The winds of change are starting to be felt. I should be moving to Suncheon in late May to teach at Keumdang High School. I will finish my contract up at Mokpo Girls High school in late March, move home for two months and do my visa, and come back in May. I’m hoping there are no unseen snags that I will have to deal with but so far things seem peachy.
Changee!!!
I’ve been using Ubuntu for nearly three years and I’ve been generally quite happy with (usually) how simple it is to use and how most of my things work with the OS. I was happily using the 9.0.4 distro for quite some time and decided to upgrade to 9.1 Oops.
The release seems rushed. This may have been to try and beat the release of Windows 7 but thats up for debate and speculation. I’ve had nothing but problems with this release.
My video colors are off and inverted. The video players (movie player, vlc, etc) will only work if Firefox is not running or has ever booted during the session. Firefox isn’t as stable or reliable in this distribution and uses huge amounts of system resources.
Complaints with 9.1 seem to be quite common and it would be a good idea to not upgrade quite yet. This release feels rushed and how it handles also feels just as rushed.
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Stay or go?
Do I stay where I am or do I move on? What is happening is that my options for Korea in the immediate future are to either stay at my school or the next option that I will briefly outline. Option two involves going home after my contract ends for three weeks, redo my entire visa process (for unexplained reasons I can’t extend while in Korea), then fly back and work in Suncheon at a high school.
I’ve been at my school for two years and it has been a real positive experience overall. My only problems were not having a classroom of my own to use and a pretty crappy apartment. My school is aware of these issues and said they will find me somewhere better to live (within the same budget as where I am now) and would let me use a class to teach. I have some time to make a decision.
I do want to apply for Teachers College this fall and staying at my school would allow me to not have to move or deal with the dreaded visa process all over again. I would move home at the end of April next year and would give me some time to volunteer in a classroom to gain class experience. Again, I have lots to think about and consider.
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Welcome To Foreigner
Taken in Mokpo. January 2010.
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Any Guesses?
Any guesses on how much money is in this container?
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ZOMG SNOW!
Mokpo got snow today and lots of it! I estimate between 12-15 cm of snow fell today. It was beautiful to watch it fall and it at times reminded of winter back in Port Elgin. My students loved it because they got to go home early from school (and in turn canceled my only class of the day). The weather forecasts for Mokpo are showing that it is supposed to snow until Friday. I say let it snow…..let is snow….let is snow.
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Happy New Years
Where did 2009 go? Have a great New Years! For those of you in Mokpo, Moe’s Bar in Hadang will be having a bash tonight if you are looking for something to do.
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Merry Christmas
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Abandoned House
I’ve noticed this house ever since I arrived in Mokpo last year and always wondered what the story (or part of it) is regarding this house. One of my students told me it was a house built by the Japanese during the occupation of Korea but could not tell me much more. The house does look to have not been lived in for some time but the landis used for growing food. I took my trusty new camera to the house and took some pictures of the place. I was afraid to enter the house so I just stuck around the outside.





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First Snow In Mokpo For 2009
I woke up this morning to a white Mokpo. It snowed last night (and parts of today)! It’s great to see snow fall again here in Mokpo. It was also a great oppurtunity to play with my new camera and got quite a few shots of the white morning. I have put most of my pictures up on my flickr page. The set can be view by clicking HERE.



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