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 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Buzzkill
Posted in ESL, Korean Adventures, Korean Things, South Korea, tagged buzz kill, korea buzzkill, korea complaints on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why Mokpo?
Posted in Mokpo, South Korea, tagged Why Mokpo? on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Wando Beach Party
Posted in Korean Adventures, tagged Jeollanamdo, Wando on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Sweat Time!
Posted in Korean Things, Mokpo, South Korea, tagged humidity, sweat on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]




