I've told you about my student named Vincent before: the reigning Scattegories champ and all around crazy human being.  He's reached all new levels of insanity.  He has taken to referring to himself exclusively as Vincent Van Gogh.  I also gave him my email address recently because I agreed to help him find an English song.  He had heard the song ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while, but nothing much new is happening.  I'll be back in the States at some point in October, not sure when yet.  I'll be spending a lot of time in Kansas City visiting people, I'm sure.  I'm also considering a tour of the East Coast, because I have a lot of friends in DC/NYC/Pennsylvania.  Haven't figured out the logistics ( Read more... )

If I weren't tied to this school with my visa, I might have quit my job today.  The complaints I have been getting are so ridiculous.

At my school, there is one teacher who is in charge of ordering new books for each class.  I write my lesson plans a month ahead of time, then give him a piece of paper that says what books I need and when I need them ( Read more... )

Despite the fact that there is a huge push to learn English in Korea, very few people actually seem to have any workable knowledge of English.  Everywhere you go, there is bad English on signs.  Here's one of my favorites (although let's face it, the fact that it is called Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! school is just as funny as the bad English):


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I am so ANGRY right now.  My boss is so fucking ridiculous it's unreal.

Over the weekend, I brought home a CD from work that went with the magazine I teach (TIME for Kids).  This was because the magazine comes with this weird software CD that's mostly in Korean, so I wanted to play with it and figure it out before I tried explaining it to the kids ( Read more... )

So I'm 23 years old now, and I'm not dead yet.  Sweet.

My birthday was so uneventful, but I'm strangely okay with it.  Nobody at work on Friday remembered my birthday.  I didn't really expect them to, but I think there was a little part of me that sort of hoped they would bust out a cake at the end of the day or something.  But they didn't.  Oh well ( Read more... )

My vacation is officially over, and I feel happier and healthier than I have in a long time.

I didn't do anything special, just went up to Seoul. I wasn't even planning on spending the whole five days there, but it sort of worked out that way.  I really didn't even have specific plans; I didn't even know where I was sleeping.

Saturday night I met up ( Read more... )

I'm no doctor, but I think I have heat exhaustion due to work.  Buildings in Korea generally do not have central air, which is a bit silly given how freaking hot it is here, but generally most places have the little individual air conditioner units.  At work, each of the classrooms has its own unit, yet the teacher's room does NOT.  As a result, ( Read more... )

This has been a totally shit week, seasoned only with a few moments of un-shit.  (What is the opposite of shit?)

Shit, Part I
I don't know how many of you have followed the exboyfriend fiasco, but some of you might remember that I mentioned him as being awesome and having a motorcycle before he became exified.  Anyway, things were good for us (so I ( Read more... )

In general, I kind of like Korean hip-hop.  When it's good, it's really good.

But when it's bad, it's bad.  Really bad.  Embarrassingly bad.  The worst thing I've ever seen bad.

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This is so, so, so bad.  Have I mentioned it's bad?