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Student evaluations are due once again. It feels much too soon. However, it's not work that's keeping me away from livejournal so much as spending time out enjoying my new home. One of my university friends who is now back in Korea jokes about how I generally do more on my weekends than she manages all week. In truth, I'm not quite that active ( Read more... )

I made one of my students cry in class last Thursday. However, in no way was this a deliberate action on my part. Honest ( Read more... )

Today marks one full month since my arrival in Korea ( Read more... )

While at the Moscow Social Club last Thursday I met Andrey, an international student from Uzbekistan. He's returning home at the end of the month and will spend a year working in Tashkent before coming back to the United States to finish his PhD. I've received an invitation to visit him while I'm living in Asia, but the primary topic of our ( Read more... )

Friday of last week was my final day of work at the veterinary hospital. Now that I have the entire day to spend at my own leisure I've noticed that my sleep schedule has put me very close to living on 'Korean time'. I go to bed at 6:00 am and wake up at 9:00 am. Then I fall asleep again at 11:00 am and wake up some time around 4:30 pm. These ( Read more... )

I attended a 'Korea Night' hosted by my university a couple of months ago, but at the time I was too busy to upload and post photographs from the occasion. The event consisted of a traditional fan dance (부채춤), a young girl playing a gayagum solo (가야금 연주), a Korean mask dance (랄춤), taekwondo (태권도), three folktale skits (the founding myth of Ancient ( Read more... )

Upon coming home from work on Friday I noticed a note from the post office taped to my front door. A trip to the other side of town this morning yielded a short conversation with an employee and a large envelope containing my diploma. I have also inquired about two job openings; one in Masan (마산시) and the other in Changwon (창원시 ( Read more... )

After taking Maia to the airport near the end of last month I noticed she had left a drink in the back seat of my car. Upon closer examination it turned out to be a bottle of Snapple's asian pear flavoured green tea. Nothing too remarkable about that, right? However, the label states:

« Snapple Green Tea isn't like any other tea on the planet ( Read more... )

Work was so slow at the vet hospital today that my supervisor sent me a message to suggest I stay at home this afternoon. However, as my internet access has been severely limited recently, his email remained sitting in my inbox, unread, until about thirty minutes ago. Given the projects assigned to me today, the thought of remaining in bed was ( Read more... )