Monthly Archives: January 2010

After a week in Thailand, I’m very much in love with the place. Here is Bangkok, Phuket, and Ko Phi Phi. Much more to come, don’t even worry.

It turns out that not teaching is actually quite time consuming, so it’s been hard to find space to blog. I mean, watching all this Gossip Girl is harddd work, not to mention trying to plan a trip to Thailand! I think we’re all struggling with the winter blues around here. It’s just too cold &hellip Continue reading »

I think winter camp can best be summarized with this paragraph, taken from an email I sent to Ian earlier today in regards to the paper mache project… “kids here are major perfectionists, so if one layer got screwed up they would tear off the whole thing and restart. they also don’t like getting messy, &hellip Continue reading »

We just completed Day 3 of winter camp, and I am still alive! We’re making paper mache globes, watched the movie UP, and have been busy with plenty of role plays. Initially I thought I had to make up the role play topics and was quite concerned with filling up the whole time. However, when &hellip Continue reading »

  I can’t believe 2009 is over and we’re on to a new year already. We went down to Seoul to celebrate and brought in the new year with about 5 million other people packed into one little neighborhood of the city. We were downtown to Jogna where they ring this big bell and have &hellip Continue reading »