie star… I look like stupid.  Upon seeing my recently shorn tresses, my students exclaimed, “Oh Teacher.  Very ugly.”  Fortunately, a group of teenage boys waiting at a bus stop near our apartment [...]

The Feces is Intact

Just an excerpt from a student essay. Thea asked her 14-year-old students to write about something interesting that has happened to them:
“This story is in my middle school. My school is four floors building. My school have eight bathrooms. The first bathroom is in the one floor. The men first [...]

Earlier This Week…

On the first day of our holiday I thought we could go hiking up the mountain.  We chose a path that we passed every day on the way to work that looked enticing.  Turned out to be lame.  So… change of plans.  Enjoy my little photo essay.

Apparently every day is Christmas here in Korea.
Incidentally, I [...]

Off to the Zoo

Some pictures for you. I’ve been taking lots.

The zoo was pretty good, especially considering it only cost about $6 for the two of us to get in. However, I found it quite irritating that people kept feeding the animals various junk foods. Like giving Reese’s Pieces to their small children to feed [...]

More pictures

This is the street where we work. It’s simultaneously the English School Street and the food district. We have to be careful not to get hit by motorcycles that detour on the sidewalks.