Life in Korea

Life in Korea

Falling apart I am!!!

The Korean school year is almost half over now. It’s hard to believe. It turns out I will be teaching some courses this summer, thankfully only for a week. The suck of it is that I’ll be teaching the courses ‘as I please…’ which means I’ll have to come up with a small curriculum and ...

Night and Day – Saying Thanks

The difference in my second and third years in Korea are like night and day. After last year, I wasn’t sure if coming back again would be a good decision. But today I am two months into my new working contract. So far switching to public school has been really great. ...

Free Time Resolutions

It’s been a while since I’ve made regular blogs, but once again here I am typing away late at night.  With the blog connected to facebook I could type more often but it would seem I’ve settled into a lazy rut.  I’ve recently completed 2 years in Korea… Here’s where things are right now. I’ve been ...

The Three Month in the Making Blog Entry…

Thank goodness the weekend is here… fortunately today is rainy so I don’t feel too bad about being at my hagwon doing audio files. I’m nearing the end of my time at this place and I’m currently working on trying to get into a couple of university positions. That was back in mid June.  Here ...

Weekend Update

The joys of the long weekend. I now officially own a motorcycle. I put 50km on it today driving around the city with K. I also took the chance to visit the University where I’ve applied to work. The campus looks really nice, it’s close to a national park and ...

Seolnar

It’s a new lunar year. For the second year in a row I went to Gyeongju, but this time there was a larger group of people. We stayed at Hanjin Hostel, which I can honestly not recommend to anyone during the winter. Our room was cheap but not heated and the shower situation was abismal, ...