Remembering when I was asking people what they know about nutrition? And many of you were kind enough to give me some good info? I was wishing that the overwhelming sea of information could somehow be made simpler...and now fate has handed me an article that seems to do that, and pointed me in the direction of a book: The Omnivore's Dilemma by ( Read more... )

( Blah blah bosses and co-workers )

Another reason to live in a big city when I get back to Canada: the food. I guess I could have sought out different kinds of food more often when I was living in Kingston or London, but I didn't eat out that much as a student ( Read more... )

I will say this about teaching ECE: it's pretty easy to make the kids laugh. Sound effects, silly faces, hiding things, pretending to be surprised -- they laugh like you're the funniest thing they've ever seen. And I've started using this dinosaur puppet -- it's money in the bank. We pass it around and they all get to ask the person next to them ( Read more... )

Today was a very Korean day. Some days aren't so much; especially if I sleep in, plug in my ipod on the way to work, teach English all day, buy a chicken sandwich from the coffee shop in our building, go straight home and watch Leno (the only thing on TV at 11:00 ( Read more... )

Last night I went to the Seoul Drum Festival. There was a big stage set up in front of City Hall, and the audience sat on the grass. Except that instead of making us sit on actual grass, they unrolled these things that look like big silver toilet paper rolls. The groups playing last night were from the US (think Drumline, if you've seen the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is PAYDAY. I've been teaching one extra class for overtime, and soon that labour will converted to won, and then into an mp3 player (still deciding on what brand ( Read more... )

Here's another meme, kind of. I'm going to call it Rank the Unusual (By Western Standards) Asian Food (Assume that you have to pick one of them to eat...what would be your first, second and third choice?) I haven't tried any of these things, by the way ( Read more... )