ok- so i feel that for the last two years I've been living in a fog. what the fog consists of (besides personal irresponsiblity) i'm not sure.

where am i and why do i smell like kim chi?

so i still feel grateful for frank. that man has remade our workplace into a place i want to go to! but also thank god for three more people here in korea 1: ryan 2: colleen 3: jennifer ( Read more... )

Frank is a new foreign teacher at my school. And I love him. Why? Because for the first time since I came to Korea, someone says hello to me and asks me how I am when I come into work. Someone chats casually with me and not about how they hate everything. For the first time, I don't feel starkly female and alone. He's not here to pick up Korean ( Read more... )

So the three story KFC across the street is currently offering a promo that if you buy a chicken sandwich meal you get a free Body Shop gift set including bath wash and perfume. I thought The Body Shop was cruelty free? Right?

Ok so an update is in order. First, a little touch on the Virginia Tech shootings. I don't know how it is being covered in the US but in Korea, there is a deep pervading sense of shame that the perpetrator was a Korean. You could feel it in the air on Wednesday, when Cho Seoung Hui's identity was released. There have been memorials and many of my ( Read more... )

You know how in Pink Floyd's The Wall, you're supposed to feel really sorry for the guy because his school master beat him, screamed at him about pudding and turned everyone into a hateful conformist? Well, I've always thought Pink Floyd was kind of vapid(sorry to all of the stoners I've dated but...they're fucking boring) but now I find myself ( Read more... )

My ratt-mobile was stolen from Lotte department store on saturday. Eventhough the gears ground and the brakes squeeked and the basket occasionally fell off, I still loved crusing down the long bumpy hill to work asride my red cruiser. I loved it! Ryan drew a big black rat on the basket and it was fire engine red....sigh. It is the end of an era ( Read more... )

So just a couple of things of note. This weekend I entered a whole new level of "eating crazy Asian stuff" by consuming a sea squirt, a sea cucumber and a sea worm/slug thing (haesan- i can't find the english word for it but it looks like a length of pink intestine with a mouth). And did I mention that I ate them raw? And while still alive? It's ( Read more... )

is there anyhting better than a letter from your grandma? I got two this week, one from each and it gives me a little love buzz ( Read more... )

I was finally given a Korean name by one my students 이지혀ㅣ which is pronounced Ee Gee Hae. the little boy that gave it to me is so cute and one of my favories- chubby and round and freckled. Love ( Read more... )