Some days I write things

September 2010
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And I write about…

The end is the beginning.

There’s a lot going on in my life right now and it can be hard to view through an objective lense.

Greg moved his stuff into my apartment today. He will not be doing another year at his elementary school. How that affects the future is anyone’s guess. He has a flight home [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Anxiety, Engrish, Korea, Pictures, Teaching, Work | Leave a comment

How to use your Korean washing machine

I don’t have a catchy title. I’ve been out of the blogging game for a while now. But recently, I snapped some photos of Greg’s washing machine and decided to translate all the wash settings.

When I first moved to Korea, I lived with a Korean woman. She taught me how to use our washing machine. The [...]

March 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Korea, Other, Pictures, Work | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Home in Canada

Hmm, I guess I fell behind on the blogging again. I’m home in Canada visiting friends and family. From April I’ll be back in Korea in Siheung, just outside of Seoul.
(Also, I’m testing offline blogging software so there may be a few of these very short posts coming up over the next day [...]

March 16th, 2009 | Category: Canada, Travel, Work | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Happy Thanksgiving!

In light of yesterday being American Thanksgiving, I will tell you about Canadian Thanksgiving. In Korea.

This was the first Thanksgiving I’ve celebrated since I moved here. October always makes me feel a little homesick and I hoped actually celebrating Thanksgiving this year might help with that.

I don’t, however, have a lot of Canadian friends or friends [...]

November 28th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Food, Korea, Pictures, Social, Work | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Job Insecurity

The piss of it is: I love my job.

I have everything I could ever ask for in a teaching job. I have intelligent, well-behaved students; coworkers who, on the whole, I respect and get along with fabulously; a pretty decent schedule; a light workload; near-complete control over my curriculum; a boss who doesn’t always pay me [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Category: Korea, Pictures, Work | Comments are closed
 
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