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 [View Full Entry]

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I made it into Jeju yesterday morning after a very easy experience in Seoul's domestic airport Gimpo. I was picked up by Max a Korean student working as the camp driver and morning work out guru. He's a tae kwon do major at school and apparently knows a couple things about kicking ass. I was greeted by smiling faces from the camp staff at Jeju tourism college before Max showed me the dinning hall where I was going to eat for the next month. At a far table a group of fellow teachers ate kimchi, I approached and found that of [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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