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Check out the video below of the Kindergarten kids at their graduation ceremony. The video begins with the kids singing the Korean National Anthem then Pink class (the kids who are graduating)  show off their English skills with a number of the things they learnt for the kindy performance. VIDEO … Read More

I awoke last Saturday to another dull day in Korea – it’s beginning to seem like the wait for spring is endless. Before I left the flat and already bleak day had turned even darker threatening yet more rain – and I thought Korea’s rainy season didn’t arrive until July. … Read More

I’m taking you back in time to the day before Luna New Year. The end of the school year was approaching so the kindy kids put on a performance for their parents. I had the day off so I didn’t get to see the actual performance but we spent a … Read More

March 1st marked an important day in Korean history, so much so we had a day off school! The day marked one of Korea’s first independence movements against the Japanese invasion and is known as the Samil Movement (literally meaning three-one). According to Wikipedia: The inspiration for the Samil Movement … Read More

The third and final post on Luna New Year. Day three of the trip saw us walking in Achimgari near Bang-dong in Inji. Our guide told us this is a little known part of Korea and many Koreans won’t have heard of it. The walk took us along a frozen … Read More

The 2nd of March 2007 one year, or 365 days, from now it will be the 1st of March 2008 (next year is a leap year). And I will be back on English soil for the first time in 18 months. So it seemed appropriate that when I got up … Read More

Day two of the Luna New Year trip saw us leaving Phoenix Park and going to Bangdong valley in Inji. But not before braving the naked Koreans and stares in the jinjibang (Korean Spa/sauna). Being typically prudish westerners we went to the jinjibarn wearing our swimming costumes. Inside there were … Read More

I’m almost up to date with the blogging, just Luna New Year and the kindy performance to go. Time for a post to remind myself of the happenings at school! Today saw the oldest kindy kids graduate from kindergarten (a post with lost of video to follow), I have tomorrow … Read More

With Korea being devoid of public Luna New year celebrations (and with Kat spending Luna New Year with her mum in Shanghai!) Emily and I decided it was the ideal time for another Adventure Korea trip – they’re becoming a bit of a regular occurrence now!. In Korea Luna New … Read More

A bit more catching up to do….. Earlier this month saw us off on yet another trip with Adventure Korea, this time to Seoraksan National park. This time ‘us’ included Kat’s mum who had come to visit for a couple of weeks. The weekend took us hiking in both inner … Read More

Valentine’s was a couple of weeks ago but lots of people have asked me whether Koreans celebrate Valentine’s day, the short answer is… yes! But in a different way to us. In Korea, on Valentine’s Day, girls give chocolates to boys NOT the other way round. Girls can also give … Read More

We are approaching the end of the school year and everything at school is changing. It would be nice, however, to be told about it rather than having to guess what was going to happen next! March 2nd is the the beginning the new school year, where I assume there … Read More