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Seen in Dongdaemun today – 3000 won. You couldn’t pay me to wear this shirt…

My first week back at work was yesterday, and what an easy day it was.  Our classes officially start this week (a week earlier than other universities across the country), but all the classes aren’t fully up and running yet.  My conversation classes start this week, next week the kids classes begin, and the week [...]

I enjoyed reading this post by Brendan Carr, who’s a lawyer in Seoul.  To summarize, he has a message for English teachers who call him up in the evening, complaining about their hagwon boss: “You can’t afford my legal services, so please stop imposing on my free time.”  I feel bad for him because I [...]

I wanted to post some pictures from our bowling night in Suwon, which was almost 3 weeks ago.  This was also the first weekend that Ras got back from the States. While bowling, whenever anyone got a strike, he/she had to do a little dance.  I think I danced twice, and the number one dancer [...]

I’m always on the lookout for new ice cream bars, so this lemonade bar caught my eye.  Luckily, since it’s still summer, it was also half off at the local store.  What a steal for 350 won (~35 cents USD). The flavor was nice, but it was a tad too sweet for me.  It was [...]

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending my first ???, a baby’s one year birthday party.  The birthday girl was Susana, David and Cathy’s daughter.  I had met David at a photography class taught by Mike.  Walking into the banquet hall, I had no idea who would be at the gathering that night.  Guess [...]

[Picture courtesy of Lao Cook.] I finished watching the Beijing Opening ceremony tonight, and gave a little cheer when the Laos delegation (of four) entered.  Matt Lauer’s commentary was, “A lot of people back in the States refer to “Lao” as Laos.  The people there do call it Lao.  It’s a communist nation, [and] a [...]

On Monday night, I got a call from Michael (The Metropolitician).  After a few moments of hellos and how are you’s, he told me that he and Clarke were getting ready to watch Batman Begin at his place.  He continued and asked if I knew about the group of people going to see The Dark [...]