i'm barely on here these days

having kind of a rough time even though I have nothing to complain about and my life is pretty awesome but i'm just feeling down and a bit anti-social lately

Jack is leaving Korea within a month. His school is running into financial trouble and they had to lay him off. He's thrilled about it - he's been ready to go home for at least a month, but his contract ran until March. For me, though... he's only 10 minutes away on the subway, and the only real touch of home that I have here. All of my other ( Read more... )

Saturday, Lauren and I went to a kickboxing tournament in Seoul. Four of the guys from my gym were fighting, including Lim Chi Bin, the #1 stand-up fighter in the country. Badassery ensued.


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two stories about my students:

On Friday, I was teaching my after-school class that I have with a half-dozen 7-year-olds. It was also the birthday of one of the children who comes to the after-school program, and they were having cake and a little birthday party while my class was going on. In a room with a giant window that looks directly at the ( Read more... )

Today I had an epiphany regarding Koreans and the English language. I have met many Koreans who speak English very well, but none who sound natural. They often sound like an academic textbook or something. I never understood this - don't they study, like, day-to-day speech? The only Korean I've met who speaks English like a native is a guy at my ( Read more... )

LJ seems dead lately, as we all know. I'd abandon it for Facebook but a) i like you guys and b) i like posting stuff here I don't want to show to everyone on Facebook. IDK, I think I might do a big cut, simplify my F-List, and make it more... personal, I guess? Debating whether or not to leave my communities too, or just lurk (which is pretty much ( Read more... )

today, one of my 4-year-old students was wearing a shirt that simply said "MARIJUANA" across the back ( Read more... )

today my students were doing a worksheet about conversations, and the page had a pretty simple black-and-white picture of a couple people talking to each other ( Read more... )

thailand was FUCKING AWESOME, pics to come

what did i miss in LJ-land?

um hi

i'm going to thailand now ok

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