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Being the single non-Korean person in an entirely homogenous workplace is quite a unique experience. In some ways I feel like I benefit greatly from it, and in other ways it's quite difficult. So today I'd like to talk about the relationship between the Guest English Teacher/Native English Teacher/Foreign Teacher however you like to call…
Story Time #1: The Time I Embarrassed Myself In Front of a Student In an effort to diversify my posts on here, today I come to you with a story. This is the story of how I embarrassed myself in front of two students at the bus stop. It was last Tuesday, Korean Independence Day,…
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This has felt like the longest month I've had in my time here. Because I haven't had to teach any regular classes this entire month, the days have been very slowly, but happily, and peacefully passing by. It's incredible how the constant stress and tension of the regular semester schedule makes the weeks fly by.…
For better or for worse, this is something that gets a lot of attention when it comes to teaching with EPIK. Most people hate it, and to be fair I do too on the grounds that it is completely arbitrary and inefficient. Why do I have to be at school when English Camp is finished,…
Arab Street and Haji Lane After we left Chinatown it was off to Arab Street. The first sight we were greeted by was the Masjid Sultan a beautiful Mosque framed by the palm trees on the street around it. We walked around…
Whenever I start to work on these posts the first thing I do is always to go through the photos and let them kind of decide the direction the blog post will take. But going through these photos I feel like they almost just speak for themselves. These have quickly become some of my favorite…
(Before we begin this topic I'd like to put a HUGE disclaimer here to say that this is by no means the way that you SHOULD study Korean or any language for that matter. This is simply what I am doing.) How I Study Korean I started studying Korean in October of 2015 so…
Orchard Road and The National Gallery After we had taken in our fill of city views (you can see those photos here) we were off in the direction of Orchard Road. But first it was time for lunch. We stopped at another food court inside a nice mall and ate Vietnamese Pho then got…
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(I have so many pictures from this trip that instead of doing a post for each day I was there, I'm going to do one for each place we visited. Because otherwise these posts will get way to long and photo heavy.) Local Breakfast and The Pinnacle at Duxton I woke up on…
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After we left the National Gallery we headed over to the bay area to catch two shows. The first one was a water show in front of the Mariana Bay Sands and the second was a light show at The Gardens by the Bay. As we were slowly making our…
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Hours and Miles 