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Archive for June, 2009

Nobody likes a buzzkill. Nobody likes to hear your parents to tell you to turn down the Pink Floyd or to shut off Super Mario Brothers 3 when you’re about to defeat Bowser. Those are buzzkills of my past. My buzzkill in Korea are the people who have nothing better to do than sit and [...]

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Why Mokpo?

Why stay in Mokpo? I have been asked this in person and online. I feel that I should put my answer here. It’s pretty simple why I like and choose to stay in Mokpo.
#1 Mokpo is NOT Seoul!
I like visiting Seoul the odd weekend for shopping, foreign food, and to escape Mokpo, but I never [...]

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Wando Beach Party

The teachers living in Wando last weekend organized a beach party. I have been to Wando once before last summer and it has an amazing beach. When I went, it was packed with Koreans and teachers and was a pretty happening place. I was expecting the same things this year when I arrived too.
Wim and [...]

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It’s that time of year. The time of year where the humidity becomes very intense and I sweat like a pig. By around 10:30-11 in the morning I am a pile of teaching sweat. It’s not fun. The air conditioning in the schools is not turned on until late June or early July so there [...]

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