RamblyRuss

I've completed a month on Jeju Island in South Korea and I'm taking away more than I brought. What have really Learned here? a few things. I've learned that I'm a good teacher, that watching a child understand something you've presented is a very rewarding thing. I've learned that Koreans are poud of everything. I've learned how to read and write hanguel, korean. I've learned that Goonies never die and Marty McFly hasn't stoped time traveling even if he doesn't translate the same. I've learned that grabing a teachers choad, chonch, abc or taint is not off limits to bad korean boys. I've learned that ice and snow suck and that cold weather is the world saying "you may never go outside again!" I've learned that when you are in between two teachers with horrible illnesses ... read more

When I was a kid I made an abstract painting using found paint and crayons, I mother still has it hanging in the garage. I entitled it 'Sell your Soul for bacon'. I had no reference for the the expression and to this day still don't know what I meant by it but I enjoyed the collection of words. Now I am actually in Seoul and still don't have a frame of reference for the saying but I have seen bacon in Seoul, is that a connection? Merry Christmas from Seoul, I arrived last night after a grueling plane ride to one of the busiest cities in the world, Seoul South Korea. I sat next to a guy going to Saigon, not Ho Chi Min City as it is know in the west. He didn't speak ... read more