I'm teaching English in Korea to elementary students right now and  my most advanced class is called El Dorado (haha).  I teach debate and American History to 4th - 5th graders.  We recently discussed Watergate and a president's rights during war and now we're discussing Vietnam War and America's policing tendencies.  By American education ( Read more... )

Places we might be in Fall 2008:

Denver, CO
Portland, OR

I am done with Bloomington.  My car got broken into last night; window smashed and dashboard ripped up with nothing stolen.

People and places.

Munich, Germany - in the English Gardens

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Leipzig, Germany


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Probably the worst thing I ever did for my college education was starting to backpack, as I`m now having trouble coming home again. I`m currently in Paris, in Amsterdam tomorrow, and visiting Jurgen in S`Hertogenbosch, Holland after that. Girls in Paris dress so nice; I feel like I just jumped out of bed, the way I look.

Hey, here´s an idea.  I quit school, move to Austrailia for a while, get a job, and live with the Aussies where American dollar is still strong in comparison.  Yes? 

I swear to god, Italy is so entertaining.

I was riding a bus to Cipro station yesterday, and at one stop, there's an older guy beating the shit out of some small preteen boy, with his wife yelling with wild, flamboyant arm gestures at the boy.  The boy gets up and tries to run away, but the man catches him, and beats him again.  Apparently the boy ( Read more... )

I took a night train from Munich to Rome - I'm currently in Rome - last night, and I fell asleep exhausted due to the previous night fiasco with British people fighting in the hostel room.  Anyways, I woke up in the middle of the night while it was pitch dark, looked out and the train had stopped.  I kicked my legs in the direction of where my ( Read more... )

It's three in the morning and I'm the only one awake in this drunk hostel.

So get this: I go to bed around midnight, intending on waking up early.  I'm in a 10 bed hostel room.  Some couple walks in quietly, but soon begins to fight in the back of the room.  They both seem like they're in a shitty mood, but they soon go to sleep.  An hour later, a ( Read more... )

I got soaking wet in the English Gardens today.  In München, there's a place where people can surf and swim in strong current, and I was attacked by a gigantic wave caused by one of those surfers.  I got tons of sympathetic glances from people around, but I wish they wouldn't have, because I feel stupid when I receive sympathy.  So I got on the ( Read more... )