The other side of the blackboard
Sitting in a disruptive class trying to ignore the messing around it occurred to me that I was suddenly on the other side of the black board (so to speak). After spending what feels like my whole life (well I guess technically it has been my whole life) in education … Read More
Hanbok – Traditional Korean dress
The day before the Ch’usok holiday most of the Kindergerten kids came into school dressed in traditional Korean dress or Hanbok (pickies below) – they looked adorable. They only had one of their three normal lessons on this day, the rest of their day was spent learning about Ch’usok (I … Read More
The Harvest Moon Festival or Ch’usok
Getting there. I’m only about a week behind on blogging now and this weekend should be pretty quiet so hopefully I’ll be up to date by the middle of next week. Anyway had to put these pictures up because the children look soooooooooooooo cute!!! Did I just say that – … Read More
Ganghwa Island
The day of the trip to Ganghwa Island arrived. After trying to communicate to Mr Kim that Emily would also be coming he still looked slightly surprised when there were three rather than just two of us. We piled into the back of Mr Kim’s car and began the 30 … Read More
Drinking with Koreans
In a true representation of how rubbish I have been at blogging over the last few weeks this post goes back to something that happened almost three weeks ago. After meeting the other ‘foreigners’ in my area and going out drinking with them one Saturday night Rob unexpectedly turned up … Read More
Wooooowwwww shopping! 30,000 shops, Dongdaemunon is something else!
After spending Saturday daytime doing very little I headed into Seoul in the evening to meet Emily and do a bit of shopping. Caroline (the other girl living in my area) is a shopaholic and had told me about this amazing shop that was open until 5am and had a … Read More
Samnangseong Castle
We visited Samnagnseong Castle on the day we went to Ganghwa island with Mr Kim and his wife. Expecting to go vegetable picking at his wifes parents farm we were surprised when he pulled up a side road and told us he would be back in 45 minutes to pick … Read More
Paul, Julia, Kandy, Jane, Grace, Danny, Phil, Irene, Eric, Sarah, Amy, Rebecca, Brian, Daniel, Jack, Josh, Tim, Alex & Cindy
Despite my guilt this is just a quick post because a number of people have asked me why all the kids have English names. I work at a private English school called a Hogwon. Because of this when the kids come to the school they are all given English names … Read More
Grinning like a Cheshire Cat
I can’t stop grinning. I have just got back from looking at my new apartment with the director of my school. OMG! It is a palace!!!! I had heard rumors that it was in a decent building and with the director’s rough description is where it was I had spotted … Read More
Childsplay
It has been a quiet weekend, but that will follow in a later post. First my field trip on Friday with the Kindergarten children. We went to the Sudoguk-san Taltongne Pangmulgwan, which means “Sudoguk mountain hillside (squatter) neighborhood museum” but has been given the official English title of “Sudoguksan Museum … Read More