One year is a long time. Three hundred and sixty-five is a large number, especially when meted out in days. No matter how fast time might seem to have flown, one year, taken incrementally, hour-by-hour, takes a long time to pass.
We are now over ten months in Korea and both Colleen and I are finding [...]
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Reflections at the Ten-Month-Mark
Posted in Rant, South Korea, tagged Asian dust, ESL, Foreigners in Korea, K-Pop, kimchi, Korean Mothers, one year contract, soju, South Korea, Swine Flu, teaching ESL, yellow sand on May 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One, I Am Having Fun (really, I am)
Posted in Rant, South Korea, tagged Education, English, ESL, Hagwon, indoctrination, South Korea on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since I’m rather busy right now, I’m restricting myself to a quick post.
I bring to you, then, two examples of questionable pedagogy from within the intense, bizarre, and big-business world of English language education in South Korea.
The first is a tale of Soviet-style indoctrination. Before class each day, I am required to lead my students [...]
The American Renaissance Man
Posted in Rant, tagged American Renaissance Man, Backpacking, Central America, Dominican Repbulic, Expats, Orphanage, South Korea on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You usually hear him before you see him; his voice, like a fisherman’s net, is thrown well-wide of his immediate listening audience. He casts out upon any and all in his vicinity and then, with a slight of hand, hauls the hapless multitude in towards his incessant monologue. Unfortunately, the monologue is usually not immediately [...]
A. Ho’s an A. Ho
Posted in Rant, tagged parking fines, Parking officers, Parking Services, parking tickets, Rant, Toronto on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my opinion parking officers are the tax collectors of our modern time; they are inescapable, remorseless, and almost universally self-profiting. I feel that if Jesus were to walk the length and breadth of Spadina Ave., he would very quickly overturn the card-slot meters and send this brood of vipers slithering, venom-less, back to their [...]
