환영합니다!
There are many way to tell a story. And as such there are many ways that I can talk about my life here in an attempt to give you a glimpse into what living in Asia is actually like. But no matter how much I describe my job, my students, and the feeling I get…
Its name is Psychiatrist game. I genuinely don’t remember if I thought of this activity on my own, or if I read about it online somewhere. Either way I’m sure that it already exists and I’m even more certain that once enough time has passed I will be using it again with a different name…
I started collecting the funny little phrases that I've heard thought my first few weeks at school. And while I'm sure there are many more to come, here are just a few things my students have said to me. "Teacher, is that your real face?" "Yes." "Ohhhh natural natural." "Teacher real eyes?" "Teacher first love?"…
Newton's third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. And it occurred to me tonight, as I sit here at 10:00pm utterly exhausted from a long Monday with an hour or two of lesson planning still ahead of me, that the same principle applies to teaching.…
Day five was another amazing day! I took the bus and subway to Sinsa station to meet up with a friend in Garosugil which is a fancy area of Seoul with lots of beautiful restaurants and cafe's. I told her that I'd been wanting to try Mandu which is Korean style dumplings so…
For anyone who is considering, or will soon be beginning, the process of applying to EPIK (English Program in Korea) I hope that this can be useful in some way. For everyone else, I'm sorry this is pretty much completely irrelevant. More interesting content to follow as I move out of the country in less…
After an incredible day in Florence, about which you can read here, we headed off to Rome. Rome itself was, of course, historically mind-blowing. Coming from the US where our history is only a short 200 years, something like the Colosseum is almost hard to understand. But it wasn't the Colosseum or the aqueducts that did it…
Hours and Miles 