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A Snowball's Chance in Korea

As I walked out of the house this morning the dark and cloudy sky made me think that it might rain. This posed a small problem because I left my umbr... read more

1 years ago 0 comments

Air Jong Il

Everybody wants our troops out of Iraq, but have you stopped to think about how long we've been in Korea.  Maybe I shouldn't have brought that up... read more

1 years ago 0 comments

Chew Sock

I have been off from work since Monday of this week.  Tuesday was National Founder's Day and today, Friday, was Chusok (pronounced Chew sock), so... read more

2 years ago 1 comment

Death of (an Ice Cream) Salesman

It's a summer evening in Korea. It's almost 7pm and its around 85 degrees. And yes it's humid, but not summer in North Carolina humid. From inside m... read more

3 months ago 0 comments

Driving Me Crazy

You might remember a few weeks ago that I was thinking of renting car.  When I compared the idea of riding a bicycle to driving in Korea, the l... read more

1 years ago 0 comments

English Version 4.0

My job here in Korea is to teach English. Maybe when my contract is up I can go to Ireland and do the same thing. "But wait," you say. "Don't they... read more

1 years ago 0 comments

Falling Behind

I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out a way to convince most of you that when you set your clocks back an hour a few days ago that y... read more

1 years ago 1 comment

Free Food

In the early 80's everybody on TV was  adopting little black kids.  Remember Different Strokes and Webster?  Well in the Kore... read more

2 years ago 0 comments

Grandmas' Advice

This is the post that I had planned to write today...... Around three weeks ago I began to hear Koreans making references to spring.  But it was... read more

1 years ago 0 comments

Icecapades

3  The number of days I recently went without water in my apartment.             ... read more

1 years ago 2 comments

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