Blind dates seem to be a lot more common and popular in Korea than they are in the United States; at least, based on my own observations. A few months ago I met a guy from Jeju-do who was serving as a 카투사 in Seoul with the Korean military who told me that he'd gone on 20 blind dates over the previous two months. When I mentioned that to a friend ( Read more... )

The main level classes at our academy are periodically given dictation tests, where we play a recording of a multiple paragraph piece on a particular theme and have the students transcribe what they hear. Last week's entry for my last class had to do with French cheese - amusing given one boy's obsession with coagulated milk - and today I went ( Read more... )