Tuesday, March 17, 2009
St. Patrick's Day Parade
I went to a very small St. Patrick's day parade and festival here in Seoul. It was sponsored by Guinness and was quite possibly the smallest festival I have ever been to. The main draw to the festival was free Guinness. The parade consisted of a man playing bagpipes leading a man dressed as St. Patrick and a large asian-dragon-style snake through the streets with about a hundred people in tow. I was fairly disappointed, but I did manage to get a free Guinness cell phone charm, so it wasn't all bad.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Pictures of my school
One half of the gym
The other half of the gym
The back of the school
My office/cave
The hallway
Balloons on the window of the art class room
The front of the school
This is what I see walking in the front door
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Update
Not too much to update on really. Our new semester started this week and instead of teaching around 19 hours a week, I am only teaching 8 hours a week. This has lead to some very boring days.
We have a new Korean English teacher named Ann. She is very nice, but she is also a super-Christian. I have nothing against anyone having a strong belief in their religion, but I am not a fan of people who try and push their views onto you. Other than that though she has been helping me to learn about the Korean language and culture. I do have to watch what I say around her, because she takes the liberty of translating it for all of the other teachers. One fun topic was me telling her that I had dates with two different girls on two consecutive days. Now whenever the other teachers see me they laugh and call me "playboy".
On the topic of women, I took a nice Korean girl out to a basketball game. She has lived in the US for 6 years and speaks English very well. She is taking a year off from college to visit with her family. Now this is the part where it kind of gets slippery. That same night I went out with another Korean girl, whom I had met a few nights prior. Her English name is Vickie, but her Korean name is pronounced "HyeRan". She works one subway stop away from me at a company that sets up Koreans with over-the-phone English tutors. We ended up going out again last night.
Other than that, nothing too exciting has happened lately. One of my fraternity brothers moved to a town in Korea about three hours south of Seoul, but I have yet to meet up with him. I don't have any major plans coming up, other than trying to remember the names of all the new students.
We have a new Korean English teacher named Ann. She is very nice, but she is also a super-Christian. I have nothing against anyone having a strong belief in their religion, but I am not a fan of people who try and push their views onto you. Other than that though she has been helping me to learn about the Korean language and culture. I do have to watch what I say around her, because she takes the liberty of translating it for all of the other teachers. One fun topic was me telling her that I had dates with two different girls on two consecutive days. Now whenever the other teachers see me they laugh and call me "playboy".
On the topic of women, I took a nice Korean girl out to a basketball game. She has lived in the US for 6 years and speaks English very well. She is taking a year off from college to visit with her family. Now this is the part where it kind of gets slippery. That same night I went out with another Korean girl, whom I had met a few nights prior. Her English name is Vickie, but her Korean name is pronounced "HyeRan". She works one subway stop away from me at a company that sets up Koreans with over-the-phone English tutors. We ended up going out again last night.
Other than that, nothing too exciting has happened lately. One of my fraternity brothers moved to a town in Korea about three hours south of Seoul, but I have yet to meet up with him. I don't have any major plans coming up, other than trying to remember the names of all the new students.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
I'm basically pretty famous now
The Korean culture documentary I was in finally aired last week and it is now available on their website.
So here's what you have to do:
1. Sign up at http://www.arirang.co.kr/Member/Log_In.asp. when you are done, log in.
2. Click on the Adventure Club 3 video link on this page: http://www.arirang.co.kr/Tv2/Tv_Video_On.asp?PROG_CODE=TVCR0491&code=Po4&sys_lang=Eng
The show is only 20 or so minutes long, and I am in one of the middle segments. The producers paid for me to travel to some city to go to an ice festival and a snow festival.
So here's what you have to do:
1. Sign up at http://www.arirang.co.kr/Member/Log_In.asp. when you are done, log in.
2. Click on the Adventure Club 3 video link on this page: http://www.arirang.co.kr/Tv2/Tv_Video_On.asp?PROG_CODE=TVCR0491&code=Po4&sys_lang=Eng
The show is only 20 or so minutes long, and I am in one of the middle segments. The producers paid for me to travel to some city to go to an ice festival and a snow festival.
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