What better to do on a scorching September day than to hike a mountain and watch the sunset on the horizon you say??? Well just that, we did!!!! We decided that 38 degrees and the hottest day since we've come to Korea was motivation enough to get us up that mountain again. So we set out at about 4:00 in hopes of reaching the south west peak to catch a glimpse of the beautiful sunset as it crept down through the mountains and along the westward river. Little did we know that 500 meters up and 2.5 kilometers south along the ridge would take most of our energy, Water, and almost 2 and a half hours. None the less we made it most of the way and found a quaint rock, jutting out from the cliff ... read more

That’s right, folks! There has been a flurry of autograph signings, fans following the celebrities around and hanging out of windows to catch a glimpse of them leaving a place throughout this city in the last week! Note writing, secret whispers and all the above. And who are these celebrities? Well, they are the foreign English teachers Danielle and Mike, of course!! Leaving school today I realized how much this is true, when there literally were about 15 students hanging out the fourth floor windows waving good-bye (almost everyday) to me and yelling my name! Students follow me around all day, always wanting to say hi, or any other random word they know in English. I get A LOT of students telling me they love me and how beautiful I am. To top it off, Mike ... read more

Well, I survived, but barely! It was an interesting day to say the least. Going into today, I knew pretty much nothing. I didn’t know what grades I was teaching, what my schedule was like, where my classes were, what I should expect or anything! The only thing I was told was that the students were a lower level English than average…however, I don’t know what the level of the average English ESL speaker should be, so that didn’t help me much. Turns out I WAY overestimated what the students would be able to do. They had a hard time answering the question “What day is it today?” I had to throw out my entire lesson plan and start from scratch on the spot once I realized that talking about their hobbies and family would be ... read more

Hello all, We have finally, after a long couple days of traveling, arrived to our new home in Yangsan, South Korea and so far we love it!! Our flights were good for the most part, except that one our suitcases got lost, and we missed a connecting flight while dealing with that...no word yet on where the suitcase is, but we are hoping to find out soon!! Once we finally arrived in Busan, we met our co-teachers, Mike's is Jung Hoon, and I have 2, Sun Hee, and I can't remember the other one's name. We each went to our schools, got shown around, then we brought to our apartment. I had lunch at my school's cafeteria, and the other teachers laughed when I tried to use the chopsticks and told me to just use my ... read more