Screw War Let's Teach
This post is long overdue. Behold! Bongseon-dong, Namgu, Gwangju, South Korea. A virtual tour of our neighborhood. A box in the sky is where I live. Vehicles are vacant for long periods of time Some are much nicer than others. A fair amount are abandon and used for garbage dumping. Vehicles are vacant for long […]
Don’t be fooled, they are not Churches. So far as I can tell, these buildings are completely abandon.
What to do today… Oh, what to do today… How about some more hiking in Korea? Seems that’s all I’ve been doing since the weather has turned nice. Today’s adventure began with a cab ride from 봉선동 to the entrance of Mudeung Provincial Park at 증심사, where instead of the usual trek up the rabbit […]
Loaded up the backpack with some beers last night and set out on a night hike up Geumdangsan in Gwangju, my new favorite place for local hiking. It would have been a lot better if Gwangju World Cup Stadium was lit up, but the scenery was no less amazing. FYI, the lights going up the […]
Over the weekend, we went to the Boseong Green Tea festival held in the neighboring town of — you guessed it — Boseong.
Finally, a field trip to some place other than the sixth floor of the school. This past Friday we took the Kindergarten students to the Gwangju World Photonics Expo, and apparently so did every other Kindergarten in the Jeolla province. See photos from the photonics expo on my first trip as an earlier post. Field […]
Crossed another one off the TO-DO list in hiking Cheonwangbong (천왕봉) on Jirisan (지리산) this past weekend. At 1910 meters, 천왕봉 is the tallest peak on mainland South Korea. It is also the tallest mountain I’ve personally ever hiked, and there were a few mental / physical road blocks on the way to the top. […]
We attended our second Korean wedding this past weekend for one of our co-teachers. Lookin’ pretty good, right? The bride wasn’t too bad either… All jesting aside, it was pretty much exactly like the last Korean wedding we went to back in January– or was it December? Another cabbage leaf in the kimchi pot at […]
NEWSFLASH ::::: : We took a field trip to the photonics expo with the student only a week later ::: : : : :: :: Check out some of the choice Korean attempts at professional English writing that I pulled from the brochure. Read about all the neon, fire, and hardcore pornography on Tripwolf here. […]
Remember back in grade school when you got those random days off during the week for so called “teacher seminars”? Ever wonder what that actually meant for the Teacher? Not me. I was jumping for joy at the thought of Mega Man 2 and beanbag chairs. But for the first time this past Thursday, I […]