Thailand

I’m gonna be in Thailand for a week or so. This means no updates for you til I get back, sometime around January 6th or 7th, depending on how I feel.
In the meantime check out this link below. I won’t throw many causes at you, but this one I think is an actual [...]

O’ Little town of “I can’t understand what you’re saying”

In a raffle at dinner last night I won a bottle of Vodka. I like to call it liquid-inspiration.
Last night, I went with Rachel and her friends to a restaurant on the outskirts of Seoul. For those uninformed Rachel is Korean, her friends are Korean, the people working at the restaurant are Korean, I [...]

If Jesus was never born…do I still get presents?

Paul, from England writes and wants to know:
Do they know that it’s Christmas?
Even though it’s only Christmas Eve back home it is Christmas here in Seoul. But based on the students playing soccer outside my window, the lack of snow, and the television programming today I would have to answer that “No, in fact [...]

Only 23…

23
In all honesty, I think I could take on more

Your Daily Shot of Soju: The Substantial Style of Teaching and How to Fight a Bear

Introducing “Your Daily Shot of Soju” This is going to be my daily format for sharing random cultural thoughts, pictures and basically anything I want to in an easy to digest and read format. Expect to be updated Monday-Thursday, and probably once on the weekend. Yes, I changed the name. I like this one better.
Something [...]

Your Daily Shot of Soju: I don’t feel like writing today

and coincidentally it’s the 10 year anniversary of the death of Chris Farley .
There’s really no tribute stronger than the fact that I still routinely quote his stuff on an almost daily basis (hey, you remember when you were with the Beatles).  I even pulled the “fat guy in a little coat” routine with my [...]

Your Daily Shot of Soju: Korean Music Week – Hip Hop

Introducing “Your Daily Shot of Soju” This is going to be my daily format for sharing random cultural thoughts, pictures and basically anything I want to in an easy to digest and read format. Expect to be updated Monday-Thursday, and probably once on the weekend. Yes, I changed the name. I like this one better.
Something [...]

Your Daily Shot of Soju: Korean Music Week – DaRum

Introducing “Your Daily Shot of Soju” This is going to be my daily format for sharing random cultural thoughts, pictures and basically anything I want to in an easy to digest and read format. Expect to be updated Monday-Thursday, and probably once on the weekend. Yes, I changed the name. I like this one better.
Something [...]

A Little Bit of Heresay

I guess this would qualify as the number 1 reason I’m glad I don’t live in China.
The word for “sorry” or “Thank you” in China essentially means “I owe you.”  So nobody really ever says either one of those words.
This story is told to me by another English teacher I met this past weekend who [...]

Your Daily Shot of Soju: When is Cheating Not Really Cheating?

Introducing “Your Daily Shot of Soju” This is going to be my daily format for sharing random cultural thoughts, pictures and basically anything I want to in an easy to digest and read format. Expect to be updated Monday-Thursday, and probably once on the weekend. Yes, I changed the name. I like this one better.
Something [...]