The beginning of April is for sure my favorite time of year in Busan. It’s still too early for mosquitoes. The weather is just perfect, that precious time when houses and schools require neither heating nor air conditioning, and all that’s required to keep the room at a nice temperature is to leave a window open. But most of all it’s the cherry ( Read more... )

Our offer on the apartment was accepted ( Read more... )

We’re a month into the Spring term. The number of foreign teachers had risen from six to seven, and the number of lessons I teach had dropped from six every day to six, five or even four depending on the day, though I had picked up the ‘Special’ class that meant I now had one later 9:05PM finish a week. For once I was on top of my work, and the ( Read more... )

Carnival Row - There was a time, really not too long ago, when there was a marked difference in what you expected from a movie or a TV show. Movies were the ones with the budget to pull of the truly impressive special effects and action sequences. TV shows had to scale back their ambitions a bit ( Read more... )

If I finish a lesson early and have seriously ran out of other ideas, I resort to playing hangman with my students. I have been trying to sneak in Alan Partridge quotes, as demonstrated below.


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I’m very hard to buy gifts for. This is because I tell people, completely sincerely, that there’s nothing I can think of that they could buy for me. When my wife first suggested she book us one night at a plush hotel in Busan my initial reaction was “how much would it cost ( Read more... )

Explicit descriptions of vomit and diarrhea coming up. You have been warned ( Read more... )

This is what my phone told me the weather was like at 8am this morning.


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In the summer of 2017 I worked night shifts at Amazon warehouse for three months. In November 2022 I fulfilled a dream by taking a holiday in the Amazon jungle. I would rate the rainforest higher than the workplace, and now it’s time to rate the TV series on Amazon Prime, which I signed up for towards the end of last year ( Read more... )

Saturday was my nephews Taekwondo class graduation ceremony, so the family (me, my wife, my niece and mother in law) went to watch. He was the only student who chopped his way through ten slates at once ( Read more... )