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My student won our university’s speech contest – that was pretty cool.  Congratulations to Mi-kyung! We also had another Flea Market for the children’s program.  I think the kids had a really good time.  I lucked out and got a really good bunch of kids.

I’ve been wanting to do some more creative things lately, but always seem to have more pressing matters.  Today I forced myself to do something.  This is a scan from my journal.  It was fun… gotta do more of this. Note to self: Attempt to write straighter next time.

A friend and former colleague who is now working at a university in Daejeon, went to an immigration meeting today and has this to report about new E-2 visa regulations: Q: For people RENEWING their visas, what do they need? A: Same as before, plus criminal check and medical check (and letter of release if [...]

Last night we had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. It was sort of a last minute idea when plans to go to Brad’s this weekend for turkey fell through. — Hey, why don’t we just buy a turkey ourselves? Because it’ll probably just be the two of us. — So? Leftover turkey is always good. You’re [...]

All the English teachers had lunch today with the president.  She took us to Juju Buffet, a wedding buffet for 20,000 won a head.  The food wasn’t bad, and the restaurant was close to our school.  The guys were ready to eat immediately.  As you can see below, they started rolling up their sleeves.   [...]

We went to Costco today and dropped 166,000 won, which is a small amount for us.  That’s probably because we didn’t buy any wine, chicken, or steak this time.  This Rabbit Corkscrew was part of the purchase though.  Reardon called us yuppies because of it.  Hey you can call me whatever you want, but I’ve [...]

Lost Nomad has a link to this Economist article about “megachurches”, with the largest being Yoido Full Gospel Church, with 830,000 members. Coincidently, the university I work for was founded by the Full Gospel Church, and (Pastor) David Cho is a graduate. His wife is our university’s president. At first, I thought it would be [...]

On Friday, Peter asked me what I had planned for the weekend.  “You guys are usually doing something or another, right?”  Yeah, that’s usually the case.  This past weekend, though, was 48 hours of pure, unadulterated lounging.  It involved sleeping in, strong coffee, internet surfing, movie watching, bacon pizza, wine sipping, nibbling on persimmons and [...]

Due to the recent case of the pedophile that worked in Korea, who then fled to Thailand, new regulations loom for current English teachers in Korea.  If the Ministry of Justice follows through, in addition to criminal and medical checks, we’ll need to fly back to our home countries to renew our visas!  Yes, you [...]