Posted in Awesome Korean Things, Korean Adventures, Korean Things, Random Korean Things, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Korean marry pillow, man marries pillow on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Korea, yes you can.
A Korean man has married his dakimaura, a.k.a. a body pillow with a
Japanese anime girl drawn on it.
The girl depicted on the newlywed pillow is Fate Testarossa from the
anime Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Recently, a man in Japan also married a character from a computer
game. These two marriages to inanimate spouses has [...]
Posted in ESL, Jeollanamdo, Mokpo, South Korea, Suncheon, me on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was my first week back at school. There have been many changes over the winter break. Changes I thought would never happen at my school. For the past two years, I have been teaching (or trying) to teach classes of 30 teens English without the support of the Korean teachers at school. Some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The beginning of the 2010 school year for me and my students (who aren’t seniors) begins Tuesday March 2. Which I’m both excited and sad for. I miss my kids and also am sad because the end of teaching at Mokpo Girls High School draws nearer and nearer. I only have 29 days left in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Konglish, Mokpo, Photographs, Random Korean Things, Uncategorized, tagged Konglish, Mokpo on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Taken in Mokpo. January 2010.
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Mokpo, Photographs, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Mokpo, Mokpo Snow, Snow Mokpo on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you work at a high school here in South Korea, you know that is is pretty damn hard to get students to do much of anything once they write their final exams in the winter semester. Even other Korean teachers adknowledge this fact but it is our job to teach them nonetheless. The question [...]
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Korean Adventures, Mokpo, Random Korean Things, South Korea, Uncategorized on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A drunken man ran into the sea in order to avoid a field sobriety test by police.
According to Mokpo Police Agency in the southwest port city, South Jeolla Province, the 30-year-old man encountered police late Monday after heavily drinking liquor and police requested him to take the test.
However, the man, identified only by his surname [...]
Posted in Jeollanamdo, Konglish, South Korea, Uncategorized, tagged Konglish on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Waydaldo is a small island off the coast of Mokpo that has a decent beach for swimming. It’s roughly a 50 minute ferry from the Mokpo Ferry Terminal and you can get a return ticket for 8,000 Won. One of my favorite things about the island (aside from swimming at the beach) is the sign. [...]
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