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
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
Our first trip with Adventure Korea, a company that organises trips for foreigners, proved to be a fantastic day jam packed with new experiences. After an early start we were tired an hoping to sleep on the bus on the way to Hwacheon, where the festival was held. But after … Read More
For the last few weeks manual labourers have making appearances in the school at random intervals during the day. They haven’t actually done anything, just wondered around looking at stuff then disappeared again! The mystery of their appearance seemed to have been solved when I came into school last week … Read More
I always thought I’d celebrate my quarter of a century by getting very drunk and doing something totally irresponsible. But it was not to be – I spent my 25th birthday (Monday) at work and then having a meal with Kat. During which he only liquid that passed between my … Read More
Last weekend we once again headed for the slopes of Korea for a weekend of snowboarding. This time we went on an organised trip and went much further afield to one of Koreas top resorts, Phoenix park. Phoenix park was, much bigger then Bears town and had ….. wait for … Read More
The blog is a bit all over the place at the moment. I sent out a password protected post last week to my friends and family, for those of you not in the loop I had an interview for a copy editing job on the Korea Times last week. This … Read More
My first ever sickie: but all in a good cause! After a visit to a Buddhist temple a few weeks ago I’d accidently ended up with an interview for a copy editors job on the Korea Times. (The coming about of the interview is a long story that I hope … Read More