A few years ago, when I first met Tanya, I told Peter about her “Dude she is way to hot for you.” Peter agreed and we have laughed about it ever since. Today, I got a call from Peter and he said “Dude, you are not going to believe this.” I let him carry on. He said “You know my buddy from last night? Well, after you and that hot chick walked off, ( Read more... )

I went to class today and all was well. Mina survived her trip out to the ball game with me and I am none the worse for wear. My hotel classes are typical nonsense but nothing I can’t handle. After class I ran out to Dongcheon where Jenny and Mary were ready to go. It is wonderful teaching them. We are going to start Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing ( Read more... )

I went to school and did my café hours. Ahreum and Eunsun are the only two who keep showing up and this is despite me putting my hours on times when I know other people can come. I didn’t want this time but I was told, quite emphatically that I had to because Everette already had his set for today at the time I wanted and so I had to change. ( Read more... )

Now that LHI has gone bye-bye for now, my Wednesday is much easier. I have more time to put in at PL and not rush to my classes. I have noticed something about my second year tourism students, they don’t try very hard. I get the distinct impression that they think they can coast into home. They are in for one really seriously rude awakening when I ( Read more... )

I am recovering nicely from my trip to Deokcheokdo. I was looking forward to getting back with my kindy kids today but surprise, surprise, I get in there and there are no kids. That is right, Vivian is there, some other woman is there, but no kids. When she sees me she said “Oh I so sorry, no kids today.” I was ready to freak. She called the other ( Read more... )

The last day is here and I got up and squared my stuff away. Miran is dead to the world so there is no point in me trying to wake her. I trotted over to meet Jeremy and Mijin for breakfast. We really don’t have a lot of time to get going because we have to be on the ferry at 12:00 and there is a ton of work to do before we get going. I went back to ( Read more... )

Waking-up Miran is just as cute as she was last night. I stirred before her and went in search of breakfast. I hit my old room and found Devin on the floor. He came to and this was our conversation:

Brad: “How do you feel?”
Devin: “I feel like I was hit by a truck.”
B: “You WERE hit by a truck!”
D: What?

I knew I had him then and there.

B: Sure man, you ( Read more... )

Clearly, I am writing these after the fact as I am not taking the time to type up journal entries on the fly.

We got up at 6:00 and we were bloody groggy. We have to be up that early so we can be at the cars at 7:30. I keep saying “we” because of Jon Jacobson. A few weeks ago the guys in the building met this fellow Jon. Nice enough bloke from ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Chuseok and everyone is in a mad scramble to get out of the city. Now, tomorrow I am going to the islands with some friends and thus I am not in a big hurry. Sungwoon is not going anywhere so we had a normal class; no reason to change. We talked a while and I focused on his reading. He doesn’t have the skills that I would like him to ( Read more... )

Today, I went to PL academy and all was fine there. I did my thing and then went to LHI. I get there and I am informed that the order has changed. I take the five-year-olds (who are crap by the way) for 15 minutes. I then go and teach the four-year-olds for 15 minutes and then go to my six-year-olds. Not so fast Brad, you keep the four-year-olds ( Read more... )