Entries from August 2007

August 30, 2007

Random notes and bullets

- I finally found out what school and district I will be teaching in. Here’s a wikipedia link that talks about the region of Seoul I will be living in and here is a link to the school’s website that I’ll be teaching at, it’s all in Hangul lettering though so I doubt it [...]

August 25, 2007

The first casualty

R.I.P. to my alarm clock (the only one I’ve owned since I was ten)
I should have checked the voltage requirements before plugging it in…but honestly, I had to test some electronic device to see if it would blow up and it was either that or my computer
Needless to say, my laptop will continue to [...]

August 25, 2007

I am not a morning person

A few facts about jet lag that I looked here up while sitting awake in my hotel room at 4 a.m.:
Symptoms may include:

Disturbed sleep patterns; feeling sleepy during the day, but not able to sleep at night;
Disrupted digestion and bowel habits;
Feeling disorientated and/or clumsy;
Loss of appetite;
Fatigue;
Lack of concentration/feeling less alert;
Memory problems;
Cold or flu-like symptoms;
Feeling [...]

August 25, 2007

Cookies and Basketball

(Writers Note: I’ve noticed an awful lot of traffic coming directly to this post. I figure it’s mostly because of the picture of Mike Miller and that somehow I ended up being the first site linked to when you search for his picture on Google. Anyways, if you check this site check out [...]

August 23, 2007

Thank goodness this is finally over

Now that I am finally leaving for Korea in a few hours I can finally stop having a conversation that I have had roughly 9,345 in the past two months since I was hired to teach English in Seoul. I had my first one with some friends of a friends the first day I [...]

August 21, 2007

Monday the 20th

Strange thoughts on this night in East Lansing. Wandering minds are a dangerously wonderful thing. How does one go about saying goodbye to so many people?
Knowing that I am soon leaving and realizing that there are many people who I will never see again has put me into a weird state of mind. [...]